User talk:Jrlove0301

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I saw your Martin Luther King Jr. -- that's actually not the main article; see Martin Luther King Jr. (computers get confused if there's a comma and period or if there's not. Anyway, the vandal that wrote the bad stuff was actually vandalizing a "redirect" page -- here's what it looked like:
 * Before the vandal's edit:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Luther_King_Jr&oldid=15917137


 * After the vandal's edit:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Luther_King_Jr&oldid=79532060


 * Then your edit:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Luther_King_Jr&oldid=79532060

I just restored the original redirect, so if anyone types in Dr. King's name without the comma and period, it will take them to the redirect page then automatically to the main article page.

Wikipedia uses redirects in order to not have more than one version of the same story floating around.

There are also redirect pages for: Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King Junior Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Junior etc.

Thanks for catching the vandalism and I hope you keep adding stuff (and correcting vandalism).

--A. B. 04:39, 5 October 2006 (UTC)