User talk:Riffraffselbow

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Hello, Riffraffselbow, 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 name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place  after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Baristarim 05:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
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Barnstars, barnstars
Dear Riffraff's bits, a while back you kindly created a couple or three of lovely Cambodia barnstars for our Wikiproject. Being a complete swine, I didn't get back to you. Sorry. I wanted to thank you very much and also ask if you have any idea how to set it up in a template and all that - I'm a complete idiot when it comes to these things. No! is a perfectly acceptable answer to this question (then I'll go pester someone else :) Great user name btw. Cheers, Paxse LittleNellstop 14:39, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Glad to do it. :)
I just wish folks would read the rules before writing an essay instead of an article. A pleasure to make it go bye-bye. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 02:40, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You're absolutely correct. I hate deleting good faith edits, but if I hadn't deleted it, another admin would have.  Personally, I'd rather have a whole server full of similar entries than just one or two of the pieces of garbage that come in via chronic vandals.  --PMDrive1061 (talk) 02:50, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Please notify creators of an AFD
RE: Articles for deletion/Catheleen Jordan

I notified the creator of the Article for deletion. Please contact the creator out of courtesy. Thank you. Ikip (talk) 01:43, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * good points, especially the COI notification point. I appreciate your comments on my talk page. I hope my comments came across okay. Ikip (talk) 13:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

March 2010
Redacted- you're right. That looked like introducing obscenities into an article- perhaps the most common form of vandalism; but it was correct in this case. I've reverted my reversion, and removed this warning. I'm sorry. Bradjamesbrown (talk) 16:43, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * You know, that's rather strange. Having ClueBot's false positive page semi-protected, while an obvious target of vandals, seems to defeat some of the purpose of its existence.  There at least should be another page there for IP's and new users.  Bradjamesbrown (talk) 16:49, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * ClueBot, for it's occasional mistakes, tends to do a pretty good job. Flagged revisions, which we keep hearing about may make it less important, though.  I really don't know how it works, but I remember reading that only 20% of edits made by IP's get reverted as vandalism; so Wikipedia gets plenty of useful contributions from IP's.  The entire WP:AFC process exists to help unregistered users create articles.  I don't think Wikipedia is that much of a 'walled garden', but there is a great deal of vandalism, that can produce a 'siege mentality', when I find revert, block, ignore makes more sense. Bradjamesbrown (talk) 17:18, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Random red link
Regardless of what I said at the help desk, I think you might find a technical solution (or confirmation of technical impossibility) at Requested templates. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:03, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

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