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I understand your point on Rape and Pregancy

However, people have been claiming that rape doesn't cause pregnancy for years. This creates a rather interesting intercession of politics and science. I think it should have an article. Casprings (talk) 02:29, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment, I'll reply on the AfD page, as it probably belongs there. Thank you for being understanding and not taking this personally. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 02:35, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

laura lynch

Hello Mr Vernon, Yes I am actually that person. I have read some pretty inaccurate info on myself over the last several years and now that I ahve joined all you computing gurus I set out to make accurate the info... starting with my date of birth! I would like to know if newspaper photos of us with George Bush and Ross perot would be admissable. Thank you for your prompt response. Laura Lynch August 22, 2012---- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laura caroline lynch (talk • contribs) 12:01, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

Please know that I am a follower of the people and products of MythWurks and DO NOT receive any compensation for the work I do on their Wiki pages. I do it for fun and believe the people as well as the company should be commemorated for all that it has achieved.

Thank you for your understanding. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Masterofmyth2000 (talk • contribs) 02:38, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

• This actually brings up a new concern with some of your edits. On this page you state that the image of Scheerer's book cover is your own work. If you are not Scheerer or the artist, then you cannot claim this as your own work. I noticed that you didn't do this on the one for Wikipedia, but please be aware that this isn't kosher to claim that it's your work when it isn't and it kind of looks a little bad. Although I will say that if you are the author or someone who works for the company, there's actually no set rule against you editing or adding anything. It just has to be non-promotional and be properly sourced. I've given a statement on the discussion, but I also want to warn just in case you're a little afraid of getting blocked or banned if you actually are part of the company or are Scheerer, it's better to be honest than to deny and have it come out later. I know you stated you aren't affiliated and after this I'll assume that you aren't affiliated unless proven otherwise, but I do want to put this out there.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 09:49, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Hmmm... So now, all the pages are up for deletion? Okay, I thought I navigated through the upload process correctly, but obviously I'm wrong. I emailed the people over at MythWurks and told them it was my fault that their page/s is being deleted, along with a few others that I made. I haven't heard back from anyone yet. So, at this point, Tokyogirl79, you can delete my account as well, as I see that Wikipedia is an exclusive club which gives you the power to discriminate against whomever you please, in the name of policy. I'm not coming back here, as I have put "HOURS" in to my edits and obviously it was a waste of my time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Masterofmyth2000 (talk • contribs) 02:38, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For all of your great wokr on NPP and reverting vandalism. I think that the Rollback flag would be beneficial to your work here. It can be requested at WP: PERM/R. Electric Catfish 15:13, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, EC! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 15:15, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Rollback

Hello, this is just to let you know that I've granted you Rollback rights. Just remember:

• Rollback gives you access to certain scripts, including Huggle and Igloo, some of which can be very powerful, so exercise caution
• Rollback is only for blatant vandalism
• Having Rollback rights does not give you any special status or authority
• Misuse of Rollback can lead to its removal by any administrator
• Please read Help:Reverting and Wikipedia:Rollback feature to get to know the workings of the feature
• You can test Rollback at Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback
• You may wish to display the {{User wikipedia/rollback}} userbox and/or the {{Rollback}} top icon on your user page

If you have any questions, please do let me know.

HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:27, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

You click [[[Wikipedia:Rollback|Rollback]]] to revert the vandalism, and it will say "Reverted edits by X to last version by Y". You may also want to install WP: MASSROLLBACK for dealing with spammers. It also gives you access to Huggle, STiki, and Igloo. Electric Catfish 15:33, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Excellent, thank you both! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 01:02, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Monex

Why did you reverted the edition to Monex information? Is something wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.206.121.89 (talk) 19:57, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Pregnancy from rape

The state of the article has changed. Would you consider changing your mind at this point?Casprings (talk) 00:05, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

An invitation for you!

	Hello, Mr. Vernon. We are in the early stages of initiating a project to plan, gain consensus on, and coordinate adding a feature to the main page wherein an article will be listed daily for collaborative improvement. If you're interested in participating, please add your name to the list of members.

