User talk:Sleep3r

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A couple of nit-picky comments/suggestions:
 * Why the flip-flopping in username between 69.217.205.40 and Sleep3r? If it's because you use both, then I suggest just using one - Sleep3r and if you do need to change signatures, for Pete's sake, note what you're doing in the edit summary. It causes concern when someone sees signatures changes; I won't go into all the details but I just came out of a battle over this issue.
 * That leads to: don't forget to use edit summaries:
 * When editing an article, there is a small field labeled "Summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
 * [[Image:Edit_Summary-2.png|Edit summary text box]]
 * It's helpful to summarize your edit in a few brief words -- once again it's not something vandals do and it helps other editors understand what you're doing.

Wikipedia always needs additional substantive material like what you're generating. I hope you'll keep adding to Wikipedia. Don't be shy about taking some of the good content you've added to the talk pages and working it into the main article pages. --A. B. 13:54, 18 July 2006 (UTC)