User talk:Ginsengbomb

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[edit] A quick question

Hi,
A while ago you left a warning on "User talk:87.54.8.195" warning about vandalism. That ip address belongs to my school. We are over 900 people here and many of us enjoy using wikipedia. Unfortunately there are now 3 warnings about vandalism, and i'm worried that our IP will be banned.
I was wondering if you have any idea as to what i should do. I'm still very new to wikipedia, and don't know the 'course of action'. I intend to make an announcment at my school, asking people to respect wikipedia, but other than that I don't know what to do.
Thank you. Dr. Marzipan 11:09, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for reverting the questionable edit to the article 420 (cannabis culture). I have seen the scene in question where the person constantly bids $420 on price is right when it is foolish to do so. And I am also sure that he was attempting to reference cannabis. However, you are right in that not evidence exists that this was his true goal. Please keep up the good work. HighInBC 06:08, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Vandalism?

Wow that is weird, but it definitely looks like a mistake. Looking at your contribs of fighting vandals, I'll WP:AGF, and remove the warning from your talk page. My apologies, and thanks for bringing the error to my attention. :-) Leuko 21:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Hi,

I'm sorry that nobody has extended a welcome to you yet. It's great to see the contributions you've made over the past week.

I was welcomed with a table of links which I found so useful that I have incorporated a modified version into my user page. I hope you'll find it as useful. Here it is: LittleOldMe 16:43, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

Hello Ginsengbomb! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. You may also push the signature button located above the edit window. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! -- LittleOldMe 16:43, 24 October 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial How to edit a page The five pillars of Wikipedia Manual of Style Be bold in editing How to write a great article WikiProjects Getting your info out there Cite your sources Neutral Point of View Point of View Verifiability Uploading images Image use policy Getting more Wikipedia rules Policy Library Getting Help New contributors' help page Where to ask a question Help Desk Frequently Asked Questions Getting along Wikiquette Civility Sign your posts Wikipedians Conflict resolution Getting technical Cleaning up vandalism Pages needing attention Peer review Utilities Village pump

[edit] Vandalism

I assumed that VandalProof was reverting all the edits of the ip vandal, but I guess not. Thanks for the heads up! :) --Kf4bdy ^{talk contribs} 05:32, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] response to "Editorialized Edit to Jessica Simpson"

That's okay with me -- I actually didn't put the statement in, that appears to have been done several edits earlier by user:68.20.5.86 -- however, I should have removed that manually as well, though. Thanks for taking care of it. -- ArglebargleIV 18:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism patrol

Excellent job vandal-fighting! However, please remember to assume good faith by not using the edit summary "vandalism warning" for users such as 63.169.58.200, who appears to have only been experimenting for the first time. --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 20:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I agree. Still, though, it might save you time just to type "warning" and "rv" instead of "vandalism warning" and "rvv". Thanks for responding, and keep up the good work! --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 20:31, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Come fly with us

THE WIKIPEDA IRC SPAM PROJECT IS RECRUITING NOW WHY ME Your recent request to use VandalProof software has been refused as you have too few edits to the English Wikipedia. We need editors to look through recently edited pages and decide whether the links are spam or not. If the link qualifies as spam, you will need to revert the page to remove the link and warn the 'spammer'. This will increase your edit count and allow the VandalProof team to approve you in future ! In fact, the Wikipedia IRC Spam Project shares many VandalProof administrators and users. HOW TO JOIN 1. Install an IRC client. (ChatZilla, IceChat and X-Chat are free. X-Chat works on all platforms) - a full list is available here. 2. Visit irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-spam This channel lists, in real time, all external links added to Wikipedia. Around 50% of the links listed are suspicious and need to be checked. We flag especially suspicious links in RED. 3. Begin Checking Links Click on any diff (the Wikipedia URL) listed in the IRC channel to begin checking and reverting as necessary. If you revert, remember to place a spam warning {{subst:spam1}} → {{subst:spam4}} We need to be able to block persistent spammers just as we do persistent vandals. Remember - If you need help or admin intervention visit irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-spam-t POLICY Before you begin, please read WP:EL and WP:SPAM. These polices are the basis of spam fighting. Best Wishes - The Wikipedia IRC Spam Project Team

• —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:14, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for Catching That ;)

Thanks for catching this ink blot on the Argentina article ;). What a vocabulary he has :P...¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 19:36, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LOL Tijuana RVV :)

Sorry about stealing your revert. :) That happens to me all the time, usually when I get a particularly juicy edit summary ready... Top 'o the mornin' to ya :D  E. Sn0 =31337= ^Talk 20:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem! That happens all the time, as you point out. Your edit summary was much better than mine, anyway. Ginsengbomb 20:06, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! Some people think my edit summaries are a bit much, but a child such as that vandal needs a bit of return fire. Bigots and spammers? Pour it on! Kill it! Kill it the old fashioned way! Kill it with Fire! LOL  E. Sn0 =31337= ^Talk 20:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Second Life

Second Life is a Featured article candidate! frummer 03:00, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Ginsengbomb! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 16:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the revision on the Anchored Cross (band) page. The comment that the other user posted was a little... Creepy.

[edit] Cold Spring Harbor edits?

