Thevogenator
Greetings
editThanks for your reply and your efforts to keep the article clean. As for warning templates--I'm going to give you a tip:
instead of writing them out there are standard warnings you can use, starting with [[Image:Information.svg|25px]] Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to [[:<articlename>]], did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|the sandbox]] for any test edits you would like to make, and read the [[Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia|welcome page]] to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you.<!-- {{uw-vandalism1|<articlename>}} --> or {{uw-v1|<articlename>}} for short, and working up to {{uw-v4|<articlename>}}. Level 1 warning "assumes good faith" so if it's obviously not a mistake, you can start with level 2. Look at the talk page, and if there are already warnings go to the next level - so in this case you could have used level 4, as I had already given #3. If vandalism continues after a #4 warning (allowing a minute or two for him to get it), make a report at WP:AIV - if you click "edit" beside "user-reported" on that page you will see the format to use. "Vandalism after recent final warning" is a good enough reason to give. --SchnitzelMannGreek. 22:48, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
For example----this --[[Image:Information.svg|25px]] Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to [[:Nickelback]], did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|the sandbox]] for any test edits you would like to make, and read the [[Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia|welcome page]] to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you.<!-- [[Image:Information.svg|25px]] Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to [[:Nickelback]], did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|the sandbox]] for any test edits you would like to make, and read the [[Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia|welcome page]] to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you.<!-- {{uw-vandalism1|Nickelback}} --> --> produces this:
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Nickelback, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. -->--SchnitzelMannGreek. 22:48, 23 June 2009 (UTC)