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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)

Here is my diff. From what you just said, it appears that the action which was recorded by this diff was not due to a bot, but I am still curious. Are you executing a script with parameters or a version ID? Are you parsing a history? I do not believe the message was created by hand. That is why I am curious. Regards, --Ancheta Wis 19:28, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

On the face of it, you are generating a script for use by RC Patrol. True? --Ancheta Wis 19:31, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Hall Monitor

Per your comment at User talk:FloNight, the first thing that will be looked at when you are nominated for adminship ("hall monitorship") will be number of edits and time on board at Misplaced Pages. You probably need to rack up a little more of both before getting nominated, but LMK when you do and I'll vote. --DanielCD 19:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I am sorry, the kind woman helping me when i started out pointed out comments about anti-vandalism are designed to be placed on the User Talk page; I have not yet reverted one of my comments miscorrectly placed on the page, but you have pointed out. Thank you.

Also, please forgive me but I am relatively new to Misplaced Pages, so I really do not know what you mean by a script for the RC Patrol! (obviously i know what the RC patrol is, but how do you write a script?()

Thanks, Anthony 19:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I asked because your usage pattern seemed to be time-based somehow.

OK. You are not generating a script, and you somehow placed your antivandalism message on my page inadvertently. But for your information I had also just reverted a vandal. Did you mean to direct your message to:

1. 19:16, 14 March 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:Main Page
2. 19:08, 14 March 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:Main Page
3. 19:07, 14 March 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:Main Page

The one who vandalized the Main Page Talk at these times? 19:43, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I am sorry, i am not sure if it is the same person; if i can check, I will get back to you.

The reason they are all similar time frame is becuase I am using the RC Patrol's "Lupin" Checker, an excellent anti-swearing tool that scans ALL recent changes against a hugh banned words list and shows them to members of the RC Patrol to edit. The list of recent changes that match the banned language list is displayed, with quicklinks to the vandaliser's talk page, and an auto-warning option to immediately send. If you are in the RC Patrol, you should consider it: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Lupin/Anti-vandal_tool

Once again, I am sorry i cannot identify if the vandaliser i warned is the same on your talk page. I will get back to you as soon as i know.

Thanks Anthony 19:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)