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[edit] Vandalism

Hi Benjamin, You're listed on my talk page as someone I can ask questions to. A page I created was vandalized, and it's impossible to contact the user to complain. I have corrected the page, but isn't there some way to report vandals and prevent them from continuing? Going to the history page, there is no user name for the vandal, only a string of letters, 209.244.187.250, that leads to a so-called special page. Now when I make any edits on a page, my user name is clearly posted, and people can go to my page and leave comments. How is it that vandals can change a page without leaving their user name? And what can we do about this problem? Thanks in advance for your help. --Leghorn.

Hello - sorry that i have not replied sooner - I was singing in Salzburg! - It is of course possible to post warnings on vandals' ip address pages. And some editors and all administrators have tools with which they can quickly track and revert anonymous vandals. It is hence very easy to undo and correct vandalism and to place warnings. If an anonymous ip address places consistent vandalism on wikipedia, they may be banned from editing for a short space of time or indefinitely. Allowing anonymous users to edit is incredibly important to wikipedia as a vast quantity of useful edits come from this source. The nature of wikipedia is such that it is important that everyone, whether registered users or not can edit. There are however, obvious benefits to being a registered user, and it is much better if a person is regularly editing for them to become a user.
If you have any more queries, I can help. Benjaminstewart05 10:56, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Callas?

Hey Benjamin - you (re)added Maria Callas as a famous singer of the Queen of Night character. As far as I'm aware, Maria Callas did not possess the range needed to perform the Queen of the Night arias and certainly did not perform it professionally. Recordings going around p2p networks titled Maria Callas performing Der Hölle Rache etc. are falsely attributed to her. Thank you ~ User:john1987.

Fair point - any recordings would certainly be from the begining of her career and in any case Callas was never really famous or notable for Mozart operas, more the romantics. B.S. 05 21:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] edits to my user page

Cheers, must have been asleep when I wrote that! SGGH 20:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem. B.S. 05 17:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re forgot to annotate

Hi Benjamin - recently edited an article and forgot to fill in "Edit Summary". Eeeek! Is there a way to edit that field in the database (ie, it should read "added CNet News and AT&T press release links re the new AT&T launch; and date of that launch"). If not I suppose no one will care but I like to dot the eyes and cross the tees IYKWIM. Thanks.   P.S. Do you think the subject of this Q&A might merit a line or two in the How to edit a page article for future reference? JimScott 17:48, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't think that there is a way of doing this, and given that the edit probably wasn't the addition of questionable material or a large amount of material, at this point I don't think it matters. If you look in edit histories, there aren't that many summaries. Yes you're meant to do it but I don't think there is a way to edit the edit summary post save. B.S. 05 18:07, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE what do the numbers mean?

And here I am again. I was looking at my WatchList article and found some numbers in parenthesis. For example:

 (diff) (hist) . . AT&T‎; 17:31 . . (+435) . . JimScott (Talk | contribs)

What does the "+435" mean? I noticed some of the numbers are negative. Thanks again. JimScott 20:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Please see Help:Watching pages about half way down. It basically tells you how many bytes up or down the content of the page has gone. B.S. 05 18:10, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Simpson (clarinetist)

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[edit] AfD nomination of Mark Simpson (clarinetist)

I have nominated Mark Simpson (clarinetist), an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Simpson (clarinetist). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. SingCal (talk) 18:18, 26 January 2008 (UTC)