User talk:Csalomonlee

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Csalomonlee! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 11:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Hi! Thanks for helping to fight vandalism!

Hello there, Csalomonlee! I noticed you're new to Wikipedia, so I gave to the welcome template above. I also noticed that you reverted some vandalism to the article on paper density - thank you very much for doing this. As you may have seen already, vandalism is a big problem on Wikipedia. There are several groups of editors devoted to fighting vandals and cleaning up articles that may have been affected - we're known as the CVU, the Counter-Vandalism Unit. We use vandal-fighting tools and scripts to help us find vandalism on pages, revert it (rather than just editing the page and deleting the vandalism as you did, we can actually return the page to how it was in the history before the vandal attacked - this way we can get back any content they may have deleted, like your vandal did), and give the vandals warning notices on their user talk pages, to tell them what they did wrong and inform them they may be banned if they don't stop. If you want, come and talk to me about any things you might like to learn to do with fighting vandals. Enjoy your time at Wikipedia. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 11:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, I suppose the first thing to do is make sure you know the full Wikipedia policy and definition of vandalism. All the links on that page can be useful. I suggest you also equip yourself with some vandal fighting tools - Twinkle is incredibly useful, giving you history tools (buttons up the top by Edit, History and Move to do things like automatically see the diff of the most recent edit, or the combined diff of all the edits to the page since your last edit there), the ability to roll back edits (a little bit like the Undo button, but more sophisticated - runs the whole thing, automatic edit summary with a box for you to add your comment, and automatically opens the user's talk page), as well as user warning and deletion tools. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 20:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)