User talk:Erich Mayer

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Hello, Erich Mayer, 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:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Gscshoyru (talk) 15:36, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

April 2011

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Herbert Baum. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Gscshoyru (talk) 15:20, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please be specific what you consider "unconstructive", otherwise your comment is not very helpful. Overcategorization is a serious problem - and removing superseding categories is hardly "vandalism". --15:24, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Sorry -- I realize it was unhelpful -- it was just the standard vandalism warning. When I see that a completely new user has come in and replaced removed "Category:People who died in the Holocaust" with "Category:Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany", alarm bells go off in my head for what I hope are understandable reasons, and I hit the revert button. A reading of the article and of your comments on the talk page have explained your edit properly, so my apologies. A better edit summary would have been useful for this and other edits would be useful, and prevent others like me from mentally labeling you as a vandal... but I suspect the tool you're using does not allow that. A comment on a project talk page explaining what you're about to do would also be helpful, and serve the same purpose. It would also give other users a place to discuss your changes if they disagree with them. Again, sorry for the wrongful reverts. Gscshoyru (talk) 15:36, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Apology accepted. No hard feelings. Hotcat is quite useful at times, but has its limits, the lack of a edit summary being one. Maybe somebody will add that feature eventually. --Erich Mayer (talk) 15:40, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You should take a look at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion --

Categories for discussion (Cfd) is where deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (pages in the Category namespace) is discussed. Categories are used to organize other pages and aid browsing of related articles. See How to use this page for the official rules of this page, guidelines for Speedy Deletion and Speedy Renaming, and how to do cleanup. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories) for the policies guiding many renaming decisions.

Unless the change is non-controversial (such as vandalism or a duplicate), please do not remove the category from pages before the community has made a decision. --Skol fir (talk) 10:10, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Georg Hansen with this edit, you may be blocked from editing. Wikipedian2 (talk) 17:12, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. --Skol fir (talk) 17:14, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning; the next time you harm Wikipedia, as you did at Ernst von Harnack with this edit, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. NickCT (talk) 02:27, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cease and desist

Hey,

You seem to be making a large number of suspicious changes to the categorization of WWII figures. Given that your account is so new, and that you seem to be engaging in very aggressive revising, I asked an admin to review what you're doing on the Intervention against vandalism page. If I've got this wrong, and there is some logical good faith intent behind your actions, please accept my apology. I would suggest for now though, that you cease your edits, and give others some time to look at discuss what you're doing. NickCT (talk) 02:39, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]