User talk:208.222.71.17

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The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, ask me on my Talk page. I will answer your questions as far as I can! Thank you again for contributing to Wikipedia. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 03:21, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] There's some action on your proposal

Your proposal here is getting favorable endorsements. Thought I'd say something as as an anomyonous editor you don't have the nifty tool of a watchlist. You certainly do help out!

You need to consider how being anom makes it more likely you're going to be hacked maliciously! Having a 'real' and known stable (see the link annotations in whois) makes you much more vulnerable to Black hats. Best wishes // FrankB 19:46, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Black hats

  • 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 19:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Could you please register and get a Wikipedia userid? Your edits and comments at cult are well-informed (though I do not always agree with them), but may not be seen as such because of your habit of editing the article with an IP. Thanks in advance. Andries 21:14, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Perfect square

Please do not add unhelpful and unconstructive content to Wikipedia, as you did to Perfect square. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Veinor (talk to me) 20:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Long Island

Thanks for experimenting with the page Long Island on Wikipedia. Your recent edit appears to have added incorrect information, and has been reverted or removed. All information in the encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable published source. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. --Kralizec! (talk) 18:15, 29 October 2007 (UTC)