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Please do not remove warnings from your talk page or replace them with offensive content. Removing warnings from your talk page will not remove them from the page history. If you continue to remove warnings from your talk page, you will lose your privilege of editing your talk page. Thanks. --Craig Stuntz 15:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I only removed it because it was sarcastic in tone. Had it been serious in tone there'd have been no problem.--Josh 17:17, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I do understand why you removed "don't be a..." Surprisingly, this is semi-official policy, but I understand that not everyone would want it on their user page. (It's far less offensive than what you put on St. Valentine's day, though.)

When I added the {{subst:wr}} template, however, I was referring to the fact that you blanked a {{test}} warning and called it removing vandalism.

At any rate, I note that you have made many positive contributions to articles as well, and I hope you'll do that instead of joke edits in the future. Thanks! --Craig Stuntz 17:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

No comment as to whether this should or should not have become policy (in some form), but I just wanted to clarify that m:Don't be a dick is not and never has been an official or semi-official policy. It would more accurately be described as an essay. The Wikipedia page WP:DICK is now a soft redirect the meta page, but prior to that, there was a contentious debate as to whether or not the page should be deleted, as evidenced in the page history. That said, welcome to Wikipedia, and I too hope you will continue to make positive contributions and enjoy your stay here. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 18:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Requested vote

There is a proposal to change the article name of Tupac Shakur to 2Pac here --Ted87 17:21, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

test2a: Please do not remove content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism

Please do not remove content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. (diff of 00:54, 12 August 2006)

• Dont delete warnings (this is still your second one). Don't delete content. Please see WP:MOSDAB

-- 62.147.39.42 22:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Excuse me, sir. I was NOT vandalizing Wikipedia. I deleted listed articles which did not exist. That's not called vandalism, that's called cleaning up an article!--Josh 23:51, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, since you've already received a warning, and tried to hide it, you'll pardon me for not assuming good faith at the drop of a hat. Still, please see WP:MOSDAB, especially WP:MOSDAB#Redlinks.

• This was a disambiguation page, all the items you "cleaned up" had a bluelink on their line to a notable artist, and all of them will sooner or later be created. Meanwhile, people are sent to this page every time an editor carelessly links to Greatest Hits, and readers get lost when they can't even find a redlink about the notable album they were looking for. It's a navigational tool.
• Besides, redlinks are common in articles too, and welcome as long as they're not overdone and are about something notable enough that it should have its own article. " Red links are useful in determining the current status of the page (created or not created), create incoming links to a future page, facilitates and incites page creation. " from Help:Link
• You're welcome to add and contribute, but please, pretty please, read the guides and rules, and understand how Wikipedia works before you go on massively *deleting* stuff in pages you don't understand -- yet -- the function of. When in doubt, don't, or please first ask on the talk page or to other editors about if something should be there or deleted, or search the Wikipedia manuals about it. Thanks.

-- 62.147.39.42 01:01, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

P.S.: If you like "cleanup", here's an example of a real one: as of today, there are about 200 articles erroneously linking to Greatest Hits:

("What Links Here" tool for "Greatest Hits" article)

Practically each of them is in error, and should have its link, either:

• Fixed to the bluelink title of the actual album article, if it already exists somewhere (Google is required to search for that, with the keyword "site:en.wikipedia.org")
• Or else, fixed to a piped redlink of the format Greatest Hits (ARTIST-NAME album), and then preferably have that same redlink being pre-emptively added to the list at Greatest Hits...

Now that's some real cleanup, fun and gratifying to do, erm. But useful. For instance, I just did it for the obviously-in-error article Samantha Fox that was in the What Links Here list. See how it's done live in my two edits on Special:Contributions/62.147.39.42

-- 62.147.39.42 01:26, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Detox

I deleted it because it seemed to speculative. Just because 50 Cent has a feud with Diddy doesn't mean it is affecting Dr. Dre. Unlike 50 Cent, Dre doesn't take everything so personaly. But it doesn't hurt keeping the info, since time will tell. --Ted87 03:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

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