User talk:Sir Lewk

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia!

Thanks for your effort to clean up Benedictine! I suspect you did the clean-up by hand-editing out the vandalism, but there's an easier and surer way:


 * 1) While the article is on display, click on the "History" tab at the top of the article. Beside each edit will be a "radio" button, with the two most recent version selected.


 * 1) If the same editor has made several changes, click on the left-hand radio button for the most-recent version before they began editing.


 * 1) Press "Compare selected versions". The differences will be shown to you with the old version on the left and the new, vandalized version on the right.


 * 1) If everything the most recent editor did is vandalism, click on the header of the old version (for example, it may say "Revision as of 03:52, 14 February 2006"). That version of the article will be displayed.


 * 1) Edit that version (click "Edit this page"), but don't make any actual edits, just fill in the "Edit summary" box with a brief message like "Revert vandal" or "rvv" and press "Save page".

The nice part about this is that if multiple people use this same method to revert the vandalism, the Wiki software understands this and doesn't save multiple versions of the reverted article. And because the now-reverted article is byte-for-byte identical with the earlier, good version, it makes it easier to "diff" the article in the future, the next time a vandal comes along. (And they do come along, all the time, everywhere! Its amazing that people have the time and inclination to make so many juvenile edits!)

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Atlant 13:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Oil Drilling
Thank you for giving me those opinons. They make a lot of sense to me. I will rethink my posision on Alaskan oil drilling.--Fox Mccloud 03:16, 16 February 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem, I though the same as you until someone explained their thoughts to me. --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 03:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for your kind words! Nach0king 09:10, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!
Welcome,, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of KnowledgeOfSelf, JoanneB, FireFox and Titoxd. The next set of elections will be in April, and I would be glad to see you vote, or even consider running for a position.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by email or talk page or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

Misza 13 T C 20:20, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/SydneyOperaHouse
Hi, just writing to let you know that I've uploaded a larger version that has the slope corrected. I hope you like the new version :) enochlau (talk) 13:58, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I remember you
I saw you at the FPC page.. you're a member of ticalc.org right? I'm Brian Gordon there (I believe my ticalc profile is linked from my user page). --⁪froth T C  07:43, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Creepy, I remember you from ti-news.net. So weird! Stale Fries 01:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Ti-89 game.png
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=Image wanted= Hi. I noticed you commented on this engine image. You may like to comment on the planned new image here Cuddlyable3 (talk) 12:17, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

September 2009
Thank you for your contribution, but we are trying to write an encyclopedia here, so please keep your edits factual and neutral. Our readers are looking for serious articles and will not find joke edits amusing. Remember that Wikipedia is a widely-used reference tool, so we have to take what we do here seriously. If you'd like to experiment with editing, use the sandbox to get started. Thank you. cygnis insignis 02:25, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

May 2010
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Nufy8 (talk) 02:47, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Featured Picture Candidate
I've re-submitted an image of Percival Lowell for FPC. Please show your support or otherwise. Thank you. Kind regards, nagualdesign (talk) 23:29, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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