User talk:Francis Byrne

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Hello, Francis Byrne, 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! Omarcheeseboro (talk) 00:54, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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May 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Charles Swift. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Please read WP:DISAM Omarcheeseboro (talk) 00:55, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Charles Swift, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. AGAIN please read WP:DISAM Omarcheeseboro (talk) 11:58, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Follow-up on the Charles Swift situation
Noting your comment in the edit summary, what you tried to do, overwriting an existing article, constitutes vandalism: by doing so, you separated the article's text from its contributor history, something that is not permitted by our content licenses.

Pages can only be transferred to a new title using the move command, or, if your account is yet too new to enable it (or the move seems controversial or complicated), you can request that it be performed, after review, on this page.

That being said, such a move would require a consensus, to be sought at Talk:Charles Swift before. A more viable, faster and uncontroversial alternative would be to create the article about the actor under the title "Charles Swift (actor)".

Before you do that, though, two things. First, in order to warrant an article, its subject has to meet a certain number of criteria, most importantly that his career has been previously noted and commented upon by independent third party coverage, in a non-trivial fashion (so a mere website listing movie appearances doesn't qualify). It must further be written in a neutral tone suitable for an encyclopedic article, and the various claims made in the article be verifiable through the aforementioned third party coverage. This is explained at more length in this page on how to write your first article.--Omarcheeseboro (talk) 12:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Charles D. Swift, you may be blocked from editing. Omarcheeseboro (talk) 12:07, 21 May 2010 (UTC)