User talk:Rainbowsunshine86

December 2007

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Survivor

Hello. Thanks for your contributions to several Survivor articles. As you may or may not have noticed, some of these have been reverted by myself and other editors. The reason for this, as explained in our edit summaries is that we find the italics unnecessary. You obviously have a reason for the insertion of said italics, so it would be helpful if you could share this with us and we can collaboratively work to a solution. -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 04:34, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

I accidentally left a message on your talk page which wasn't my intention. I am sorry for this. ♪♫Al ucard 16♫♪ 01:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April 2008

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to America's Next Top Model. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Prashanthns (talk) 22:03, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just an FYI

Not each instance of a person has to be wikilinked. For example, on the ANTM articles, a name should only be linked once per major section. SKS2K6 (talk) 19:13, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

use of "Show preview"

Hi- thanks for your edits to the Seven Deadly Sins article. You seem to be linking words, saving the page, and then unlinking any red links. Rather than using the "Save page" button to do this, can I suggest you use the "Show preview" button (next to it)? This will show what the page will look like, including red or blue links, and you can then change your edit as desired. It makes it easier for other editors to follow the change history (we don't see something changed one way and then almost immediately changed back).

Thanks, merlin. --Merlinme (talk) 07:01, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Err...

Why did you delete the "sent by" and "Sent against" sections in Endurance? I found them very helpful... Cruise meerkat (talk) 02:59, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Full names must be fully sourced

Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to Serious (TV series). Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Under the biographies of living people policy, before the full names of participants can be included, they must be reliably sourced—and IMDB is not considered reliable. Further, there should be a compelling reason to include the full name, such as the future notability of the person beyond the one event. —C.Fred (talk) 16:20, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Allison Harvard (ANTM12)

The article Allison Harvard, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allison Harvard. Thank you. -Misty Willows (talk) 02:16, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Allison Harvard, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Plastikspork (talk) 03:38, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

March 2009

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to Saturday Night Live (Season 34). Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Ward3001 (talk) 19:36, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

April 2009

AfD nomination of Katarzyna Dolinska

An editor has nominated Katarzyna Dolinska, an article which you have created or worked on, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

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ANTM table color scheme

You may not have known, but there is an established color scheme for elimination tables, which is stated on talk:America's Next Top Model. MediumVioletRed already had a designated use. If you want to propose changes to the established color scheme -please discuss it on that page. But first read the previous discussion to understand why the particular colors are chosen ... MistyWillows ^talk 05:26, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please

Please stop making unnecessary edits. If it hasn't happened, then we don't fill in the information (as you know... it hasn't happened...). Also, Natalie is nominated by default. –túrian^patois 02:43, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

removing redlinks

Hi Rainbowsunshine86. I saw your edit to Unwrapped. Per WP:REDLINKS, redlinks are okay and actually encouraged. Please don't remove them without solid rationale. Thanks, tedder (talk) 02:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Survivor: Gabon. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also useful when reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. BMRR (talk) 02:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Saturday Night Live

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Speedy deletion nomination of List of Global GUTS episodes

A tag has been placed on List of Global GUTS episodes requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Episode Guide on GUTS article

As I have stated on the discussion page for the Nickelodeon GUTS article, I feel that the episode guide is frivolous and unnecessary. Unless valid reason to keep it in the article is made, it is subject to deletion. It also doesn't help the cause that a redirect to that section has been CSD'ed. Nicholasm79 (talk) 05:40, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

May 2010

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Nickelodeon GUTS, even if you intend to fix them later. Such edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. As has been said before, fansites are not vaild references per Wiki guidelines Nicholasm79 (talk) 23:17, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Zurvisor_plasses.png

Please restore the Survivors location file shown in the subject to the previous version. The one that you added/edited has a line through the United States on it which sort of looks like a dividing line between the Old Confederate States of America and the Union(with additions in the west like they won the war).Naraht (talk) 20:41, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

September 2010

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