User talk:Mandarax

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[edit] March 2008

Hi, the recent edit you made to Zora Neale Hurston has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. -[[Ryan]] (me) (talk) 00:10, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


My reply on Ryan's talk page:
Hi, you left a note on my Talk page about my edits to Zora Neale Hurston being reverted by you. I'm glad you notified me so I could go back and see that I only undid one edit instead of reverting multiple ones. The changes made by my "undoing" looked completely reasonable and I thought that was the extent of the vandalism. But I suspect that you edited using a bot, because the changes resulting from your reversion were quite obviously wrong. For example, in your version, Zora's parents are "Micheal Jackson Hurston and Jessica Simpson Hurston" and her mother died in "2015" when Zora was "one hundred-thrity five". I have since reverted the article to what I believe is a good version, but I thought I should mention this to you in case you have a misbehaving bot. Mandarax 01:02, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I was an error on my part. I do not use a bot, I use the tool huggle. Thank you for leaving a message, or else I probably wouldn't have known. Again, thank you. -[[Ryan]] (me) (talk) 18:11, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] April 2008

Hi, in the Austin, Texas article you made an edit to which you stated Austin was in the Southern US, it is not. If you have been there it is quite clear it is not southern. The large Hispanic community with great Tex-Mex flavor is not southern and is not found in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, etc. Please do not state Austin is southern as some might take offense to that, (I know I do)...


My reply on Guanako512's talk page:
Hi, you left a note on my Talk page accusing me of making an erroneous edit to the Austin, Texas page. You've got the wrong person. I've made one and only one edit to that page. My edit simply reverted vandalism, removing sentences stating "Texas as a whole is a terrible state to live in, don't move here." and "Jordan was here." Mandarax 04:39, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, My apologies, I appreciate your edit, I guess I should have looked more carefully. Again my apoligies... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guanako512 (talk • contribs) 17:50, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] warning vandals

Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to The Importance of Being Earnest: You may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit was inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. Enigma message Review 06:28, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I hadn't been notifying them because the overwhelming majority of the garbage I've been reverting has been from anonymous IP users who are obviously committing blatant vandalism. I figured such vandals would be unlikely to read and even unlikelier to heed such warnings. But after reading your recommendation, I reconsidered, since sufficient warnings are required before a user can be blocked. So I have been trying to leave notifications of the proper severity level on the Talk pages of users whose vandalism I revert. Thanks for the suggestion.  ‑ MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM  (talk)  06:32, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
The main reason I warn vandals is to make them easier to block. Most of them are unlikely to reform their ways because of a warning, but at least then we can block them faster. If no one warned, we basically couldn't block any IPs. It's like in some religious law: Someone has to be warned first and then do the wrong thing anyway in order to be punished (a block is not supposed to be a punishment, but you catch my drift). Enigma message Review 06:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
You use Twinkle? Enigma message Review 04:09, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Nope. I do it the old-fashioned way. I just manually check the Recent changes without using any tools. BTW, thanks again for suggesting that I warn vandals. (Sometimes there's a bit of a delay before I post my warnings since I'm doing it manually, and sometimes checking for other vandalism elsewhere before I go back and do the warnings.) I realize that I was only doing half a job when I was just reverting the vandalism.  ‑ MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM  (talk)  04:23, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Sure thing. Anyway, I was suggesting Twinkle because it really can help speed up the process. Automatically opens the talk when when you revert via Twinkle, and you just hit warn instead of manually inserting a template. Enigma message Review 04:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 206.54.207.157

hey wats up guys just a question how do I correctly fix profanity would it be okay? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.54.207.157 (talk) 22:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Constructive edits, including removal of vandalism (which may include profanity), are always welcome and encouraged. Please note that blanking a page, as you did twice to Invasion of Normandy‎, is considered vandalism. See some of the following pages for information about Wikipedia:
Good luck.  ‑ MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM  (talk)  23:11, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting

Hi, the recent revert you made to Puerto Rico has been undone, as it appears to be unconstructive, and allowed vandalism to be reinstated. Please use the sandbox for testing and make sure your reverts are done in a controlled and conscious manner. ~RayLast «Talk!» 22:52, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

My reply on RayLast's (Mistman123's) talk page:
Hi. Thanks for catching my error. I had reverted a particularly nasty bit of vandalism to Puerto Rico then went on searching for more vandals. I found a persistent one vandalizing Children's Day‎ that I kept having to revert and I eventually got 'em blocked. In the middle of all of that, I returned to the Puerto Rico page and mistakenly thought someone had added some nonsense characters. I reverted the last edit, thinking I was removing the garbage. It turns out they had instead caught and reverted some prior vandalism and my reversion accidentally restored it. I almost always go back and check my reversions, but this time I was distracted by that persistent vandal. I apologize for my carelessness.  ‑ MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM  (talk)  23:50, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the revert

Thanks for the revert of the Fred W. Tanner article earlier today. I really appreciate it. Chris (talk) 20:12, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] you got it right

... I just decided to try to fix that table the other user removed. Thanks so much for the message, and happy vandal fighting! :) --JaGa (talk) 06:22, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting

You need to be more careful with your reverting. At the unmaintained article ecological succession, you reverted this anon, but the revision you reverted to was another anon who had vandalized the page. This has remained like this for weeks. I've also told a newer editor who did the same thing just after you. Of course, if anyone was actually watching the article and taking responsibility for its care, this would have been fixed long ago. Richard001 (talk) 08:21, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the older vandalism which I had missed. I wholeheartedly agree with you that people need to be more conscientious. I'm afraid that everyone who works on expunging tons of vandalism will occasionally miss some prior vandalism after reverting the most recent instance. But I do make an effort to leave articles in a clean state. I looked through some of my most recent edits for a few examples:
  • I could see right away that there were big problems with Mark Zuckerberg. Immediately after reverting the newest vandalism on 27 April 2008, I set out to pore through the edit history in search of a clean version without missing any possible constructive edits in the interim. It took me 13 minutes to be fairly certain I could revert to the correct version. During that time, 13 additional edits were done by others -- 4 vandalisms by 3 different IPs and 9 attempts by 2 other users to repair vandalism. It's amazing to see how much vandalism remained after those 9 attempts, before I reverted it.
  • On 29 April 2008 I reverted some obvious vandalism to Gentoo penguin. I then checked the edit previous to the one I had reverted. It had been done five days earlier and it was not vandalism. Still, I checked further and discovered that it was a good faith edit, but duplicated information already on the page. I fixed it, leaving the article in good shape.
Anyways, thanks again for taking care of my oversight and for your efforts to improve Wikipedia.
 ‑ MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM  (talk)  01:59, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] how do you make your name like that?

It's so frickin cool, what alphabet do you use? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.205.144.94 (talk) 00:09, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I think it's cool too. The "backwards" И and Я are from the Cyrillic alphabet.  ‑ MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM  (talk)  06:32, 10 June 2008 (UTC)