Newsflash930

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Sources for Special Report

Hello, good work on Special Report, and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not provide any references or sources in the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. From what websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Special Report? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? You can simply add links, or see WP:CITET if you wish to review some of the different citation methods. Thanks!  BRIAN0918  03:17, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

I, Brian0918, award this to Newsflash930 because of your work on the Counter Vandlism Unit. Thank you

Newsflash930 21:12, 16 December 2005 (UTC)Brian0918

Welcome to the Counter Vandalism Unit

Good to have you aboard. If you want easy pickins, make a "recent changes" bookmark that hides bots, hides minor edits, and hides logged in users (most newbie vandals don't both clicking the "minor edit" box). Unfortunately, I have noticed a recent trend where more vandalism is coming from logged in users so I might have to change my technique given that. If you have any questions about dealing with vandals, feel free to ask me (or any other members). Cheers, Jasmol 01:27, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Giving Warnings

When someone vandalizes (or does a "test," like adding a period or something else that doesn't appear to have malice) start with a "test1" warning. Click on that user link (which for non-logged-in users takes you write to their talk page) and type:

{{test1}} ~~~~

If they continue, use the next level warning:

{{test2}} ~~~~

If they still persist, repeat these steps with the

 {{test3}} and {{test4}}

tags.

If the continue after the 4th warning, you can add them to the Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress alert page (see instructions on that page).

One additional caveat; if you go to add a warning to an anonymous user's talk page and they already have three warnings, but the most recent warning was longer than several days ago, add a new heading to the warning page to indicate that you are warning them for recent vandalism (since IP addresses are usually pooled and used by different users at different times, it's likely that the earlier warnings were for a different user). If that's the case, I usually "reset" the warning level to

{{test2}}

.

Cheers, Jasmol 17:23, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Could you help me write this article?

Hello,

I was wondering if you would be willing to help me write either Seikichi_Iha or Shorin-ryu_Shido-kan. Tkjazzer 21:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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