User talk:Thad caldwell

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Edits on Serena Williams
Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Agtx (talk) 23:38, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either: This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.
 * 1) Add four tildes  ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment; or
 * 2) With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button (Insert-signature.png or Signature icon.png) located above the edit window.

Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 00:11, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either: This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.
 * 1) Add four tildes  ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment; or
 * 2) With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button (Insert-signature.png or Signature icon.png) located above the edit window.

Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 03:35, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Signature
Please sign your posts by applying the four "tildes" (~) as described at Signatures. Thank you,  Tide  rolls  13:45, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

General stuff
Hey Thad. I saw the thread you started on WP:AN/I. I've no comment on that thread in particular or the incident in question. I did want to take the opportunity of stopping by your talk page and wishing you welcome to the project. Sadly, Wikipedia has been enormously encumbered with all sorts of guidelines and policies over the years. The learning curve is intensely steep, and people will find all manner of ways with which to find fault with you. It's already happened on this, your talk page. Of the six sections here so far (not including this one), four of them find fault with what you're doing. That's disappointing to me, as it shows we do a very poor job of welcoming new editors and bringing them up to speed on the basics.

Do not get discouraged!

Something very important to understand here; you are an editor. While it is easy to think you are the lowest person on the totem pole here, the reverse is actually true. Without editors, there is NO Wikipedia. Every other 'position' here is one that works in support of editors. Administrators, bureaucrats, ArbCom members, rollbackers, template editors,...the whole lot. Every single one of them have extra privileges here to do one thing; support you. Think of it as them working for you. 'Editor' is by far the loftiest position here.

The best piece of advice I can pass on in any of your editing here is this; be patient. You've gotten embroiled in an edit war on the Serena Williams article. Patience will avoid such situations in the future. No single change to any article is so important that it has to be edit warred over. Just step back, go do something else here or elsewhere, and revisit it later.

If you need help with anything, let me know. I'll be happy to provide what help I can. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:58, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your kind words! You did not have to reach out but I'm glad you did. I've still got a lot to learn and your encouragement and help will make it easier.--TJC-tennis-geek (talk) 17:41, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Signature
Hello and welcome, I just noticed that you are having some trouble with your signature. This is just a guess, but I think the problem is that you selected a custom signature in your preferences (the menu at the top). My guess is that it looks like this:

TJC-tennis-geek

if that is the case, please try changing it to this:

TJC-tennis-geek (talk)

I hope that helps fix the problem. Regards. --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 15:33, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help! Did it work?--TJC-tennis-geek (talk) 17:34, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Continued edits on Serena Williams
Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution.