User talk:76.171.248.39

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Hello Sir,

I have been informed by you (Haemo) that my IP address has been identified as vandalizing Wikipedia; accusation that I totally reject. Even though, I quoted the information and inserted the correspondent link to the original source, the content of your warnings indicated that you did not even looked at the kind of data I was adding. In other words, even though I made a error for ignoring the rules, it was obvious that what I added was not simply "trash".

I did not know that Wikipedia does not allow users to paste sections taken from blogs; therefore, I cannot accept the charge of vandalism when I simply was trying to add some information that I considered relevant and worthy of including.

I read the policies and now understand better the nature of Wikipedia; I apologize for editing an article before knowing the rules of posting. I just simply want to clarify this issue and the same time suggest a less agressive and more respectful attitude from you as an "editing user". As is evident, in this case, my error of omission is exactly that, an unintentional error, but never a case of "vandalism".

Respecfully,

Julian

PS: I actually have an account in Wikipedia; unfortunately I forgot the password!

Oh, don't worry about it! It's definitely not a problem. Notice, however, that I did give you several non-threating warnings first of all - I'm just following protocol on how you move up the template sequence. If you have information from stuff like blogs, or what-have-you, then you can put it on the Talk page instead, and ask what people think about including it. --Haemo 03:50, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Haemo, thanks for your response. Yes, you did send a few warnings; however, I noticed your messages until the last post I added. In fact, I though that something was wrong with the page or that I was doing something wrong, that is why I kept trying to update the page several times. What is a talk page? Can I find a talk page for each article?

Oh, I can understand. If you look at a Wikipedia article, there are some "tabs" at the top, like for folders. The one that is open by default is "article" - this is the article in the Encyclopedia. However, there are a couple others "discussion", "edit this page", "history", etc. Each of these links to "behind the scenes" information about the article, and how it was created. The "discussion" tab is commonly called a "Talk" page, because it's a place where editors can talk about the article, without worrying about cluttering it up, or constantly editing it. For instance, this is my talk page - it's a place where people can talk about me, and the things I do on Wikipedia. I've added another set of useful links about editing, and how to use Wikipedia on your talk page. You should definitely make a User account, though - it's very useful. --Haemo 04:08, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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