Talk:The Newsy and the Tramp

Help me understand what is happening

@Fram: Can you help me? I came to the page this morning and saw that it had received a vandalism tag. That was a shock because I created the page initially, and had only tried to make good changes on it. By accident when I clicked a button to see what had happened it reverted something, but I wasn't trying to revert. Then I got reverted, and I'm so sad and puzzled! I'm really just totally confused at this point. Can you help me figure out (a) why it received a vandalism tag; and (b) why just seeing what a button does initiated a reversion I didn't mean to do? Gah, I'm so blue about this, I'm just trying to contribute good pages. Your help would be great, and so appreciated. Fortunaa (talk) 13:44, 23 December 2024 (UTC) (PS, my new user name is Oh-Fortuna!, but when I use four tildes it still puts in my old user name. Wikipedia is a lot sometimes.)[reply]

I see no vandalism tag on the page, in the edit summaries, or on your talk page. Can you explain where you saw that vandalism tag? Fram (talk) 13:48, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Fram, here is a screenshot. It shows your most recent reversion, but the red vandalism tag was there this morning even before all the confusion: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MUGquVpHq7elUU7r2jyLS3OB5Iv6Zrq_/view?usp=sharing

BTW, I didn't mean to revert you, I was just clicking the word "rollback" to see what it does, and it did it automatically with no warning. Horrifying, and completely unintended. It's really tough to learn more on Wikipedia by doing... it gets everywhere. Can I undo your reversion so that I can make the change you want without needing to be reverted? If I understand the change then I can make it, but I don't want reversions on my record. Thank you! Fortunaa (talk) 13:56, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have you activated Twinkle or another tool to make editing easier? The "rollback" and "vandalism" and so on are buttons to undo vandalism more easily, but shouldn't be used otherwise. It's best to deactivate whatever tool you activated (in your preferences I presume) or else to first read the description and manual of that tool before proceeding. And an unwanted edit can be undone from the page history or from your contributions. Fram (talk) 14:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that explains it, thank you. I tried to activate Twinkle recently, but the instructions were arcane so I set it aside for a while. I'll go get it off of my system.

Also, while I have your attention, do you happen to know how I can request that a four-tilde signature reflect my new user name and not my old one? I tried requesting of the person who did the initial change, but got no response. Fortunaa (talk) 14:04, 23 December 2024 (UTC) (really Oh-Fortuna!)[reply]

Never mind, I found out how to fix the signature. This has been a looooong morning. Hope yours is better! Oh-Fortuna! (talk) 14:13, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Fram, would you be willing to undo your reversion so that I can edit the page the way you want me to? That way I won't have a reversion on my record or get caught edit-warring (which I would never do), and I'll learn something by seeing what it was you wanted me to change. I've already learned a ton today. Oh-Fortuna! (talk) 19:35, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]