User talk:Anna Lincoln

Anna Lincoln is taking a wikibreak due to lack of free time because of job, and will be back on Wikipedia some day. However, she checks her e-mail regularly and will reply to all messages posted on her talk page. Nevertheless, she continues to be a regular reader of the site, and has the feeling that she will always belong to the community.

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Welcome!

Hello, Anna, 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:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian, and that these last four Wikipedia years have been as rewarding as mine have! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Sopastar 23:23, 11 april 2011 (UTC)

O hai. What is a wiki? Anna Lincoln 16:01, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:86.130.245.244

Hello, below is the message I have just been notified about and it appears to be directed at me:

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to The Saturdays, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.

Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
Cluebot produces very few false positives, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made should not have been detected as unconstructive, please report it here, remove this warning from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
The following is the log entry regarding this warning: The Saturdays was changed by 86.130.245.244 (u) (t) making a minor change with obscenities on 2010-07-12T10:28:02+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 10:28, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Information.svg Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page The Saturdays. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Anna Lincoln 10:31, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I am from the IP address indicated, but so are over a million others. And did not make the above change, as proven by my account. Why have I been sent this message?

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by WayoftheWonderer (talk • contribs) 16:37, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! You are right that IPs are shared by multiple users because the number of available IP adresses is limited and ISPs usually give the same IP to several users. A collateral effect of this is that one of such users can receive messages intended for some other user that was using the same IP. From the point of view of other Wikipedia users, there is no easy way to distinguish between users who share the same IP, and messages sent to some user will be seen by all other users sharing the same IP. If the message was not intended to you, you can ignore the message. The most effective way to avoid this is to create an account, as you have done. Regards, Anna Lincoln 12:33, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gregorico (talk) 12:14, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Anna!!

Thank you for your welcome message.

I would like to improve some articles about my city and region in English Wikipedia because I'm doing the same in Spanish Wikipedia, so I have some knowledge about the way to work here. I'm historian so I'll try to be useful to the project.

Thanks again.

Best regards. --Gregorico (talk) 12:14, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! I'm sure you are already a great asset to Wikipedia and all its readers. See you, Anna Lincoln 08:56, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

El Hierro (talk) 12:50, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much.El Hierro (talk) 12:50, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome :-) Anna Lincoln 13:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, Anna Lincoln, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 22:28, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you sooo much, I completely forgot about the date. I remember my early days when I was so excited about the huge encyclopedia I found on the web. Nowadays I am not so an active writer as then, but I continue to be an every day reader. Anna Lincoln 16:54, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

El Hierro (talk) 15:51, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello, Anna: I enjoyed editing my first article: César Fernández García. Can you revise it? Thank you very much. By the way, I can´t creat this article yet without diacritics:

Cesar Fernandez Garcia
#REDIRECT César Fernández García
{{R from title without diacritics}}

El Hierro (talk) 15:51, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I read the article, it's perfect. Referenced, with inter-wiki links, info box, photo... I couldn't have written it better. Anna Lincoln 16:56, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To edit the entry Cesar Fernandez Garcia without diacritics, you must go to the article by following the link without diacritics (follow my link before), and then click on the link "Redirected from Cesar Fernandez Garcia" which appears on the top of the page. Then you can edit the article named without diacritics using the tab "edit". The entry seems to already exist. Anna Lincoln 16:56, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kotabatubara (talk) 16:37, 22 June 2011 (UTC) Where is my draft?

Hi, Anna. Thank you for welcoming me to the Wikiworld a couple of years ago. I'm very proud of the barn star that you awarded me. You are the only individual that I "know" in Wiki editing, so I'm bringing my question to you. Yesterday I drafted a new article and saved it, as advised by the Wizard, in my Userspace. But today I can't find the draft. How do I access my Userspace and the draft that (I hope) I sent there? Kotabatubara (talk) 16:37, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I searched your contributions and found your draft here. It is a strange location and I believe the wizard has some bug that made it store the draft there. Provided you wrote the draft being logged in. Regards, Anna Lincoln 18:42, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Anna. I'm relieved that it's not entirely my fault that it got lost. Kotabatubara (talk) 16:42, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

:-) Anna Lincoln 18:13, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Mykolabferrari (talk) 17:41, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for the barnstar, that's very kind of you. It's cool that your first edit as a registered user is used to give me this token. Much appreciated :-) Anna Lincoln 19:28, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ed Dempsey (talk) 19:14, 5 August 2011 (UTC)db-copyvio|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2717790

Reformatted facts from the original AP story as it appeared on a variety of news sources. Trying to determine how to create this entry if I can't reference facts from the source material. Here's the google search that I used to reference my sources.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Jim+Karvellas&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Been a while since I've created a page like this so I'm all ears to know the best way to go about this post.

