User talk:Rickterp

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Martini

Just saw your edit to martini -- as a gin purist, I appreciated the addition. :) Welcome to Wikipedia, I hope you enjoy the place and decide to stick around. — ripley\^talk 13:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Warning vandals

Thanks for that Rickterp - I really should start pulling my weight to warn off idiots rather than just fixing the mess they leave behind. I'll read up on it and put it in practice! Lou 05:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Warnings

Sorry about not handing out the warning, I checked his user-page and noticed he's had a couple warnings already, didn't think I needed to tell him replacing the content of that page was bad since he's already been told so a couple times before. Will do that in the future though, thanks ZBrannigan 05:33, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Ripman and Burori

I think you took this to the right place. WP:AIV is generally for things that can be explained in one sentence or are really obvious to anyone. Since this required some explanation and there may have been disagreement, ANI is the place to go. Don't worry so much about going to the right board that you don't ask the question. Natalie 15:57, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Numbering of refs on Truman article

Peace Rickterp -- as a web guy, do you have any insights on what's going on with the autonumbering there? It's all wacky -- two [1]s in a row as I write this, but it changes in its wackiness regularly. My instinct is that we could have a good featured article candidate if we fixed those, added a couple more refs from non-McCullough sources, and covered the railroad strike and the steel industry flap in a concise way. I can definitely do the heavy lifting on the latter content stuff, but the tech stuff is puzzling me... talk to you soon, BYT 11:45, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Harry Truman cite prob

Thank you so much for fixing this! BYT 10:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Vandal 24.217.29.51

This user is going vandalism crazy! As you appear to have warned them before, I am just giving you a heads up. Bizarrely, among the vandalism they have done two actual non-vandalism edits. Anyway, heads up. WookMuff 00:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/Unitarian Universalism work group

Hi Paul, Since we have had four people express interest, I've started a page for the work group. Aleta 19:10, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah hah!

I caught you! That's right, you've been caught doing RC Patrol, *and* giving users warnings as well! Whatever shall we do? . I guess I'll have to give you one of these...

Xiong Chiamiov :: contact :: 06:51, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Stop Accussing People Using IP Adresses Instead Of Accounts As Being Vandals

hi, i recieved a message claiming i was a "vandal", just for future reference and your information, i am not a vandal and dhac what "football363" is, as i was not under tht IP Address at the time, so in future, think before you make accusations —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.167.246 (talk) 19:55, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't accuse IP users of vandalism --- I warn users to stop committing vandalism, as I did a year ago in this case (look at your edit history to see the content of this edit, which anyone would classify as blatant vandalism). The IP address you are now using was used a year ago by a vandal, who stopped after I sent a warning --- the point of warning vandals is to make them aware that people are watching what they do and encourage them to stop. In this case, the vandal stopped after one edit, so I count it a success. Obviously the warning doesn't apply to you --- please ignore this year-old warning. Cheers. Rickterp (talk) 00:25, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Next time you make an all-encompasing claim in an edit summary to an ill-advised effective revert of a senior editor's fix...

...please re-check your sources better.

I invite you to dawn Landes' own MySpace page, link enclosed in the relevant thread on my user discussion page (he discussion was lodged first thing on the page by a newbie editor who should have placed it at the bottom, natch). Thank you very much. --Mareklug ^talk 14:16, 9 May 2014 (UTC) PS. I elaborated this topic in my reply on her page. To cut to the chase: don't edit war; reconsider in light of evidence, or bring the issue on BLP noticeboard. --Mareklug ^talk 14:37, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

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