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This user talk page has been vandalized 2 times.

This user reports vandals to administrators so they can be blocked.

I will respond to your comments here unless you ask me to do so elsewhere. For the purposes of keeping this page as clutter-free as possible, I will archive discussions on a monthly basis, excluding those still in progress. If an archived discussion needs to be revived, please start a new thread on this page, referencing the archived thread with a link if necessary.

Good grief, was that really necessary?

I just saw the message that you left on my talk page chastising me for not leaving an edit summary on an article. I found it quite humorous that your edit summary on my talk page was "march 2009" -- and how exactly is that helpful to anyone? There are much more productive things to police on wikipedia, thank you.--Sixtrojans (talk) 14:42, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not a policeman, and using the month and year in a heading is an often-used method of leaving such comments on user talk pages. I'm sorry you found my comment to be unhelpful, but I'm even more sorry that you still fail to see the importance of using edit summaries. Your choice, of course. --Ericdn (talk) 14:46, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Weather Channel

Regarding your "welcome" message to User:TPIRFanSteve -- You might want to go back and look at the edit history again. He is obviously cleaning up others' vandalism, not reverting his own. Lambertman (talk) 17:19, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies if I misinterpreted who was reverting whose vandalism. In any case, it's good to see someone out there spending the time and effort to clean up vandalism. --Ericdn (talk) 17:21, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I trust you will apologize to the wronged party. Cheers, Lambertman (talk) 17:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The user has since blanked his talk page, and it's not up to me to resurrect discussions on his page that he doesn't want there. However, you're more than welcome to direct him here to my talk page so that we may continue the discussion. --Ericdn (talk) 17:26, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, he hasn't. I'm moving on now. I clearly can't force you to do the right thing, but please consider it. Cheers, Lambertman (talk) 17:29, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... and yet when I loaded the page recently, it appeared to be blank. Obviously a temporary error. I'll do more than consider leaving a message. I will leave one. --Ericdn (talk) 17:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No worries about the whole deal...in fact, I didn't even see your first message until I'd read the second one. -TPIRFanSteve (talk) 02:49, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In any event, I'm glad you've now seen both of my posts and that the situation is resolved. Personally, I think it would have been better if you had come to me directly, instead of a third person getting involved, but what's done is done. --Ericdn (talk) 02:55, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't get a third person involved -- Lambertman did that all on his own (and I thank him for it). -TPIRFanSteve (talk) 01:27, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Anyway, the end justifies the means, I guess. Have a nice day! --Ericdn (talk) 07:51, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Civilization II

What civilizations a player can choose, what units they can make, what city enhancements they can make, etc. are only of use in a game guide, and are of no use to non-Civilization players. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 21:18, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps a brief summary could be written to replace the detailed information, instead of simply removing the information and replacing it with nothing? --Ericdn (talk) 21:37, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If I found a list of stages, I wouldn't take the time to write paragraphs of content to replace it. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 21:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I still don't understand why all of the removed information should be deleted without so much as a brief summary to replace it. These are core concepts of the game, not just bells and whistles. If you personally don't want to do the rewriting, then perhaps you can go to the article talk page and ask if anyone else would be interested. Then, once replacement text is ready, the information can be removed and immediately replaced. --Ericdn (talk) 21:44, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There could have been information salvaged from it, and it still can be - all that needs to be done is go back before my edit, take the actual prose of those sections, and trim it down to the necessary content. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 05:10, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can't guarantee I'll be the one to do it, as my to-do list is already grotesquely long, but it would certainly be a nice project for someone to take up. I'm glad we've been able to reach a mutual agreement on this issue. --Ericdn (talk) 05:15, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

re: Your Message

Hi Ericdn, Thank you for your message [1]. Sorry for not responding straight away but you caught me in the middle of deleting several cases vandalisms on my talk page including the message you were referring to [2], which as you see was posed by IP user 24.127.205.7. In short, no I haven't resorted to giving myself warnings, but who knows, soon I may be driven to it! ;-) Marek.69 ^talk 05:07, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again! I knew something looked a bit odd, so I just wanted to draw your attention to it in case you missed it. I was very happy to repay the favor. Believe me, I know exactly what you mean about losing one's wikisanity! Have a great day! --Ericdn (talk) 05:09, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your message

