User talk:Flat Out/Archives/2013/April

Removal of reflist
At Roy Maloy, you removed the reflist from the article with the edit summary reference does not verify informastion included in this article. Reflist allows references to be seen and does not require a reference to be used.-- Auric    talk  12:37, 9 March 2013 (UTC)


 * A belated thank-you for the heads-up. cheers FlatOut 12:06, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

March 2013
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 * Thanks. Still having trouble with this one. Im right with subst:afd1 but not so sure on creating discussion page. FlatOut 12:09, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for posting this.. I'm getting there. Slowly. FlatOut 12:12, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 05:11, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Reverting
Do you mean reverting one or more of an editor's edits with one click? That's rollbacking, and yeah you need special permission. You can only use it to deal with vandalism, or a troll editor who keeps doing something stupid you've told him before not to do. Only an admin can give it to you, so best idea is to find a friendly admin (maybe one you've had good dealings with before) and ask about it. If you misuse it, you lose it again. Otherwise you're reverting with WP:UNDO. Cheers, Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:11, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that exactly what I was referring to. I don't think I need it but just wondered how it was done. Thanks for taking the time to answer. FlatOut 03:01, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No worries. You're doing some decent work with the AC/DC articles, keep it up mate. Nice to have someone else around to remove the "heavy metal" tags people like to put on there ;) Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:32, 25 April 2013 (UTC)


 * In regards to that, cant the article be set so that only confirmed users can edit? Undoing constant changes from unregistered editors is a waste of time. FlatOut 01:07, 26 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I wish. An article can be semi-protected, which would stop unregistered users editing it, but it would only be temporary, and an admin would only semi-protect if the article was being vandalised 5, 10+ times a day. AC/DC articles get this problem a lot, but unfortunately not quite enough. Bretonbanquet (talk) 18:28, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Just letting you know
In regards to this, I or anybody else, can remove an unsourced content at own discretion - whilst a is sometimes appropriate; providing the source in the first place is more sufficient. Just saying, — Mel bourne Star ☆ talk 09:38, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Agreed, I apologise for jumping to undo instead of finding a reference and then reinstating the quote. Thanks. FlatOut 09:43, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No, no need to apologise! There wasn't any wrongdoing on either part; it's got the job done, the way you've done it too. I recognize you're new to Wikipedia, so if you need anything, please feel free to ask me. Regards, — Mel bourne Star  ☆ talk 09:48, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It was just a lazy option on my part.. thanks for the offer I'll take you up on that at some stage FlatOut 09:50, 28 April 2013 (UTC)