Geoffrey S. Nathan

Hello, Geoffrey S. Nathan! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Gogo Dodo (talk) 18:26, 14 May 2010 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images • create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

May 2010

Welcome and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Phonology worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 18:26, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, even if you intend to fix them later. Such edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 18:53, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about the above accusations of vandalism. Usually at Wikipedia, when someone replaces the name of a well-known person with their own name, it's vandalism, and those of us who patrol Wikipedia articles for vandalism sometimes have a knee-jerk reaction. But I've doubled-checked and you're right: Geoffrey Pullum is not a phonologist, and Geoffrey Nathan is. Thanks for correcting this, and please don't let this unpleasant first interaction put you off editing Wikipedia in the future! +Angr 19:29, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

My apologies for that. As Angr pointed out, your edits fit a certain profile and I made the assumption that your edits were vandalism. My sincere apologies and I hope this doesn't turn you from editing in the future. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:39, 14 May 2010 (UTC)