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Use of preview button

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Wow

A one-minute revert to vandalism on Tourette syndrome -- Thanks !!! Sandy 15:45, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Questionable revert

Excuse me, but could you tell me why you reverted my edits? Your reason was "nothing notable was added". I see you are new to this site, and I'm sure you are well aware of the wiki nature of this site (anyone can edit, etc.), and would like to make you aware of the problematic nature of this. Please, read Wikipedia:Wikiquette, and see if you can tell me what was wrong with what you did - Jack (talk) 23:36, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

These are the reasons:

"This over-reaction to anything and everything led to her becoming popular outside the house, but not particually within it." I believed this is opinionated, and anyway she can't have been that popular, as she was evicted.

"outside the house's front door" I didn't think this was really notable, and also she was inside the front door.

"(heavily pregnant) was forced to climb a flight of stairs in order to collect the hyserical girl." Davina may have been heavily pregnant, but I didn't think it was necessary to say it. Also saying "hysterical girl" is opinionated. I also think saying "forced to climb a flight of stairs" makes Nikki sound worse than she is, and Davina as some sort of hero, which she is not.

I'm sorry, I can't find anything wrong with what I did. --Alex9891 (talk) 23:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, your first point is fine, it is a bit POV, but it is extremely difficult to maintain an air of neutrality when talking about a TV show that is based on opinion. Inside the front door? Excuse me for not rushing to review my extensive archives of everything I watch on TV, just edit it, that really didn't justify a revert. Davina, by the way, makes the series, saving the trainwrecks that are the contestants. Nikki was enjoyable to watch, but only because of her selfish, spoilt brat ways. The kind of morbid curiosity that forces you to turn your head as you drive by a car crash. So I think, yes my edits were slightly POV, edit away, please, but do not revert without a very good reason. Reversions are reserved for people writing "nikki likes it up the bum", otherwise known as vandalism. Always remember, obey the three revert rule and to assume good faith - Jack (talk) 00:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me of this. I can see now that I shouldn't have reverted it all in one go, but in the future I'll know not to. Once again, thanks for pointing this out to me. --Alex9891 (talk) 00:11, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: How???

Is there any specific reason you need to know? :) — FireFox 19:25, 18 July '06

No just wondering where it could possibly say it --Alex9891 (talk) 19:26, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I really would like to know though! --Alex9891 (talk) 19:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I myself get confused as to how my "source" knows who voted for who, but they're reliable, so I'm happy. — FireFox 19:35, 18 July '06

Fawlty Towers WikiProject

Thanks for joining the Fawlty Towers WikiProject. I've seen you are contributing far greater than any other member has already! See you around Foxearth 00:46, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

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Positioning on housemates article

Please don't keep reverting my edits, the positioning that I edited in was more aestetically pleasing and practical. If you want to make a thing out of it, do it on that article's talk page. Trampikey ^{(talk to me)(contribs)} 13:57, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Bramall Hall

Thanks for your work on the History, can you please reference the information you included. Olive Oil 11:45, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Formatting Dates

I had the same problem a few months back when I was new. Not that you're new, but yeah.. Just gunna paste what somebody told me:

Hi there

I noticed you made some edits on Big Brother (UK series 7) changing the formatting of dates. The reason that dates are wikilinked is so that they can be displayed according to each reader's preferences (as set via "my preferences" at the top of each page). So you can choose to always see, for example, 3 March 2005, regardless of whether it is wikilinked as 3 March 2005 or March 3, 2005. You should therefore resist the temptation to change dates to a preferred foramt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikay (talk • contribs)

Heh, yeah.. at first I was like "HEY! WHY ARE YOU REVERTING ME!??!?!", So I can just imagine how you'd feel. But yeah, it's pretty helpful. :) I dunno why I even reverted, because my settings make the date look like the way they were in the first place. Mikay 12:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

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Jennie's surname

Why have you changed it? It's quoted as Corner here:[1], here: [2], here: [3], here: [4], here: [5], here: [6] and a google sponsored link here: [7]. Need I go on? Her surname's Corner! godgoddingham ³³³ 22:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Her surname should remain as Corner. Using the Google check, 899,000 results are returned for "Jennie Corner" [8] as opposed to 337,000 for "Jennie Conner" [9]. The BBC quotes it as "Corner" [10] and they're the BBC! Please leave it as Corner until she has come out of the house and there will be a chance to know what her surname is. godgoddingham ³³³ 22:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

In response to your most recent message: "Yes, definitely Corner! And would you believe it, her middle name's Marion!", Sorry? Are you now saying you were wrong or was that a typo?? godgoddingham ³³³ 22:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Alex... You are a bad man... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.166.61.132 (talk • contribs)

