User talk:Freddderf123

March 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to University of Michigan, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. —Ute in DC (talk) 03:35, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to University of Michigan, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted (undone) by ClueBot NG.
 * Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
 * ClueBot NG produces very few false positives, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made should not have been detected as unconstructive, please read about it, [ report it here], remove this warning from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
 * The following is the log entry regarding this warning: University of Michigan was changed by Freddderf123 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.948138 on 2011-03-08T19:18:35+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 19:18, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at University of Michigan. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 19:26, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

March 2011
Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 04:06, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Fred, you have a very spotty record in your short history as a Wikipedia editor, with one or two instances of plain vandalism, a tendency to insert unsourced and unverified information - and your edits are riddled with typos. Before you get into an edit war at Michigan Wolverines, please learn the ropes and establish your bona fides by making some simple, uncontroversial and responsible edits.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 04:10, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * For instance. Your personal belief that the phrase "four major" sports somehow denigrates all other sports is beside the point.  It's just opinion.  The phrase is well understood in the U.S. and accurate in the context in which you have twice changed it, so please leave it alone.  Likewise while you are justifiably proud of MSU's winning streak against Michigan in football (judging from your comments and edits I take you to be a Spartan fan), that bit of information is a level of present-day detail that doesn't fit within the *very* short summary of the football rivalries on that page.  In this context, it's just clutter - so please leave it off.  (The streak *is* properly noted at the Michigan football page, here, and the entire rivalry is covered in detail at Paul_Bunyan_Trophy.)  And finally, please check your edits for typographical errors before you save them.  You need to, for example, capitalize days of the week (as you failed to do here); and spell words correctly (see here).  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 04:23, 15 March 2011 (UTC)