User talk:80.36.216.111

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[edit] Suspected vandalism warning

Thank you for experimenting with the page Wikipedia:Template messages/Disputes on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. 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. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 21:08, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

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That much was a form-letter welcome; now some more personal notes.

  • Another reason for getting an account is that you may be taken more seriously. If the edits look unusual, people are more inclined to suspect vandalism from anonymous users than from logged-in users.
  • Please sign your comments on talk pages with --~~~~ . That way people will know who wrote them, and they can see more clearly where your comment ends and where the next person's comment begins.
  • Although I disagree with you about whether there should be an infobox in Albert Einstein, I want to acknowledge that you did an excellent job with the infobox you created. Its immediate reversion may be due more to the following than to the merits of the infobox:
    • The inclusion of the infobox was controversial to begin with.
    • Your inclusion of {{Calm talk}} and {{trialperiod}} were a little insulting; they probably had the opposite of the intended effect. ({{Calm talk}} is intended for use on talk pages where there has been incivility. There was disagreement about the infobox but no incivility.)
    • On your first attempt at adding it there was a mysterious failure in the wiki expansion of the infobox—apparently due to a strange interaction with {{trialperiod}}.
    • Since you are an anonymous user, people take your edits less seriously.
  • Do you realize what you did wrong with Wikipedia:Template messages/Disputes? Instead of changing a copy of the {{POV}} entry, you took over the entry. To anyone who hadn't seen what you were trying to do with {{trialperiod}}, it looked like some very strange vandalism.

Again welcome. --teb728 02:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Oh, one more thing: You shouldn't use an underscore where a space belongs: Use "Infobox disputed" instead of "Infobox_disputed", "Infobox Scientist" instead of "Infobox_Scientist", etc. The wiki software will substitute an underscore where it is needed. --teb728 02:38, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR warning

Since you seem to be involved in an edit war on Albert Einstein, I want to call your attention to Wikipedia's Three-revert rule (3RR). According to this rule if you make the same reversion more than three times in 24 hours, you could be blocked from editing Wikipedia. You have already reverted twice, and several people seem determined to keep your change out; so be aware of 3RR. --teb728 06:39, 20 July 2006 (UTC)