User talk:201.145.99.216

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Welcome!

Hello, 201.145.99.216, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! 

Hi. I must apologize for the mess I made of your addition to Sextant. A user just before you vandalized the article. In my attempt to clean up the vandalism, I accidentally deleted your text. By the time I noticed that and added it back, you must have already been working on adding it back as well, and we ended up with two copies. I deleted the extra one. I hope that explains what has been going on. --RoySmith 21:47, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Signing pages

I deleted your signature from Sextant. While it's a good idea to sign additions to talk pages (like I'm doing here), edits to articles should not be signed, since the articles are considered to be communally owned. --RoySmith 21:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

HI again. I saw your note about my removal of your signature on my talk page. I am sorry that this upsets you, but it is the accepted way of doing things on Wikipedia. You might want to take a look at Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages for more information about signing your name. You might also want to explore the history pages; your name is attached to every edit you do, so there's not an issue with nobody knowing who contributed what. It's just that if everybody signed their work in the body of each article they edited, it would soon just be a big mess of signatures. -- RoySmith 22:15, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't know why you keep signing Sextant but please stop it! --Doc (?) 22:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)


[edit] My Article

It is my article and I will erase it.

  • later*

Done. article erased. bye-bye Wikipedia. Bye-bye forever.



Sorry, I think that I'm not understanding you. You can't erase articles - only administrators (such as I) can. Articles on Wikipedia don't belong to people - and in any case I don't know which article you are refering to. If you want to explain, I might be able to help. --Doc (?) 22:33, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Submissions to wikipedia

When you submit material to Wikipedia, it ceases to be 'yours'. If you press the edit tab and read when it says at the bottom of the screen, you will find the words: *All contributions to any page on Wikipedia are released under the GNU Free Documentation License (see Wikipedia:Copyrights for details). *If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it.

The fact that you contributed it is recored inthe edit history of the article, but you are not entitled to sign your work. You agreed to the terms above when you pressed the submit button. Thanks --Doc (?) 22:43, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Go to the page, and press the 'History' tab at the top. You'll find all this in the help pages listed in the welcome note above. Hope that helps --Doc (?) 22:47, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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