Bcshell

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Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Bcshell! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:

• How to edit a page
• Editing, policy, conduct, and structure tutorial
• Picture tutorial
• How to write a great article

There are a lot of policies and guides to read, but I highly recommend reading over those first. If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. Please be sure to sign your name on Talk using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, along with a link to your user page. This way, others know when you left a message and how to find you. It's easier than having to type out your name, right? :)

I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. We can use all the help we can get! Have a nice day. Sincerely, Ryan 04:39, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Vandals

Hey, I'm impressed! You really did jump right in! You're probably right about them being bored kids, and they generally don't care (or even know) what an administrator is. What I do is add these pre-made messages to their talk pages, one after each act. If they're being particularly free and happy, I might start at #2, or jump from #2 to #4.

• {{subst:test}}
• {{subst:test2}}
• {{subst:test3}}
• {{subst:test4}}

That code substitutes the actual "no-no bad vandal" messages, starting with a quite polite one, and ending with one that is best described as "cranky." (By the way, if you hit the "edit" tab, you'll see the markup that let me put the code on your page without actually adding in the "no-no bad vandal" messages)

If you get as far as test4, and the vandalism continues, that's a great time to let an admin know, because the next step is blocking the user. Not all users can be blocked well. AOL users often get a different IP number every time they open a new page. There's an IP range that starts 203.166 that services a big chunk of Australia. If we block one of them, we block thousands of people. So we keep reverting and reverting and reverting. Sometimes it feels like we're trying to hold back a ocean wave with our hands, but it somehow works out.

Thanks for helping. Really. And feel free to ask if you have any questions. Joyous (talk) 21:59, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not who you're looking for

I just received this message from you:

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== User talk:70.249.208.165 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Hi,

Do you think you could put your info in the Tiger x86 article into the Mac OS X v10.4 article? Then we can do a redirect from the Tiger x86 article to the particular section in Mac OS X v10.4.--Bcshell 05:06, 3 August 2005 (UTC)--- ==

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I don't know who you're trying to contact but it isn't me. This must be a case of mistaken identity.

I don't know what "[my] info" refers to and do not have particular insight into the topics mentioned.

Best of luck, The anonymous person behind 70.249.208.165 who isn't the one you're looking for.

Mistaken identity

That's weird... No, I'm not in a library. I'm in the midwest of the U.S., and I don't think any libraries are open now--a little after midnight Central time.

Maybe one of my neighbors is writing into Wikipedia and I'm just caught between crossed wires.

Good luck on finding who you're *really* looking for.

--Somewhere in the midwest.

Re: x86 Info.

Sure, I'll go ahead and move it. :-)

Actually, I should probably make a user first.

Tiger x86/shared IP

That often happens. The ISP often applies an IP address to more than two people at the same time. See Template:Shareip for more info. — Stevey7788 (talk) 19:59, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Spanking article

No problem at all - I really ought to get around to getting a username, and quit being too lazy to write edit summaries. It's quite an understandable mistake.

In retrospect I was kind of snippy in the summary for my second edit, and I apologize; it's just because I thought the revert might be the start of some sort of edit war, which is a fearsome prospect when the topic is something as touchy as how people should raise their children! So we both made uncharitable assumptions - I think we're even. :)

(In an unrelated note, thanks for that note at the top of this page, as I'm ashamed to admit I was totally unaware that adding the fourth tilde to a signature was how you add the timestamp. Handy!) 68.226.239.73 04:38, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi!

I am the artist formerly known as 68.226.239.73, and I've got myself a username now, as promised. :) Penelope D 02:34, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Moved from talk

zomgz hi2u shell :D:D:D:D:D: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111@--68.74.64.50

lol @ fixing club list

Graphics Lab

I saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) --Zantastik talk 01:22, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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