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How dose the fossil record work?
I have been exploring this site for sometime, recently I came across The article on Cambridge University press, when looking at the fossil record I was confused by the numbers on it that look like a Reddit style like to dislike counter. What does it mean?
 * I presume you mean the green ‘+’ plus sign numbers and the red ‘-‘ minus sign numbers? If so, they show the change in the quantity of bytes from the previous edit to the current edit; these numbers are completely unrelated to systems of upvotes and downvotes, or likes and dislikes. I hope this helps.
 * Also On talk pages, please sign your comments using four tildes ( ~ ) or by clicking on the sign button: SigButt.png on the toolbar above the edit panel. You can also indent successive talk page comments using one more colon (:) for each line. Thank you. Leucippus Sapere aude 00:44, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Edit caught by spamfilter
Tried adding to the talk section of a page which I believed needed an overhaul. Typed out a reasonable response after reading community and posting guidelines, revised it to ensure it was concise and addressed the content of the topic, but when I tried to post I received, "Edit caught by spamfilter". It's possible that my account is being blocked as I haven't posted before. Would appreciate a heads up if it could be pointed out what I was doing wrong. Thanks.

Organdonor (talk) 12:06, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

How to move page titles
How do I actaully move page titles, because I can't find the "Relocate" button anywhere. Snake101201 (talk) 09:56, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * to move pages you need to be a sysop, also known as admin. As no-one has given you that role, you can't use the move function. I can move it for you, what page do you want to move? Rabbitseatcarrots (talk) 12:49, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the information and I was hoping you could move an article from a draft into the main space of RationalWiki. The article is called "Draft:Fact" because the wiki page is beyond done. Also one last thing, if I want an article titles to be moved weather its mine or someone else's, where do I go to tell admin instead of coming here? Snake101201 (talk) 06:34, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The page is now in mainspace. As for where you can contact admins, most active editors here are sysops (here sysop is given to other editors by existing sysops at will unless that user doesn't want to be a sysop for some reason or that user has sysoprevoke, we don't have processes like Wikipedia's RfA), any of them can move pages. You can contact them in their talkpages, but posting here is fine. Rabbitseatcarrots (talk) 13:00, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Alright thx got it. Snake101201 (talk) 02:54, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

I need help
I'm new to talking in wikis, and I've been lurking for a few months now, reading articles. I decided to make an account so i can talk in the Saloon bar and edit. I don't see an explanation, but i can't contribute to any topics in the Saloon, and i was hoping if someone could explain it to me. Help is appreciated, and thank you if you help. Matcha (talk) 08:16, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Due to a recent spate of trolling by sockpuppets of a banned user, the Saloon Bar is currently semi-protected so that new users can't edit it. Only autoconfirmed ones can. That protection is set to expire on 25 November. So all being well, you'll be able to write in the Saloon Bar as much as you like very soon. Spud (talk) 10:04, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Aaaaaaand that’s why I opposed locking the Bar. I told you so. I told you so. Maybe learn to ignore Ken shit next time. I told you so. 10:09, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I have lifted protection from the Bar. 10:11, 23 November 2022 (UTC)