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== Wits' end ==
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== Edit summaries ==
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We have asked you repeatedly not to police the wiki. This means telling other users what to do or how to do it. You simply do not seem to have the knack for when it is appropriate. We've asked you to play fair on the featured article selection page, not to edit others' comments, and not to swear in edit summaries. Yet, things aren't getting better. We don't seem to be getting through to you at all, even after you were blocked for two weeks for disruption. So, I'm going to block you three weeks. Furthermore, I think it would be best if you stayed away from the featured article selection for at least a month. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:48, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hi RickTommy. Your recent single-letter edit summaries on images (as well as some others in the recent past) are not descriptive of the edits you are making. Yes, I'm aware that put all together they spell "cleanup" backwards, but image summaries are for page histories first, and recent changes a distant second. Someone looking at [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Homestar_Quicksand_MAM14.2.png&action=history a page history] 5 years from now is not going to have a clue what "u" means in this context. Please stick to just "Image summary cleanup" for these edit summaries and don't try to get creative. Thanks. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 23:43, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
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:Seems like I need to remind you again. [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Homestar_psp.png&diff=739818&oldid=447721&rcid=702516 Many] [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Homestar_reportcard_3.png&diff=739819&oldid=642953&rcid=702517 of] [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Homestar_skeleton.png&diff=739821&oldid=721150&rcid=702519 your] [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Homestar_with_towel.PNG&diff=739822&oldid=526510&rcid=702520 recent] [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Homestarcaesar.png&diff=739825&oldid=721154&rcid=702523 edits] [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Homestarfirstmate.PNG&diff=739827&oldid=448050&rcid=702525 don't] consist of either the words "Image Summary Cleanup" or the acronym "ISC". (Yes, I'm aware that they are anagrams, or pig latin, or phonetic spellings of letters, or various other bastardizations of the proper summary, but that doesn't make them proper summaries themselves.) In addition, [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Homestar_no_hat_super_powers.png&diff=prev&oldid=739814 a few of] [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Homestarbaseball.png&diff=prev&oldid=739823 your other] [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Homestarbath.png&diff=739824&oldid=569188&rcid=702522 recent summaries] are a little too "creative" to be clearly understood at a glance. I know it's not as interesting, but for the sake of the other editors, please stick to just the plain old "Image summary cleanup" as your description from now on. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 02:57, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
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::So, edit summaries.  Yeah. Looking at your [[Special:Contributions/RickTommy|contributions page]] many of your edit summaries are blank with the exception of some the Image Summary cleanup edit summaries.  Being somewhat consistent with the Image Summary Cleanup summaries is good but edit help other editors know at a glance what it is that your edits are changing. So please be more diligent with your edit summaries to make things easier for other editors.  Thank you. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 05:44, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
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==RE: Block warning==
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== Patching things up ==
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RickTommy, if you're warned about being blocked, don't try to fight it by making up a bogus excuse as to why it was necessary to do what you did. Just say sorry and don't do it again. We all know you did it so there is no point fighting it. {{User:Wasd98/sig}} 01:14, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hey man. Yeah...I know it's been a while but if feel really bad about the way I treated you way back then. I used to be Wasd98 in case you were wondering. I was 14 back then and really stupid. I wanted to make a difference on this wiki and I thought acting like a sysop or whatever would make that happen but I just ended annoying people and I'm truly sorry. You didn't deserve to be treated that way. Just wanted to patch things up. :) {{User:Rondleman/sig}} 01:16, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
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:I wasn't denying anything. {{User:RickTommy/sig}} 06:55, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