Big Brother nominations table (UK series 7)

Please see this comment. — FireFox ^(talk) _{15:53, 14 August 2006}

"No nominations" is normal for the final week, we don't need to say it again because it isn't a twist. — FireFox ^(talk) _{16:27, 14 August 2006}

Not everyone will know this --Alex^{talk here} 16:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

It's pretty obvious that there aren't nominations in the final week. Nominations for what, exactly? — FireFox ^(talk) _{16:30, 14 August 2006}

Perhaps a mid-week eviction? You never know... --Alex^{talk here} 16:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

But it's been confirmed no more evictions until Friday, the final night. If there was a mid-week eviction, the table would say so, but there isn't (which is normal). There has never been nominations in the final week of Big Brother UK. — FireFox ^(talk) _{16:32, 14 August 2006}

Holiday

this is America, we have to be politically correct. Christmas is known as Holiday here and it should be called that. 142.176.56.151 13:36, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Referencing the birth of "jesus" in America is absolutely banned, and should not be available to the American public. We must change the "nativity" and "jesus" references to Menorah and Santa to be PC. We can not offend non christians by using the term christmas or jesus. We must reference only Jewish traditions in "A Charlie Brown holiday". 142.176.56.151 13:40, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

• Sir, you must understand. Saying those "christian" words is damaging to the eyes of non-"christians". We have Holiday Trees over here and anyone who calls them "christmas" trees is kicked out. We also ban Easter, see here and here. We must eradicate "christmas" now! 142.176.56.151 13:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Ah, the humanity!Can we at least pretend that they are Jewish traditions so Jews and atheists wont be offended!? It's very scary to see an American website like Wikipedia using the word "christmas" and "christian"! 142.176.56.151 13:50, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• I have a very hard time believing you're atheist when you defend "christians" like this. Anyway, the American holiday season consists of Thanksgiving Day in November, Holiday on 25 December, Hanukkah on 16 December, and New Year's Day on 1 January, and we should not have to see the term "christmas" (which has the word "chr**t" in it) in the public websites. 142.176.56.151 13:57, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Great Work

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Odin says ...

"El Niño shall rise again!" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.225.42.15 (talk • contribs)

November 28

Hi, I think you warned the user who added a non-notable birth to November 28, but I reverted his/her edit. Generally, you're not supposed to warn a user unless you're the one who reverts his/her edit(s). It can create confusion. Sorry about this! Have a great day! :) Srose (talk) 23:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. :) VP slows my computer to a crawl, so I don't know anything about its glitches - good old JS for me! :) Srose (talk) 23:46, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

My explanation

I can explain my edits. For the one that changed Padme Patil and Ernie McMallen, Padma doesn't have dark hair and a reliable fan site (therogue.net) had Mandy Brocklehurst with blond hair, so I thought that was her and with Ernie McMallen, he doesn't have brown skin in the film adaptation. With the USA, I have never heard of Gianni or Shianni or any other name like that, and I LIVE IN THE USA. I thought it was Jonny and Federle doesn't sound like Fidelei, What I hear is Fay-del-ay. And I never heard of Mots ever.I heard of Morris though. And the thing with England is, Foster isn't pronounced fos-tar, But Fostarr is. And Fliknee, Flitney I don't hear. Fliknee, I do. And why I edited the UK to England is that ENGLAND is what the team is called, not the UNITED KINGDOM. Hope that covers that I didn't intentionally vandalise. Sincerely, Wikiuser98 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiuser98 (talk • contribs)

88.110.76.239

User 88.110.76.239 is actively hating/vandalising Tupac pages (the albums). — Preceding unsigned comment added by License2Kill (talk • contribs)

Verifiability

Hey Alex. I was just popping by to make sure you were aware of WP:VER, and WP:CITE; as in your articles and edits, you never seem to have any references, rendering the articles themselves pretty useless. I'm just about to start cleaning up Cheadle Hulme High School, and I'm afraid quite a lot of data must be removed because it will be difficult to find citations for most of the data. Should you know of any links or books of such, could you send them to my talk page so we can start to look at improving the article.

Thanks, T. Moitie ^[talk] 01:38, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but no, you do really need to have references, its not optional, and they are required.

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Even when information is cited to reliable sources, you must present it with a neutral point of view (NPOV). Articles should be based on thorough research of sources. All articles must adhere to NPOV, fairly representing all majority and significant-minority viewpoints published by reliable sources, in rough proportion to the prominence of each view. Tiny-minority views need not be included, except in articles devoted to them. If there is a disagreement between sources, use in-text attribution: "John Smith argues X, while Paul Jones maintains Y," followed by an inline citation. Sources themselves do not need to maintain a neutral point of view. Indeed, many reliable sources are not neutral. Our job as editors is simply to summarize what reliable sources say.

