User talk:74.96.91.216

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I was trying to make what I thought were legitimate edits -- by suggesting that a page might not meet notability guidelines and might want to be consider being deleted. I got what seemed like a nice and helpful message from User:VirtualSteve and it looked like it was something that he could help me with. However, when I went to edit the page, it said that that information was from "Template:Welcomevandal". This seems like a ridiculous title to me. I think it is very underhanded to attempt to welcome someone who is trying to make constructive edits -- albeit in a misguided way -- by seeming to be disingenuous by being nice but using a template called "Welcomevandal". Please address this situation, possibly by renaming the template.
 * Well, the user who put that on did not fully understand what you were doing--this template should be used for welcoming true vandals. This was most likely a human error, but I'm not sure what we should rename this to be--Template:welcome-possible-vandal-with-possibly-unconstructive-edits?  fetch  comms  ♥ 03:56, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

May 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit that you made to the page Ed Rendell has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Please use the sandbox for testing any edits; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing for further information. Thank you.  Wikipelli  Talk   18:01, 18 May 2010 (UTC)