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::Loafing told you that he might block you, but then you got defensive and said that the edit doesn't matter. Well it does matter. Look, if you ever get a block warning, don't try to fight it, just take the advice you're given. Thanks, {{User:Wasd98/sig}} 01:42, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
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:::You know, Wasd, your behaviour isn't exactly that great either. For one thing, you posted that comment in the first place, despite the fact that it '''''does not''''' belong on that page. For another, you have posted messages in talk page archives, as you have done with my talk page as well as Heimstern's. For another, you warn users about things that they did months ago. For another, you do that to users who haven't edited for months. For another, you post signature length messages on other users' talk pages, despite the fact that 1) you shouldn't expect a response from those users, since they haven't edited for months, and 2) the signature length may only apply to your computer. And for another, you're enforcing policy by doing some of those things. I have been blocked before for trying to enforce policy, so don't be surprised if you end up being blocked as well if you continue doing that sort of stuff. {{User:RickTommy/sig}} 06:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
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::::Please, people, let's break this up. And I'm mainly speaking to Wasd here. Whatever disputes RickTommy has with the sysops and whatever warnings we give him are none of your business. Please attend only to your own behaviour. Thanks. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 06:34, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
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==Support==
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== Signature ==
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RickTommy, you're a cool guy. Keep it real bro. High fives, — [[Strong Bad]]
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Hi RickTommy. Your new signature is too long and the yellow text is unreadable. Please fix it. See [[HRWiki:SIG]] if you have any questions. Thanks! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:49, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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:Thanks, man. {{User:RickTommy/sig}} 06:55, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
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== French subs ==
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== Image Summaries ==
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Hey RickTommy, you've done a lot of good work lately with the image summary cleanup. Thanks for your help. Would you mind going through and marking which ones you've done on [[HRWiki:Image Summary Cleanup/H-L|these]] [[HRWiki:Image Summary Cleanup/a-o|pages]]? {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 05:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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:I've also noticed that while editing the summaries, sometimes you've been marking useful H*R-related images for deletion if the bottom of the page says "There are no pages that link to this file." This is not always accurate, and you need to double-check with the "What links here" link on the left side of the screen to make sure. If it still says no pages link to it, it's probably in a page history, which is typically easy to dig for. You wouldn't want to find an archive with an unfortunate situation like {{p|l={{FULLURL:Sketchbook|oldid=677492&diff=prev}} this}}<!--which was a case of two people uploading the same image at the same time, and the one that was uploaded a minute later was of better quality-->. I wouldn't point this out except I've come behind you several times now and found where the images are/were used on the wiki. If it's not H*R-related, and it's not in a page history, maybe then it'd be all right to add that tag. Thanks again for your help with the summaries. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 07:30, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hey, RickTommy. Please don't forget about adding <nowiki>{{fixtranslation}}</nowiki> when you do subs so Meuhcoin or someone knows to look them over. Thanks, and have a good time translating! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 09:38, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
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== fan FIIIICCCCCTTTTTIIIOOOONNNNNN ==
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:Pretty please? {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 03:59, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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::Seriously, you always need to put the tag on new French subtitles that you create.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 19:13, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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:::Is there a reason for your aversion to <nowiki>{{fixtranslation}}</nowiki>? It's really not a bad thing to have it on your subtitles. It doesn't diminish your work and effort in any way.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 07:19, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
