User talk:Autobeat

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Hello, Autobeat, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Mjroots (talk) 06:30, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
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Piracy in Somalia
I could template you with uw-delete1, uw-editsummary and uw-minor over your one and only edit! But doing that would be very bitey. Just to let you know, I've reverted your edit as it removed a link to a separate article which covers the topic, and it also removed references. When editing, you should always leave an edit summary so that other editors have some idea of what has been done to the article, talk page etc (I'm occasionally guilty of not leaving summaries, such as when I added the welcome template just now). Many vandals do not leave edit summaries, and the lack of one can arouse suspicion. Not that I'm saying you edit was made in bad faith. One last thing, you marked the edit as minor, which was picked up by a bot as "possibly a non-minor edit" because it removed 3,113 bytes of material. Please only mark edits as minor if they are minor edits, as it is another common trick by vandals to try and avoid scrutiny. If you forget to mark a minor edit as minor, that is not such a big problem, and you won't get pulled up over it. Sorry that this post seems to be nitpicking, but Wikipedia does take a long time to learn and new editors are allowed to make mistakes when editing. This is not a big problem as long as the lesson is learnt and the editing is in good faith. Please take the time to read the pages linked in the welcomd notice above, and here. Also, click on the template links, then read the pages linked from the templates. Doing this will give you a better understanding of Wikipedia and various things you need to know. Any questions please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page (message at the bottom will be fine). Mjroots (talk) 06:49, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I've just reverted your second edit to Piracy in Somalia. I would suggest that if you have any objections to material in the article, you raise them on Talk:Piracy in Somalia for discussion. Please do not delete material again without discussion, otherwise you will get a templated warning. I'm sure you don't want to go down that road. Wikipedia works on consensus, with the five pillars being fundamental, particularly a neutral point of view. Mjroots (talk) 06:55, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


 * For your own protection, I've semi-protected the Piracy in Somalia article for six hours, which means you won't be able to edit it during that timespan. Suggest you now start discussion on the talk page and raise any concerns you have over that section there - I've tweaked the talk page link so that it goes straight to the relevant section. Further deletion of material without discussion after the semi-protection expires will lead to administrative action being taken. Mjroots (talk) 07:06, 17 March 2011 (UTC)