User talk:American Kamikaze

March 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:Belly dance, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.

It is admittedly unclear what relationship you have to the comment by 24.171.26.255 (talk) that you edited in Talk:Belly dance#Images. If you and 24.171.26.255 are in fact the same user, then it is fine for you to edit the content of comments you have made, but please be aware in the future that it is confusing for other editors, and possibly inflammatory, to significantly edit discussion page comments under different identities without making clear that you are the original author of the comments edited.

If you and 24.171.26.255 are not the same user, however, please be aware that it is frowned upon to delete large sections of content from others' comments. If the meaning of the comment is changed, it can be considered vandalism. If your intent was to edit the comment to improve its civility (and I'll admit the original was perhaps somewhat uncivil in tone), it is generally considered less controversial to preserve the original text, but strike it out the offensive parts using the HTML "strike" tag and then writing replacement text as you see fit. I have not restored the original text of the comment because I do not want to go against your wishes if you and 24.171.26.255 are the same user, but if this is truly the case, I respectfully request that you make your identity clearer in the future. Thank you. - Zhukora (talk) 22:36, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. :) - Zhukora (talk) 05:12, 4 March 2008 (UTC)