User talk:Andy Marchbanks

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[edit] Marine Corps Air Station Miramar

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. — ERcheck (talk) 10:23, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] June 2007

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Safeway Inc.. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Miranda 05:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please use edit summaries

Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. The Mathbot tool shows your usage of edit summaries to be nonexistent:

Edit summary usage for Andy Marchbanks: 0% for major edits and 0% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 3 minor edits in the article namespace.

Using edit summaries helps other editors quickly understand your edits, which is especially useful when you make changes to articles that are on others' watchlists. Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 11:48, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] October 2007

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to RMS Queen Mary 2. Thank you. MBK004 23:04, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from The Beatles. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as the text has been restored from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Freshacconci | Talk 22:03, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to The Beatles. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Thank you. Freshacconci | Talk 22:13, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Andy Warhol, you will be blocked from editing. Freshacconci | Talk 09:53, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to Florida

I have reverted your removal of the breaks in the Florida article; they were added to maintain uniformity in that section of the article. Removing them caused the language paragraph of the demographics section to be wedged in between the two columns of city pictures, which looked peculiar.

Additionally, please use edit summaries. I am not the first editor to ask you to use them, and it appears that you routinely remove such requests from your talk page. Edit summaries are a basic courtesy to other editors. Thank you. Horologium t-c 08:32, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blanking your page

Hello Andy!

I restored the warnings on your Talk Page to avoid having you get in trouble. users generally can't delete warnings. If nothing else, it gives the impression that you are a vandal trying to hide your tracks (which I'm sure you are not). Happy editing! LonelyBeacon 12:44, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Is there an actual rule saying you can't erase your talk page? You can still find the messages, after all, as you said.

Blanking your talk page falls under the bad faith rules. Archiving is good faith, but blanking is bad faith because as Beacon said, it gives the impression that you're a vandal trying to hide it. Carl.bunderson 06:15, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
And I can get in trouble for doing this? If not, I'm just gonna blank it.
Yes, you can, per policy on blanking talk pages. Talk pages include both article and user talk pages. The warnings would run in the vein of: 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 is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
Ah, OK.
Thanks for understanding. And as was noted above, you are welcome to archive the page if you just want it cleaned up. Carl.bunderson 06:40, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Just to clarify something, that warning (wp-tpv1) is only for non-user talk page (article namespace, wikipedia namespace, etc), you have the right to blank your talk page if you wish as there is no policy or guidelines (as stated here) although archiving is always preferred.  Avec nat | Wikipédia Prends Des Forces.  05:05, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Seems pretty clear to me. I'll be blanking my page now.Andy Marchbanks (talk) 16:06, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quotation marks and punctuation

Hi Andy, I see you've been changing the punctuation on South Africa and a couple other articles to bring commas and periods inside quotation marks. I thought I should point out that, according to the Manual of Style, Wikipedia articles should use "logical punctuation", that is, punctuation marks should only be placed inside the quotation marks if the sense of the punctuation is part of the quotation. Cheers, htonl (talk) 12:16, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field - please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. —Viriditas | Talk 09:58, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, my edits are minor, so I just check that box and don't bother with the edit summary. It's just grammatical, insignificant stuff.
Deleting content without explanation like you did on controversial articles like Hamas [1] is neither minor nor "grammatical, insignificant stuff", and you've been asked by multiple editors on your talk page for a long time to stop doing this. Please use edit summaries to explain your edits. Thank you. —Viriditas | Talk 05:23, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • When I am making minor edits I try to put a brief edit summary to suggest what I had changed. Some examples would be:
    • sp: spelling
    • gr: grammar
    • syntax: when I have entered a template incorrectly and this edit is a minor syntax change to that template.
    • formatting: minor formating changes to an article

Alan.ca (talk) 15:31, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:Manual of Style

All of your recent improper changes to United States have been reverted. Because of the regularity with which you make edits that reduce both the quality and consistency of the article, all future changes you make will be reverted immediately, unless and until you familiarize yourself with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. In particular, you need to process the following directives, which you have repeatedly violated:

  • "An overriding principle is that style and formatting should be applied consistently throughout an article."
  • "When either of two styles is acceptable, it is inappropriate for an editor to change an article from one style to another unless there is a substantial reason to do so.... If an article has been stable in a given style, it should not be converted without a reason that goes beyond mere choice of style."
  • "Em dashes are normally unspaced on Wikipedia."
  • "Most captions are not complete sentences, but merely nominal groups (sentence fragments) that should not end with a period."

Most of your edits violate not just one, but multiple of these principles: This one violated 1, 2, and 3. This one violated 1, 2, and 4. While not every single one of your edits is equally damaging, by far the majority are, and virtually none of the remaining are necessary. Given your habit of making minute and improper changes section by section, automatic reversion is the most sensible procedure for dealing with the problems you regularly create. That will be the procedure unless and until you can demonstrate a much improved knowledge of our stylistic principles and, in particular, a much greater respect for article stability and consistent, well-established style. Best, Dan.—DCGeist (talk) 19:36, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, this is certainly interesting. But, it seems to me that the language used in those rules is a little misleading, yes? The em dash rule says normally, not always. When do I decide when the dash should have a space, and when it shouldn't? Within the intro to the Los Angeles article, the em dashes have spaces, and it hasn't been changed. I can only assume that whomever's watching that article has no problem with this, as it's in plain view. Could you clarify on this?

[edit] AfD nomination of United States

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[edit] Top Importance Chicago Articles

If you want to help me choose Category:Top-importance Chicago articles, come comment at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chicago/Assessment#Current_Top-importance_Candidates by June 5th.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:09, 26 May 2008 (UTC)