User talk:Le Enfente Orange

Joseph Smith
Thanks for removing some vandalism. I took it back a bit more to a good version. I do not see any reason for your latest deletion. it may need a reference but appears valid. This article is highly edited and honed to a consensus version so it is best to discuss changes on the talk page before making them.--Charles (talk) 23:48, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually it does not need to be referenced if it is in the lead section as it will be referenced in the body of the article.--Charles (talk) 23:52, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: I think the second edits were actually an edit conflict with your reversion. Much of the paragraph that Le Enfente Orange removed had been vandalized, so after making the first edit (which didn't get nearly all the vandalism) Enfente started another edit to cut out the rest, resulting in an edit conflict. ~Adjwilley (talk) 00:14, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

The article was espousing the idea that the family of Joseph Smith followed Satanic paganism, which, from my own studies of Mormonism, was not true. I believe the last bit I removed contended that Mormons follow Joseph Smith like he is God, written in a way that insulted their intelligence.--Le Enfente Orange (talk) 19:12, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I remember now; the link was to another Wikipedia article and I typed in the name wrong.--Le Enfente Orange (talk) 19:16, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * You are correct that the article was vandalized. However, the vandalism occurred 2-3 minutes before you started taking it out, and while you were editing it out piece by piece, Charles just hit the revert link, doing a full revert. Because he performed his revert while you were still editing, by the time you saved your edit, he had already reverted to a previous stable version. So when you saved, it looked to him like you had removed more material from the article. It was a nasty bit of vandalism, and it caused way more problems than it should have. I appreciate your efforts to get rid of it. ~Adjwilley (talk) 22:59, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

But of course! As a Wikipedia editor, I am proud to do my part to make this endeavor credible. And as a historian, I could not sit back and watch while someone made a mockery of the past in this manner.--LeEnfenteOrange (talk) 19:16, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the mix-up and thanks for your assistance. When reverting vandalism it is easiest to use the undo button for a single vandal edit, but for more extensive vandalism or where a couple of vandals are working in tandem (yes it happens) you need to dig back through versions to a good version and open and save that one.--Charles (talk) 10:10, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks for the advice.--LeEnfenteOrange (talk) 19:16, 16 December 2011 (UTC)