User talk:Garrett Jones

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Hello, Garrett Jones, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Brian 11:35, 24 June 2006 (UTC)btball

Please stop your disruptive editing. If your vandalism continues, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not the place for self-promotion.--Theseekerstar5 (talk) 04:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

That seems to me quite excessive. I've just looked thro' what appears to be your entire contribution record, & find nothing that could be described as disruptive or vandalism. You may not be following policy, but then lots of people don't, usually thro' ignorance. The links posted to you above should give you the basic ideas. Peter jackson (talk) 14:42, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm feeling rather bemused by the complexity of Wikipedia's editing process. Everything seemed refreshingly simple until, a few days ago, I discovered that most of my contributions have been annihilated. Although Brian wrote to me in June 2006, it is only now, more than two years later that I have clicked on 'My talk'. I then find that 'the seekers star 5' accuses me of disruptive vandalism and Peter Jackson tells me I have not been such a bad lad. Nevertheless I find even the biographical entry for Garrett Jones has disappeared. When I search for Garrett Jones I find I can choose between unadorned Garrett Jones and Garrett Jones (baseball) but whichever I click on, I go to the baseball player. Can anyone tell me what goes on? Garrett Jones (Garrett Jones (talk) 15:19, 10 June 2008 (UTC))

If I understand you correctly, you seem to be saying you made more contributions than the 5 listed. If so, then my comparative exoneration becomes moot. I've just had a look at Wikipedia:User contributions & the wording there seems to imply that, if the article you contributed to is deleted, all mention of your contributions disappears from your contribution log. I've been here some time, but keep learning new things. Peter jackson (talk) 16:24, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

It would seem Peter that nobody really understands how Wikipedia actually works. Who, for instance, is Theseekerstar5 (talk}? When I click on his page I draw a complete blank. I have not made any contributions beyond giving the new URL for my website for around two years. I just happened to click on my name a week or two back and found I had disappeared as had all my old contributions except a brief reference to my 'Tales and Teachings of the Buddha' - and even that had been stripped of the external link to its publisher. I have restored this but have little confidence it will stay. I am giving up on Wikipedia. Garrett Jones(Garrett Jones (talk) 08:47, 12 June 2008 (UTC))