User talk:Rick 50000
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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!
Hello Rick 50000, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Here are some tips:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes(~~~~) produces your name and the current date. Please do not add this signature to encyclopedia articles you may edit, however, even if you have created them. Wikipedia articles are owned by the community, not by any one person. Again, welcome! —WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL•21:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Derek Martin
Regarding Derek Martin, please don't place vandalism warnings on articles, it is pointless and constitutes vandalism if done intentionally. —WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL•21:25, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for your efforts at reverting the vandalism and your attempt to notify the editor that it was out of line. I hadn't understood what you were doing before. If you wish to leave a vandalism warning, do so on the vandal editor's talk page. You can find out who made that edit by looking in the history and using the compare versions tool. Sorry I didn't give you the above welcome earlier. I hope you continue your efforts to combat vandalism. If you are interested you might check out the Wikipedia:Counter Vandalism Unit, where some editors collaborate on combatting vandalism.—WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL•21:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
