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My name is Bill Pringle.
I was laid off by Unisys as a software engineer,
and I used to teach part time at Penn State Great Valley.
I have a personal web site[1] that has various things about me, and sample programs that were used by my students and others.
I also run a web site for singer/songwriter Cheryl Wheeler[2].
I have interests in computers, music, video games (mostly console-based RPGs), math, and religion (I started Catholic, went to agnostic, and then Mormon). My web site has more information about all of these areas.
I started reading science fiction, mostly from Baen Books. I recently read the Honor Harrington series, and have done some minor editing of that page. I also have started watching Doctor Who episodes, as well as Murdoch Mysteries.
My contributions to Wikipedia have touched on all of the above topics, including:
Music:
Programming:
Religion:
Video Games:
Misc.
I monitor changes to various topics of interest to me, including:
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While monitoring pages on my watchlist, I keep an eye out for vandalism. I really don't understand why people would choose to spend time defacing something, but there seem to be a lot of them out there. :-(
In general, if I see somebody that vandalizes one of the pages on my watchlist, I will add a template to their talk page, and usually watch their talk page. If they vandalize too much, then I request that they be blocked. If anyone contributes to a page on my watchlist that doesn't have a talk page (yet), then I will add a welcome message to their talk page as well.
On those rare cases when I have some extra time, I will check the recent changes page.
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Here are some useful links:
There are a number of templates that can be used when dealing with new users and/or vandals.
This "User talk page" section identifies what should be added to the talk page to create a section for warnings. Warnings should be grouped by months, and the messages should be placed in a numbered list.
The "Common templates" section contain the templates I normally use for welcoming and vandalism warnings. You can copy and paste them into a page. Replace PAGE with the page name that they edited, and N (if present) with a number between 1 and 4, depending on how many times they have vandalized recently.
In general, this is how I deal with vandalism:
Since the templates are stored in a table, I can copy the template by triple-clicking inside the cell.
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==Warnings==
((subst:s/wnote))
===October 2009===
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((subst:welcome|art=PAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:anon|art=PAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:welcomenpov|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ |
((subst:uw-editsummary|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ |
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((subst:uw-testN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-vandalN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-deleteN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ |
((subst:uw-errorN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-unsourcedN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-spamN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ |
((subst:uw-jokeN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-biogN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-mosN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ |
((subst:uw-npovN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-defamatoryN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-chatN|PAGE)) -- ~~~~ |
Vandalism | Links | User Talk | Welcome Templates | Warning Templates | Blocking Templates
Generic | Anonymous | Spam |
---|---|---|
((subst:uw-block1|time=TIME)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-ablock|time=TIME)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-sblock)) -- ~~~~ |
Vandal | Delete | 3RR |
((subst:uw-vblock|time=TIME)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-dblock|time=TIME)) -- ~~~~ | ((subst:uw-3block|time=TIME)) -- ~~~~ |
31 hours | 48 hours | 1 week |
indefinite | 1 month | 6 months |
:* Researching complaint against [[User:USER]] -- ~~~~ | ||
((subst:uw-aiv|USER|MESSAGE)) -- ~~~~ | ||
:* No vandalism by [[User:USER]] after final warning -- ~~~~ |