Blackjackgirl17

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Vandalism warnings (March 2006)

• Thanks for experimenting with the page Wikipedia on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. —Wayward ^Talk 13:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. —Wayward ^Talk 13:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to Southern Polytechnic State University, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. —Wayward ^Talk 13:54, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

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  This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, as you did to Michael Jackson, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 21:15, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Monkeyman^(talk) 21:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

school project

I realize that I am vandalizing Wikipedia, but believe it or not, it's for a school debate topic. In class, my group was giving the topic of why Wikipedia should be allowed for use by college students. As part of the debate presentation, it is my job in the group to prove that people can't just put anything they want on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a highly renouned source of information and we want to prove to the class that it is indeed a reliable source. This is why I have been putting in political, false, and ridiculous messages. To prove that I will get reprimanded for doing so, and that moderators do take care of false or political statements quickly and efficiently. Thanks for your understanding. Blackjackgirl17 21:22, 4 March 2006 (UTC)Blackjackgirl17

Interesting idea and a project which, I hope, will have shown you that vandalism of articles is indeed reverted quickly. I appreciate your explanation as to why you have been vandalizing articles, and have also copied it above to ensure it is seen by other editors. Please note, however, that vandalism will not be tolerated, and I trust you have now made sufficient test edits. Further vandalism may see a temporary block from editing imposed on your account, which would only show you further that vandalism is taken seriously here. Thank you for your understanding of this. Whilst I appreciate it cannot be used to test how quickly vandalism is reverted, to play around with editing pages, please remember the sandbox. I've left you a welcome message at the top of this page now, too, and hope you may find some of the links useful. _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 21:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for understanding. I do have a question. What would happen if I were to vadalize one more page? (I won't do it, but I wonder what would happen, I need this info for the final part of the debate). And yes, so far, we have concrete evidence to show that Wikipedia is a a very trustworthy source of info. Did you know that for every 3 mistakes in Encyclopedia Britanica there are 4 mistakes in Wikipedia? Only one more mistake. I'd say that's pretty reliable. Not to mention that on Wikipedia, errors are corrected within seconds, whereas an encylopedia takes months, even years to edit. And the bonus is that Wikipedia is open source. Free information for all. Thanks again for understanding. I'm sorry I didn't explain the meaning of my edits before now. Thanks.  :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackjackgirl17 (talk • contribs)

Yes, I did see that report comparing Wikipedia with Encyclopedia Britannica in the news — interesting stuff!

Our response to vandalism is basically that any user should be given due warning (using messages such as those which you were left above). Any of our editors are encouraged to revert vandalism which they come across, and to leave such messages, full details can be found at Wikipedia:Vandalism. If vandalism continues despite warning, as those messages say, the vandal would be blocked from editing Wikipedia in accordance with our blocking policy. Since only an administrator can block users, non-admins would need to ask for help at this stage. This block is only for a temporary amount of time (possibly less than 24 hours for the first block), and only prevents the user in question from editing Wikipedia. After the block expires, the user is free to continue to edit the encyclopedia, although of course, future vandal edits would be taken significantly more seriously. I hope this helps, feel free to leave me a message if you have any queries (and don't forget to sign messages by typing ~~~~ which is changed automatically to your name, and the date and time). Hopefully you have gained an insight into how useful a resource Wikipedia can be, and will be encouraged to make useful contributions! :o) _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 21:51, 4 March 2006 (UTC)