User talk:Snackmagic

Hello Snackmagic, and welcome to Wikipedia! Here are some recommended guidelines to help you get involved. Please feel free to contact me if you need help with anything. Best of luck and happy editing! CobaltBlueTony 13:40, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Greetings and a question[edit]

You've converted me to your point of view on the Wigger article. I ran across the name in a see-also reference somewhere and found it curious - I have never actually heard the word used. I feel ashamed not to have been sensitive to the nature of the word's use from the start. Anyway, you can expect my support on your merge request. I am curious about your history, however. At the username you are using now there is no edit history prior to this article, yet you are very familiar with Wikipedia norms, etc. Is it out-of-line for me to ask how you come to be at that article with a new username? Rlitwin 23:56, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the greeting. I was just doing edits anonymously, signing with my current IP for a while, until I decided to join officially with a screen name. I'm the one under the "Clean up" heading on the talk page of the Wigger article. I'm not that familiar with all of Wiki's norms - just the most important one, about impartiality and being encyclopediac.--Snackmagic 05:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I remain really confused about the issues surrounding "wigger." Do you mind if I email you off-site about it? Rlitwin 01:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, but keep in mind I'm really no expert.--Snackmagic 13:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Email me

Your edit to Wigger[edit]

Please refrain from removing content from Wikipedia, as you did to Wigger. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. - CobaltBlueTony 14:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Then don't simply delete what you don't like. Clean it up. - CobaltBlueTony 20:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly, as you are doing in Wigger. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert a single page more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. - CobaltBlueTony 20:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The version you contest appears to have relevant reliable resources that document the cultural usages and journalistic obersvations. Why is it so objectionable to you? You really need to document your concerns clearly and concisely on the talk page. If you fail to make your objections clear, we will need to initiate mediation. The purpose of Wikipedia is to document facts already present, and the information that had been provided appeared to do just that. You've deleted apaprently apporpriate references. - CobaltBlueTony 14:06, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding edits made during August 10 2006 (UTC) to Wigger[edit]

Please stop. If you continue to blank pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. JD ^{don't talk} _{email me} 13:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This user apparently has strong POV. His mass blanking has strong suspicion of racism toward the African-American community. Note that this user has made no other mainspace edits except on article Wigger.--Bonafide.hustla 01:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with you Bonafide.hustla. Observers: if you read the talk page of the "Wigger" article, you will see that Snackmagic views that content of the page as racist against the african american community, and I agree with him. Bonafide.hustla: do you know Snackmagic's race? I do, and I know yours, too, and I think your accusation of racism doesn't stand up and doesn't even seem to be in good faith. Snackmagic, I apologize for leaving you in the lurch on the "Wigger" page but I it's too discouraging to try to improve a page where the majority of people working on it are not being responsible or respecting intelligent discussion. I'm letting it go. Rlitwin 14:15, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, no need to apologize. I'm over it too. I thought I made my case well enough, but if that wasn't enough, "shrug".Snackmagic 01:00, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fruit flies[edit]

The official name for Drosophila is actually NOT fruit flies, that name used for the family Tephritidae. -- Kim van der Linde ^{at venus} 17:36, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]