User talk:71.233.120.118

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

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[edit] A minor problem

Hi 71.233.120.118, I really hate to pounce on one of your first edits, but something seems to have gone wrong, and I’ve reverted your recent edit on the page Silver City Galleria.

Sorry for the length of this message, but since you haven’t been here before, it’s hard to tell if this was a test, a mistake, if you’re editing in pieces and weren’t done, or if this was vandalism. And there's always the very real possibility that I've made a mistake.

  • If it was a test edit, please experiment in the sandbox instead of in articles. You can do anything you like in the sandbox (within reason), without people like me sticking our noses in.
  • If it was a mistake, don’t worry about it. Wiki’s make undoing mistakes easy. If you were about to revert your own mistake and I beat you to it, sorry for jumping the gun.
  • If you are doing things in stages, please use an edit summary explaining what you’re doing, and people who see your edit will give you time to finish up. In fact, it’s a good idea to always use an edit summary to explain your edit.
  • If it was vandalism, well, please don’t do that. It takes a lot of effort to revert vandalism, and it can get you blocked from editing articles.
  • Finally, if I've reverted a legitimate edit by mistake, then I apologize. Please feel free to put it back, but make sure to use an edit summary or leave an explanation on the article's talk page so I (and others) know to leave it alone this time.

If you’d like to discuss this, or anything else, please leave me a message at the bottom of my talk page. Fogster (talk) 21:32, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sex Offenders

It's VERY VERY important that you read the guidelines in Wikipedia:Biography of Living Persons before accusing any 'real people' of being sex offenders, as it could be construed as libel and get you / Wikipedia in major trouble in the event of a lawsuit. While it's not a complete summary of the guidelines, one of the very important things is that you need to insert citations to credible sources (e.g., news articles, police reports) before accusing anyone of being a sex offender. Otherwise the accusations will be reverted time and time again.

Further, I'd encourage you to consider whether the Wikipedia page about a mall is a very effective venue for warning your neighbors about sex offenders. I'd contend that you'll warn 0 people in the community this way. Fogster (talk) 21:42, 29 April 2008 (UTC)