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Thanks for posting on Wikipedia; however, messages for users belong to talk pages (such as User talk:Mike Rosoft), not to user pages (such as User:Mike Rosoft). If for no other reason, then because a user is not notified that another user has edited his user page, as is the case for talk pages. Thank you. - Mike Rosoft 20:53, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
- That's true, but I've simply been reverting blank pages from here: [1]. I haven't actually written any of this content. --Crackerjackal 20:54, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
- Well please stop doing that. I'm going behind you and reverting you as there is often a good reason for a user blanking a page. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 20:56, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
- True, but I'm not reverting those....I look at the page history and edit summary to see why it was blanked, if it was for any reason besides simple vandalism. Generally reverting those pages that have blanked vandalism warnings and such. --Crackerjackal 20:58, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
- But that is not true, you are reverting far more than simple vandalism. I am having to revert 90% of your reverts. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 21:06, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
OK well i think I'm all done, so I'll take a moment to explain. You need to look carefully at who did the reverting and where they did it. Vandalism warnings should go on the talk page, but sometimes people accidentally put them on the userpage. When they realise what they have don they remove them from the userpage and put them on the talk page. There is no need to revert that and it is, in fact, a bad thing because people watching recent changes may assume that you were in fact adding a vandalism warning because the user vandalised recently (this did actually happen). Anyway - when an established user blanks a page, and that page has stayed blank for a number of months, chances are that blanking was a good thing.
Anyway thank you for trying to help out, we were all newbies once, it'll take you a while to learn the ropes. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 21:26, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
OK it's me back again to bug you. Why did you remove the untagged images notice from User talk:Homsar2? I note that you refer to bug 275 but that appears to be the duplication bug - i.e. sometimes, when someone saves an edit, the whole page is duplicated. This is not what was going on here, the reason that the page had so many similar warnings on it was that the user kept uploading images without tagging them. You'll note by the red links that he didn't tag them after the warnings either so they were deleted. Now why would we want to remove this kind of info from a talk page? It's useful. If he uploads another untagged image we can see that he has a past history of doing it. That's why I reverted you.
Also if you look at Wikipedia:Duplicated sections you will se a note at the top stating that this project is closed. i.e. all the cleanup that needs to be done, has been done already.Pges with that note on on kept for historical reasons only. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 04:23, 3 July 2006 (UTC)