User talk:Alicejenny
A Welcome From EinsteinMC2
[edit]Hello, Alicejenny, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your excellent contributions and future influence on Wikipedia. I hope you find pleasure and enjoyment from other Wikipedians. We are glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for you and others to educate yourself more on what being a Wikipedian really means:
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Greeting From EinsteinMC2
- Many thanks. I'm actually an old Wikipedian but not been on for a year or three and can't even remember my old logon, so had to create a new one.--Alicejenny 11:12, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Re: The old man and the sea
[edit]Yeah, it happens sometimes when several people revert at the same time. You just got the wrong version. Has happened to me many times as well. Nothing to worry about, though it's usually a good idea to check the history after a revert, if you see two people having got both their reverts through, there's usuually something wrong. Shanes 11:09, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
- Ah.. crossed reverts. Got it now. But it's heartening that so many people are watching for bad edits that they even run into each other.--Alicejenny 11:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
[edit]Alice, when you reverted F. Scott Fitzgerald you only reverted the last entry by 216.20.1.214 (talk • contribs). You need to look at the History tab, and scroll through the changes ("Compare selected versions"). Here is the history of 216.20.1.214:
- (cur) (last) 13:28, 9 November 2005 Alicejenny (rv vandalism)
- (cur) (last) 13:28, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→Early years)
- (cur) (last) 13:27, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→The Roaring Twenties)
- (cur) (last) 13:26, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→Quotations)
- (cur) (last) 13:26, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→Other works)
- (cur) (last) 13:26, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→Short story collections)
- (cur) (last) 13:24, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→Novels)
- (cur) (last) 13:22, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→Biography and criticism)
- (cur) (last) 13:21, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→The Roaring Twenties)
- (cur) (last) 13:20, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→Hollywood years)
- (cur) (last) 13:20, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→Early years)
- (cur) (last) 13:00, 9 November 2005 216.20.1.214 (→Biography and criticism)
To revert vandalism, or nonsense edits:
- Go to the page, click on "history" at the top ("Page history" in some skins), and click on the time and date of the earlier version you want to revert to.
- Then when that page comes up, you'll see something like "(Revision as of 22:19 Aug 15, 2002)" below the title and beneath "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia".
- Verify that you've selected the correct version, and click to edit the page, as you would normally. Important: in the case of vandalism, take the time to make sure that you are reverting to the last version without the vandalism; there may be multiple vandal edits.
- You'll get a warning, above the edit box, about editing an out-of-date revision.
- After heeding the warning, save the page. Be sure to add the word "revert" to the edit summary. Some Wikipedians abbreviate this to "rv". A common and useful addition is the usernames of who you are reverting from and to. For example, a good edit summary would be
rv edits by 219.148.86.36 to last version by David Shear The clickable links are created by entering [[User:000.000.000.000|000.000.000.000]] (replacing 000.000.000.000 with the real IP address or [[User:Username|Username]] for logged-in users, replacing Username with their real username.
- Check the contribution history of the user who vandalized the article. (Click on their IP address or username. That will bring you to their User page. In the lower left-hand corner, there is a toolbox with a "User contributions" link. Click that.) If this user is vandalizing many articles, please report them to Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress.
Happy editing! WikiDon 17:32, 9 November 2005 (UTC)