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Thanks!

Thanks for your clarification regarding my Steven Crowder edit. I'm not terribly experienced with editing Misplaced Pages; this is actually my first "Talk Page" message. Per your suggestion, I have removed the word "frequently" from the aforementioned edit. Hunkybuck (talk) 08:48, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi Hunkybuck, no problem; thanks for joining the discussion at Talk:Steven Crowder. Take your time; feel free to ask here or at the Teahouse if technical issues arise. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:47, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!

For this!!! KillerChihuahua 12:17, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

For fixing Huggle so editors cannot add IPs who have not been recently warned to the AIV list, thus saving admins watching and working on that list the time and effort required to decline and explain, and leaving them free to spend their time and effort blocking correctly warned and persistent vandals, which is a much better use of their time! Your modification also educates helpful (but a bit too eager) editors about how to best help! Thank you so much. KillerChihuahua 12:28, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Oh hi, you're welcome, KillerChihuahua. Thank you very much for the kind words and the barnstar.

I guess ideally, for most IP addresses, the "3 days" should even be lowered – but let's see how 3 days work out. It is the status quo, very broadly interpreted. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:03, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

I agree, it might be helpful to reduce the time, but this is a huge step. I was having to decline reports with a "last warning" that was literally several months old. People weren't bothering to check the time/date stamp in their eagerness to Vanquish Vandals. So thank you so much. Modifying Huggle is outside my area of expertise. KillerChihuahua 17:11, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

• Hrm. Two days old warning at aiv KillerChihuahua 20:12, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

  @KillerChihuahua: Interesting, thanks for sharing and for explaining the issue to them. Luckily, at least such obvious cases won't happen with Huggle, as Huggle only creates a report in the exact moment a recent bad edit is undone. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:36, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

  Nods. Huggle is a loverly tool.

  I always try to explain; otherwise they never realize what happened - very few editors who would hastily report a "vandal" that hasn't edited in days would check AIV or the "vandal's" page to see if they'd been blocked, so the reporting editor wouldn't even realize there was an issue. How can they learn to slow down and check the date if no one tells them? So I try. :-) KillerChihuahua 20:40, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

  Adding: and thank you, because the only way you'd have known I did explain is that you went to explain also! So yay us, trying to help people learn to correctly identify vandalism! KillerChihuahua 20:41, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

History of Ecology

I added some material about EG Hutchinson that I want to use for a later new section I have worked out. You deleted it almost as fast as I put it up. I did not add a citation because I thought it would be redundant with the new section, to be called Transition to Modern Ecology from Ecology as a Point of View and following Conservation and Ecology. Please be a dear and undo your cut. Also can you tell me how to link names in articles to the articles that you have for such people. MacArthur, for example. I find your help pages confusing. Thank you.WDrit2 (talk) 22:15, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi WDrit2, thank you very much for writing the new text. To restore your edit, only a few steps are needed. Please read the whole list before clicking the first link.

• Click here to open the editor, with your content restored and ready to be saved again. If asked, "Switch to the visual editor". You can also do so by clicking the pencil icon at the top right of the editor.
• To add a link: Mark the name you'd like to link, for example with your mouse or Shift+Arrowkey on a keyboard, then click the chain icon at the top of the editor (between "A" and "Cite").
• To add a citation: Move the cursor to the end of your addition, then click "Cite".

Please do include a citation; if something is redundant, it can be removed later. Verifiability is important; let's rather include too many than too few good references.

If one of these steps does not work, feel free to ask again; I'll need to know what exactly you have already tried to be able to provide more specific technical advice.

Thank you very much in advance! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:28, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

My biggest problem right now, I thing, is not with editing, but with using this particular form of communication.WDrit2 (talk) 16:11, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Hey WDrit2, that's normal; it takes some time to get accustomed to. You're doing pretty well, though. Thank you very much for adding a citation! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:25, 1 October 2019 (UTC)