User talk:Zarkus

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Vipera ammodytes, you will be blocked from editing.

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Vipera berus, you will be blocked from editing.

Welcome!

Hello, Zarkus, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! (PS -- I'm not an admin, but I thought I'd help out and add this to your talk page anyway.) --Jwinius 17:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vipera edits[edit]

Greetings, Zarkus! Once more, welcome to Wikipedia. You seem to have taken an interest in certain Vipera articles, which is good, but is seems we're having a little disagreement. The edits you have been making to Vipera ammodytes and Vipera berus may very well reflect a certain truth (I'm sure both species occur there), but must be made differently if they are to be accepted.
The reason is not that difficult to understand. You may have noticed that one or more (in-line) references have been cited for all of the information in this series of articles (Viperinae) using the footnote system. That's what those little numbers at the end of each sentence/paragraph are for: they link to the list of cited references at the bottom of each article. For example, when it says in a geographic range section that a species occurs in five different countries and that statement is followed by a reference to a book, it means that information came from a particular source; preferably a book or scientific paper. Good Wikipedians don't just make things up! As a result, you can't just make basic changes to such statements (e.g. add/replace information), because that would invalidate the reference. That's why I've been so persistant in undoing your edits.
The proper way to add such information would for you be to create a new statement below the existing paragraph(s) where, for example, you can explain that this or that species also occurs within the borders of the Republic of Macedonia. However, don't forget to add a proper reference! This is very important, because even if you know that what you say is true, without a good reference to vouch for your statement, nobody else in the world would have any reason to trust it. --Jwinius 17:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop making your alterations to Vipera ammodytes and Vipera berus; you are not being helpful. I've tried to explain, but apparently without success. --Jwinius 21:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please Use Edit Summaries[edit]

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. Jmlk17 10:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]