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Hello Danmartin26! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Flyguy649talkcontribs 15:13, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Vandalism reversion

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Note: this is in response to a question at User talk:Flyguy649#Help?.
The vandalism reversion looks fine. Good job! As for warning the vandal, using your own is ok, but there are a series of templates you can (and probably should) use. They put in standardized warnings. They are available at WP:UTM. As you will see, there are general vandalism warnings and more specific ones. Please remember to substitute the warnings. That is, if you are going to give a level two warning for page blanking, rather than leaving {{uw-delete2}}, you must put {{subst:uw-delete2}}. Also please don't forget to sign your warnings with four tildes (~~~~).

The warnings come in levels 1 through 4. Level 1 assumes good faith, level 2 does not assume good faith, level 3 is for obvious vandalism, and level 4 is a final warning. I tend to start with level two if I believe the vandalism was intentional, and level 1 if I think it was accidental. In serious cases I will start with level 3. Then you would use progressively higher levels of warnings until you reach level 4. If a user continues to vandalise after a level 4 warning is given, you can report the user at Administrator intervention against vandalism. Oh, if it's been a while since the most recent warning (like days or weeks), I tend to go back to a lower level of warning.

The one important thing (to me) is that you do warn users. This includes IP vandals (which are probably the most frequent vandals here; IPs also do good work, though). It helps later editors know what type of warning to give. Umm, I know that's a lot of info, but hopefully this will help you. Good luck, and drop me a note if you have any other questions. Regards, Flyguy649talkcontribs 22:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]