User talk:Alfirin
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[edit] Agar plate
- Two items:
- First, I've removed your LB agar recipe from the Agar plate article - not because the info is wrong, but simply because specific instructions like this are more appropriate on Wikipedia's sister project, Wikibooks. I've added an explicit link to the Agar plate article - you may want to check it out and see if the LB instructions are needed there.
- Second, when editing, you should only check the "This is a minor edit" box when the edit is really minor (say, a typo correction or removal of an extra blank line). Why? Many editors choose to ignore minor edits (a setting the My Preferences menu in the upper right of your screen) and thus would miss these not-really-minor changes. For more details, see Help:Minor edit.
- Third (out of "two"...), welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you'll continue to edit - the microbiology links here can use lots of help - and remember, continue to be bold.
- --MarcoTolo 00:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm really sorry this reply is so late (and you probably won't even be checking this any more!) I only just realised that people talk and reply to each other on talk pages, so apologies for my being rather slow :) I did as you suggested and moved the LB recipe to Wikibooks. Thank you for all your help, and I aim to edit Wikipedia much more now that I've learnt some basics ^_^
Thank you again
Alfirin 23:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] autoblock
Wikipedia software uses so-called "autoblocks", which cause innocent users to be blocked for the actions of other users. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to prevent this from happening. The autoblock should go away after a while. -- Curps 05:05, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
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As with MarcoTolo, I'm very sorry that this reply is so late. Thank you for clearing up my query, it did confuse me somewhat :) I've heard somewhere it's to do with a signature from the computer changing between page viewings - I still get strange vandalism warnings but they stop the moment I sign in (which is reassuring ^_^)
Thanks again for all your help, hopefully I'll thank you sooner if we meet on Wikipedia again! Alfirin 23:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
