Userpages, signatures, etc

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Well, you can put anything you want on your userpage, really, as long as it's not offensive, and as long as you're not focusing on your userpage as main activity :) A lot of people write a short paragraph about themselves and have a few userboxes, along with their favourite articles, or articles they've written/helped to write.

As for signatures, if you want something fancy you'll need a little bit of CSS or HTML. So, say you want your signature to look like this: Donny417, you would enter [[User:Donny417|<span style="background:lightblue;color:orange;">'''Donny'''</span>]][[User talk:Donny417|<span style="background:orange;color:lightblue;">417</span>]] into the signature box in your preferences (located on the top right corner). Click 'raw signature' so that the HTML displays correctly, and voila! Help:Wikitext examples and Wikipedia:Cheatsheet are good places to learn about Wikitext. Hope that helps, and feel free to ask more questions. Cheers, – Riana 17:13, 26 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Donny417 14:52, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Your 3 May 2007 blatant advertising edits to the Billiard ball article

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Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. By the way, a company's own marketing materials do not qualify as reliable sources for information about that company, its products, or its competitors. Please read the reliable sources, conflict of interest, wikispam, and verifiability policies and guidelines. Furthermore, hostile edit summaries are generally interpreted as disruptive editing. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:01, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

My revert

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Frankly, I fail to see how it is nearly notable enough for inclusion. That said, I've have reverted myself, as my original reason for reverting was that I had misinterpreted your edit as vandalism, having seen only your top edit (adding a peculiar link to Zoophilia). Apologies for any inconvenience. Martinp23 20:11, 1 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

RE:

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First off, that section was a WP:BLP nightmare. Secondly, the sources weren't reliable, and thirdly, making accusatory statements when asking about an edit is likely not to help. –Animum 20:28, 1 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I mean it was a very big infraction of that policy, and if something violates BLP, it is either removed or, if a whole page is an infraction, deleted. –Animum 20:31, 1 September 2007 (UTC)Reply
Okay, after a lengthy discussion on IRC, the section was not a BLP vio. However, such a statement that "both men and women are attracted to horses" needs to be sourced with a reliable source, not something from everything2.com. Regards and happy editing! –Animum 20:55, 1 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Userboxes

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I suggest using Template:Userboxtop for better structure. Isaac Pankonin 05:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Arabian horse

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Perhaps later on we'll try working on that. For some reason, I figured there would be more to it than simple formatting. I'll check the article tomorrow and see if any work has been done to the info boxes. Thanks again for all your help 70.247.252.194 (talk) 02:48, 26 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

re:your comment about Acroterion

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  With regard to your comments on User talk:VanTucky: Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. VanTucky (talk) 22:10, 6 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Where did I personally attack someone on User:VanTucky's talk page? Donny417 22:26, 6 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Warning

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Please refrain from posting possible personal information about your fellow editors, or you will be blocked. Thanks, Crum375 04:10, 9 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Also, I'm sure the editor in question is aware of this. Sorry, but your posting such information in a Talk page for all to see cannot possibly be helpful—quite the contrary, so please refrain from doing so again. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 01:14, 10 October 2007 (UTC)Reply
I have blocked this user, as his contribs indicate only harassing and attempted outing over the last couple of days, despite being warned. Crum375 02:19, 10 October 2007 (UTC)Reply