 Happy editing! AutomaticStrikeout 20:58, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Do you see what happened there?

I agreed with your AfD nom for Rape and Pregnancy on the basis that it appeared to be an unencyclopedic political piece. It was clearly that. 95% of the content was talking about this dumb politician who was in the news. They author had a history of being blocked for edit wars in politically-oriented articles. But now the article is all prettied up and has references. An executive director of the wikimedia foundation has left a love note on the author's talk page (right under their edit war block notice) congratulating them for starting such a necessary and timely article, even though a dozen articles already dealt with the topic. It's crazy how politics and perception get stirred around and altruism gets twisted into cynicism. Now everyone who came out against it looks like an a-hole who wants to censor rape articles. Whatever... Guess the lesson here is don't go near stuff that's political nature. Someone once said to me: "don't wrestle with a pig because the pig will enjoy it and you'll just get dirty." Cheers! --MoonLichen (talk) 21:38, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, it's a much better article now, and I put thank-you notes on the people who improved the page by adding references and keeping NPOV. It's going to be hard to keep the article non-biased but that goes for a lot of articles, and I think the volunteers who completely redid the article will be part of the team that keeps that page up to par with Wikipedia standards. I'll be glad when this election is over, though!! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 00:41, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

gw

i removed the photo. i am the one who took and uploaded the photo. i no longer wish to display it. it will be replaced with a better one.

under what circumstances may these photos not be displayed? they are my photos and i no longer wish to display them. they no longer meet the terms of use for wikipedia.

First, see if you can find your old account. If you can log in using that one, the one that originally uploaded the photos, you should be able to upload a new version of the photos. What I would NOT do is keep removing the photo from the page, since that counts as edit warring and you could be blocked. If you can't get access to your old account, create a new one and you can upload a new photo when you have one. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 19:51, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

please address what i said. they no longer meet the terms of use, as the owner of these images. please take them down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.44.58.168 (talk) 19:53, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For all of your great work today using Huggle! Electric Catfish 17:46, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Seriously, you've beat me to dozens of reversions today. Electric Catfish 17:52, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement. It's hard keeping up with you though! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 17:53, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

robbie neilson

Why did you change this? this is fact — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.125.16.11 (talk) 18:44, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Can you find a reliable source? If so, just reference it when you add it. Thanks! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 19:25, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

SPI

Beat me to it - good going. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 22:12, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Glad to help! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 22:12, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

A Barnstar!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		It is truly amusing how many times I tried to revert Cane toads in Australia tonight to find you had already gotten it. Name Omitted (talk) 03:23, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

User talk:Terror3234

Why did you remove my comments on the User's Talk page? 69.62.243.48 (talk) 04:19, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you are talking about, I just double-checked and I didn't remove any of your comments from that page. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 04:20, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry. You added a new section, and I missed that mine was above that. Never mind.  :) 69.62.243.48 (talk) 04:22, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

No worries! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 04:22, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Ferret Squad

Hi, could you do me a favor? I can't create this page. I listed the article for deletion because it's about a non-notable film that isn't scheduled to be released until next year, and all of the sourcing is to what appears not to be a reliable source. If you would create the page, I can fill in the blanks. I would appreciate it. 69.62.243.48 (talk) 04:34, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Done. BTW I use an add-in called WP:TWINKLE which creates everything for me automatically, it's a LOT easier than doing it by hand. You do have to register but it's worth it, and you seem to be doing a good job on new page patrol so far. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 04:38, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Can non-signed-in people use it? Thanks for your help. 69.62.243.48 (talk) 04:38, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately you have to register. But it's like one-click, then "fill in the blank" instead of having to modify two pages and create a third. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 04:39, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Home run revert