You informed me that you reverted the Cold Spring Harbor page, "Cold Spring Harbor in Popular Culture" section, because you presumed I was "testing" something. I am not testing. I thoughtfully edited that section to add information to the section on Billy Joel's relationship to Cold Spring Harbor. I re-added similar text after receiving your note, and yet it has been removed again. Please explain your rationale for removing my contribution. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Missswiss (talk • contribs) 00:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC).

Thank you for your well-written note on my talk page. I am happy to explain why I reverted your edit to the page and why it was reverted again by another editor. For starters it was completely unsourced. There is a certain tolerance level for unsourced edits if they are obviously true or at least believable. Yours, however, sounds more like rumor. Worse, it was highly inflammatory. This is an encyclopedia, and if you are going to be adding highly inflammatory, derogatory writing to an article it absolutely must be sourced and there needs to be a clear reason for its existence.

However, by -far- the most important reason for the revert to your edit is that the article is not about Billy Joel. The article is about the town of Cold Spring Harbor. There is clearly no reason to include a massive trivia item about Billy Joel in an article about the town of Cold Spring Harbor -- even bearing in mind that Joel was a former resident. The bar you reference -- Finnegan's -- isn't even IN Cold Spring Harbor! It is in the nearby town of Huntington. I know this because I grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, of course :).

Regardless, I hope this clears things up. I appreciate and believe that you really were trying to improve the article, so I'm going to assume good faith and remove the warning from your talk page. For future reference, the "your test worked" language is a standard level 1 warning. As part of the editorial policy of assuming good faith in all matters on Wikipedia, any potentially malicious edit is assumed to have been a "test" at first. It is clear that you weren't attempting to test your Wikipedia editing skills so unfortunately in this case the template wasn't entirely appropriate.

Anyway, I hope this hasn't dissuaded you from attempting to contribute in the future! You're well-spoken and a good writer. You could certainly contribute in meaningful ways here. Thanks! Ginsengbomb 04:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Follow-up on CSH entry

Ginsengbomb--thank you for your clarifying response.

You're right; the original info was TMI in the context of a brief mention of Billy Joel's CSH album on a CSH page.

You're correct that my text did not reflect the appropriate "encyclopedic" tone for Wikipedia. Not as an excuse, exactly, but because opinionated rhetoric is so ubiquitous on Wikipedia it's not hard to forget its intended purpose and get caught up in the tendency to drift in that direction.

As mentioned, the "original" text included an apparently unchallenged assertion re: Billy Joel hanging out in CSH as a teen. Not only was that statement unsourced/undocumented, it also implied a different sort of relationship with the town than may be the case.

Also, the Levittown reference was changed to Hicksville because the reference to Billy Joel's "hometown" in the "original" text had not been flagged as inappropriate. Therefore, I was unaware that such a reference was inappropriate. I was simply correcting an error in that case.

My first iteration said something like "local favorite hangout, Finnegan's," meaning CSH locals considered it a favorite; subsequently, I added that Finnegan's is in nearby Huntington with a link to Huntington. Not that it matters anyway--I realize that information (while true) is hearsay and gossip, and not appropriate for Wikipedia.

I'm also from Cold Spring Harbor. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Missswiss (talk • contribs) 19:29, 22 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] For your efforts

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I, AuburnPilot, hereby reward you with the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for refusing to let even the most persistent vandals get the upper hand. Keep up the great work; it's being noticed. auburnpilot talk 06:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Aww shucks, thanks. My pleasure :). Ginsengbomb 06:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New warning templates

Hi there. I thought you might like to know that there are new warning templates for Usertalk space at WP:UTM. - Flyguy649 07:06, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your help with the vandalism at Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; you're reverting it before I can even get the history to reload! Maybe I should be getting VandalProof. ShadowHalo 07:10, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure! And yeah, my ability to handle vandals has been substantially enhanced by VP. I can deal with an almost unlimited number of vandals, simultaneously! It's a very effective tool for combatting the ever-present menace ;). Ginsengbomb 19:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Baseball

What team do you like? BuickCenturyDriver 09:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

The Mets! :) Ginsengbomb 10:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:PAGEWRECKER

You commented on this users talk they had an unusual name - in future, you might want to report such names to UAA. They are a violation of username policy, and usually end up getting blocked. Although I must agree, that is an unusual name. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 04:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Duly noted -- thanks for the tip :). Ginsengbomb 04:40, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Battle of Cannae

I replied on my talkpage. gala.martin (what?) 07:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vauxhall VXR8

It was me that made the saloon -> sedan change here. I stupidly put the links the wrong way around, which absolutely should have been reverted... but I do think it should indeed be referred to as a saloon; we really don't use the term "sedan" here, and it looks out of place in an article devoted to a British car. Loganberry (Talk) 02:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough! Thanks for the explanation, and apologies for reverting some good content. Ginsengbomb 02:21, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem. If I'd remembered to sign in, and to get my syntax right, it would probably have worked better to start with! Loganberry (Talk) 02:39, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Metaurus

I see your point and I agree (see the talk page). I think the contradictions among the ancient sources should be referred to in the article itself and the whole article should be carefully proof-read. I would be grateful if you can do it and make more suggestions. Regards Dobrin 11:29, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Dobrin

Thanks, I do need help. Take a look at the battle of Crotona and the Po Valley Raid and think what could be done (except perhaps editing grammar). Yeah, I know these are too boring, but I took them because nobody else did. It's somewhat easier than messing with larger articles. Please, don't feel bound to read them if you are not interested. Greetings! Dobrin 23:55, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

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