User talk:Rgherbert

March 2010

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on White South African. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 06:15, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Vancouver Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Meetup

The Interior cordially invites you to the Vancouver Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Meetup! It is being held at Benny's Bagels at 2505 W Broadway. Meetup will start at 6:30pm. Drop by for some Wikipedia-style conviviality and free gear! Feel free to forward this invitation to any Wikipedians who might be able to attend, and visit the discussion page to suggest activities. Hope to see you there and have a Happy 2011!

British Columbian Refederation Party

What is your reference for moving this article? The party's website only refers to the party as the "BC Refederation Party", as does Elections BC here. "BC" an acronym for "British Columbia". Please provide a reference to a reliable source. Thanks. Ground Zero | t 13:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

I have responded on my talk page. Ground Zero | t 15:29, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

December 2012

Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you made a comment on the page User talk:Ground Zero that didn't seem very civil, so I removed it. Wikipedia needs people like you and me to collaborate, so it’s one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks, Jim1138 (talk) 06:31, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Jim! Most of us have better things to do than censor and baby-sit.

Ronald Guillermo Herbert Hermosillo | Surrey, British Columbia | rgherbert@gmail.com 07:15, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Ronald, I apologize for getting your name wrong. Every community has rules for its members to help everyone get along. Wikipedia is no different. Wikipedia is a community of hundreds of thousands of people, so there is a lot of potential for disputes. The Wikipedia community has developed policies to deal with disputes, and expects people to follow them. Users are not expected to understand all of them when they begin editing, but you will see people referring to them when they discuss changes. Without these policies to help resolve disputes, Wikipedia disputes would just be a matter of one person's preferences against another's, and there would be no way of deciding which approach will be used.

One of the key policies to which Wikipedia adheres is no original research. You can learn more about the reason that this policy was adopted by clicking on that link. If something is "common sense" as you say, then it should be very easy to provide a reference to a reliable source, because lots of recognized experts will have written about it.

As far as being civil, this is a really good Wikipedia policy because being rude never improves a discussion. Jim was just trying to help you learn how to get along in Wikipedia, and helping Wikipedia to be a better place that discussion forums where people flame each other for sport. You should decide whether insulting someone who is trying to help you is how you want to behave. Ground Zero | t 12:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

• I see that since the above messages were posted to you, you have again been uncivil to one or more other editors. No matter how convinced you may be that you are right and that anyone who disagrees with you deserves contempt, Wikipedia policy requires us to be civil to one another. Following Wikipedia policies is a requirement, not an option. You are, of course, perfectly free to set up your own web site which has different standards, but if you choose to edit Wikipedia then you must accept Wikipedia's terms. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:52, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi James! I don't know what you're talking about since my last comment was made almost a year and a half ago. If you look at the date/time of the above posts, you'll see that Ground Zero was the last to comment, and I did not respond further. Ronald Guillermo Herbert Hermosillo | Surrey, British Columbia | rgherbert@gmail.com 04:19, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

• My apologies. It seems that somehow I misread the date on one of your posts. Thank you for pointing out my mistake. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 08:13, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello, world!

Ronald Guillermo de Herbert y Hermosillo | San Steffan Newydd, Colombia Británica | rgherbert@gmail.com 11:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Problem with your custom signature

You have a custom signature set in your account preferences. A change to Wikipedia's software has made your current custom signature incompatible with the software.

The problem: Your preferences are set to interpret your custom signature as wikitext. However, your current custom signature does not contain any wikitext.

The solutions: You can reset your signature to the default, or you can fix your signature.

Solution 1: Reset your signature to the default:

1. Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
2. Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
3. Remove anything in the Signature: text box. (It might already be empty.)
4. Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page. (The red "Restore all default settings" button will reset all of your preference settings, not just the signature.)

Solution 2: Fix your custom signature:

1. Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
2. Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
3. Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

More information about custom signatures is available at Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing how everyone sees your signature. If you have followed these instructions and still want help, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Signatures. 19:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)