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| Anthony cfc, would you mind explaining the action of your bot? I believe it was a bot or a script that inserted a message onto my talk page. --] 19:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC) | Anthony cfc, would you mind explaining the action of your bot? I believe it was a bot or a script that inserted a message onto my talk page. --] 19:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC) | ||
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| Apologies, | |||
| It was accidental to place that comment on your talk page; it was designed for another users. | |||
| However, thank you for the information that no-one has deliverately vandalised. | |||
| Once again, I apologise for the accident. | |||
| Thank you, | |||
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hi Anthony -- please don't put notes about articles in the articles themselves, like you did with Vital source magazine and in your cleanup of vandalism at Limestone. For vandalism, leave a message on the user's Talk page (use {{testn}} templates). For pages, leave a tag like {{advert}}, discuss on the Talk page, or bring it to WP:AFD if you think it should be deleted. thanks! bikeable (talk) 19:06, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- oh, and a list of template messages can be found at Misplaced Pages:Templates. bikeable (talk) 19:08, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
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Dear helper,
Could you please tell me about what to do if the vandaliser is unregistered? Also, i have found that not all registered users have talk pages. Does everyone have one and I am looking in the wrong place, or what is wrong?
Please help, and thank you for your last assistance. I will use the templates and not leave reasons in articles any more.
Thanks Anthony.
- Well, for starters, the best way to fix vandalism is not to edit the page but simply to "revert": see Help:Reverting. If you look at the history of a frequently vandalized page like George W. Bush, you see that it's full of reverts (usually marked as "rv" or "rvv" for "reverted vandalism" in the edit histories). that way you're just returning the page to the previous state. You can leave a message on a Talk page for someone with an IP address, and they'll still get it. For example, I left a message using the {{test4-n}} template on User_talk:167.7.248.212 when they vandalized Limestone. Of course, you don't have the power to block people, but stern warnings often work. Poke around frequently vandalized pages, check out the edit histories and diffs and see how other do it, and of course check out WP:RC. thanks for helping! bikeable (talk) 19:33, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Anthony cfc, would you mind explaining the action of your bot? I believe it was a bot or a script that inserted a message onto my talk page. --Ancheta Wis 19:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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Apologies,
It was accidental to place that comment on your talk page; it was designed for another users.
However, thank you for the information that no-one has deliverately vandalised. Once again, I apologise for the accident.
Thank you, Anthony 19:23, 14 March 2006 (UTC)