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thanks and hints about removing vandalism at Newton's Principia

Thanks for your amendment effort at Newton's Principia. You might like to have the hint that the changes you made were to features that were not just mistakes: they had recently been introduced by a vandal editor. (I expect you'll get used to detecting/noticing signs of vandalism when you see them.)

Reverting vandalism is an important activity on Wikipedia, and your contribution is appreciated. You might find though, like many other editors, that one of the best ways to do it, rather than tackle individual points piece-by-piece (which risks missing some of the vandalized passages and dropping genuine information), is look back at the recent edit history, and then simply return to a pre-vandalism version of the page. For how-to hints, you might like to look at Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism.

With good wishes, Terry0051 (talk) 12:50, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Re:Cadillac Ranch "contribution" (?)

After some research, I found that the edit was made by an IP address. It looks like the edit was made by someone on that IP that you were using other than yourself. Lugia2453 (talk) 23:11, 8 January 2013 (UTC)