Template talk:Introduction to Wikipedia/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Test edits

This is really awesome, having a place where anyone can put stuff on a page which isn't made for that. I am not going to be bold and delete that. I will not put a link to the sandbox so people can't do it there instead. LC@RSDATA 12:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Maybe not LC@RSDATA 12:56, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Why not delete that? One REALLY can't say the page isn't intended for testing if there's a "test edits" section on it! Since it's vandalized so severily, maybe it's worth applying semi-blocking as well. — Vano 22:57, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

(read the page header more attentively...) My, is it IN FACT intended for novice testing??? I can't believe it! :shocked: — Vano 23:03, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Edits

Made some minor edits, just for kicks, on spelling, grammar and punctuation.

i tried to make similar edits to the intro page, under the "make ur first edit right now" section, but it doesnt allow users to. ill put my proposed edits here and someone can apply them to the intro: 1) all items should have a period, not just #4. 2) in item #5, the word "marks" should be inside the parantheses.4.230.183.227 01:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm sure it's one of the most vandalized pages ever.

Who watches this page? it stayed vandalized for like 40 minutes. 204.108.237.194 19:43, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

fer real, dough. 71.162.242.11 00:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Auto revert

I've been playing around with some of the fascilities that MediaWiki offers and come up with a little trick. To clear Wikipedia:Introduction of vandalism, just click

here

and it should clear up everything. --Leon2323

19:30, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Manual reset

If the bots aren't working at resetting the sandbox located at Wikipedia:Sandbox, there is an alternative, just click here. --Leon2323

19:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Grammar

Erm there's a grammar error right at the end of the page (the bracket has been put too early). I can't edit it so I thought I'd point it out. --Alex⁹⁸⁹¹ 14:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

See Template:Please leave this line alone. FellowWikipedian 13:45, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Fellow, i pointed out the same item on my comment on august 12th in the "Edits" section. i also pointed out another item i thought that needs addressing. we needa wait for an admin or sysops to fix it. 4.230.183.164 01:19, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Anyone can edit?

I'm sorry, but that just doesn't cut out for me. I think only members of Wikipedia should edit, because lot's of noobs edit true things and replace it with false things. Some people even found Wikipedia to be unrelieable since ANYONE can edit it. The rule about editing articles should be changed.

Coconutfred73 00:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

The idea that anyone may edit Wikipedia is one of the core policies that we have. It's part of the reason why Jimbo Wales and Larry Sanger created it in the first place. You may not agree with this idea, that's OK. Yes indeed there are a lot of people that vandalise articles, but then again a lot of our lasting edits (not reverted) are made by anonymous people. There are many registered users who would not have joined if not for the fact they could edit what they saw like that. People keep suggesting the idea you have and it keeps getting rejected over and over. We make it clear that information can be unreliable, we're certainly aware of that fact. But Encyclopaedia Brittanica and Microsoft Encarta also make no guarantees on its validity. If you want to read more, I suggest you read Criticisms of Wikipedia. Harryboyles 06:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Link title in main page is misleading

When a new user comes to en.wikipedia.org, he sees:

Welcome to Wikipedia,the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

and he clicks on "anyone can edit". Then he wants to edit the page, but he doesn't know that it's not a sandbox. I think making the page semi-protected can fix the problem.

Edit?

The project page says "anyone can edit almost any page," but when I clicked Edit this page at my school, it said I was blocked. Does anyone know why?

Maybe your school IP has been blocked due to vandalism in wikipedia?. --SkyWalker 12:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC) Addon: Yep its true. Most schools are banned due to people changing the pages for negative reasons. You can get your schools IP address unblocked by clicking on the link on the Blocked page when you see it. You may need your System administrator with you. Hope fully you should be wiki surching in no time. Alec1990 15:10, 4 March 2007 (UTC)