User talk:Bridwater

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Please stop what you are doing immediately. You appear to be reverting every change that you come across on the Recent Changes page. This is not acceptable behavior. If you persist in doing this, you will be blocked from further editing. Cgingold (talk) 18:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

  • First, thank you for responding. I'm somewhat relieved to know that it apparently wasn't deliberate vandalism. However, it was extremely upsetting to have my carefully worked-on edit reverted within seconds of completion. I then discovered from your edit history that you had done the same on a series of other pages. (FYI, I've already gone through them and reverted those that needed reverting.)
To answer your question about Twinkle: I'm not familiar with it as I don't use it. My advice is to wait for another editor to respond to the {{helpme}} request that I'm about to post on your talk page. You should describe your problem/question below that right now. It shouldn't take too long to get a reply, so just hang on until you get your question answered. In the meantime, whatever you do, DO NOT continue using Twinkle until you know what you're doing. Good luck with your future editing. Cgingold (talk) 18:37, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

{{helpme}} Hi, what do you need help with? Izzy007 Talk 19:23, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Izzy007. As you can see from my remarks above, he's having major problems using Twinkle. Cgingold (talk) 19:49, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I suggest that you read the documentation for Twinkle before continuing, or you, sadly, will be blocked. However, if you require more assistance after reading the above documentation, please don't hesitate to {{helpme}} again.Microchip 08 20:55, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm not very sure, I don't use twinkle. Maybe someone here will be able to help. Izzy007 Talk 00:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/Twinkle to file a Twinkle Bug, or ask Twinkle's creator User:AzaToth at his talk page. --The Helpful One (Review) 11:51, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Inappropriate reverts

Hello again, Bridwater -- Listen, I believe you're well-intentioned, but you really need to pay close attention to what you're doing. I just went through all of your more recent edits (since you asked for help with Twinkle), and I don't see any improvement. I had to revert some of your reverts because they deleted perfectly valid edits. Like I said in my first note, that is unacceptable. It's one thing to make a mistake, as we all do from time to time, but it's quite another to make a series of heedless edits that do damage to multiple articles.

So please -- sort things out before you do any further edits. Otherwise you will put yourself in very serious jeopardy of being blocked from editing. At the very least, you may want to disable or uninstall Twinkle, if you are unable to figure out how to use it properly. Good luck. Cgingold (talk) 06:00, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Echoing the above sentiments, please try to be a little more careful with your reverts. You accidentally reverted a few perfectly good edits just recently, which could potentially irritate some good contributors. Having said that, you are also catching a lot of vandalism too, so keep up the good work there. Take care. --Bongwarrior (talk) 08:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstars

Thank you very much for the barnstars didnt think that anyone noticed the hard work that I am doing for wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris19910 (talk • contribs) 15:05, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you delete or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. STORMTRACKER 94 Go Irish! 19:38, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I have blocked you from editing the encyclopedia for 24 hours, while I attempt to find out what is going on here. I shall watchlist this page so if there are any comments you wish to make on why you were blanking another accounts userpage I will read it immediately. LessHeard vanU (talk) 19:46, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

{{unblock|reason}}

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

User:Chris19910 confirms that Bridwater had permission to test blank his userpage.

Request handled by: LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:11, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

comment The userpage the above was blanking was one that they had today previously given an anti-vandal barnstar. Could Bridwater provide a diff for where User: Chris19910 gave this permission. I will check their contributions. LessHeard vanU (talk) 19:55, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Are you the same person as User:Carol Sutton? In any case, looking over your talk page history, it looks like difficulty using Twinkle and/or Wikipedia is getting you into trouble. Are you clicking on the wrong buttons or something, here?--chaser - t 19:58, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

  • I have received confirmation from Chris19910 that Bridwater had permission to "test" the Twinkle buttons, am now unblocking. LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Bridwater, may I suggest that in future if people revert your blankings and give you warnings that you stop and explain your actions - it would make things a lot simpler. Thanks. LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Try again... LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:49, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppetry

I suspect you are the same person as User:Chris19910. Sockpupperty can result in the user being blocked from editing wikipedia. I will be forwarding this issue to Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets.--Cdogsimmons (talk) 17:54, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppetry case

You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Chris19910 for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page. Cdogsimmons (talk) 18:16, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock

I've unblocked you, and will allow the WP:SSP to run its course. Apologies for any inconvenience - blanking the page reporting you as a suspected sockpuppet wasn't, perhaps, the most sensible thing to do. GBT/C 06:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Per the above, I really think you should use the blanking option far more sparingly in future. 2 admins have mistaken these actions as vandalism; although both me and the other admin should have investigated more thoroughly it indicates that over use of that function has the likelihood for misunderstanding. Also, a concise edit summary in future will also help anyone checking over your contribution history. I suggest that you seriously consider these points. LessHeard vanU (talk) 09:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism after unblock

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. - vandalising Hank Hanegraaff Jasynnash2 (talk) 11:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blanking Hank's Page

Please stop vandalizing: Lord willing, if you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing if you don't. However, as is evident from your page, Wikipedia moderators are much more lenient on non-Calvinist than those who are. Firestar777 (talk) 11:34, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] re WP:Vanish

Regarding your query at my talkpage, I don't believe that you have the right to vanish. Per the link above, vanishing is for editors who are leaving, not for those who wish to disassociate from an old identity. If you wish to abandon or leave this account you can simply stop editing from it, scramble your password, and open a new account. It may or may not be a good idea to blank these account pages and leave a {{retired}} template in place, or place such a template on the userpage. I suspect that there will be some unwilling to allow this page to be blanked, especially in respect of the warnings (and unblocks) regarding page blanking, and before the sockpuppet enquiry finishes. If you open another account it would be extremely unwise to edit this one. However, if you continue in much the same manner in the new account the similarities will likely be noticed and you may be asked some difficult questions. Providing you are confident that the sockpuppet allegations are groundless, I suggest you continue with this account - perhaps taking a wikibreak while your academic workload is high - and archive the less savoury aspects of the past and be much more circumspect in ensuring you know what you are doing before attempting to do so. This is, of course, your decision only. LessHeard vanU (talk) 12:45, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blanking TheMoridian's talk page

You recently emptied my talk page. Before I undid these actions, I decided to check that it wasn't an accident - but looking at some of the messages on here, it clearly wasn't. Please do not empty my talk page ever again. TheMoridian 07:16, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notice

You've been indefinitely blocked. You've had issues with blanking user pages in the past, and you've returned to this activity, which makes it clear to me that your primary purpose here is disruption. EVula // talk // ☯ // 13:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)