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Best of luck, Rob Zako, and most importantly, have fun! Ombudsman 05:32, 14 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Bold, revert, discuss

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The practice that you are undertaking at List of The Big Bang Theory episodes is disruptive. We generally follow a BOLD, revert, discuss cycle which says that once your initial addition of the information to the article was reverted you should have not restored the information, but instead initiated a discussion explaining why you think your edits should be included. In practice the process often becomes BOLD, Revert, revert, revert, discuss. I reverted your second restoration of the disputed edits primarily because they contradict Wikipedia:External links and the spirit of Wikipedia:Trivia sections. It was inappropriate of you to revert again. Edit warring is counter-productive, impedes discussion, is unlikely to gain support for your edits and may result in you being blocked from editing. --AussieLegend (talk) 08:19, 16 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

I appreciate that you're probably frustrated by the reverting of your Big Bang Theory edits. This seems important to you, and you were BOLD and put in a lot of work, only to have it taken away in a heartbeat. But understand; this was not done arbitrarily. There are other people here more familiar with the mission statement of Wikipedia than you are (or me, for that matter; God knows I'm nobody special), and all they're trying to do is maintain the encyclopedia's standard. This sort of thing is going to happen. I'm more than sure it's happened to AussieLegend at some point (in fact, he mentioned preferring the title references be removed as well, but being out-voted on the matter). Wikipedia is not a fan site, and it just seems that the Vanity cards belong in that arena. KnownAlias contact 15:19, 16 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

License tagging for File:Album A Fifth Cover.jpg

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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