I see that you left a message. All I have done with the Premier Rides article is post what someone else keeps deleting. I have posted the company's history and sample accomlishements. I do not know how to stop 68.89.169.63 from undoing and deleting this page. The information is straight from the company and is accurate. Any advice on how to stop this war would be appreciated Coa$ter (talk) 20:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you're having a problem with a disruptive poster, I recommend seeing Wikipedia's dispute resolution page for information about what steps you can take. --Ericdn (talk) 07:51, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism Accusation

My edit to Montel Vontavius Porter was not by any stretch vandalism. Stop being a retard —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.205.7 (talk) 11:22, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to bring to your attention the following Wikipedia concepts: No personal attacks, Etiquette, Assume good faith, Avoid personal remarks, No angry mastodons, and Staying cool when the editing gets hot. My reverts of your contributions to Christopher Daniels were made in good faith, and with the collaboration of other Wikipedia editors who felt that your edits were unconstructive. In addition, the comments you left on the talk page of another Wikipedia editor tend to show that you are not willing to compromise or discuss changes you make in articles. Per Wikipedia's guidelines, it is not considered to be good form to refer to other editors as "retards" simply because you disagree with them. As you gain more experience in cooperating with other Wikipedia editors, I am sure you will have a much more positive experience on Wikipedia. --Ericdn (talk) 19:35, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to direct you to oral sex which you can perform on me. Don't accuse me of vandalism for good faith edits, and you won't have an angry mastodon to worry about.

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good set of links, hope you don't mind if I copy them ;) — Ched ~ ^(yes?) 21:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to copy the whole boilerplate message if you'd like! It's something I created on the fly to respond to the umpteenth-and-a-million case of someone throwing a wiki temper-tantrum against me that I've come across. --Ericdn (talk) 21:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Know what you mean - I've run across a couple rather persistent little fellas myself lately. Keep up the good (and often unappreciated) work - I appreciate it! — Ched ~ ^(yes?) 21:48, 10 March 2009 (UTC) ;)[reply]

Consider the appreciation mutual! I don't consider the work to be totally unappreciated, though. Take Billerica, Massachusetts, for example. It's my hometown, so I want to do what I can to make a page that I'm proud of, even though I know it's not exactly a high-traffic article. --Ericdn (talk) 21:50, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Anne Veski

Sorry about that. I was using a script to revert vandalism from the user, and it appears to have caught a couple of the user's good-faith contributions, as well. Thanks for the notification. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 01:43, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your very prompt reply! I was unaware that this user has a history of vandalism, but I can assure you that his move of the page was a legitimate one. Anyway, I undid your undo, so that the page title has both names capitalized again. However, I noticed that the "Anne veski" page automatically redirects to the proper title, so it seems that there's absolutely no harm done in the end. Except, of course, for the fact that I accidentally allowed the page to be created with the typo in the title in the first place. Anyway, thanks for your efforts, and thanks for being understanding regarding this matter. --Ericdn (talk) 01:46, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 My edit to Montel Vontavius Porter was not by any stretch vandalism. Stop being a [[retard]]  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/24.127.205.7|24.127.205.7]] ([[User talk:24.127.205.7|talk]]) 11:22, 10 March 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
 :I would like to bring to your attention the following Wikipedia concepts: '''[[Wikipedia:No personal attacks|No personal attacks]]''', [[Wikipedia:Etiquette|Etiquette]], [[Wikipedia:Assume good faith|Assume good faith]], [[Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks|Avoid personal remarks]], [[Wikipedia:No angry mastodons|No angry mastodons]], and [[Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot|Staying cool when the editing gets hot]].  My reverts of your contributions to [[Christopher Daniels]] were made in good faith, and with the collaboration of other Wikipedia editors who felt that your edits were unconstructive.  In addition, the comments you left on the talk page of [[User talk:Marek69|another Wikipedia editor]] tend to show that you are not willing to compromise or discuss changes you make in articles.  Per Wikipedia's guidelines, it is not considered to be good form to refer to other editors as "retards" simply because you disagree with them.  As you gain more experience in cooperating with other Wikipedia editors, I am sure you will have a much more positive experience on Wikipedia. --[[User:Ericdn|Ericdn]] ([[User talk:Ericdn#top|talk]]) 19:35, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
+::I would like to direct you to [[oral sex]] which you can perform on me. Don't accuse me of vandalism for [[good faith]] edits, and you won't have an angry mastodon to worry about.
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