User talk:Aderksen

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Hi,

Regards this edit, I understand the impulse to delete an answered question but I give you the answer I got when I did exactly the same thing. Talk pages are used as a record of the discussion and issues raised in the past, so even when answered or obselete they should not be deleted. You are free to delete messages on your own talk page (this page), but for article pages, archiving is the only appropriate way to remove text from a page. It's only used when the page gets quite lonog, 60K or more. Feel free to comment or question on my talk page if you're curious or otherwise interested in doing so. Thanks, WLU (talk) 13:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Check out WP:ARCHIVE for instructions and general protocol. If you're worried about the comment you put up without signing, you can just add your sig now, or you can put an {{unsigned}} template, with a pipe and your username (i.e. {{unsigned|Aderksen}} which produces —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aderksen (talk • contribs) ). It's a bit tricky since the original comment was added a while ago, but thirps appears to be a low traffic page, so it's not much to worry about.
Generally you just leave the whole page up until it reaches a certain size (70-100K+) rather than age then archive the whole thing. Leave the old stuff in so people can see it has already been noted or whatever, plus blanking talk page contents looks like vandalism. It's not a big deal, everyone makes mistakes and in some cases it ends up being a good thing 'cause you learn something new. WLU (talk) 19:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Also of note, there's a format for spacing talk page postings, each post uses one level of indent more than the previous (with indents produced by the first character of a message being the ":" see WP:TP and WP:TPG for more information. You might also be interested in this essay for noobs I wrote. Some of it is funny and it's a broad overview of wiki's processes and mores. WLU (talk) 19:36, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I noticed your edit summary. To this, all I have to say is BE BOLD!!!! Mistakes can be corrected. WLU (talk) 19:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)