User talk:Mr-thenlater-CovinaBoy95

January 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:If Guns Are Outlawed, Can We Use Swords?, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ─═Klilidiplomus █ Talk═─ 07:04, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

I deleted something I wroteMr-thenlater-CovinaBoy95 (talk) 07:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Help Questions..
I need help knowing how to change my username and delete my user page. The only contributions I've made on Wikipedia have been as me before I made an account, so I was just a random computer number; it was 71.104.253.11. Most, if not all, my contributions I've made have been deleted. I want to change the username and password because I feel as if I'm a bother to this site, not welcome, and have faced smart-alecks criticizing me for my contributions. Many of my added words have been referenced with a web link, but still get deleted. I posted on the If Guns Are Outlawed, Can We Use Swords? talk page a complaint back when I had not made an account yet, because I didn't know where to properly put my complaint. When I made a new account, I deleted my post on that talk page since it was off topic and I knew I could get help for my complaints here on my own talk page. Someone posted to me "It is cruel to delete someone else's topic in a talk page and is looked down upon." LOL, it was my own post! Mr-thenlater-CovinaBoy95 (talk) 07:58, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * If you want to change your username, you can apply at WP:CHU.


 * You can get your user page deleted by putting  or   at the top. User talk pages are not normally deleted, though you can blank or archive nearly anything - see WP:DELTALK and WP:BLANKING for details.


 * Don't feel unappreciated - it takes time to learn one's way around a complex community like Wikipedia, which has evolved its own way of doing things. For instance, you felt you were entitled to delete something you wrote on a talk page, but we don't normally do that, because if someone has replied to a comment that is later deleted, the conversation makes no sense. Also, making deletions with no explanation in the Edit summary is a very common form of vandalism, and there are both humans and automatic systems that revert it: your deletion was done by this account and what you deleted was posted by an IP, so there was no way to know it was the same person.


 * What you can do, if you change your mind about something you have posted on a talk page, is to strike it through, by putting and the beginning and at the end, which produces this effect: strikethrough . That way, it can still be read, but you make clear that you don't mean it any more. Add a note to explain why.


 * Generally, the way Wikipedia works is explained at WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle: if you see a change you think would improve the encyclopedia, be BOLD and make it, but if it is then revereted, don't make it again, discuss it on the article talk page and try to reach WP:Consensus with other users.


 * I will add below here a "Welcome" message with some useful links. For more advice and information, have a look at A Primer for newcomers. JohnCD (talk) 16:47, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Mr-thenlater-CovinaBoy95, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 16:47, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
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I understand that no one could've known I deleted my own text. I'll try the cross out trick to get rid of what I said. But some talk pages, like the If Guns Are Outlawed... one I was trying to edit are not popular and I probably won't receive any response if I leave my complaint there anyway since no one would be looking at the talk page. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think people would. I would please like some help on getting to this page I've heard of that saves all changes made to the regular page, even changes that were removed back to before. I heard that on this type of page you can discuss with the person who removed it about why it was removed and maybe negotiating with them on putting back up, since the change is saved there. I also have another question, whenever I have a question, should I cite the 'help me' notice, or just wait for a response. Thanks to anyone who can help me on this.