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== Complaints about the new FAS format ==
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I have to say, that is a really clever April Fools idea. Gotta love conditional Mediawiki text!
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:<br>--<span class="plainlinks" style="white-space:nowrap; position: relative; top: 7px">{{User:Purple_Wrench/crop-me-do|width=18|height=20|image=[[File:purplewrench_user_sig.png|link=User_talk:Purple_Wrench]]}}</span>'''[[User:Purple Wrench|<span style="font-family:Arial Narrow; color:#005555; white-space:nowrap">PURPLE</span>]]'''<span style="font-family:Arial Black; color:#770077; white-space:nowrap">'''='''</span>'''[[User:Purple Wrench|<span style="font-family:Arial Narrow; color:#005555; white-space:nowrap">WREEEEEEeeeee</span>]]'''<span style="color:#888">'''eeeee what's happ'''ening t</span><span style="font-family:serif; color:#888">o me? I look  </span><span class="plainlinks" style="white-space:nowrap; position: relative; top: 7px">{{User:Purple_Wrench/crop-me-do|left=76|width=21|height=20|image=[[File:purplewrench_user_sig.png|link=User:Purple_Wrench]]}}</span> <span style="font-family:serif; color:#888">'''so goo'''</span>'''[[User:Purple Wrench|<span style="font-family:serif; color:#000; white-space:nowrap">D. Lindo</span>]]<span class="plainlinks" style="white-space:nowrap"> [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/User_talk:Purple_Wrench <span style="font-family:serif; color:#000;">(converse)</span>]'''</span> 01:36, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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::Y'all are weirdos. [[User:Catjaz63|Catjaz63]] 01:45, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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:::You mean you've never mutated from one sig to another? Wow, you're missing out. Oh, and good luck getting your sig working by the way. --{{User:Purple Wrench/sig}} 02:02, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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RickTommy, has it ever occurred to you that others might genuinely prefer the new format? People aren't praising it to annoy you; they're just expressing their honest opinions, which is entirely within their rights to do. Of course, it's also in your rights to disagree with it, but your constantly complaining about people who like the new system is annoying and is quickly becoming unacceptably hostile, especially with edit summaries like [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ARickTommy&diff=710107&oldid=710101 this one]. Please stop. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 13:58, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
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== Signature (again) ==
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== Previous edit summary ==
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Hey there RickTommy, you appear to have forgotten to change your april fools sig back to a standards-compliant one. In addition, the lack of a close span tag is actively breaking the formatting on talk pages. Please fix this when you get a chance. Thanks. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 12:35, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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What {{p|l={{FULLURL:HRWiki:Recent changes patrol|offset=20101026050700&limit=2&action=history}} previous edit summary}}? Edit summaries are for the page history first, recent changes a distant second. I realize those HRWiki committee pages are a special case, but in general you need to stop {{p|l={{FULLURL:HRWiki:Featured Article Selection|diff=prev&oldid=707793}} fixing}} {{p|l={{FULLURL:HRWiki:Featured Article Selection|diff=prev&oldid=710154}} doctorwho295's}} {{p|l={{FULLURL:HRWiki:Featured Article Selection|diff=prev&oldid=710763}} name}} on talk pages. If he wants to sign with a lowercase letter, [[HRW:AUTOPIPE|autopipe]] takes care of the link, and there's nothing in our [[HRW:SIG|signature guidelines]] that says he has to sign with a capital letter. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:46, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
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== April Fools' 2015 ==
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Regarding {{p|l={{FULLURL:HRWiki:April_Fools'_Jokes_and_Other_Baleeted_Nonsense|oldid=747022&diff=prev}} this edit summary}}: Yes, when you go ahead and add them. There's nothing about that page that says users may not add their own pranks; in fact, adding your own pranks is encouraged. It's easier for the rest of us to understand them that way. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 05:25, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
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==Further response==
 
