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Your deletion of my edit in the article Pramface

You've undone my edit in the article on pramface.

I'd say my edit was mischevious rather than vandalistic.

Nontheless the article concerned said "The term "pramface" is British slang for a young/unwed mother. It derives from "pram", a perambulator (baby carriage/stroller)." but cited no source for this.

As a native speaker of British English I have never heard this phrase used in any context other than that of the TV series.

I've therefore re-edited the article and simply removed the line which I believe to be mere nonsense.

I hope this meets with your approval — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.19.20.190 (talk) 20:29, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's a much better approach. Next time though, you should explain why you are removing the info in the edit summary by typing in "removing unsourced additions". If it's unsourced, remove it, don't say "This isn't true." You can also add {{fact}} next to the unsourced statement. If the unsourced statement is on an article about a living person, remove it, don't tag it. WP:CITE, WP:BLP, and WP:V are quite useful in this case. K6ka (talk | contribs) 20:33, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh thanks

Yeah I usually mark them as patrolled after that-don't know why it didn't go that time. Wgolf (talk) 03:06, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Orthodox Presbytarian Church

Hi there, you reverted one of 78.31.47.43 (talk)'s edits on Orthodox Presbyterian Church for " 'unexplained content removal' " which was removal of Citation needed tags I had placed there to avert an edit war (or rather stop one that was gaining steam, I shouldn't have edited WP while angry).

Is there any chance you could spare a minute to have a look at the discussion on the talk page and help the two of us work out why we're working at cross purposes? Thanks in advance SPACKlick (talk) 16:41, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Vandalism

hey its me sorry about the vandalism on the thing about pesticides -westonman172 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Westonman172 (talk • contribs) 15:10, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the barnstar. I did make a request for rollback permission at the same time I asked for reviewer permission. It was not acted on for several days after the reviewer permission was granted. I noticed on the policy page that rollback permission may be deferred to see how one performs after getting reviewer permission. I rarely use it. The main reason I applied for it was because the real-time changes scroll was hanging up, apparently because I did not have a permission, even though I had used it for several months. Getting reviewer permission solved that problem so I withdrew the rollback request. Also, the administrator saw a couple of complaints, from vandals or perhaps one or two careless editors on my talk page. Maybe a mistake even was shown. The administrator cautioned me to be careful because of this. Frankly, I could not see that it was necessary since I had thousands of reversions with only a few complaints or mistakes - quickly corrected. I thought discretion was indicated on my part, however, and simply wrote something to the effect that I would be sure to exercise care and then after several days withdrew the pending rollback request. I know that Huggle would be more efficient, but for the time being I will stay with Twinkle and real-time changes and put a little more time between my reviewer permission and another rollback request. Donner60 (talk) 03:47, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

Traffic report: Six strikes out

WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests

News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions

Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion

Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

I noticed

That you left a barnstar on my talk page, but forgot to leave the abuse! Much appreciated! Cheers -Jim— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jim1138 (talk • contribs)

lissette garcia

I know you reverted the article. I am actually Lissette Garcia and realized some things on there were missing and I wanted to add it. I also wanted to add a picture, it's been deleted from the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lssttgar003 (talk • contribs) 17:54, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are generally forbidden to write autobiographies about yourself on Wikipedia. You also didn't cite any sources, which is why I reverted it. The images you linked to didn't even exist. K6ka (talk | contribs) 19:31, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Your question was answered at the help desk here. K6ka (talk | contribs) 19:33, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The rusty chocolate starfish Barnstar

This is a new one on me. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 07:28, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Uh... I didn't post that one. Some IP address posted that (impersonating me) - and it was kinda inappropriate, so I removed it. K6ka (talk | contribs) 12:17, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. It did seem a little strange and I had never seen it before. On the other hand, I thought perhaps it had some meaning I didn't get. It is hard to understand why people spend time on something like that and vandalism in general, although we know many are probably kids. Anyway, you do good work and I thank you for that. Donner60 (talk) 20:38, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, K6ka. You have new messages at This lousy T-shirt's talk page.
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— This lousy T-shirt — (talk) 00:09, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Economy of Canada

I guess altering vandalism doesn't count. Keep up the good work! 68.58.117.199 (talk) 04:25, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Unsourced content on Suspekt

Hi

In the "Suspekt" article i wrote that one of the statements was an april fools. there isnt really any other source for that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.94.223.93 (talk) 00:25, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if it doesn't have a source, then there's no reason why Wikipedia should have that. Since it's not backed up by anything, Wikipedia shouldn't have it. K6ka (talk | contribs) 00:30, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Positive usage

See also in wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shit_yeah. This is derived term of "shit".— Preceding unsigned comment added by Coldcakes22 (talk • contribs)

We'll let the administrators decide. K6ka (talk | contribs) 17:05, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry that I'm crazy

The headline says everything. Mew. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NyanCatRules (talk • contribs) 19:22, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

Hello! I wanted to ask you how do you know that the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train opened as you said; YESTERDAY??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.242.140.153 (talk) 20:20, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks // Vandalism is so 1980s.

Hi K6ka, thanks for the cookies and introducing me to Twinkle. I need to read the stuff but it looks good to me at 1st sight. I was indeed sort of following ClueBot, cherrypicking IPs from CB's hitlist to look for as yet undetected vandalist acts by those nasty IPs. And that is one question: can I "dump" (i.e. link to) vandalised article versions somewhere (after I removed the vanadalist text(s) manually) that can help as "false negatives" for any bot development/ tuning, especially if they (the vandalised articles) are older than, say, 1 day? I must say, some vandalist acts are hilarious some just puberal others plain insulting or destructive (none are appropriate, though). School's shared computers might be a problem. I will try to remember to "warn" IPs on their talk page after I undid their vandalism, or what I interpreted as such. I really have to do that? 'Cause that doubles the work, no? I mean if i am not sure it was vandalism sure, but many cases of this morning were just blatant vandalism cases? These people probably even have fun with their "warning"? Do I need to "suggest" IPs (or users) to be blocked, somewhere, or is the system scanning continuously for IPs or users with a level 3 or 4 edit warning? Thanks :-) Poepkop (talk) 13:50, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Twinkle has all the features you need. You can revert edits using the rollback links Twinkle provides, or by the "Restore this Version" link. Once you perform rollback using Twinkle, it will automatically open up the vandal's talk page, where you can warn them using the "TW" drop-down menu by the Search bar and click on "Warn". You can report vandals after they have received a level 4/4im warning by opening up the "TW" menu and selecting "ARV". This will allow you to report the vandal to WP:AIV. Once they've been reported, an administrator will be over to block the user eventually.

Warning vandals is important because some vandals think that nobody will notice their work, and giving them a warning usually tells most vandals that their nonconstructive edits are not appreciated and they'll usually stop. If they continue, give them stronger and sterner warnings. Once they reach their final warning and continue to vandalize, report them so they can be blocked. Warnings also help in case you made a mistake. The Level 1 warning helps, as it lets the editor know how to contact you to inform you of your mistake. So never underestimate the power that warnings have!

I'm not sure what you mean by "link to vandalized article versions". Do you mean providing a direct link to a particular revision of an article? All revisions of an article are stored, and they can be found in the page history, accessed via the "History" tab on the top of the page.

If you have any more questions, please reply below. K6ka (talk | contribs) 15:48, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

F*&*(HC YOU Why don't you look at the citations I added instead of being a WikiASSHOLE