DavidLJ

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Hello, DavidLJ, 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:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 01:59, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

June 2008

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page England and Wales worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. Thank you. ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 01:59, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

February 2011

Your comments on the article on the Battle of Kiev (1941) were deleted by another editor because you posted them on the article page and not the article's talk page.--Toddy1 (talk) 05:01, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

I have moved your comments on the article on Hermann Göring to Talk:Hermann_Göring#Role_in_the_Reichstag. If you want to comment on articles use the talk page.--Toddy1 (talk) 04:58, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Signing your posts

HI David. I see that you've been signing your posts on talk pages with your email address. This is a bad idea. On the one hand, it provides too much information — it opens you up, in other words, to receive a lot of spam. On the other hand, it provides too little information for other Wikipedia editors. When you post to talk pages, other editors want to be able to get to your User Page, Talk Page, and list of contributions. They also want an accurate time and date for your post Therefore, please sign your posts in future by simply typing four tildes (~~~~). That's all you have to do. Wikipedia will replace it with links to your user page, talk page and list of contributions, as well as providing a time and date stamp. Thanks, garik (talk) 15:20, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Garik,

Thanks for the heads-up. Not to worry: I'm pretty heavily spam-protected and fire-walled. My general principle is that people should act responsibly, and hence sign what they say.

Best

-dlj.

Take your email address off your user-page, DavidLJ. Right now. Wikipedia is supposed to be an open source project, and as such as long as its not incriminating, we should communicate right on Wikipedia where all Wikipedians can see it. 110.55.2.46 (talk) 12:43, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Anonymous,

Who died and made you Pope to say what I can put on my user page? Your argument from open source is rather like Donald Trump's claim that Khan doesn't have the right to talk about the Constitution, exactly when that's what the First Amendment say he does have. An open source reason for you to censor me? You gotta be kidding.

The word you're looking for, in your rude note above, is it's, not its.

Cheers, -dlj.