User talk:85.76.0.194

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• How to edit a page is a concise list of technical guidelines to the wiki format we use here: how to, for example, make text boldfaced or make a hyperlink. The Wiktionary tutorial is a more wordy, multi-page document that helps you through those same formatting issues, and also touches on a couple of other issues relevant to editing.
• The document What Wiktionary is not may be of interest. In particular, if you've edited Wikipedia in the past, you should note that Wiktionary is not an encyclopedia and does not have Wikipedia-style page titles.
• There is a technical guide to how to start a new page. But you'll also want to look at our guidelines for how to format an entry (what goes where) and our criteria for inclusion (what can be included), which are our two main policy documents. (You can get a feel for how to format an entry by looking at existing entries.)
• The sandbox is a safe place for testing markup.
• The FAQ has, of course, some frequently (and some infrequently) asked questions, and their answers.

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Stop adding redirects for misspellings, or you will likely be blocked from editing.​—msh210℠ 20:32, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Nice to hear from you mr asshole, why such a nice attitude? You think I'm the only poor slob who can't spell? You racist or something?

If they're really common misspellings, make a "common misspelling" entry like this one: (deprecated template usage) accomodation (edit the page to see how it's done). We don't use redirects for misspellings; it causes a bunch of problems. Thanks. Equinox ◑ 20:38, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for this useful reply. Made me feel a lot better. I'll try to follow the rules more carefully in the future.

Sorry. Here's what happened. Wiktionarians in general — and in particular I — used to include welcome messages like the one above (starting with "Welcome" and ending at "ask me on my talk page", but without the warning of being blocked), and then block a user if he didn't read the linked-to policy pages and continued editing in ways that people had to revert. (Some people got blocked without warning, but that was generally reserved for people editing in bad faith, which you obviously were not.) (The block wouldn't be for long — perhaps a day — essentially just long enough to allow him to stop editing, read the policies, and then start again.) Then people started saying "we should improve our attitude. Let's warn them explicitly before we block them, so they know to stop". Hence my warning. See? It was actually a nice thing I did, warn you, instead of block you!  :-P  See also (and perhaps I should reread also) Help:Interacting with humans. All the best.​—msh210℠ 15:33, 12 February 2010 (UTC)