User talk:Washburnmav

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Hello, Washburnmav! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! –xenocidic (talk) 17:07, 7 July 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

(Re [1]) No problem - happy editing, –xenocidic (talk) 17:09, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

(Re [2]) Well, just continue improving articles like you did to Crown (dentistry) and also you can consider doing stuff like recent changes patrol to watch and undo vandalism. You don't need to be an administrator to fight vandalism, but after 6 months of solid contributions, you can consider requesting adminship. Also, tweak your signature a bit - ensure it starts with your name, and then if you want to thank me (though, no need) put it in brackets. Right now someone might mistake you for me because it shows "xenocidic" followed by the (talk) link. If you have any further questions, just drop by my talk page. –xenocidic (talk) 17:13, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

July 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Stewie Griffin has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bwordpress\.com' (link(s): http://asleepintheclouds.wordpress.com/ http://asleepintheclouds.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/howtodrawstewie/) . If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thorougly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).

If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! XLinkBot (talk) 18:23, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

• Hi Washburn (is that a firefly reference?), those number aren't ratings they just show how much text was added (green) or removed (red). You removed 1 byte of data in your second edit, so that's why it showed a -1. Also see above, the XLinkBot is concerned about that source, since it's a blog (is it? I didn't check), it might not meet the inclusion guidelines for reliable sources. –xenocidic (talk) 18:39, 7 July 2008 (UTC)