User talk:Harry Mudd

Welcome!
Hi,, Welcome  to Wikipedia! I hope you like this place &mdash; I sure do &mdash; and want to stay. Before getting too in-depth, you may want to read about the five pillars of Wikipedia. If you need help on how to title new articles check out the naming conventions, and for help on formatting the pages visit the manual of style. If you need help look at Help and the FAQ, plus if you can't find your answer there, check the Village Pump (for Wikipedia related questions) or the Reference Desk (for general questions)! There's still more help at the Tutorial and Policy Library. Plus, don't forget to visit the Community Portal. And if you have any more questions after that, feel free to post them on my user talk page. ---

Additional tips
Here's some extra tips to help you get around in the 'pedia!
 * If you want to play around with your new Wiki skills the Sandbox is for you.
 * You can sign your name using three tildes (~). If you use four, you can add a datestamp too.
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 * If you're bored and want to find something to do, try the Random page button in the sidebar, or check out the Open Task message in the Community Portal.

Happy Wiki-ing.
Link 04:03, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Signing talk-page postings
Thank you for your contributions to James Randi and its talk page. I noticed, however, that you are signing your talk-page postings with a manually-crafted name and untimestamped date. As mentioned in the welcome message above (under "Additional tips"), the best way to sign a talk-page posting is by using 4 tildes ( ~ ), which the wiki editor will automatically convert to your username (with a link to your user page) and a UTC date/timestamp (which marks the time unambiguously, very important for active discussions). You can also use 3 tildes for just your username, or 5 tildes for just the date/timestamp. But the 4-tilde system is by far the most common and most useful. This may sound unnecessary, but you might be surprised how often people will forge plain-text signatures and timestamps. Using the automatic system gives a much more secure feeling (although not infallible) that the poster is who they say they are, and that the posting time is accurate.

You can also customize this 4-tilde automatic signature in your preferences settings (the link at the top of all wiki pages, just to the right of "my talk"). In the user profile tab, the box marked "Nickname" is what will be displayed with your user page link. You can also create more sophisticated signatures, including custom links, if you also select "Raw signature". For example, my signature (as shown below) is generated with the following text in my "Nickname" box:
 * Jeff Q&amp;nbsp;(talk)

This provides (A) a user page link with my nickname "Jeff Q"; (B) a user talk-page link with the text "(talk)"; and (C) a non-breaking space so my signature won't be split between 2 lines. You can examine the raw text of many talk pages to see the incredible variety of these customizations as well. You can also get more information about this at Help:Preferences. I hope you find this information useful. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:54, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Blocked
I have blocked you. You ahve been blocked before for WP:3RR violation, so this should come as no surprise. This edit summary is inflammatory and indicates that, as has been noted on the thread at WP:ANI here that you are promoting an agenda. A review of your contributions shows a long history of this, and a fixation with a single subject. I have therefore not set an expiry date on the block, since there is no indication at this time that you even accept that what you are doing is disruptive, still less any indication that you will stop. When you are ready to explain how you intend to modify your behaviour you can use unblock to request unblocking. Please remember to address the issues of disruption and edit warring in your request. I guess that building 500 copies of Stella is not an option this time. Thanks, Guy (Help!) 17:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Gift of a Useless Man


The article Gift of a Useless Man has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * NN short story - unreferenced since 2009

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on |the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. The Dissident Aggressor 18:25, 26 August 2015 (UTC)