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I do my best to fight vandalism. Unfortunately, many users don't like providing edit summaries. This is most unfortunate. Such edits slow me down. If a summary is available, I typically move on. (The exception is when the Automatic Edit Summary feature of MediaWiki is activated. 90% of the time it is needed, the edit was done by a vandal. You can tell it was active when you see a summary that looks like "←Blanked page".)
If you don't provide an edit summary, I usually end up assuming the worst. That forces me to load the diff for the edit. While I do use User:Lupin's popup tool, it still takes quite a while to load the diff.
Steps You Can Take to Avoid Being Thought of as a Vandal
Provide an edit summary for every edit. (See above section)
Create your user page and the associated talk page (which you could leave blank). Your user page is at Special:Mypage. You can also get there by clicking your user name at the top of any page. To get to your talk page, either click "My Talk" at the top of any page or go to your user page and click the "Discussion" tab at the top. You could use your user page as a resume of sorts. Just no ads and no fair use images.
Fight vandalism and spam yourself
Barn stars
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For gracing me with some of your time in an attempt (that because of you was accomplished) to save my userpage Daniel()Folsom |C| 07:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
wikEd -- Wiki editing with syntax highlighting and many features left out of the standard wiki editor.
Other
User:Where/easy db -- Mark pages for speedy deletion with just a couple of clicks.
Duplicate tabs at the bottom of pages -- Ever been at the bottom of a very long talk page and want to start a new conversation? The best way to do that is to use the + tab. But that is only at the top of the page -- or is it? This script duplicates all the standard tabs (and some custom tabs) at the bottom of the page.
Please don't assume this is it. I am only listing the stuff I really want to promote
Sweets
"M & M Munch"
This is so ridiculously easy to make, you will wonder why you never tried it before. Note that some items required are not M&M branded. The name stands for "Mix and Match Munch".
Obtain 1 lb or larger bags of each of the following:
Regular M&M's -- Or any of the following:
Dark Regular M&M's
Hershey’s Kissables
Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Kissables
Your favorite store brand alternative to regular or dark M&M's
Peanut M&M's or your favorite store brand alternative
Peanut Butter M&M's (not the mini size).
Almond M&M's
Reese's Pieces
Reese's Pieces with Peanuts
Mint M&M (Christmas mix only, unless desired)
Pour each into a large bowl. Be sure to use a really big bowl or it will overflow.
Carefully mix the contents together. Even if you are careful, you will break some pieces. You may wish to make those disappear for appearance purposes.
Now grab a handful and munch away. Don't bother attempting to pick out individual items. Just grab a bunch and munch.
Chinese Chews
This is a recipe that my Mom picked up somewhere. Nothing Chinese about them that I know of. I am unable to find the recipe at the moment, but you only need the ingredients below. Just mix and bake in a cake pan. What I don't know are the baking time or temperature or the amount of graham crakers. Note that Mom doesn't measure the chocolate chips. She just dumps the chips in until it is almost impossible to stir.
Ingredients
Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips -- no specific amount
Graham Crackers -- amount unknown as of 1-17-2007
Sweetened Condensed Milk -- 3 14 fl oz cans
Map of My User Space
User:Will Pittenger -- This page -- Warning: Any changes made to this page without my authorization will be treated as vandalism.
User:Will Pittenger/templates -- A list of templates that I created for my own use that will work for other users. Please note that any unlisted templates in my namespace assume that I am the user. Those templates will not work for you.
{{User:Will Pittenger/templates/Create Template Link}} -- Create links to my templates or others with names in the form "User:UserName/FolderName". Both UserName and FolderName coorespond to parameters that default to the names I use. However, you can override either or both.
{{User:Will Pittenger/templates/Create User Box Template Link}} -- Create links to my user boxes or others with names in the form "User:UserName/FolderName". Both UserName and FolderName coorespond to parameters that default to the names I use. However, you can override either or both.
(Short) -- Page is a shortcut. To discuss it, please use the talk page for the destination. Hence, these pages provide no talk links or history links for those talk pages.
{{Link}} -- Page identified by Link is meant to be used as a template.
(JS) -- Page is a JavaScript page. Feel free use use the page a sample. However, I suggest you get any code from the page that each section links to. To get the section links to work, you may need to manually purge the page. Warning: Any changes made to this page without my authorization will be treated as vandalism.
(CSS) -- I use this page to override the CSS that the wiki comes with. Feel free use use the page a sample. However, I suggest you get any code from the page that each section links to. To get the section links to work, you may need to manually purge the page. Warning: Any changes made to this page without my authorization will be treated as vandalism.
My sig
I am providing this section to demonstrate how to create your own signature.
This code only works with raw signatures turned on. That prevents the server from adding code to your sig. The comments are there so a script I use, User:Where/sigcontract.js, can make the sig code more compact when I edit.
You can send money to help keep my forums and blogs going. You can do so by sending a check to the address listed on my homepage or by PayPaling either of the e-mail addresses below.
Because someone decided to insult me by signing my real e-mail address up for spam, I had to replace my real addresses with disposable e-mail addresses. Sorry. Please don't keep any addresses you see here as they might not work tommorow.
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