User talk:Soxixos

Dealing with vandals
Hi, Soxixos, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I noticed that in this edit you cleaned up some vandalism; thanks! But I also just wanted to say, with cases like that you need to be careful, because that editor actually vandalized twice in a row, and you only cleaned up the second time; in the future, when you see vandalism, you can check the article history (by clicking the "history" tab at the top of the article) and see if the user has made multiple edits. If he/she has, you can revert all of them by clicking the date of the last version of the article before that vandalism...that will open up the old version of the article, and in that version you can click "edit" and then save without making any changes; that will revert the article to the clean version.

You may also warn the vandals by going to their talk page after you fix the vandalism, and warning them with one of the warning templates. This is useful because hopefully it gets them to stop vandalizing, and if it doesn't it at least makes us easier for administrators to block them.

Thanks again, and happy editing! If you ever have any questions, don't hesitate to leave me a message at my talk page. &mdash;Politizer talk / contribs 22:27, 20 December 2008 (UTC)