Hello there. The figure and name are so far fetched seen here, it was an instance of improper humor or just plain vandalism, especially when combined with the user's earlier edit, at Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Zepppep (talk) 02:46, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

hello Vernon ,i made a change in Asansol Engineering College wilipedia page, plz don't de;ete it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamanna 3 (talk • contribs) 02:55, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Thanks for acting quickly to fight the good fight against user:JimWHall. Support your local Little green rosetta . Geraldshields11 (talk) 03:31, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 03:34, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank You

Hey, thanks for helping cleaning up that annoying anonymous vandal!--Mr Fink (talk) 03:54, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Glad to help! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 03:55, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Don't mean to butt into the conversation, but that annoying vandal even bugged me as well my revealing my name in real life! I don't actually know how me managed to get that. Mr.Wikipediania (Stalk • Talk) 10:44, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

hello

Hello, whatever changes i made for Asansol Engineering College is because they provide false information about their college. How i can correct their page in wikipedia ? need your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamanna 3 (talk • contribs) 04:30, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

You are a banned sockpuppet, so that will not happen. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 04:32, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

hello

But Asansol Engineering College provide False information in their Wikipedia page, they fool poor people, what about this? How to correct them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamanna 3 (talk • contribs) 04:39, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

I can tell you getting yourself blocked and then creating a WP:SOCKPUPPET is not the way to do this. Read WP:SOURCES and back up your assertions. And please wait for the block to expire. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 04:42, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	HELLO FRIEND, I AM VERY S-O-R-R-Y for what ever i did, i feel ashamed for myself and understood my mistakes, please keep up the G O O D works. THANK YOU. Tamanna 3 (talk) 11:34, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

I assumed that, but the same is not assumed of me. I am being banned for pointing out the behaviour of certain editors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mziboy (talk • contribs) 01:19, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for reverting Vandalism on my Talk Page =) Fox2k11 (talk) 02:45, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

You are very welcome! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 05:25, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

My editing of Steve Woita's page

Hi Mr. Vernon:

I got your note about potential conflict of interest regarding editing my husband's page. I'm confused about providing edits in a user namespace page and then having you look them over. I would be inclined to paste in to User:Susanwoita the full current text of Steve Woita's page, then make edits that you can vet. However, I saw some info about not placing the full text of another page in my userspace, so I have not created User:Susanwoita page yet... Anyway, after looking at the pages that you have on the subject, I'm more confused than ever about how I can get you to vet edits that I make to the Steve Woita page.

Thanks for your help!

Susanwoita (talk) 00:25, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

The article Steve Woita isn't in user space, it's in article space, thus the COI notice. If you want, you can move the page to user space and edit it there (see WP:MOVE); alternatively, you can use WP:AFC and get some volunteers to help you out and avoid COI. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 02:07, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for reverting the senseless vandalism on my userpage that was done by Soupman1826. Thebestofall007 (talk) 01:05, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For all the hard work you've put into this site, and acting as an inspiration for those of us who revert vandalism.   — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 03:11, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Nationalist political parties in Spain

Why you always categorize nationalist parties as "Neo-nazi" or "fascist", is not enough to put them in the category of "Far-right" and "Nationalist" ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.193.203.15 (talk) 05:50, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

I do not think all parties are that way. I would discuss on the talk pages first your proposal to remove them from these categories and why. Wikipedia works through consensus. Also, if there is nothing in the article that asserts (via a source) that they are fascist or neo-nazi, you could remove that categorization BUT you would want to note in the edit summary that you are removing those categories specifically because there was no proper assertion. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 05:54, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

For all of the hard and hungry work fighting vandals on my user page. Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:31, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Don't threaten me

I gave a perfectly valid reason for my edit, which is that the link was to someone who was not notable. I do not appreciate being threatened and I don't appreciate been falsely accused. 68.190.166.40 (talk) 22:51, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

If you want to delete a page, go through the normal page deletion/merge process. That page has been around since 2009, you shouldn't get rid of it without some kind of WP:CONSENSUS. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 22:54, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

I didn't delete the page, I redirected it. And then you started lying and threatening me. Shame on you and your bullying tactics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.190.166.40 (talk) 22:58, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Why didn't you follow WP:CONSENSUS and propose a merge? Your edits would not have been reverted had you followed the established process Wikipedia has in place. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 23:00, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Show me where it says that someone can't redirect a page without seeking consensus first. Then show me where it says that it's not OK to remove links to a redirected page. Then show me where it's OK for an editor to falsely accuse another editor of disruption and vandalism.

