User talk:Waggers

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Happy editing! Gflores ^Talk 21:38, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Voting on arbitration cases

Hi. Just so you know, only Arbitrators (see WP:AC) are allowed to place votes on arbitration pages. Thanks for your interest. If you have any proposals to make, please go to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pedophilia userbox wheel war/Workshop. Cheers, Sam Korn ^(smoddy) 22:18, 9 February 2006 (UTC).[reply]

D'oh! Thanks Sam. I'll go through and remove my votes :)

(Shouldn't access be restricted to arbitrators on those pages then? [shrug])

Please stop editing the ArbCom proposed decision page. This is your last warning. Sam Korn ^(smoddy) 22:23, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Have done, Sam. I was only trying to remove the votes I made in error. I see that someone has beaten me to it though.

Hi, Waggers. I think your suggestion that the pages should be restricted is reasonable, but in practice we don't like to do that. We try to keep to the wiki principle that everybody can edit any part of the site. It's usually evident (as in this case) when somebody has made an innocent mistake. We do have a mechanism that restricts edits to administrators, but we don't use it that much, and usually then not for very long.

Presently we're protecting the George W. Bush article from edits by new users and anonymous IPs (people who aren't registered or haven't logged in), but this is quite controversial and we feel that it was forced on us by a preposterously high rate of vandalism--even we get impatient when about 70% or all edits to an article are either vandalism or reverts of vandalism. Welcome to Wikipedia. --Tony Sidaway 23:33, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that clarification, Tony. I hope I haven't caused too much inconvenience with my bungling attempts to get involved! Waggers 23:35, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not at all. This might amuse you a little. If you want to discuss an ongoing arbitration case, by the way, there is always a workshop page that you can go to for the case. You can enter your own proposals and make comments on the proposals of others, and these will be read by the arbitrators who will adopt those that they are swayed by. There is a link to the workshop page near the top of each of the other pages. --Tony Sidaway 00:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Genesis articles

Thanks for the help with the Genesis wikifications. I neglected to wikify No Son of Mine in there. Keep it up ! :) Alex 22:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Just wanted to stop by and second Tony's welcome, as well as saying I think it's refreshing to see a new user who has the desire to get involved. Don't worry to much about having caused any problems; just about anything can be fixed easily. (As for Sam, he gets his knickers in a twist sometimes.) ;-) If you ever need help with anything, let me know. Oh, and have one of these:

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