User talk:GuitarMan666
GuitarMan666Thanks for your edits at Kazran Sardick! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is a great time to have joined us, because now you can play the Game of Rassilon with us and win cool stuff! Well, okay, badges. That have no monetary value. And that largely only you can see. But still: they're cool!
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Blocking
You say at Talk:The Doctor that you were "blocked". This is a serious allegation as block has a precise meaning here, and can only be done by an admin. As can be seen by examining your personal block log, you've never been blocked.
If you mean that you encountered an edit conflict that temporarily disallowed you from publishing your edits, that's another matter altogether. Edit conflicts happen when two people try to edit the same bit of the same article at the same time, and are a way that the system regulates heavy editing traffic. They happen to everyone — your most recent post at talk:The Doctor created an edit conflict for me — and are not the result of an individual intentionally trying to stop you from editing.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:30: Thu 16 Aug 2012
- I meant to say "prevented from editing" though I didn't get the notificaiton that it was an edit conflict. It said "Preview mode changes have not been saved" or something rather similar upon clicking Publish. My first assumption was that I had been locked out of the article personally. So I offer my apologies. I did not realize that there was such a precise meaning for "block" but I figured I wasn't "banned" so "block" seemed an appropriate word. It doesn't seem to have been an edit conflict either as I received a different notification on the thread regarding the new Infobox variable. -- GuitarMan666 ☎ 17:46, August 16, 2012 (UTC)
Being heard in a discussion
I notice you made a suggestion about the infobox picture at talk:The Doctor. Well, I say "notice" but really I didn't. I came across it because I went to your contribution history in order to find your block log.
It's a convention of wiki discussion pages that people post chronologically. Your comment was buried in a part of the discussion that ended a year ago. If you want your suggestions to be heard, you need to put them at the bottom of the current discussion. Putting them in the natural "flow" of the discussion can work in very, very short discussions, but it's generally a better idea to keep your comments strictly chronological, and then use statements like "As mentioned upthread" or "Like <user> was saying earlier" to contextualise.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:36: Thu 16 Aug 2012
