User talk:Beltwaytruth

I hope
I hope you weren't too offended by the message I placed on this talk page. I read your fiendish edit to "John Negroponte" before removing it, and it was rather funny (and some of it akin to the truth). I've moved it to our clearing house for mildly amusing rubbish, "Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense". It lasts in glory here.

But vandalism of any kind cannot be tolerated on Wikipedia. The encyclopedia survives thanks to the goodwill of its editors and the diligence of those editors, including myself, who take time to clean up edits like yours. I think we'd all rather be contributing productively to the project rather than reverting the work of mischiefmakers.

I'd like to remind you, also, that biographies of living persons require a bit of extra respect.

So please keep editing! But do so responsibly.

My only other request is that you restore the message, and that you no longer remove text from this page (unless it is very rude or mean). Although your user page is yours to edit as you please, most Wikipedians agree that the same freedom should not be extended to talk pages. At the very least, users should leave warnings where they are.

Thanks,

Omphaloscope &raquo; talk 15:38, 24 August 2006 (UTC)