February 2009

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Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Sacha Baron Cohen worked, and it has been automatically reverted. 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. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here. Thank you.
SoxBot III (talk | owner) 18:29, 11 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Welcome!

Hello, Sohollywood, 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:

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! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:41, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Judd Apatow. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. – Ms. Sarita Confer 19:10, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Kate Walsh (actress), you will be blocked from editing. – Ms. Sarita Confer 19:25, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

  This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits, such as those you made to The Killers (band). If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. – Ms. Sarita Confer 22:11, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Commas inside brackets

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Hello. I've seen your edits pop up on my watchlist a couple of times in the past few minutes, and I noticed that at least a couple of edits you made seemed to break some links. For example, on Rick Fox, you changed Ugly Betty to Ugly Betty,. Please be a little more careful. Thanks. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:41, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

I'd like to apologize if I sounded a little harsh there, I reworded it slightly not to sound so bad. It was not my intention to sound mad or upset, I was just in a hurry because I saw that you were moving pretty fast :) I usually read over my posts a few times to make sure that the tone is how I meant for it to sound, but didn't here. If you need any help with anything or have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page, and I'll do my best to answer. I'm not usually as grumpy as I sounded there. Happy editing! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:35, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Please stop putting commas inside brackets. Doing so messes up the linking. I see that you have been advised against this practice before (per the discussion above). I am asking you to refrain from making such edits. If you have any questions regarding this, please feel free to stop by my talk page and I'll be happy to help you out. Thanks! Happy editing. – Ms. Sarita Confer 19:12, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

This is your final warning. If you do not stop these edits, you WILL be reported and possibly blocked from editing for a variable amount of time. Thank you. Montgomery' 39 (talk) 19:38, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

  This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did to Damien Rice, you will be blocked from editing. ~~ [ジャム][t - c] 21:01, 24 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

March 2009

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Hello, can I point you towards WP:PUNCT - this is how punctuation should be handled within articles here. In particular, please note the section "Quotation Marks: Inside or outside", which states "Punctuation marks are placed inside the quotation marks only if the sense of the punctuation is part of the quotation. This practice is referred to as logical quotation; it is used by Wikipedia both because of the principle of minimal change, and also because the method is less prone to misquotation, ambiguity, and the introduction of errors in subsequent editing." Punctuation certainly should not be placed within song titles in quote marks unless it is part of the song title. Thanks.--Michig (talk) 14:19, 26 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Cutting and pasting

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Do not cut-and-paste copyrighted material from other publications into Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie Talk 00:01, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

March 2013

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  This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. I posted an only warning after looking at warnings for vandalism because using this article as a advertisement is disrupting Wikipedia. If you have any questions contact me via my talk page. Liberalufp (talk) 01:15, 6 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:02, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:11, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Reply