The Music Writer

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Feel Free to Directly contact me!!! I Love helping you guys out!! After all I was new here about 3 months ago!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 07:24, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome also, but please do not add any spam: spam is a desease and spammers are the lowest scum on earth. Please read some of the guidelines brought to your attention by Eagle 101.

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. - added spam to Collectible. Zanaq 11:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Your question on the Newcomer's help desk

What is the point of editing?

I spent 2 hours creating and adding articles without vandalizing or changing other peoples work, just ammeding to it. Then I go back a day later and all the work I did is gone!! I'm sure that I saved the work I did because I remember it asking me to save and I clicked to do so, so that is not the problem. What is the point of wasting my time if this is what's going to happen?? —This unsigned comment was added by The Music Writer (talk • contribs) 07:46, March 16, 2006 (UTC).

Are you referring to your edit to the "Collectible" article? In that case, it was removed by another user because it was considered spam - and I'm afraid I have to agree, all you addition did was advertise a company which sells collectible toys, without adding anything new to the subject. Wikipedia is not the place for advertising, I'm afraid.

However, please don't be discouraged! Find a subject where the article is woefully short (there are a whole plethora of them out there!), and add a tidbit here and there (remembering Wikipedia's Neutral-Point-of-View (NPOV) policy). Clean up the grammar on a badly written section. Fix a misspelled link. You'll very quickly find that your changes are appreciated by other contributors, and will be in the article to stay! I hope you'll have fun at Wikipedia - if you have any other question or want to discuss something, don't hesitate to drop a message on my User_talk:QuantumEleven!

(PS: I've reverted your blanking of rail transport modelling - I assume it was a mistaken edit, don't worry about it. Also, you may be interested to know that each article has a History function where you can see every edit ever made to it, see the changes made between revisions, as well as the comments by users describing their edits - click on the "History" button at the top of the article. For instance, if you look at the History page of the "Collectible" article, you can see your edit, and the subsequent edit which removed your contributions, citing "spam" as the reason. You are, of course, free to dispute any action - either start a discussion on the subject on the article's talk page (click the "Talk" tab at the top of an article), or message the user who made the change so you can work something out. Good luck!)

PPS I've only just noticed this - I don't think your other edits were saved! :( If you look at your contributions list you'll see that only one shows up prior to your message to the Newcomer's help desk. Are you sure you're clicking the "save" button? (stupid question, I know, I'm just trying to find out what went wrong!) — QuantumEleven | (talk) 07:08, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Also, please see Wikipedia:External links for some guidelines for external links. Some of your edits might have been reverted or removed because they were perceived as advertisements. Thanks for your contributions! --TantalumTelluride 07:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC)