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A one-minute revert to vandalism on Tourette syndrome -- Thanks !!! Sandy 15:45, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Excuse me, but could you tell me why you reverted my edits? Your reason was "nothing notable was added". I see you are new to this site, and I'm sure you are well aware of the wiki nature of this site (anyone can edit, etc.), and would like to make you aware of the problematic nature of this. Please, read Wikipedia:Wikiquette, and see if you can tell me what was wrong with what you did - Jack (talk) 23:36, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

These are the reasons:

"This over-reaction to anything and everything led to her becoming popular outside the house, but not particually within it." I believed this is opinionated, and anyway she can't have been that popular, as she was evicted.

"outside the house's front door" I didn't think this was really notable, and also she was inside the front door.

"(heavily pregnant) was forced to climb a flight of stairs in order to collect the hyserical girl." Davina may have been heavily pregnant, but I didn't think it was necessary to say it. Also saying "hysterical girl" is opinionated. I also think saying "forced to climb a flight of stairs" makes Nikki sound worse than she is, and Davina as some sort of hero, which she is not.

I'm sorry, I can't find anything wrong with what I did. -- Alex9891 (talk) 23:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, your first point is fine, it is a bit POV, but it is extremely difficult to maintain an air of neutrality when talking about a TV show that is based on opinion. Inside the front door? Excuse me for not rushing to review my extensive archives of everything I watch on TV, just edit it, that really didn't justify a revert. Davina, by the way, makes the series, saving the trainwrecks that are the contestants. Nikki was enjoyable to watch, but only because of her selfish, spoilt brat ways. The kind of morbid curiosity that forces you to turn your head as you drive by a car crash. So I think, yes my edits were slightly POV, edit away, please, but do not revert without a very good reason. Reversions are reserved for people writing "nikki likes it up the bum", otherwise known as vandalism. Always remember, obey the three revert rule and to assume good faith - Jack (talk) 00:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me of this. I can see now that I shouldn't have reverted it all in one go, but in the future I'll know not to. Once again, thanks for pointing this out to me. -- Alex9891 (talk) 00:11, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Is there any specific reason you need to know? :) — Fire Fox 19:25, 18 July '06

No just wondering where it could possibly say it -- Alex9891 (talk) 19:26, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I really would like to know though! -- Alex9891 (talk) 19:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I myself get confused as to how my "source" knows who voted for who, but they're reliable, so I'm happy. — Fire Fox 19:35, 18 July '06

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Please don't keep reverting my edits, the positioning that I edited in was more aestetically pleasing and practical. If you want to make a thing out of it, do it on that article's talk page. Trampik e y ^{( talk to me)( contribs)} 13:57, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on the History, can you please reference the information you included. Olive Oil 11:45, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I had the same problem a few months back when I was new. Not that you're new, but yeah.. Just gunna paste what somebody told me:

Hi there

I noticed you made some edits on Big Brother (UK series 7) changing the formatting of dates. The reason that dates are wikilinked is so that they can be displayed according to each reader's preferences (as set via "my preferences" at the top of each page). So you can choose to always see, for example, 3 March 2005, regardless of whether it is wikilinked as 3 March 2005 or March 3, 2005. You should therefore resist the temptation to change dates to a preferred foramt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikay ( talk • contribs)

Heh, yeah.. at first I was like "HEY! WHY ARE YOU REVERTING ME!??!?!", So I can just imagine how you'd feel. But yeah, it's pretty helpful. :) I dunno why I even reverted, because my settings make the date look like the way they were in the first place. Mikay 12:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

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Why have you changed it? It's quoted as Corner here: [1], here: [2], here: [3], here: [4], here: [5], here: [6] and a google sponsored link here: [7]. Need I go on? Her surname's Corner! godgoddingham ³³³ 22:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Her surname should remain as Corner. Using the Google check, 899,000 results are returned for "Jennie Corner" [8] as opposed to 337,000 for "Jennie Conner" [9]. The BBC quotes it as "Corner" [10] and they're the BBC! Please leave it as Corner until she has come out of the house and there will be a chance to know what her surname is. godgoddingham ³³³ 22:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

In response to your most recent message: "Yes, definitely Corner! And would you believe it, her middle name's Marion!", Sorry? Are you now saying you were wrong or was that a typo?? godgoddingham ³³³ 22:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Alex... You are a bad man... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.166.61.132 ( talk • contribs)

Please see this comment. —  FireFox ^{( talk)} _{15:53, 14 August 2006}

"No nominations" is normal for the final week, we don't need to say it again because it isn't a twist. —  FireFox ^{( talk)} _{16:27, 14 August 2006}

Not everyone will know this -- Alex ^{talk here} 16:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

It's pretty obvious that there aren't nominations in the final week. Nominations for what, exactly? —  FireFox ^{( talk)} _{16:30, 14 August 2006}

Perhaps a mid-week eviction? You never know... -- Alex ^{talk here} 16:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

But it's been confirmed no more evictions until Friday, the final night. If there was a mid-week eviction, the table would say so, but there isn't (which is normal). There has never been nominations in the final week of Big Brother UK. —  FireFox ^{( talk)} _{16:32, 14 August 2006}

this is America, we have to be politically correct. Christmas is known as Holiday here and it should be called that. 142.176.56.151 13:36, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Referencing the birth of "jesus" in America is absolutely banned, and should not be available to the American public. We must change the "nativity" and "jesus" references to Menorah and Santa to be PC. We can not offend non christians by using the term christmas or jesus. We must reference only Jewish traditions in "A Charlie Brown holiday". 142.176.56.151 13:40, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

• Sir, you must understand. Saying those "christian" words is damaging to the eyes of non-"christians". We have Holiday Trees over here and anyone who calls them "christmas" trees is kicked out. We also ban Easter, see here and here. We must eradicate "christmas" now! 142.176.56.151 13:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Ah, the humanity!Can we at least pretend that they are Jewish traditions so Jews and atheists wont be offended!? It's very scary to see an American website like Wikipedia using the word "christmas" and "christian"! 142.176.56.151 13:50, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• I have a very hard time believing you're atheist when you defend "christians" like this. Anyway, the American holiday season consists of Thanksgiving Day in November, Holiday on 25 December, Hanukkah on 16 December, and New Year's Day on 1 January, and we should not have to see the term "christmas" (which has the word "chr**t" in it) in the public websites. 142.176.56.151 13:57, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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		I have noticed your name appearing very often while RC patrolling since you have been granted with VP. Your efforts are greatly appreciated by all. :-) -- Porqin 15:00, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

"El Niño shall rise again!" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.225.42.15 ( talk • contribs)

Hi, I think you warned the user who added a non-notable birth to November 28, but I reverted his/her edit. Generally, you're not supposed to warn a user unless you're the one who reverts his/her edit(s). It can create confusion. Sorry about this! Have a great day! :) Srose (talk) 23:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. :) VP slows my computer to a crawl, so I don't know anything about its glitches - good old JS for me! :) Srose (talk) 23:46, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I can explain my edits. For the one that changed Padme Patil and Ernie McMallen, Padma doesn't have dark hair and a reliable fan site (therogue.net) had Mandy Brocklehurst with blond hair, so I thought that was her and with Ernie McMallen, he doesn't have brown skin in the film adaptation. With the USA, I have never heard of Gianni or Shianni or any other name like that, and I LIVE IN THE USA. I thought it was Jonny and Federle doesn't sound like Fidelei, What I hear is Fay-del-ay. And I never heard of Mots ever.I heard of Morris though. And the thing with England is, Foster isn't pronounced fos-tar, But Fostarr is. And Fliknee, Flitney I don't hear. Fliknee, I do. And why I edited the UK to England is that ENGLAND is what the team is called, not the UNITED KINGDOM. Hope that covers that I didn't intentionally vandalise. Sincerely, Wikiuser98 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiuser98 ( talk • contribs)

User 88.110.76.239 is actively hating/vandalising Tupac pages (the albums). —Preceding unsigned comment added by License2Kill ( talk • contribs)

Hey Alex. I was just popping by to make sure you were aware of WP:VER, and WP:CITE; as in your articles and edits, you never seem to have any references, rendering the articles themselves pretty useless. I'm just about to start cleaning up Cheadle Hulme High School, and I'm afraid quite a lot of data must be removed because it will be difficult to find citations for most of the data. Should you know of any links or books of such, could you send them to my talk page so we can start to look at improving the article.

Thanks, T. Moitie ^{[ talk} 01:38, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but no, you do really need to have references, its not optional, and they are required.

