User talk:ARSmith

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Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Hyacinth 21:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
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The Departed
I went ahead and removed the speculation about color in the article The Departed. As an encyclopedia, even if that's true, it's not our place to comment on it unless reliable sources have already done so. Our core policies of WP:V, WP:NOR, and WP:NPOV may be of interest to you for this reason. – Lantoka  (talk) 05:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Edit summaries
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this: The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. Your edit to Collateral (film) appeared to be deletion-vandalism, and so I reverted it. I went back to read your comments on the talk page and found your edit to be justified, so I reverted to your version. To prevent other editors from viewing your edits as vandalism (particularly when they involve mass deletion), a simple "deleting trivia section per talk page" in the edit summary box would serve a great deal. Thanks and happy editing. MKoltnow 21:36, 9 June 2007 (UTC)