User talk:E.P.Y. Foundation

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Your tests were successful, but your additions were reverted for being unencyclopedic and off-topic. Please stop "insisting on inserting" things that don't belong in the articles. Have a nice day. ---Sluzzelin 23:12, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, I'm flattered that you enjoy visiting articles I visited recently too. But, if you seek to communicate with me, I suggest posting something on my talk page. That way I don't have to look through your edit summaries, and no one has to revert your vandalizing. Anyway, this is the second warning thingy, you know ... ---Sluzzelin 21:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia articles even if your ultimate intention is to revert them. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --KFP (talk | contribs) 18:06, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalise Wikipedia, as you did to Good and evil, you will be blocked. { Ben S. Nelson } _Lucidish 02:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

February 2007

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalise Wikipedia, as you did to Finland, you will be blocked from editing. Prolog 22:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Wow

this: sorta like Wikipedia in a nutshell. Good job! +ILike2BeAnonymous 22:05, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Vandal-only account - indefinite block

You have been indefinitely blocked from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for repeated abuse of editing privileges. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below.

Ian Cairns 18:40, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Your questions

You asked: Hey, how many times do you have to vandalize Wikipedia before they block you. I've gotten, like, five warnings.

It varies. It's a judgement call. In many cases, we'd rather convince you to knock it off than impose a block on you. If you seem like someone that can be reasoned with, an administrator might try that. In other cases, someone who comes across as unreasonable, doesn't notice warnings, doesn't communicate with others could be blocked after three warnings or even just one. So, you seem like someone who can be reasoned with - how about stopping the vandalism? You've made your point, and you've gotten your answer. If you have other questions about how Wikipedia works, you could try asking them at the Wikipedia:Help desk or at the relevant subpage of the Wikipedia:Village pump. Quicker for you, less cleanup for us.

You also asked: What would be the problem with setting up a Wikipedia for the people -- sort of like Myspace, but people can post anything and link real easy form one thing to the next.

My feeling is that the main problems would be:

1. Getting someone to pay for it. Wikipedia is fairly expensive to maintain. People donate to it largely because they support its specific educational mission. The idea of making an encyclopedia accessible to poor kids is fairly compelling. Those people would be less likely to give money to support a Myspaceish wiki, because its socially redeeming value is much less clear.
2. Establishing the project as "the" Wiki for the people. One of the things that makes Wikipedia so valuable is its fame and its high Google PageRank. You could start a wiki like the one you propose, but how would you draw people to it? For all I know, someone has already done this. Seems likely. There are plenty of services available for hosting wikis for free - see our List of wiki farms.

Good luck with your ongoing projects, but please do stop vandalizing our articles. Regards, FreplySpang 18:46, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

... and, while I was typing all that, someone fulfilled your request and blocked you. Well, you can still post to this page. If you want to be unblocked, you can request it by putting {{unblock|your reason here}} on this page - that is, the curly brackets and everything between them. Replace "your reason here" with the reason why you think you should be unblocked. FreplySpang 18:50, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the answers. You're nice. And why would I want to get unblocked if I tried so hard to get blocked in the first place? (I don't know how you'd necessarily read this -- so I guess I'll just hope you check back). I could definitely attract people -- I could attract a shit load of people. That's no problem. The problem is: poet, no computer skills. Plus no money. It would be Rock and Roll, but I don't forsee me ever gaining the computer skills to accomplish it. Later ... whoever reads this ... E.P.Y. Foundation 20:22, 28 February 2007 (UTC)