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Hello, Mackay 86, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I have posted about the contents of your user page at Wikipedia:ANI#Hosting_infoboxes_on_user_pages:_User:Mackay_86. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick^t 22:21, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message but I don't see why you need to do this? Your user page is not intended for this kind of thing. Also, while you can clean up your talk page as you wish, immediately removing others' comments as you have been doing is not likely to endear you to the editing community here. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick^t 22:46, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Per the above, I have removed the content per both WP:UP#NOT and WP:OWN. Encyclopedic material is hosted in article space, which may be edited by any editor not subject to a block or other restriction - and is also subject to any of the Wikipedia processes.
Should you attempt to return the userpage (which is not "yours", but is provided by the project) to the previous version then the page may be protected to stop you from editing it, or you blocked for a period, or both. If you are unwilling to conform to Wikipedia standards and practices in regard to contributing content, then there is no reason to maintain this account. Please regard this as a warning. LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:56, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You may not see the problem, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. Infoboxes as those on your page are project material, to be used in the production of encyclopedic content. They should be able to be edited by anyone, per the ethos of Wikipedia. The fact they are hosted on your talkpage, along with the relevant catagories, means they appear to be part of the article material when crawled by Google and other scrapers - yet you would require people not to edit them as they are on "your" page. All this is against WP practice. Since you have returned the content I have, after removing it again, protected the page from you being able to edit it. You may wish to comment at the ANI discussion, to ensure that my comments are in line with other peoples and perhaps understand that editing here is a privilege only and not conforming to the rules will result in the removal of those privileges. LessHeard vanU (talk) 23:25, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 :Thanks for your message but I don't see why you need to do this?  Your user page is not intended for this kind of thing.  Also, while you can clean up your talk page as you wish, immediately removing others' comments as you have been doing is not likely to endear you to the editing community here.  <span style="font-size:80%;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">[[User:The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick|<font color="red">'''The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick'''</font>]]<sup> [[User talk:The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick|<font color="blue">'''t'''</font>]]</sup></span> 22:46, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 *Per the above, I have removed the content per both [[WP:UP#NOT]] and [[WP:OWN]]. Encyclopedic material is hosted in article space, which may be edited by any editor not subject to a block or other restriction - and is also subject to any of the Wikipedia processes.<br>Should you attempt to return the userpage (which is not "yours", but is provided by the project) to the previous version then the page may be protected to stop you from editing it, or you blocked for a period, or both. If you are unwilling to conform to Wikipedia standards and practices in regard to contributing content, then there is no reason to maintain this account. Please regard this as a warning. [[User:LessHeard vanU|LessHeard vanU]] ([[User talk:LessHeard vanU|talk]]) 22:56, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
+:*You may not see the problem, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. Infoboxes as those on your page are project material, to be used in the production of encyclopedic content. They should be able to be edited by anyone, per the ethos of Wikipedia. The fact they are hosted on your talkpage, along with the relevant catagories, means they appear to be part of the article material when crawled by Google and other scrapers - yet you would require people not to edit them as they are on "your" page. All this is against WP practice. Since you have returned the content I have, after removing it again, protected the page from you being able to edit it. You may wish to comment at the ANI discussion, to ensure that my comments are in line with other peoples and perhaps understand that editing here is a privilege only and not conforming to the rules will result in the removal of those privileges. [[User:LessHeard vanU|LessHeard vanU]] ([[User talk:LessHeard vanU|talk]]) 23:25, 7 March 2010 (UTC)