Notability

Further information: Wikipedia:Notability

If no reliable, independent sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it (i.e., the topic is not notable). However, notability is based on the existence of suitable sources, not on the state of sourcing in an article (WP:NEXIST).

Original research

Further information: Wikipedia:No original research

The no original research policy (NOR) is closely related to the Verifiability policy. Among its requirements are:

1. All material in Wikipedia articles must be attributable to a reliable published source. This means a reliable published source must exist for it, whether or not it is cited in the article.
2. Sources must support the material clearly and directly: drawing inferences from multiple sources to advance a novel position is prohibited by the NOR policy.
3. Base articles largely on reliable secondary sources. While primary sources are appropriate in some cases, relying on them can be problematic. For more information, see the Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources section of the NOR policy, and the Misuse of primary sources section of the BLP policy.

See also

Guidelines

• Reliable sources
• Identifying reliable sources (medicine)

Information pages

• Wikipedia is not a reliable source
• How to mine a source
• Independent sources
• Identifying and using primary sources
• Identifying and using self-published works
• Video links
• When to cite

Resources

• Backlog – links to articles that need citations added
• Template index/Sources of articles – maintenance templates for articles with sourcing problems
• The Wikipedia Library – free access to newspapers, journals, and magazines for experienced editors
• WikiProject Resource Exchange – where you can ask for help with checking an individual source

Essays

• Citation overkill
• Identifying and using tertiary sources
• Verifiability, not truth
• You are not a reliable source

Further reading

• Wales, Jimmy. "Insist on sources", WikiEN-l, July 19, 2006: "I really want to encourage a much stronger culture which says: it is better to have no information, than to have information like this, with no sources."—referring to a rather unlikely statement about the founders of Google throwing pies at each other.

Thanks T. Moitie ^[talk] 20:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

You'll need to add that to the article then. WP:CITE. Thanks, T. Moitie ^[talk] 21:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Lebanon

Alex hi,

I errased those comments on Lebanon-Israel war as they were, without any doubt, unbased and biased. Wikipedia should be an objective media and source of information and not used for propaganda purposes of any kind. The truth well documented is what should be written and not opinions based on yellow news papers.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.175.253.123 (talk • contribs)

Reporting to AIV

Per the AIV rules, you need to have recently given a test3, test4, or testblatant warning to someone, and they need to have continued vandalizing, before you report them to WP:AIV. I agree that User:70.88.81.116 is being a pest, but I've found that the test4 warnings actually do stop the vandalism a lot of the time with no need for blocking. Thanks, NawlinWiki 15:09, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

My Talk Page

How in the world did i mess up the Muppets artical?, By adding a link to a Muppet website that is useful to other Muppet Fans?!?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.208.197.126 (talk • contribs)

• Rolls eyes* You guys are wikipedia are rude stuck up and just nasty. Who cares about the stupide site?, Well let me tell you something you can forget me adding to the Muppets like picture which most of them have been taken off by orphanbot oh i found i home for him in a dumpster... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.208.197.126 (talk • contribs)

Pete Bennett

Just to elaborate, I removed the second link to Big Brother (UK series 7) from the Pete Bennett article because it already appeared earlier in the article. WP:MOS-L states "an article may be considered overlinked if a link is excessively repeated in the same article; however, duplicating an important link distant from a previous occurrence is appropriate." As the article is fairly short, I don't think it's worth repeating. However, I'm not that precious about it... so if you'd prefer to include, then add it back in. It just seem a bit superfluous to me! Robwingfield ^(talk) 14:01, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Big Brother UK 7 housemates

The housemates aren't in reverse order for the sake of reverse order. They're in order of successfulness in the game - the longer you stay in the House, the more successful you were, therefore you appear higher in the article. Pete was the most successful housemate, then Glyn and so on, down to Shahbaz who was the least successful. Michael and Spiral were equally successful, therefore their tie should be broken on conventional alphabetical lines with Michael first. Jess Cully 15:09, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I think you missed my point. The order isn't a 'reverse' order at all. It's an order based on a positive criterion (longevity in the game). Therefore the tie-breaker should be standard alpha, not reverse alpha. Jess Cully 15:15, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that link. Nonetheless it does appear to me that the most persuasive reason for having them in reverse-eviction order is because that is an 'order of success'. Sorry, but I'm not convinced that that justifies reverse alpha. Shall we put it to a straw poll on the talk page? Jess Cully 15:29, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Zephyr2k

