User talk:Freiherrin

Welcome

Hello, Freiherrin, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Again, welcome! -JChap 23:28, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can you put the subject of your WEINSTEIN, Irving article in a little better context? It has been proposed for deletion and I would hate to see it excluded if it is an artist that we should cover. Thanks --JChap 23:31, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Garrick Palmer

Thanks for adding Garrick Palmer, but there are a few problems with the article. Please have a look at the Guide to writing better articles and try to address the slightly effusive tone of the writing. If you're making statements like "is the pre-eminent wood engraver of his time", you need to reference this, or else it breaches Wikipedia's Neutral point of view policy. The references you have put in are set up wrong - I fixed the first one for you, but look at Wikipedia:Footnotes which explains proper use of the ref tags. Finally, don't over-link, epecially to things like exhibitions and smaller galleries which are unlikely to ever have their own articles. Quote marks and commas (') for italics go outside the square brackets when linking. eg Moby-Dick not ''Moby-Dick''. Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 11:59, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Francis 1st pattern

Hi Freiherrin, I responded to your comment on the talk page.

BTW good job on the article, Thank You.

Bloger (talk) 19:21, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bot problems

Hi, there, you reported some problems with bots, recently. There are some bots that "patrol" recent changes for vandalism, the idea being that they reduce load on the rest of us so that we don't have to deal with the (fairly large) number of abusive people out there -- one thing a lot of these bots look for is changes that add or remove large amounts of text. It's unfortunate that earnest contributions are being caught up by this sort of thing.

From a quick glance, it looks like you ran into a problem with one bot at the Paul Bernardo article. I'll see if there may be anything I can do about that; in the meantime, please do remember that the bot means no harm (they're generally pretty accurate, although the particular one you ran into is unfortunately the most prone to false positives, currently) and that any changes it reverts should still be quite available in the page history. Most all of these bots are programmed to avoid reverting a particular user more than once per article per day (although if you're accidentally logged out, it won't recognize you).

If you find yourself needing help with this sort of thing in the future, feel free to let me know or post to the village pump to request aid. Beyond that, thank you for your contributions and your time; Wikipedia would not be the same without the helpful contributions of countless people. – Luna Santin (talk) 07:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One thing Luna pointed out there, which needs to be underscored, is that the trouble only occurred when you were not logged in as Freiherrin. If you look at the history you will see that it only reverted the edits that appeared to come from an anonymous IP address. I totally understand your annoyance and I am not defending the bot. I am saying that a way to work around the problem is to stay logged in (this has the added benefit of giving you credit for the edits). Cheers and thanks for all the hard work! —Noah 08:58, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see from your comments on the Talk:Paul_Bernardo page that you have already figured this out. I don't have that particular problem (my browser always keeps me logged in) but you may find a cookie-related answer [here]. Here are some other ideas if you can't solve the logout issue: 1) edit in smaller chunks of time, 2) copy all of the text before submitting it and save it to a text file, 3) open another browser window or tab before submitting the change to make sure you are still logged in. Good luck, —Noah 09:13, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please note I was logged in. It happened again just now; logged in, looked at the Featured Article page, made comments and while looking at preview noticed that it said that I was not logged in etc. I made a note of it on that page as well. It's annoying as all get out. Today I am in another city at a different operating system so I don't think it is browser-related. It seems to be the wikipedia endFreiherrin (talk) 23:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]