You went from "just letting you know I undid one of your edits" to "stop your evildoing or I shall tell Mother" on a series of edits that a trained monkey could have seen were related to each other. Excuse me all to Hell for finding that heavy-handed and abusive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.190.166.40 (talk) 23:07, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

First, thanks for doing a PROD. That (or an AfD) is how you should have handled it in the first place. To answer your questions: Wikipedia:Deletion policy answers your first question; for your second, the article still exists as a redirect, and there's no reason to remove the link (as opposed to just changing where it redirects to.) Third, I didn't falsely accuse you, judging by your anger management issues. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 23:14, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

President of Awesomeness

Hey Mr. Vernon, A1 doesn't really apply; this article is not a steak. It's vandalism. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 04:43, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

• Wait--someone else tagged it as such. Sorry! Drmies (talk) 04:46, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

No worries, I was confused for a bit! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 04:47, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Paralympic judo

I got your message about blanking the talk page on the Paralympic judo article, but you reverted it before I could respond. I assume you noticed that I moved the content of Paralympic judo to what used to be its redirect, Paralympic Judo (with 'Judo' capitalized as a proper noun), including the talk page. CanadianJudoka (talk) 05:33, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Yes, apologies for that! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 05:35, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

No worries, I should have added an edit summary. CanadianJudoka (talk) 05:38, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Re: A barnstar for you!

Thank you for the barnstar! It is an honor to receive one from you. And thank you for all of the work that you have done. I've seen your name pop up a lot in recent changes during the past month. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:58, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Why did you do this - I wanted to show how desperate it is in Syria. And put up YouTube again for the world to see. Thank you for your consideration of putting it back on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.164.33.43 (talk) 16:15, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Joan Buck

Please explain your vandalism on this page, you removed large quantities of sourced material. Manbumper (talk) 18:11, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Not sure what you are talking about. I was reverting vandalism by an IP who was removing content. My edit increased the size of the article. You may be confused as some of the links were moved around during the edit. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 18:16, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

If you check you will see that you removed large amounts of sourced material so please be more careful in future

Manbumper (talk) 05:38, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Let's all be a little careful what we call vandalism. The IP was making disruptive edits by removing sourced material and adding POV material. The IP's accusations of vandalism were absurd. Mr. Vernon's reversion of the IP's edit was proper (I already reverted once), but I wouldn't label what the IP did vandalism. Manbumper's reversion of Mr. Vernon's edit makes no sense as he is restoring the IP's edit and in fact, as Mr. Vernon states, removing sourced material. Manbumper, I think you should self-revert and put the article back to a clean state.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:46, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi

R.L. stine on his page is said that the Influence he got was from Ray Bradbury whats wrong with putting a famous Childrens horror writer on Ray Bradbury list of people he influenced? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.200.126 (talk) 06:30, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Nothing, but you listed Stine under "Genre." That's not really the best place on the page for it. I'm not sure where I'd put it - Bradbury was hugely influential, not just Stine but a ton of other authors. You may want to ask on Talk:Ray Bradbury if it's OK to put a list of "writers influenced by Bradbury" up. Thanks for contributing. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 06:57, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Article deletion

Hi,

I would like to have your comment on my issue. I have written an article on Rachel Quesney, which was deleted by wikipedia. The point is that I had also written the same article in French, on French wikipedia, and this one was fully accepted by wikipedia.

Given that the 2 articles are exactly the same (Translation, references, external links,...), I cannot understand these 2 different actions from wikipedia.

If I have missed something, could you give me the good insights? I really would like that the English article be undeleted...

Many thanks for your help.

Yours sincerely.