Thanks T. Moitie ^{[ talk} 20:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

You'll need to add that to the article then. WP:CITE. Thanks, T. Moitie ^{[ talk} 21:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Alex hi,

I errased those comments on Lebanon-Israel war as they were, without any doubt, unbased and biased. Wikipedia should be an objective media and source of information and not used for propaganda purposes of any kind. The truth well documented is what should be written and not opinions based on yellow news papers.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.175.253.123 ( talk • contribs)

Per the AIV rules, you need to have recently given a test3, test4, or testblatant warning to someone, and they need to have continued vandalizing, before you report them to WP:AIV. I agree that User:70.88.81.116 is being a pest, but I've found that the test4 warnings actually do stop the vandalism a lot of the time with no need for blocking. Thanks, NawlinWiki 15:09, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

How in the world did i mess up the Muppets artical?, By adding a link to a Muppet website that is useful to other Muppet Fans?!?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.208.197.126 ( talk • contribs)

• Rolls eyes* You guys are wikipedia are rude stuck up and just nasty. Who cares about the stupide site?, Well let me tell you something you can forget me adding to the Muppets like picture which most of them have been taken off by orphanbot oh i found i home for him in a dumpster... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.208.197.126 ( talk • contribs)

Just to elaborate, I removed the second link to Big Brother (UK series 7) from the Pete Bennett article because it already appeared earlier in the article. WP:MOS-L states "an article may be considered overlinked if a link is excessively repeated in the same article; however, duplicating an important link distant from a previous occurrence is appropriate." As the article is fairly short, I don't think it's worth repeating. However, I'm not that precious about it... so if you'd prefer to include, then add it back in. It just seem a bit superfluous to me! Robwingfield ^{( talk)} 14:01, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

The housemates aren't in reverse order for the sake of reverse order. They're in order of successfulness in the game - the longer you stay in the House, the more successful you were, therefore you appear higher in the article. Pete was the most successful housemate, then Glyn and so on, down to Shahbaz who was the least successful. Michael and Spiral were equally successful, therefore their tie should be broken on conventional alphabetical lines with Michael first. Jess Cully 15:09, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I think you missed my point. The order isn't a 'reverse' order at all. It's an order based on a positive criterion (longevity in the game). Therefore the tie-breaker should be standard alpha, not reverse alpha. Jess Cully 15:15, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that link. Nonetheless it does appear to me that the most persuasive reason for having them in reverse-eviction order is because that is an 'order of success'. Sorry, but I'm not convinced that that justifies reverse alpha. Shall we put it to a straw poll on the talk page? Jess Cully 15:29, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I do disagree with the reversion, because he does have a penis for a nose and an umbrella for a penis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.37.85.231 ( talk • contribs) And get off my ass for not signing my comments! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.37.85.231 ( talk • contribs) Go to hell, gaylord! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.37.85.231 ( talk • contribs)

I'm a girl. Zephyr2k 00:05, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for all the help Alex. I think he's already taken a great dislike of me for reverted his vandalism. He was already adding my name as a part of his vandalism. Lol. Well, have a nice day ahead of you! And thanks again! Zephyr2k 00:20, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem! -- Alex ^{talk here} 00:21, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I removed that paragraph because the list right below it says the same thing. 24.154.173.50 11:56, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that, my mistake! -- Alex ^{talk here} 12:01, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

No prob dog! 24.154.173.50 12:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your support on my RFA, which closed successfully this morning with a result of (64/3/3). I will be stepping lightly at first trying to make sure I don't mess up too badly using the tools. Any further advice/guidance will be gratefully accepted. I hope I will live up to your trust! NawlinWiki 12:00, 26 August 2006 (UTC) talk contribs

My edit was at: [11]

The purpose of edit was to remove erroneous spaces and semicolons. Please confirm this and restore my edit. Thanks.

- 130.194.13.106 21:05, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that - it looked like you had removed content. I'll restore it now. -- Alex ^{talk here} 21:08, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

It's alrighty... btw I've added a proper intro sentence to the Simpsons list. (i think the first fix of wiki markup, the VandalProof seems to detect when stuff is deleted)

Cheerio! 130.194.13.106 21:11, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

i didnt vandalize anything. i simply removed a few items that had no educational value, and were obviously only on the page for other reasons. the person who wrote the article is the vandal. children use this site and it should not be used as a perverted venue, but only for concrete education. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.44.225 ( talk • contribs)

WP:NOT censored. Education is more important than making the site kid-friendly. -- Daniel Olsen 21:25, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey, i have never written or edited any articles.

I found messages for me, numerous messages, warning me not to continue to vandalise, write gibberish, make racist comments, and basically things of that sort. like i said, there must be a mistake! i have never edited or written an article! ever! nobody else in my family even knows about wikipedia. as somebody who revoked one of "my" articles, i ask you: what is going on? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.188.116.73 ( talk • contribs)

I have no idea either - you probably have a shared IP address... -- Alex ^{talk here} 16:00, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Try looking at the contributions for the IP address above, and you'll see what is going on. -- Alex ^{talk here} 16:02, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi

I deleted this page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:24.122.51.203

because it is destroying my reputation and some false comments was puted there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.151.63.158 ( talk • contribs)