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there are some things on your list that I agree with you on. However, while i'm not saying that anything here specifically annoys me or doesn't, I'm gonna give you a few pointers.<br>I noticed that you added that it annoyed you "When a user creates a new article and links to that article on every page that mentions it" shortly after I linked everything I could find to [[Arby's|a new page that I didn't make]]. I was thinking, "but isn't this good practice?" It's okay; there have been times that good practice has annoyed me too. (See [[Talk:Compé]])<br>The thing about Strong Mad being older than Strong Bad: yes, that is a known fact. and i have a little brother who is taller and heavier than I am, so i know where you're coming from there.<br>And the new Featured Article selection format: I've noticed that you've been pointing out that you're suggesting an article for the second time. The way the new format works, they won't ever need to be suggested again (or that's the way i understand it). Honest question: do you like that aspect of the format?<br>In short, I guess I would be more comfortable with that section of your user page if it was less inclusive. but don't let me tell you how to shape your user page; you don't have to change a thing based on what I said if you don't want to. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 08:04, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 
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== Reminder about policing ==
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== A question ==
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RickTommy, given your recent message to that anonny, it seems I need to remind you that you are not allowed to police the wiki. In this case, yet again, it was not an appropriate message: it was vague (it didn't explain clearly what, if anything, was wrong with the anonny's edits) and was not really that accurate a representation of policy (saying "there's probably a reason we don't have those facts" would more or less imply "don't add facts to articles", which is not proper representation of policy at all). So I'm reminding you to not do this again. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 12:45, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
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If you turk?--[[Special:Contributions/88.243.179.122|88.243.179.122]] 15:21, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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:No, I'm not. Why do you ask? {{User:RickTommy/sig}} 21:58, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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== Block explanation ==
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== Signature (3) ==
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You have been blocked for one month for threatening to have another user blocked (specifically {{p|l={{FULLURL:User talk:Shadowtoast102|diff=prev&oldid=716222}} this edit}}) when we have told you over and over [[#Wits' end|not to police]] [[#Reminder about policing|other users]]. (The block time is so lengthy because it's your third block.) Furthermore, the things you were saying to this ''kid'' were not just rude but overtly hostile. This is why we have told you not to tell other users what to do, because when you do you are especially mean in the way you go about it. Effective once your block is up, <u>you are restricted from editing any user's talk page other than your own</u>. (If you try to get around this restriction, you may be blocked again.)<br>
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Hi, RickTommy. Don't forget to revert your signature back to one that fits out policies, now that April Fools' is past. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 13:38, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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By the way, as annoying and frustrating as it may be for a new user to flood the recent changes, ''there is no rule against it''. It is out ''custom'' to discourage it, but that's not the same thing as a rule. Since floods bother you so much, I have enabled enhanced recent changes in your preferences, which consolidates all changes to one page into a collapsible (and ignorable) section. Obviously if it's not to your liking you can turn it back off, but I encourage you to give it a try. In your preferences you can also increase the default number of changes you see. When viewing the recent changes page, you can hide all changes in a specific namespace (like the {{p|l={{FULLURL:SP:RC|namespace=2&invert=1}} user namespace}}). &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:32, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
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== Userpage content ==
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== years since ==
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Hi, RickTommy. It's not appropriate to use your userpage to disparage other users, here or at the forum. So you're going to need to remove the content about the forum users "TwiceStyle" and "HSR3Ever85" from your list of HRWiki-related things that annoy you.</p> While I'm here: Is there a reason you need to have such a long list of things that annoy you on your page? It seems really unnecessarily negative, in fact, people might wonder why you even edit here if you have around a third of your userpage devoted to things that annoy you. Maybe you might think about trimming it down a bit or removing it? Just a thought (though the removal of the content disparaging other users is required). {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 06:47, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
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Why not use the <nowiki>{{yearssince|December 21, 20X6}}</nowiki> template for your age? - {{User:Catjaz63/sig}} 04:24, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
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==Period after question mark==
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Why must you revert my edits? It is improper grammar to put a period after something in quotation marks that ends with an exclamation mark or question mark.—[[User:Bde1982|Bde1982]] 23:27, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
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:That's true for general usage, but our house style is to tend to ignore that when the exclamation mark or question mark is part of the name of a toon or article. If you wish to discuss this further, you should bring it up on [[HRWT:STYLES]]. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:18, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
