Tasar

Hello, Tasar! 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 clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); 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! CobaltBlueTony 18:03, 2 October 2007 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images 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 Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism 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 name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

{{helpme}} I've got two questions: 1. How do you reply to a message on your talk page? (Just adding something below it on my page works, but I don't know if this is read. I can also edit the other person's talk page but I don't know whether this is according to etiquette). 2. Did I handle the vandalism on the Avril lavigne (note the lowercase l) redirect page well?

Helpme reply

1. Hi Tasar - to reply to a message on a talk page, press 'enter' to begin a new line and type one colon (:) then your message. See Wikipedia:User talk page.
2. Yes, except sometimes it's helpful to let the vandal know they've done something wrong by leaving a notice on their page (see here)

Thanks! Auroranorth 10:41, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. This is both a test to check the first reply and a followup on the second one: the vandalism was committed by an IP address (OK, not exactly, by someone who did have an account), so I could not leace a message on the user page. As the IP address only edited this one page I guess no further action is necessary?

This reply did not look real pretty if I'm honest, but putting it after your sig helped a lot :-). Tasar 10:50, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi Tasar. I would be warning the IP, but since you reverted the edit, you should warn them. Just to let you know, a second reply can be added by placing two colons (::) before your message, a third three colons (:::), etc. Some people prefer to place their replies where the message was left (i.e. on their talk page), but they need to say at the top of their page 'I will reply on this page'. Others prefer to reply on the other person's page. I mix it up a little (I shouldn't really do that!) Auroranorth 11:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)