User talk:Wikichange

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Howdy! Welcome to Wikipedia; I noticed your comment on the Wikipedia talk:Vandalism page. I have replied there, but I moved the discussion to the bottom of the page. Unless indicated otherwise, new disucssions should generally be started at the bottom of a page. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page, User_talk:TeaDrinker, if I can help with anything. Keep up the good work and again, welcome! --TeaDrinker 22:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Test templates
Hi, could you please substitute warning templates after you issue them? As you can see from this list, or specific templates, that it is suggested that you substitute them by typing "subst:" before the name of the template. Ryūlóng 08:51, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip! Wikichange 15:17, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Indiana stubs
Hi - good to see someone writing a few geo-stu articles on places in Indianapolis... just thought I'd let you know that each US state has its own geo-stub template, so if you could use Indiana-geo-stub rather than US-geo-stub it'll save a litle bit of sorting later. Cheers - and keep up the good work! :) Grutness...wha?  00:24, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Ball State Cardinals
Hi, Although it is great to see articles about my alma mater, I think it makes more sense to merge the Ball State Cardinals article with the Ball State article. Moorematthews 13:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Question
How do I add anti-vandal protection to my pages? Wikichange 18:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Just to let you know, adding or  to a page is only a means for an admin to notify users that a page is protected. This does not actually confer protection to the article. If you need help protecting a page, please contact an admin or request it. Thanks! -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 07:05, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Dates
Hey, I was just wondering why you bother changing linked dates like "1 January" to "January 1" since the MediaWiki software changes the format based on the user preferences automatically. If you want a date to show up as "January 1" then you should check your preferences to make sure that's the way dates show for you. Or is there some style guideline that you're following? Dismas|(talk) 09:48, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I made myself clear. I don't want to change it back. I just think you're doing extra work that doesn't need to be done.  I say this because both 1 January and January 1 both show up as January 1 because that's how your preferences are set.  So it doesn't really matter what the raw code looks like, they both look the same to the reader.  See what I'm saying?  Dismas|(talk) 10:09, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Thecircle.jpg
Did you take this? If so, can you licence it properly for Wikipedia? It's a great picture and it'd be a shame if it was deleted. --Guinnog 07:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

The Village
I noticed you edited the Ball State University article to call the Village "University Village." Is this really its "full" name? As a fellow BSU student, I've never heard it called anything other than just "the Village". --L. Pistachio 08:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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 * For more on this odd message, see the user's contribs. Seems like a strange sort of spam or evangelizing...  Dismas |(talk) 21:46, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

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