User talk:Geth~enwiki

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Wow... Dude, if you hadn't told me what this was supposed to say I wouldn't know.

Anyway, if you plan to hunt vandals you need to know a few things:

(I cite Vandalism for this)

A lot of the time, what you see is not really vandalism. It may be a new user testing something out, or sheer misinformation. When handling a suspected vandal, the first thing to remember is to not make a huge deal out of it. If you catch someone vandalizing, say a logged in user inserting ANALSEX into an article, the least logical course of action in that scenario is to go to their user talk page and flame their ass off. That, if anything, dissuades new users and feeds a vandal's drive to destroy and create havoc.

In the case that you do find legit vandalism you should just revert it and move on. Don't worry about watching it, if it gets changed again it will show up on Recent Changes again, and besides, in this field of vandalism most of the vandals are not "dedicated vandals" per se; they're just screwing around at school and will probably forget about the edits they made five minutes after.

To revert a page: On Recent Changes, click the (diff) option.

At an article, select History and use the (last) option.

Either way, you just find the least vandalized version, click (edit) and save the page with an edit summary of (vandalism reverted), etc.

In cases of multiple vandalism, it's usually the one with a legit username. However, often "legitimate" users will vandalize and anonymous users, identified by an IP address, will have contributed useful information. For this reason you must actually read the edits and make sure there is no vandalism in pages you revert to. If you accidentally revert a page with gibberish written in the margins only to add pictures of a donkey show to the bottom, you are held accountable.

Any questions, ask me on MY userpage. I'm not going to come to you to get questions; I'm busy.

Semper fidelis tyrranosaurus, brave warrior. MasterRadius 14:36, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I chose the weird catchphrase "ever faithful tyrant lizard" first because it was on The Venture Bros. and was hilarious, but since then has become a mockery of those holier-than-thou "I can speak latin" guys. It's like adding a userbox in latin that says "I can speak latin" makes you freakin' Jesus or something.

Other, more encyclopedic stuff
Stop starting things with a space. It makes the lines appear in a blue box and the text doesn't wrap, making the page all uber-wide. Cut it out.

You need to know this:

How to edit a page

Manual of Style

Uhh... There's probably more.

Also, don't use my name so much. The admins will think you're my sockpuppet. Lots of people conceal sockpuppets by differing grades of spelling, and the fact that you spell really poorly and I don't may indicate that we're the same person (at least to me, in my twisted logic).

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Geth. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Geth~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 00:09, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 13:14, 22 April 2015 (UTC)