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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Dolphin (t) 07:08, 17 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Society of Jesus: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit was inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you.--M4gnum0n (talk) 19:44, 17 November 2010 (UTC)Reply


Please do not edit North Albion Collegiate Institute if you are putting fake informatiom. Intoronto1125 (talk) 21:17, 29 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

My apologies; reviewing the edit it looks like I was manually following up to something that was flagged by Stiki, a vandalism detector. Random insertion of names is a common form of vandalism. Katiker (talk) 00:08, 30 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

On the same topic, this edit chopped out some rubbish that deserved to die, but it wasn't vandalism, it was good-faith incompetence. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 13:57, 12 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

That would be why I didn't warn the user at the time that I handled the edit. The message generated by Stiki is automatic; it flags things that it views as vandalism. If I believe it's a good faith edit, then I do not warn the user. It would be too time consuming to go into each article to manually edit, I believe that's why Stiki is there. Katiker (talk) 22:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Timeline of Philippine–American War article

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I see that you have edited the Timeline of Philippine–American War article in the not too distant past. I have recently started on a rewrite of that article, and am soliciting input and participation from interested editors. If interested, please see Talk:Timeline of Philippine–American War#Some edits to conform this articles to other articles for more info. Please comment there as appropriate. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:40, 5 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
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