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January 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Stephen Tompkinson has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZVg9SiVGg (matching the regex rule \byoutube\.com). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 19:22, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Reverting

Thanks for reverting some vandalism at Human evolution, but may I suggest that you use a much simpler edit summary? Experience shows that ignoring vandalism and simply reverting it is best (see WP:DENY). By quoting nonsense in the edit summary to explain your edit, you are providing a win for the vandal (you noticed them, and others will notice it as well). It's best not to even say "vandal". The accepted abbreviation is "rvv" (r v v for revert vandal). Use the article history to see recent changes. Use the diff links to find the bad change, then click "undo" and add a space and "rvv" to the undo edit summary. Johnuniq (talk) 02:06, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

cheers for the info. I'm new and won't be doing much editing. Parl2001 (talk) 03:03, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar awarded

It is my pleasure to award your first barnstar:

		The Barnstar of Integrity
		--not for an edit, but rather for the decision NOT to edit a topic on which you feel you could not muster sufficient objectivity. ElijahBosley (talk ☞) 00:27, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

I just lost my only award due to wanting to change my wiki acct name to parjlarsson Pär Larsson (talk) 16:57, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 20:54, 13 March 2011 (UTC)