User talk:Nikpapag

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— DLJessup (talk) 13:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 A somewhat weird welcome 2 List of political parties in the United States 3 3RR on Republican Party (United States) 4 User notice: temporary 3RR block 5 Regarding reversions[4] made on October 5, 2006 to Republican Party (United States)

[edit] A somewhat weird welcome

Hi there:

I see that you've been editing Wikipedia for about three days now. It appears that you've run afoul of the local customs. Let me explain the immediate issue with Early Republican Party (United States).

The first problem is that your article was created as a cut-and-paste of an existing article. This is frowned upon, to say the least, for the reasons given in the wikilink.

Now, luckily, the cut-and-paste was caught almost immediately, before any new content was added to the article. As such, there's no need to mark the page with a merge, and it can be simply deleted, which is what Septentrionalis is trying to do.

Now, because deletion is such a powerful function, the Powers that Be have created a policy surrounding deletions. First, they disallow ordinary editors from performing deletions, saving that ability for special editors called administrators who are supposed to (a) understand these policies and (b) are trusted to carry them out. Then they require that editors go through a special procedure to have a page deleted, to ensure that everybody affected has a chance to discuss the proposed deletion and make sure that the page truly ought to be deleted. This procedure requires that a notice of the proposed deletion be posted on the article page, so that people are aware of the discussion. You are allowed to go to the discussion page and put your two cents in, but you are not allowed to simply delete the notice.

I'll be watching your talk page for a few days. Please respond here, if you wish to respond.

— DLJessup (talk) 13:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of political parties in the United States

Hello. Before making potentially controversial edits, such as those you made to List of political parties in the United States, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Also, make sure to use an informative edit summary for such edits. Otherwise, people might consider your edits to be vandalism. Thank you. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 17:31, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR on Republican Party (United States)

Hi! Even though I think I mostly agree with you politically, your edits to Republican Party (United States) don't seem to be adding anything useful, and you're breaking Wikipedia style conventions by removing the subheadings I put in. Also, your continual rapid reverts [1], [2], [3] look an awful lot like a violation of the Three-Revert Rule. Please discuss on the talk page before making further reverts to the page. Argyriou 17:19, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User notice: temporary 3RR block

Re your mail. The best way to avoid being blocked is to remember the defn of rv (which does not mean a full rv) and WP:1RR. Use the talk page instead of reverting William M. Connolley 12:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)