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== Breaking up large edits ==
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Hey there RickTommy, I've noticed that lately you've had a tendency to make very large edits to pages, which combine removing, adding, modifying, and re-ordering entries in a way that it makes the edit diff very difficult to follow. In addition, your edit summaries tend to mention at most only one out of the dozens of changes being made, and sometimes none at all. A better approach would be to make several smaller edits that are easier for others to follow. For example, if there is a list that has 3 items you want to add, several items not in chronological order, two items that you don't think should be there, and 5 items that need rewording, formatting, or links added, it's probably better to make four or five edits rather than just one, as follows:
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#Reordering the existing list (without removing, adding, or changing anything) with an edit summary saying such
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#Rewording or formatting the existing entries with an edit summary indicating exactly what you're changing and why
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#Adding the three facts that you want to add with an edit summary describing what you're adding
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#Removing the first fact you want to remove with a '''very detailed''' explanation of why you think that thing should be removed
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#A '''separate edit''' with a '''separate detailed edit summary''' on why you're removing the second thing
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I know that at this point you're probably thinking "but making multiple consecutive edits to the same page is frowned upon, that's what show preview is for". While that's true in ''most'' cases, it's not true in the case of large amounts of unrelated changes to the same page. In general, the "avoid consecutive edits" guideline is referring to multiple edits being made to the same area of a page, such as tweaking the formatting of something several times. On the other hand, if several unrelated edits need to be made to a page, multiple edits are actually preferred. Anyway, I hope that helps for the future. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 15:41, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
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== Careless Edit ==
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RickTommy, you need to be more careful with your editing.  In the Questions page you {{pl|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=HRWiki:Questions&diff=764092&oldid=762588&rcid=726933 removed}} an answered question.  If you simply scroll down to the end of the page you'll see that {{pl|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=HRWiki:Questions&diff=764098&oldid=764092&rcid=726939 answered questions go in their section}}.  So please don't be so quick to delete things and also keep in mind [[User talk:RickTommy#Breaking up large edits|DeFender's good advice]] which is actually a [[Help:Editing#Separating_edits|wiki guideline]] albeit not explained with the level of detail that DeFender did, which it should be. Thanks.  --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 12:47, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
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== Don't nominate pages for deletion ==
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You recently nominated several pages for deletion for trite reasons (or none at all). This is disruptive. Please stop. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:40, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
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== Okay, I am curious and must know ==
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[http://hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&curid=49237&diff=786085&oldid=786084&rcid=748942 Why "Walk"?] I feel like I'm missing a joke. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 01:09, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
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: OOooooooooohhhhhhhhh, "jaywalk". Right. Never mind. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 01:12, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
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== Test email ==
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Hey, your test email didn't go through. You may wish to check your email address. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:16, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
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== :D ==
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[[File:Clapping Party.png|200px]] -{{User:The thing/sig}} 15:02, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
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== Since you asked ==
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:A little bit of information about my 2023 prank: Following my own prior advice to Gfdgsgxgzgdrc, I did not make a suggestion as to what the wiki should do for April Fool's Day in 2018, and instead changed my user page to the theme I wanted the wiki to use when the time came. Then the wiki didn't use the theme, and I guess I decided to just leave my user page Yonder Website-themed. (Although I noticed at some point that the new fanstuff wiki ''did'' use that theme, but I don't think I had anything to do with that &mdash; nor did I care one way or the other for them to do that.) Then this year, I decided to stack two April Fool's jokes that I had previously put together &mdash; using the 2012 tactic on the 2018 page. And my edit summary for the April 1 edit to my user page translates to "stacking previous jokes for this year". I think there is information about the numbers prank on your user page right now. Although it was much easier to put it together the second time. But this time, I noticed that the translator I used wasn't perfect with some of the longer words. I might have to change some of it. I'm not sure if this answers all your questions. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 21:13, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

