User talk:EditingManiac
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Welcome!
Hello, EditingManiac, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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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:Questions, 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!
bibliomaniac15 00:25, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Second welcome
Because we're so nice here... You get two!
Welcome!
Hello, EditingManiac, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- Tutorial
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
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:Questions, 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! Elliskev 03:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edits on the Heroes page
Hi. You seem to be interested in editing the Heroes (TV series) page; however, I would urge you to use the Show Preview button to test your changes before submitting them to make sure they don't impact the page in a way you didn't expect. You can also use the Wikipedia:Sandbox to test things out before putting them into an article. Be sure to get involved in the Talk page too. It's where you can discuss your ideas for updating the page. :) --Aldryd 20:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reverting edits by vanal
Next time you see a page vandalized, instead of edit it, and remove what the vandal added, revert the page to the old revision instead because they vandal might not only have added something, but also removed something. ~~ ----
how do I do that? Maniac 00:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Editors that don't provide an edit summary tend to look like vandals
I have noticed you commonly don't enter an edit summary. This causes me problems. When I patrol for vandalism, I use the summary to make a preliminary decision on whether or not the post is a vandal edit or not. If the summary is present (or at least a section header, the part inside the /* */), I commonly decide the edit is legit and move on.
However, if no edit summary is available, I typically resort to loading the diff for the edit. This takes time. For that reason, if your edits are all valid, I ask that you provide edit summaries. For more on how to enter an edit summary, please read Help:Edit summary.
Incidentally, it is not just me that appreciate having edit summaries. When you omit your summary, you may be telling various bots that you are vandalizing pages. For this reason, please consider providing that summary. It is very important. You can enter that summary via the edit summary box on edit pages (as shown below).
- Page history - list of changes to the page you edited
- User contributions - list of all your edits
- Watchlist* - list of recent changes to watched pages (logged-in users only)
- diff page - shows the difference between two edits
- Recent changes - list of all recent edits
- Wikipedia IRC channels - real time list of all edits
- Related changes - list of recent changes to pages linked to the page you edited
- List of new pages: shows the edit summary of the creation.
Will (Talk - contribs) 05:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Please use the + tab when starting a new conversation on talk pages. Thanks.
On the page Wikipedia talk:Uploading images, you added Trouble uploading images to the top of the page. That is a mistake. You are more likely to get a response if you put it at the bottom of the page.
The sample image above shows a shortcut. If you click the highlighted tab, Wikipedia will do the rest when you save. As a bonus, the rest of the page is hidden and won't clutter the edit box. Will (Talk - contribs) 05:52, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs! Happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester 00:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Help
How do I revert an edit? Is that reseerved for Mods?
- See WP:REVERT, anyone can do it. Let me know if you need more help after that. John Reaves (talk) 00:53, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
