User talk:Jcartier

Hi Somno:

I just logged back in to see your message here almost a year later. It's ironic that you don't realize I'm trying to teach about vandalizing. In other words, I'm actually trying to help you. Please leave the change I made for 24 hours. It might be worth your while.

Respectfully, JCartier

Hi Jcartier, welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not vandalise to teach your students about internet research. The Baldwinsville, New York article is constantly hit by vandals as it is, it hardly needs to be vandalised by a teacher too. Somno (talk) 02:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Baldwinsville, New York
hahah, oh man, I needed a good laugh. Thanks for your edits to Baldwinsville, New York. I've reverted them, because I don't think other editors would find it as humorous as I did (and certainly not as encyclopedic). --JBC3 (talk) 18:09, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Howdy JBC3.

If you would be so kind as to allow this change for 24 hours, I would appreciate it. I'm actually trying to teach my 8th graders about respecting Wikipedia, and it would help me (and ultimately you) out a lot.

Much obliged. Jcartier



Your recent edits
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Vandalism on Baldwinsville, New York
Please stop vandalizing the Baldwinsville article, while you may be trying to teach people about Wikipedia and vandalism there must be other ways to do it than replacing content with vandalism. The edit does not have to be live for you to be able to show it to people, every edit is retained in the history. If you click on the timestamp you will get that version of the page (for example your vandalized version here). While I think that any attempts to deter vandalism are great, if you'd like to play around there is always the sandbox or I'm sure you can dig into the history of almost any page and find vandalism (a good place to look is the day's featured article, as that is almost always hit hard, though most of it is reverted within seconds). Please be aware that vandalism can result in a revocation of your editing privlages. —Nn123645 (talk) 03:36, 25 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Wouldn't showing students how easy it is to improve Wikipedia be more helpful to the project than showing them how easy it is to vandalise and giving them ideas? Just a suggestion. Somno (talk) 08:19, 25 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Good point. --JBC3 (talk) 16:57, 25 March 2009 (UTC)