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[edit] Edit summaries

Hi RickTommy. Your recent single-letter edit summaries on images (as well as some others in the recent past) are not descriptive of the edits you are making. Yes, I'm aware that put all together they spell "cleanup" backwards, but image summaries are for page histories first, and recent changes a distant second. Someone looking at a page history 5 years from now is not going to have a clue what "u" means in this context. Please stick to just "Image summary cleanup" for these edit summaries and don't try to get creative. Thanks. — Defender1031*Talk 23:43, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Seems like I need to remind you again. Many of your recent edits don't consist of either the words "Image Summary Cleanup" or the acronym "ISC". (Yes, I'm aware that they are anagrams, or pig latin, or phonetic spellings of letters, or various other bastardizations of the proper summary, but that doesn't make them proper summaries themselves.) In addition, a few of your other recent summaries are a little too "creative" to be clearly understood at a glance. I know it's not as interesting, but for the sake of the other editors, please stick to just the plain old "Image summary cleanup" as your description from now on. — Defender1031*Talk 02:57, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
So, edit summaries. Yeah. Looking at your contributions page many of your edit summaries are blank with the exception of some the Image Summary cleanup edit summaries. Being somewhat consistent with the Image Summary Cleanup summaries is good but edit help other editors know at a glance what it is that your edits are changing. So please be more diligent with your edit summaries to make things easier for other editors. Thank you. --Stux 05:44, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

[edit] Patching things up

Hey man. Yeah...I know it's been a while but if feel really bad about the way I treated you way back then. I used to be Wasd98 in case you were wondering. I was 14 back then and really stupid. I wanted to make a difference on this wiki and I thought acting like a sysop or whatever would make that happen but I just ended annoying people and I'm truly sorry. You didn't deserve to be treated that way. Just wanted to patch things up. :) Rondleman! Stuff I did.Talk. 01:16, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

[edit] Signature

Hi RickTommy. Your new signature is too long and the yellow text is unreadable. Please fix it. See HRWiki:SIG if you have any questions. Thanks! — It's dot com 00:49, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

[edit] Image Summaries

Hey RickTommy, you've done a lot of good work lately with the image summary cleanup. Thanks for your help. Would you mind going through and marking which ones you've done on these pages? The Knights Who Say Ni 05:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

I've also noticed that while editing the summaries, sometimes you've been marking useful H*R-related images for deletion if the bottom of the page says "There are no pages that link to this file." This is not always accurate, and you need to double-check with the "What links here" link on the left side of the screen to make sure. If it still says no pages link to it, it's probably in a page history, which is typically easy to dig for. You wouldn't want to find an archive with an unfortunate situation like this. I wouldn't point this out except I've come behind you several times now and found where the images are/were used on the wiki. If it's not H*R-related, and it's not in a page history, maybe then it'd be all right to add that tag. Thanks again for your help with the summaries. The Knights Who Say Ni 07:30, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

[edit] fan FIIIICCCCCTTTTTIIIOOOONNNNNN

I have to say, that is a really clever April Fools idea. Gotta love conditional Mediawiki text!


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PURPLE=WREEEEEEeeeeeeeeee what's happening to me? I look
so gooD. Lindo (converse) 01:36, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Y'all are weirdos. Catjaz63 01:45, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
You mean you've never mutated from one sig to another? Wow, you're missing out. Oh, and good luck getting your sig working by the way. -- ■■   PURPLE  WRENCH   ■■ 02:02, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

[edit] Signature (again)

Hey there RickTommy, you appear to have forgotten to change your april fools sig back to a standards-compliant one. In addition, the lack of a close span tag is actively breaking the formatting on talk pages. Please fix this when you get a chance. Thanks. — Defender1031*Talk 12:35, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

[edit] April Fools' 2015

Regarding this edit summary: Yes, when you go ahead and add them. There's nothing about that page that says users may not add their own pranks; in fact, adding your own pranks is encouraged. It's easier for the rest of us to understand them that way. The Knights Who Say Ni 05:25, 1 May 2015 (UTC)


[edit] A question

If you turk?--88.243.179.122 15:21, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

No, I'm not. Why do you ask? RickTommy (edits) 21:58, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

[edit] Signature (3)

Hi, RickTommy. Don't forget to revert your signature back to one that fits out policies, now that April Fools' is past. Heimstern Läufer 13:38, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

[edit] years since

Why not use the {{yearssince|December 21, 20X6}} template for your age? - Catjaz63 04:24, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

