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Hello, Rick Alan Ross! Welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Misplaced Pages. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Misplaced Pages you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! PhilKnight (talk) 13:37, 22 November 2008 (UTC) Getting Started Misplaced Pages Tutorial • The five pillars of Misplaced Pages How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Misplaced Pages is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Note about usernames

If you are the same person as User talk:Rick A. Ross, and you want to use this account from now on, then you could redirect your other talk page here. PhilKnight (talk) 13:43, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Dispute resolution process

Could I suggest you have a look at the Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution? In particular, if you have serious concerns about an editor, it's preferable to file a request for comment on user conduct than to continue repeating the allegation on talk pages. PhilKnight (talk) 13:53, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

WP:NPA

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 15:53, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

The notice above is boilerplate, so let me add this: In Misplaced Pages we judge people by the quality of their contributions, and not by the color of their skin, their political affiliations, their sexual orientation, or their religious beliefs. If you have concerns about an editor's contribution, you can voice these concerns to the point and without invoking a personal assessment about what you think of that editor or what you assume to be his/her motives, as that is simply not useful and contrary to the spirit of this project. Arguments that are repeatedly based on such ad hominem, do nothing to resolve a dispute, and if at all, the one tainted by these is you rather than the person you are addressing. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 16:34, 20 December 2008 (UTC)