Totoliti Totoliti (talk) 13:25, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

I tagged with it WP:BLPPROD because the article didn't have any reliable sources. You should have received a notification to this effect and so had ten days to fix the article. FYI, I don't see any article on this person on the French Wikipedia. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 16:27, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for reverting the vandalism from my talk page! Electric Catfish 22:38, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Glad to assist, you've done the same many times! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 22:39, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! He's just been blocked for 31 hours. You beat me to too many vandalism reversions! Electric Catfish 22:43, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Chi ball

Please take a look at the new article Chi ballChiBall. I had it tagged for promo and copyvio, but replaced them with A10 when I found ChiballChi ball. Now that you have removed most of Chi ball it no longer seems to meet the requirements of A10. Meters (talk) 03:35, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

I added copyvio back in since that still applies. Now as to the original article, not sure if the product actually meets notability guidelines. There's a lot of ad copy in that article. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 03:42, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I started off with promo originally. I think I'll let it sit overnight and see if anyone want to delete the new version. Meters (talk) 03:45, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Welcome from STiki!

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About Celebboutique

Hi, Mr. Vernon. Hmm... seems like a notable business. But that's just not the way to go about writing your own Wikipedia article. Surely they can afford to get someone to write an article for them? --Shirt58 (talk) 04:40, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

One would think so. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 04:51, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

And if anyone from Celebboutique is watching this page, I do quality work at reasonable rates! Just look at the great PR job I did for the University of Technology, Sydney: do a google search for "Sydney's ugliest building". --Shirt58 (talk) 05:02, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Recent message

Yeah i accidentally clicked undo on one of the users revisions because i thought it'd go back to how it was, got it back to how it was the 2nd time, went back to an earlier revision because someone vandalised it by saying NWA was an american tribal music group from The Jungle — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.4.69.27 (talk) 23:36, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Yup, I noticed you were trying to correct the page a bit too late. Thanks for helping correct the article, we appreciate it! --Mr. Vernon (talk) 23:38, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

No problem mate if I see vandalism I always try to sort it out, I just forgot how haha. I should have put it in edit summary afterwards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.4.69.27 (talk) 23:53, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I am messaging you about the "Religious beliefs of the wealthy" section of the "Wealth and religion" article. The sources provided do not tell us the religious beliefs of most persons. Some sources are credible, but not all. What is the religion of Bernard Arnault? The linked source says he is a Christian. For all we know he could be a Buddhist or something. I just find that whole section based on speculation for the most part. The source should quote the person stating his or her religion, otherwise it is based on speculation. 99.229.34.56 (talk) 23:37, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

about R.L stine

The reason why I believe he should be on the list is because his books are well known and are just as popluar now as they were in the 90's and they were horror books for kids without pitchures and Yes he wrote other books of horror for kids and young teenagers 12-14 Thats why I believe he should be on because he is big and he brought children to read a man who made kids read should be on the list. thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.200.126 (talk) 04:52, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

I understand but you put it where it doesn't belong in the article. If you want to create a section on who Bradbury influenced, I would go to Talk:Ray Bradbury and discuss it, because there are many authors that Bradbury inspired. By the way, I had the honor of seeing him speak a number of years ago, and he was an amazing man. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 05:22, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

More about the campaign climate...

Yeah. There have been a number of articles on the trend towards complete disregard for facts...I'm thinking of an article, or at least a subsection in a top-level article. But it takes me ages to get anything done, for all I know it'll be in the history books by the time I get round to it.... –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 07:12, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure where it would go. I'd avoid it because I'm tired of politics and don't want it to become yet another battleground. I only brought this article up because it looked like it was going to become an edit war. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 07:14, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

List of Chinese Americans

I think that user talk:207.86.76.138 was questioning Roseanne Barr's classification as Chinese American rather than her being an actress (my first thought). Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 23:17, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Notice of Dispute resolution discussion

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Page Curation newsletter

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Orphaned non-free media (File:LP Logo.jpg)

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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New deal for page patrollers

Hi Mr. Vernon,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)