User talk:1mattc

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Steve Chalke
Hi, your edits to this article have destroyed the references, bibliography and external links sections - I'm assuming as you are a new editor that this was not intentional. I'm afraid the only solution was to revert your edits to restore these. Please can you check the guides on editing before proceeding further, as you may otherwise be wasting your time! Regards, Halsteadk (talk) 20:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Further to the above, I've tried to repair these bits and leave your edits intact, but please can you spend a moment looking at the different versions to understand how they're different. Please particularly look at how to add the &lt;ref&gt; tags so that linked references then appear in the references section! Halsteadk (talk) 20:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

30 September
Hi again, could you please look at the help documents above. This time I have just reverted your edits as they have broken references. I think you are copying and pasting from the page itself, which is removing codes for references and the bibliography. It is important that these codes are present and you do not end up just entering "[1]" in the text. Please can you take a look at what you're editing and how the reference tags work. Halsteadk (talk) 19:42, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

December 2008
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. ''You have completely ignored my polite request and advice above, have wasted the time I spent trying to revert what you broke while keeping what you added, and have persisted in breaking the formatting of this article. Hence the warning. You appear to be copying the text from the article into a text editor, then pasting it back into the edit box - this will LOSE the formatting - you must edit within the edit box and use the formatting codes, eg for links and bullet lists. Please read the help guide before editing again.'' Halsteadk (talk) 22:44, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


 * You're fooling no-one editing as an anon user to cover up this vandalism again:
 * Edit as anon user at 9.30 to remove formatting from article:.
 * Edit as same anon user at 9.46 to include a link to Steve%20Chalke%20Main.JPG on your own hard disk in a folder named "Matthew Clayton" (aka 1mattc??):
 * Edit as 1mattc two minutes later to upload image to Wikipedia with the same filename: Halsteadk (talk) 21:37, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Problems with upload of Image:Steve Chalke.jpg
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Problems with upload of Image:Steve Chalke.JPG
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Problems with upload of Image:Steve Chalke Main.JPG
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Removal of formatting again Halsteadk (talk) 13:35, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Steve Chalke
Look, "mate", why can you not see that your edits are degrading the bibliography section of the article? Why don't you actually bother to compare my version and yours and respond to say in what way you feel your version of the bibliography (which has all the references included in it in plain text) and external links (which aren't hyperlinked) is better? Do you really feel your unformatted list with no line breaks to separate items, is in some way better than a formatted, bullet-point list with each entry on a separate line (as per the Wikipedia manual of style)? I have not personally contributed to the bibliography but someone has spent a lot of time making sure it follows the style, to have you carelessly and repeatedly spoil their hard work. If you want to add additional entries to the bibliography then use the same formatting as the other entries - it's pretty simple. I have offered you sources of help with editing, which you have clearly ignored, and now you are leaving what appears to be sarcastic remarks in edit summaries. If you persist I will refer you to administrators, which would seem to be a shame as you actually seem to have contributed helpfully to other parts of the article. Halsteadk (talk) 13:41, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. Specifically:  Halsteadk (talk) 16:31, 15 December 2008 (UTC)