Thanks!!!

Ed Dempsey Ed Dempsey (talk) 19:14, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I suggest you to read Wikipedia:Copyrights for more information on what can be done to avoid copyright infringement. I'm afraid I can't give more concrete advice because I'm not familiar with the contents of the article. Best wishes, Anna Lincoln 17:18, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

24.124.118.136 (talk) 19:23, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

A reference to 'T.C. Lloyd' of Wales, who gained seven caps between 1909 and 1914 (and was one of the terrible eight), is correct. Although born, Thomas John Lloyd he was always known as 'T.C.' LLoyd. His daughter (my mother) does not know why he was called 'TC' but this seems to have been more common when he played for Glynneath RFC than Neath. Regrettably his international career was stopped because of the start of the First World War.

Adrian (Lloyd) Delnevo

Thanks for your comments. Maybe you would like to post this information on the article's talk page so that other editors can improve the article. You are also welcome to modify the article for yourself. Regards, Anna Lincoln 18:44, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Wikipedian

Hello, Anna Lincoln. Please check your email; you've got mail!
Message added 17:06, 4 January 2012 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Replied on User:220 of Borg's talk page, where I said: Hello. I received you e-mail where you notificated my inclusion in the Missing Wikipedians list. It's true that I haven't been active as an editor for a while. However, I continue to enjoy reading Wikipedia every few days. I reply to all messages I receive on my user page. I don't know if this qualifies me as missing or not. All the best, Anna Lincoln 12:46, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GordytheTeacher (talk) 04:46, 5 January 2012 (UTC)Deleted editing

Any idea why my latest update concerning the recent adolescence problems in Alstonville, NSW, and the lack of police presence were deleted? They appeared the first time, then disappeared. I ran them a second time but they didn't re-appear. Not much point in having an 'edit contribution' system if the cocntributions gets deleted without reason.

Gordy

GordytheTeacher (talk) 04:46, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

User:Doctorhawkes removed your addition with comment "unsourced". This means that you did not provide reliable references that could back your statements. I suggest you to review this key policy on verifiability. Regards, Anna Lincoln 12:47, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

80.254.146.68 (talk) 14:24, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Do You Know The Muffin Man?

--80.254.146.68 (talk) 14:24, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two muffins are in an oven. One says: It's getting hot here, isn't it? The other replies: Oh my! A talking muffin! :-) --Anna Lincoln 19:06, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions, Anna Lincoln. SwisterTwister talk 02:46, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! This barnstar made me feel very special :-) Glad to meet you. Anna Lincoln 11:21, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Simnia (talk) 18:26, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

You are in error. I was making an incremental update to the site and you blocked me from finishing, and it appears you have blocked my further updates to other articles including a technical one on chess ratings. You made a bad judgment and compounded it with censorship that as far as I can tell looks permanent, which will result in my refusing to contribute to Wikipedia in any way in the future. You didn't even leave an explanation of what was going on, which forced me to waste time attempting to make an edit later on that would not work. I don't know what the status of my account is, or what is causing these problems now, but I assume you are to blame. I also got a weird message from some Wikipedia user that looks to be a warning but that makes no sense and also has no intelligible links or explanation. I assume you are the source of these escalating problems and I don't believe you should be in the position of authority that you are.

Update: It appears that Wikipedia is claiming that I "blanked the page" when I look at my account activity, but if that was the case, it was not intended. I had clicked on the link on a stub page that said to click there expand the stub, and it gave me a blank page instead of the usual existing text to edit, so it appears to be Wikipedia's fault. Maybe Wikipedia needs to fix their stub update system instead of banning people who try to make contributions to a page that Wikipedia has blanked out? And maybe you should check on my past years of history of worthwhile updates to Wikipedia pages before banning my account, or whatever it is you did. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simnia (talk • contribs) 19:01, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very sorry if me or the wikipedia software misinterpreted your contributions and counted them as vandalism. Could you please accept my apologies? Please understand that Wikipedia deals with a very huge amount of malicious edits every day, and therefore a semi-automated system to discriminate good edits is needed. As that system is not perfect, sometimes good edits are misclassified, and this appears to be your case. I myself have sometimes suffered the classification of some edit as vandalism and had it reverted. Your editing capabilities should have been fully restored to you at this time. Contributing to Wikipedia is a very satisfying activity, and I suggest that you should not deprive yourself of that pleasure only because a couple of edits were misclassified. Again, I apologise in my name and in the name of the Wikipedia community for any sorrow caused by the classification of your first edits as vandalism. You forgive us? :-) C'mon, a cool thing of Wikipedia is the people you meet :-) Please, please, come back! We need you!!! Your edits are truly welcome ;-) Best wishes, Anna Lincoln 20:03, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]