User talk:HabandMan

Welcome![edit]

Hello, HabandMan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! MB298 (talk) 02:43, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

3RR warning[edit]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Please be particularly aware that Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made.
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 08:33, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bold Revert Discuss[edit]

Hi, We get lots of new accounts stopping by, and at first we try not to jump on anyone too fast. On the other hand, your approach is really creating havoc.

After someone else rejects you're edit - any edit - you're required to stop making it and instead go to the article talk page to talk about it. THat's called Bold-Revert-Discuss. When talking about content disputes we follow talk page guidelines.

You are expected to follow the procedures outlined in the links I just posted, whether you read them or not.

You can delete this message (see WP:OWNTALK) but note that OWNTALK also says that warning messages that are deleted are presumed to have been read.

If you have any - ANY - comments about how others are behaving, they belong at the user's talk page not the article talk page. The article talk page is for discussing content, not each other. You can get help by at the WP:Help desk or by posting at someone's user page. I'll be glad to help if I can. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 08:39, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DS Alert (American Politics)[edit]

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The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:51, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Personal, custom comments about this template[edit]

Hi welcome to the article. Your energy is most welcome. The above template is FYI only and does not imply you did anything wrong. Gradually I'm passying them out to everyone at the article, and if you check my own talk page you will find I started.... by alerting myself!! It doesn't mean anything. However, it does mean that you work hard to figure out how to follow the BOLD REVERT DISCUSS cycle I linked earlier on your talk page. Other things too but that's a good starting point. If I can, I'll be glad to help if you have process questions, or you can try the WP:HELPDESK. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:54, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse![edit]

Hello! HabandMan, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! John from Idegon (talk) 17:28, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Edmonson County High School[edit]

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia again. You are very brave jumping into a fire pit like the Malheur Wildlife Refuge thing so early on in your Wikipedia career. Even tho I work and attend church in Malheur County, I avoided that like the plague!

In regard the high school, it certainly appears you are not going to win the day on your RfC. Please do not let that discourage you. The fact that this story is not encyclopedic has no bearing on its local importance. It's disgusting. If that would have been my daughter or granddaughter, the headline would have read "Local father jailed, principal in guarded condition." No man or boy, nowhere, at no time would force or order one of my girls to her knees in front of him and survive with his jaw intact. Perhaps if her dad had "manned up" and taken care of business instead of running to the media, the story would have been different enough to stay in the news.

Sadly, as one of the coordinators of Wikiproject schools, I see stories of disgusting behavior in schools on a regular basis. They seldom survive in the article, because, equally sad, they are simply too frequent and do not generate the coverage outside the local geographic region to overcome the restrictions in school article guidelines, and when they do, it does not generate the ongoing coverage needed to overcome NOTNEWS. Sadly, for our society, Kim Kardashian's butt is more enduring a story than this travesty.

If your interest in this particular school extends beyond this story, I would encourage you to work on it. I updated some of the stats, cleaned up a few details and improved the reference on the state basketball championship today. The fine arts achievements need referencing as does the history section. The whole article could stand a good copyediting.

If I can be of any help on this or any other school article (or city/town article-I do a lot of them too), just drop me a note. Thanks for your hard work here. Just be warned....Wikipedia is addicting. John from Idegon (talk) 07:43, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]