Omni Flames

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Holly Markham

Mirahobbs (talk)

Hi there, I wrote the article about Holly Markham and am positive it is true and helpful information. I have Holly with me to help me edit this so I am positive it is real information.

I'm not saying that it's incorrect information, I put the template on because it doesn't indicate why the subject is significant, and even if it did, it has no references to verify this. — Omni Flames (talk contribs) 23:15, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

April 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make helpful changes to Wikipedia. However, some of your changes, like those to "Examination", did not seem to be helpful and have been reverted or removed. If you want to try out changing Wikipedia to learn more about how it works, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Auntof6 (talk) 17:02, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

@Auntof6: What? All I did was revert edits that were definitely vandalism. See [1]. "An examination, commonly known as exam, is a test to prove on a scale of 100 , how gay you are! If you top , Go kill yourself RN.". Is that not vandalism? Omni Flames ^{let's talk about it} 21:50, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Omni Flames, Auntof6: I think there was a misunderstanding caused by a glitch here. The edit summary shows that Omni Flames was using Huggle to revert vandalism -- and the article was definitely vandalized before the edit was made. But Omni's edit changed the text to something completely unrelated to the subject of the article (See this edit). When Auntof6 reverted, the reversion was to the previously vandalized page (see this edit), and yet another editor ended up fixing the problem later. It seems like someone else was having this problem with Huggle before, but I don't recall who it was. Twinkle might be a better option moving forward. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  04:50, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, that was weird. The main thing I saw was the Omni Flames' change did what you said, although it seemed that he/she was trying to fix something. I guess the lesson here for both of us is to look more closely and not assume the tools are doing what we think they are. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:43, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Huh. That is weird. I didn't see what I reverted to. I have no idea how that worked because AFAIK Huggle doesn't allow you to edit the content of the page aside from reverting. Omni Flames ^{let's talk about it} 08:07, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

At this point, I'm confident that everyone involved has chalked it up to some bit of weirdness that was not your fault. As I mentioned earlier, I seem to recall someone else who edits regularly on EnWiki also having problems with Huggle when they started editing here. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  09:38, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I think I'm just going to use Twinkle from now on. Simplewiki is small enough that checking RC is good enough to find the vast majority of all vandalism. Omni Flames ^{let's talk about it} 09:43, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

It works for me. Plus I check the contributions history for vandals, since their other efforts may have been missed. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  09:57, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Helpful stuff

User:Auntof6 has an informal essay that might be of interest to you. It's not a policy or guideline, but it might as well be since most of it is based in policy or basic grammar. Here's the link: User:Auntof6/Things I would like Wikipedia editors to know. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  10:18, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

 (change conflict)  I have actually come across that page before, but I had only skimmed the contents. Just had a better read, and there are a couple of things I learnt from that. Thank you :). Omni Flames ^{let's talk about it} 10:20, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

August 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. You might not have done it on purpose, but your recent change removed helpful information from Wikipedia. We ask that you do not remove things from pages, as you did to "Wikipedia:An English Wikipedian's guide", without giving a good reason in the change summary. If it was a mistake, do not worry. The part of the article you removed has been put back. If you want to try things out, please use the sandbox. If you would like to learn how to help Wikipedia, please see the welcome page. Thank you. Auntof6 (talk) 07:08, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Auntof6, perhaps you could actually read my edit summary next time? I try to be a patient person, but this is the second time you've reverted one of my edits and mistakenly called it vandalism. I'm starting to get a little fed up. I will revert your edit on the assumption that it was a mistake. Omni Flames (talk) 07:10, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) A new topic regarding this has been started at WP:ST#Red links. Please hold off on changing the guideline until there is community consensus for the change. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  08:57, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Sure, Etamni, I have no problems with that. However, I'm still a little annoyed that Auntof6 thinks they can use rollback to revert my edit which was clearly made in good faith. I don't know about here, but on enwiki, that would be considered serious abuse of the rollback tool, and it would probably be removed. Omni Flames (talk) 22:28, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Now that I understand what you were doing, I agree that your change was made in good faith. I'd always been under the impression that enwiki encourages removing red links, but I read the guideline that you linked there and am now enlightened. I apologize for the misunderstanding. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:39, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Userbox for EnWiki

Hey Omni Flames. I was looking at your EnWiki userpage and noticed that you were missing a userbox! You might consider adding {{User wikisimple}} to your userpage there. To view it, you can track down the code, or just peek at my page there to see it in action (it's currently the third one down the list). :) Etamni | ✉ | ✓  11:47, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Oh, thanks for that Etamni. Hadn't seen that userbox before. Added! Omni Flames (talk) 11:55, 16 August 2016 (UTC)