I do disagree with the reversion, because he does have a penis for a nose and an umbrella for a penis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.37.85.231 (talk • contribs) And get off my ass for not signing my comments! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.37.85.231 (talk • contribs) Go to hell, gaylord! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.37.85.231 (talk • contribs)

I'm a girl. Zephyr2k 00:05, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for all the help Alex. I think he's already taken a great dislike of me for reverted his vandalism. He was already adding my name as a part of his vandalism. Lol. Well, have a nice day ahead of you! And thanks again! Zephyr2k 00:20, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem! --Alex ^{talk here} 00:21, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Silent Hill

I removed that paragraph because the list right below it says the same thing. 24.154.173.50 11:56, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that, my mistake! --Alex ^{talk here} 12:01, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

No prob dog! 24.154.173.50 12:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

RFA thanks

File:IMG 3666border cropped.jpg

Thanks so much for your support on my RFA, which closed successfully this morning with a result of (64/3/3). I will be stepping lightly at first trying to make sure I don't mess up too badly using the tools. Any further advice/guidance will be gratefully accepted. I hope I will live up to your trust! NawlinWiki 12:00, 26 August 2006 (UTC) talk contribs

Removal of blank spaces

My edit was at: [11]

The purpose of edit was to remove erroneous spaces and semicolons. Please confirm this and restore my edit. Thanks.

-130.194.13.106 21:05, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that - it looked like you had removed content. I'll restore it now. --Alex ^{talk here} 21:08, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

It's alrighty... btw I've added a proper intro sentence to the Simpsons list. (i think the first fix of wiki markup, the VandalProof seems to detect when stuff is deleted)

Cheerio! 130.194.13.106 21:11, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

A message

i didnt vandalize anything. i simply removed a few items that had no educational value, and were obviously only on the page for other reasons. the person who wrote the article is the vandal. children use this site and it should not be used as a perverted venue, but only for concrete education. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.44.225 (talk • contribs)

WP:NOT censored. Education is more important than making the site kid-friendly. --Daniel Olsen 21:25, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

hello, there seems to be a misunderstanding

Hey, i have never written or edited any articles.

I found messages for me, numerous messages, warning me not to continue to vandalise, write gibberish, make racist comments, and basically things of that sort. like i said, there must be a mistake! i have never edited or written an article! ever! nobody else in my family even knows about wikipedia. as somebody who revoked one of "my" articles, i ask you: what is going on? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.188.116.73 (talk • contribs)

I have no idea either - you probably have a shared IP address... --Alex ^{talk here} 16:00, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Try looking at the contributions for the IP address above, and you'll see what is going on. --Alex ^{talk here} 16:02, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:24.122.51.203

Hi

I deleted this page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:24.122.51.203

because it is destroying my reputation and some false comments was puted there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.151.63.158 (talk • contribs)

Question.

Hi I am new to Wikipedia and my friend made a website on here which someone (uknown) came and vadalised and left alot of rude and offensive comments about my friend. I was wondering if there is anything we can do to deal with this, we know his IP adress is it possible we can find out his name/email adress or phone number or something so we know who did it? My friend deleted the whole page after he saw the comments he was quite offended. Thanks for any help. 220.233.122.225 12:03, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Just made an account, this site looks great! Long jetty 12:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok I have the IP of the person: 143.238.122.155 Cheers for any help, i'd really like to know who did this. Long jetty 08:33, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Simpsons Test

Hi Alex9891,

You're right; I shouldn't have used this page as a test environment. I was trying to prove to a senior member of our staff that Wikipedia really could be edited to say anything, and did plan to change it back directly.

Thanks,
KuehlTourism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.189.171.3 (talk • contribs)

194.83.172.131

As far as I could tell, this person had not had an edit in about 4 days, and only has vandalised once today. I gave the user a test4 warning and will monitor. In general, an anon IP user shouldn't be reported to AIV unless they have vandalised soon after a test3, test4, or testblatant warning. Thanks for the report, NawlinWiki 11:05, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Alex, again, no vandalism after your warning on User:199.217.32.2. Try not to use AIV unless there's been vandalism since a test3, 4, or b warning. NawlinWiki 17:14, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks! Thank you very much for voting on my recent Request for Adminship. The request was ultimately unsuccessful - which wasn't entirely surprising - and so I'll be taking special care to address the concerns raised by the opposing !voters before running again. If you have any feedback for me, please don't hesitate to leave it at my talk page. Thanks! -- RandyWang (chat/patch) 13:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Pub crawl revert

Hello Alex.

I was a little confused by your last message - the edit to the photo on the pub crawl page was not a test to be immediately reverted - it was simply a small addition I thought worth making. Can you please explain why you feel the comment deserved removing?