EditingManiac

Welcome!

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bibliomaniac15 00:25, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Second welcome

Because we're so nice here... You get two!

Welcome!

Hello, EditingManiac, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Elliskev 03:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Edits on the Heroes page

Hi. You seem to be interested in editing the Heroes (TV series) page; however, I would urge you to use the Show Preview button to test your changes before submitting them to make sure they don't impact the page in a way you didn't expect. You can also use the Wikipedia:Sandbox to test things out before putting them into an article. Be sure to get involved in the Talk page too. It's where you can discuss your ideas for updating the page.  :) --Aldryd 20:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Reverting edits by vanal

Next time you see a page vandalized, instead of edit it, and remove what the vandal added, revert the page to the old revision instead because they vandal might not only have added something, but also removed something. ~~ ----

how do I do that? Maniac 00:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Editors that don't provide an edit summary tend to look like vandals

I have noticed you commonly don't enter an edit summary. This causes me problems. When I patrol for vandalism, I use the summary to make a preliminary decision on whether or not the post is a vandal edit or not. If the summary is present (or at least a section header, the part inside the /* */), I commonly decide the edit is legit and move on.

However, if no edit summary is available, I typically resort to loading the diff for the edit. This takes time. For that reason, if your edits are all valid, I ask that you provide edit summaries. For more on how to enter an edit summary, please read Help:Edit summary.

Incidentally, it is not just me that appreciate having edit summaries. When you omit your summary, you may be telling various bots that you are vandalizing pages. For this reason, please consider providing that summary. It is very important. You can enter that summary via the edit summary box on edit pages (as shown below).

The edit summary appears in black italics in the following places:

• Page history - list of changes to the page you edited
• User contributions - list of all your edits
• Watchlist* - list of recent changes to watched pages (logged-in users only)
• diff page - shows the difference between two edits
• Recent changes - list of all recent edits
• Wikipedia IRC channels - real time list of all edits
• Related changes - list of recent changes to pages linked to the page you edited
• List of new pages: shows the edit summary of the creation.

* Use the enhanced watchlist to see all recent changes in the watched pages, not just the last change in each page.

Will (Talk - contribs) 05:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Please use the + tab when starting a new conversation on talk pages. Thanks.

On the page Wikipedia talk:Uploading images, you added Trouble uploading images to the top of the page. That is a mistake. You are more likely to get a response if you put it at the bottom of the page.

The sample image above shows a shortcut. If you click the highlighted tab, Wikipedia will do the rest when you save. As a bonus, the rest of the page is hidden and won't clutter the edit box. Will (Talk - contribs) 05:52, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs! Happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester 00:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Help

How do I revert an edit? Is that reseerved for Mods?

See WP:REVERT, anyone can do it. Let me know if you need more help after that. John Reaves (talk) 00:53, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Canonicity template

Template:Canondispute does not appear to line up with any established policies or guidelines, so I have nominated it for deletion here. If you plan on using it at any time in the future (e.g., for the currently nonexistent Wikipedia:Canon), please say so, and I'll withdraw the nomination. As of now, the template seems to be unused; if it will forever remain unused, it may as well be deleted. Thanks, Gracenotes^T § 03:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Alexisonfire

Please do not removed referenced information. Your personal opinions on the matter has no relevance.--Cassius 52 (talk) 13:07, 20 November 2008 (UTC) I'm willing to keep post-hardcore and emo because they multiple sources, but metalcore only has one. And Alexisonfire clearly is not metalcore.

Please see WP:RS.--Cassius 52 (talk) 03:47, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

RC Patrol-related Proposals in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

1. Adjust number of entries and days at Last unpatrolled
2. Editor-focused central editing dashboard
3. "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
4. Real-Time Recent Changes App for Android
5. Shortcut for patrollers to last changes list

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

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