User talk:PlayNice

Please do not remove content from Wikipedia, as you did to LegalMatch. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

Also, do not delete material from Talk:LegalMatch

Thanks! --A. B. 20:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User:A.B. I read the article on vandalism. I did not vandalise the page at all. I was trying to fix the bias that is in it and get the article to be informative. It still needs to be fixed. You added back in a bunch of things that are counter productive and very negative instead of neutral.PlayNice 00:53, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. That language is the text of a standard warning template (Template:Test2a) used when editors delete portions of articles without comment in an edit summary or on the talk page. You effectively gutted this article earlier this month. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].

I would not have used the template had I seen any communications or discussion at all. It's not normally used for editing disputes and disagreements -- just big quiet deletions.

Edit summaries and talk page discussions of changes are a big deal around here. That's why I spent about an hour writing up on the talk page the reversions back to the previous text. If you go to the "my preferences" link and click on it, you'll find an editing tab. You can check "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" and then you can't save an edit without giving a summary. I've done this and I always .encourage others to do the same.

I hope this helps. --A. B. 02:49, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and also see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. It's against the rules to delete others talk page comments [6], [7] (unless they're libelous, physically threatening or something else very extreme). --A. B. 02:53, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A.B. Thanks for the tip regarding the "edit summary." I've been looking all over Wikipedia's help for info on how to add comments to my edits. All I could find was that there was supposed to be an "edit summary" box, which I have never seen, nor can ever find.PlayNice 18:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's important that you not delete or alter article talk page comments

I did not realize as I wrote the note above that you had deleted talk page comments within the last few hours.[8], [9] It is really, really important that you not do this. See the following:

Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines
Wikipedia:Vandalism, especially the "Talk page vandalism" part of the "Types of vandalism" section:

"Deleting the comments of other users from Talk pages other than your own, aside from removing internal spam, vandalism, etc. is generally considered vandalism. Removing personal attacks is often considered legitimate, and it is considered acceptable to archive an overly long Talk page to a separate file and then remove the text from the main Talk page. The above does not apply to the user's own Talk page, where this policy does not itself prohibit the removal and archival of comments at the user's discretion."

Doing this really creates problems for other editors and it could get you into trouble. (I'm assuming you did not know this before now.) --A. B. 03:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC) A.B. - Thank you. No, I'm not familiar with everything. Just common sense. Though much of what I did delete did sound libelous.PlayNice 18:11, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]