Etcher

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Warning messages for vandalism

Thanks for reverting vandalism to the DVD article! I'd like to encourage you to leave warning messages on users' talk pages when you revert inappropriate edits, for several reasons, including:

• People just test-editing can be directed to the sandbox where they won't corrupt real articles.
• Mischievious newcomers may stop if their first edits result in a polite request to behave.
• Sysops can more quickly ban serious vandals if they've already been warned a few times.

You can find warning templates for user talk pages and other advice at Wikipedia:Vandalism.

If you revert vandalism regularly, you might try out my vandal-warning tools that are documented at User:Kbh3rd/Vandal_warning_toolbox. A list of warnings can be added to the toolbox menu on the left whenever a user talk page is being edited so that the proper warning message is only a click away.

Thanks again for your help. --Kbh3^rdtalk 05:28, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip Kbh3^rd, I will try my best to do that, I'll try out your tool, I'm currently using CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter so I'll take a look at your tool as well and hopefully be of better help to Wikipedia. -- Etcher 05:32, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Yerbamate

Your Babel profile says you only speak English, period. Since mate is a habit usually picked by spending a lot of time around people from South America, in their own countries or overseas, it intrigues me to know how you caught on to it. Wareq 06:18, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

It's something that has caught on a bit in SoCal. I also hae a friend who lived in Argentina for a number of years who really liked it and got me hooked. There's plenty of places online through which to buy mate and a few here in San Diego so that has helped as well.

As further note I speak a few other languages but not fluently. - Etcher 05:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Fluency?

C'mon!! That's what the nuanced levels are there for! What other languages? As long as you can read them, you can use them on their respective Wikipedias, and that's what's important in this context. And there's even people who specifically list themselves as unable to speak a particular language (like Faeroese or Russian) just for a bit of a joke. So try it. Wareq 05:44, 8 March 2006 (UTC)