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Hi! thanks for the warm welcome :) I already checked some of your records, Prino, pretty hardcore! I haven't tried sleeping at service stations yet, but if I ever have to at least I know how ;) As for the competive side, I'm really interested in it and already checked out the DTSG website. I'm currently studying in Enschede so if we could meet up that would be great! Something else, is there any way to change my username? :P [[User:Koendev|Koendev]] 16:17, 18 January 2012 (CET)
Hi Koen, thanks for your contributions on Hitchwiki. Really appreciate this, also thanks for sharing your experience on Hitchwiki maps! --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 12:43, 27 February 2013 (CET)
-Thank you! Experiences always help me too, so why not add them? :) [[User:Koendev|Koendev]] ([[User talk:Koendev|talk]]) 23:22, 28 February 2013 (CET)
== Upgrade of status ==
Given the fact that you're doing a lot of good work, and the fact that I don't want to patrol everything you're doing, I've just upgraded you to admin status. It means you now also give us a hand in beating the spammers by blocking their accounts and by deleting the link-spam they are trying to add. You can also patrol pages via the [[Special:RecentChanges]], click on the '''diff''' link and if the changes look OK, click on the '''[Mark as patrolled]''' link.
When you block spammers, via the '''block''' option reachable via the [[Special:RecentChanges]] page, tick '''all boxes'''. As for the spammy pages, when you delete them replace the description on the '''Content was''' box with just '''Spam''', don't give them the pleasure of leaving part of the spam reachable by search engines.
As for spammers, you can pre-empt them from actually entering spam by blocking them before they become active. This will require some experience, but have a look at [[Special:Log/block]] and you can get a gist of the names they use to register. '''If in doubt, block them after the act.''' If you block them before they have done anything, use the '''Unacceptable username''' option. For names that might conceivably be legit, I occasionally enter them in Google. If they do not appear anywhere in the search results, they are most likely not legit. On occasion, if they are spammers, they might register on many other forums at the same time and if those search results reveal spam, I mercilessly block them. If the only Google occurrence of a name is in the US Census results, the probability that you're dealing with a spammer is about 99.99%.
== Your question about external links ==
As long as links aren't blatantly commercial, there is no problem if people add ones like the one you corrected. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:04, 1 March 2012 (CET)
:Ok thanks, I remember seeing some links corrected or removed, that's why I asked :) [[User:Koendev|Koendev]] 22:06, 1 March 2012 (CET)
== ALLCAPS ==
Please don't use ALLCAPS text, use '''bold''', ''italics'' or even '''''bold italics''''', but no ALLCAPS... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 02:47, 7 March 2012 (CET)
: I think you got the wrong one, I don't remember doing that :P In fact I hate it! edit: I checked into it, seems like a bug to me. I edited the page based on an edit a few hours before from somebody else. For some reason that edit now shows as if it were mine... edit: figured out what happened :D I didn't edit the last version which you did, but the one before that...[[User:Koendev|Koendev]] 11:15, 7 March 2012 (CET)
