User talk:Nathanhalestorm

December 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to League against Imperialism has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. waywardhorizons (talk) 22:02, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at American League Against War and Fascism with this edit. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. waywardhorizons (talk) 22:04, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Friends of Soviet Russia, you may be blocked from editing. waywardhorizons (talk) 22:06, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Comintern, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. waywardhorizons (talk) 22:07, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

RfC on your article
I posted a request for comment regarding your recent article. Normally I would propose it be deleted but since the content is properly sourced and may be worthy of an entry, I've asked for input from other editors. If you made this article - as well as posted all those "see also" links in the articles I warned you about - in good faith, then I apologize. I may have been being too trigger-happy, so to speak, especially since levels of vandalism are so high today. -waywardhorizons (talk) 22:37, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your input. I can see why you would be concerned over the vandalism charge considering the nature of the topic. I have made every effort to ensure that this was sourced properly. Thanks again nathanhalestorm

A belated welcome!
Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Nathanhalestorm. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.
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Again, welcome! waywardhorizons (talk) 23:47, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi, friend
Well, you've seen the ugly side of Wikipedia first hand, run over by the Anti-Vandalism machine and then run through the Articles for Deletion gauntlet. Yes, it's messed up, and sorry for that — but hopefully things are getting corrected now. Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia, sorry about you getting hit by a truck, hop up and dust yourself off and let's talk, shall we?

You've made a nice contribution effort with your "Bolshevism Influence on PC" piece, but things are going to need to be taken back to the proverbial drawing board and reworked a little. Basically the content does not match the title and there are problems with the title, which has a fairly heavy political overtone. Wikipedia is not for playing political "gotcha," either by the right trying to snuff out the left or the left trying to snuff out the right; rather it is a place for dispassionate coverage of matters of import to both left and right.

I don't know if this is your first account at Wikipedia or if you have a track record here previously under another name (it's an exceptionally nice first effort it that is a first effort!), but the doctrine of NEUTRAL POINT OF VIEW (link) must be firmly understood and accepted by all of us working together here. It's vitally important. Please take a few minutes to read that page and maybe even a couple of the attached essays linked to it, and if you have any questions or want to discuss any aspect of the concept, I'd be happy to do that with you, as would, I suspect, many others. You can either leave a message for me on my "talk" page, which is accessed by the link after my signature below — or just send me an email at MutantPop@aol.com if that is more comfortable for you. Either is fine. Again, it is very very important to really understand and accept the doctrine of NPOV, it is the fundamental principle back of Wikipedia.

Do not worry too much about losing your work through Articles for Deletion, a much more likely outcome will be that your piece will be pulled from mainspace and attached to your user page, so that you can work on it or transport information to other appropriate pages, such as Willi Münzenberg.

You've done a really nice job with footnoting, kudos for that. Very, very nice work!!!

If there are any questions about Wikipedia — anything at all, from how to do this or that on a page to interpretation of what is going on in the very strange political environment backstage at the project — do not hesitate to write.

Again, sorry that you got run through the wringer first and talked to by humans second. That's messed up and Wikipedia needs to do a better job of that with new content creators such as yourself. Welcome to the project! Carrite (talk) 18:37, 2 December 2011 (UTC)