User talk:RobertBDurham

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RobertBDurham, good luck, and have fun. – VegasCasinoKid (talk) 01:01, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Broken link on Eyespot (mimicry)
Hi, I've no idea why you may have cut down a URL in this article, but the effect was to break the link. I've restored it but please take care; I assume the edit was well-intentioned but you ought to comment your changes to explain what you are doing. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:16, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

I note in addition that you broke another URL at Western swing fiddle and removed a URL entirely from Urticating hair without explanation. This looks very much like vandalism, for which you can be blocked from editing. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:18, 4 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for your message and for undoing the edits. It was not vandalism at all. I simply forgot to undo my edit. I cut part of the url so that the book creation tool would render within the margins properly for those links. I can't believe I spaced on that, thanks for catching it and I'll be more diligent. Take care RobertBDurham (talk) 18:19, 4 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Ah, is that what you were doing, many thanks for explaining: I was just about to report for persistent vandalism as it appeared that you had been making many editing tests over the past months. If I could ask you not to save when you cut, that would be a help: you may not have realised it, but every time you have been copying the URLs you have also been saving to the article history, taking up space in the database and leaving a permanent record of your cutting; you have then undone your changes, making a second change to the article history in the process and taking up yet more space, all the while for something that has not had the intention of changing the article (for better or worse) at all - this is to be frank not a proper use of your editing rights, and not something that anyone should be doing repeatedly. It would be better to copy the whole text of an article into a file on your computer or other device, and then to edit that as you like.


 * I also note that you have been using pages within your userspace to keep "books" made from Wikipedia articles, again as far as I can see for your own usage outside Wikipedia rather than to assist your work as a Wikipedia editor. Once again, that looks to me like an improper use of Wikipedia's facilities, which are provided to enable editors to keep track of their editing work on behalf of Wikipedia, and to say a little to other editors about what they are up to. I would suggest that it would be best if you stopped doing that, and instead kept any files you are interested in on your own computer, cloud storage space or whatever. Wikipedia is not intended as a substitute for such storage.

Thank you for your understanding. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:46, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Sounds good, thank you for the input. RobertBDurham (talk) 19:49, 4 December 2015 (UTC)