Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 11 (section)

== I am getting a message to "stop adding nonsense," but I have not done anything! ==

Why do I occasionally get this message (look between lines of dashes):
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User talk:198.81.26.46
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has now been removed. Please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing material in articles will normally be removed quickly. Please see the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Hadal 03:20, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
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I have done nothing on this site, except to find myself constantly browsing around on it with admiration! Some weeks ago, I did start one of the "learn to edit" pages, but did nothing with it.

At one point in my session today, all the characters on each page started displaying as small squares. I reloaded the site, and the problem stopped.

I am not trying to hurt the site, really. I can only be accused of spending too much time while I should be doing laundry!!
:Thanks for your note -- the comments you're talking about almost certainly aren't aimed at you.  If you look again at that talk page, you'll notice a note in italics that many Internet users share IP addresses (i.e., when you dial up to the Internet, you're accessing through a server that others also use for access).  Unless you sign up for a [[Wikipedia:Username|Username]], the site only sees you as an IP address.  Apparently, occasionally you connect to the Internet through an IP that has been used by someone else for vandalism -- the warnings are for them.  Sorry for the inconvenience -- I'm afraid the only thing to do is either ignore the warnings or else get a username (which is free and quick -- click the link at the top of the page that says "Create an account") so that you'll only see messages intended for you.  Good luck, and sorry for the confusion! [[User:Jwrosenzweig|Jwrosenzweig]] 20:26, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)