User talk:Mdd4696

Welcome

Hi!

Welcome...

Coupla things to note: pure vandals aren't warned, we just block them out-of-hand; there is almost always a sysop around. People making mistakes we try not to bite; people who are trying to contribute we try to be tolerant of.

rvvs are always a good thing.

There isn't the kind of process as on the WP: any sysop will delete "tosh" on sight; likewise any other sysop will restore anything mistakenly shot ;-) For regular process, see {{rfd}} and so on.

Cheers, Robert Ullmann 23:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

(usual welcome notice, I won't subst it so you can delete it easily :)

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Robert Ullmann 23:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

also-ran

We don't generally use [sic] in quotations, there are a lot of spelling variants and other errors. In general, you shouldn't fix anything without re-checking the source. This one though really has to be a scanno. Robert Ullmann 17:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note! ~MDD4696 21:36, 5 July 2007 (UTC)