User talk:Maisonneuve

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Hello, Maisonneuve, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Hi

Hi! If you wish to edit an article I started, you can be bold and edit without asking for my permission. I am not the owner of the article, and improvements are always welcomed. Regards, --Carioca (talk) 19:30, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi! If you feel that some change may be controversial, you can always try to discuss the change in the article's talk page. Regards, --Carioca (talk) 21:08, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Fortaleza EC

Hi! When I revert a machine translated text (like the one in the Fortaleza Esporte Clube article), I usually write something like the following in the edit summary: "Reverted to remove machine translated text". I may also write a longer explanation in the article's talk page, and mention that in the edit summary: "Reverted to remove machine translation, check talk page for explanation". There is no point in keeping a machine translated text, as most of it is usually unintelligible. Hope that helps. if you have any question, you can send a message in my talk page. Regards, --Carioca (talk) 17:18, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi! you can go to the history section of the article and revert to the last good version, and then manually add any good info from the machine translated version. You may also send a message (I recommend sending the message in both English and Portuguese, as he may not be able to understand English) to whoever made the machine translation asking him to stop. If you wish to keep the machine translated text, you can place the {{rough translation|Portuguese}} tag on the top of the article. Hope that helps. Regards, --Carioca (talk) 20:46, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I reverted to the last version without the machine translated text. --Carioca (talk) 22:13, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

December 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Fortaleza Esporte Clube, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.

• Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
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• The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Fortaleza Esporte Clube was changed by Maisonneuve (u) (t) deleting 42707 characters on 2009-12-16T22:15:56+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 22:15, 16 December 2009 (UTC)