[edit] Period after question mark

Why must you revert my edits? It is improper grammar to put a period after something in quotation marks that ends with an exclamation mark or question mark.—Bde1982 23:27, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

That's true for general usage, but our house style is to tend to ignore that when the exclamation mark or question mark is part of the name of a toon or article. If you wish to discuss this further, you should bring it up on HRWT:STYLES. — It's dot com 03:18, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

[edit] Breaking up large edits

Hey there RickTommy, I've noticed that lately you've had a tendency to make very large edits to pages, which combine removing, adding, modifying, and re-ordering entries in a way that it makes the edit diff very difficult to follow. In addition, your edit summaries tend to mention at most only one out of the dozens of changes being made, and sometimes none at all. A better approach would be to make several smaller edits that are easier for others to follow. For example, if there is a list that has 3 items you want to add, several items not in chronological order, two items that you don't think should be there, and 5 items that need rewording, formatting, or links added, it's probably better to make four or five edits rather than just one, as follows:

  1. Reordering the existing list (without removing, adding, or changing anything) with an edit summary saying such
  2. Rewording or formatting the existing entries with an edit summary indicating exactly what you're changing and why
  3. Adding the three facts that you want to add with an edit summary describing what you're adding
  4. Removing the first fact you want to remove with a very detailed explanation of why you think that thing should be removed
  5. A separate edit with a separate detailed edit summary on why you're removing the second thing

I know that at this point you're probably thinking "but making multiple consecutive edits to the same page is frowned upon, that's what show preview is for". While that's true in most cases, it's not true in the case of large amounts of unrelated changes to the same page. In general, the "avoid consecutive edits" guideline is referring to multiple edits being made to the same area of a page, such as tweaking the formatting of something several times. On the other hand, if several unrelated edits need to be made to a page, multiple edits are actually preferred. Anyway, I hope that helps for the future. — Defender1031*Talk 15:41, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

[edit] Careless Edit

RickTommy, you need to be more careful with your editing. In the Questions page you removed an answered question. If you simply scroll down to the end of the page you'll see that answered questions go in their section. So please don't be so quick to delete things and also keep in mind DeFender's good advice which is actually a wiki guideline albeit not explained with the level of detail that DeFender did, which it should be. Thanks. --Stux 12:47, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

[edit] Don't nominate pages for deletion

You recently nominated several pages for deletion for trite reasons (or none at all). This is disruptive. Please stop. — It's dot com 03:40, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

[edit] Okay, I am curious and must know

Why "Walk"? I feel like I'm missing a joke. --Jay v.2024 (Auld lang syne) 01:09, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

OOooooooooohhhhhhhhh, "jaywalk". Right. Never mind. --Jay v.2024 (Auld lang syne) 01:12, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

[edit] Test email

Hey, your test email didn't go through. You may wish to check your email address. — It's dot com 01:16, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

[edit]  :D

-TheThin 15:02, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

[edit] Since you asked

A little bit of information about my 2023 prank: Following my own prior advice to Gfdgsgxgzgdrc, I did not make a suggestion as to what the wiki should do for April Fool's Day in 2018, and instead changed my user page to the theme I wanted the wiki to use when the time came. Then the wiki didn't use the theme, and I guess I decided to just leave my user page Yonder Website-themed. (Although I noticed at some point that the new fanstuff wiki did use that theme, but I don't think I had anything to do with that — nor did I care one way or the other for them to do that.) Then this year, I decided to stack two April Fool's jokes that I had previously put together — using the 2012 tactic on the 2018 page. And my edit summary for the April 1 edit to my user page translates to "stacking previous jokes for this year". I think there is information about the numbers prank on your user page right now. Although it was much easier to put it together the second time. But this time, I noticed that the translator I used wasn't perfect with some of the longer words. I might have to change some of it. I'm not sure if this answers all your questions. The Knights Who Say Ni 21:13, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
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