User talk:172.209.41.73

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Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions.

Currently, you are editing without a username. You can continue to do so, as you are not required to log in to Wikipedia to read and edit articles; however, logging in will result in a username being shown instead of your IP address (yours is 172.209.41.73). Logging in does not require any personal details, and there are many other benefits for logging in.

When you edit pages:

  • Please respect others' copyrights; do not copy and paste the contents from webpages directly.
  • Please use a neutral point of view when editing articles; this is possibly the most important Wikipedia policy.
  • If you are testing, please use the Sandbox to do so.
  • Do not add unreasonable contents into any articles, such as copyrighted text, advertisement messages, and text that is not related to an article's subject. Adding such content or editing articles maliciously is considered vandalism.

The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. For now, if you are stuck, you can click the edit this page tab above, type {{helpme}} in the edit box, and then click Save Page; an experienced Wikipedian will be around shortly to answer any questions you may have. Also feel free to ask a question on my talk page. I will answer your questions as far as I can! Thank you again for contributing to Wikipedia.FrankB 03:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Misnomer

You might want to look back in this and join in the AFD as suggested. If you already have an account and just forgot to log in for that post, I suggest you use a redirect to your normal pages on both User:172.209.41.73 User_talk:172.209.41.73 as many of us do. // FrankB 03:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] If not, Beware IP editing

  • Your IP is a powerful weapon in the hands of a Black Hat hacker who can attack you in several disadvantageous ways, if something so mild can be applied to an induced hard drive failure, along side identity theft, etc.! But more to the point, a Wikipedia user name is portable and even more anonymonous than an IP. It can also be used to send and recieve email anonomynously to other wikipedians without risk of revealing your identity.
  • You can use it anywhere, world-wide, and it need never change. If you've caught the 'wikiBug', it also helps identify your edits, in time, as one's not needing constant checking and monitoring, freeing up others to do their own preferred wikipedia work. Then again, the benefit of a watchlist is powerful if you care about the topics you added. Having such, allows you to interact in the dynamic and friendly wikipedian online community, and utilize resources you have no access to as an 'Anom' contributor.
  • I'm a member of the welcoming committee and dedicated to helping new comers learn what they need at their own pace, so do feel free to email me or contact me on my talk page at user talk:fabartus about any little thing. Note 'nickname' or my signature is a bit different! Click on either color and see why! Best wishes, // FrankB 03:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC)