User talk:69.22.254.111
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[edit] 216.125.163.56 vandalism
Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I reported the vandalism to the administrators and that IP address now has a 6 month block on it. You can report such things yourself to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, but remember not to report it until there is vandalism after final warning. Thanks again. Cynrin 21:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Active voice
You made a change to the Heather Mills section of the Paul McCartney page, changing passive voice to active. I wanted to say thanks. I've been making that change in lots of articles, but I wrote that sentence, and I when I saw your change, I was reminded to be humble. John Cardinal 23:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] New messages (Ouch!)
You are not alone about that "You have new messages" feeling. It still makes me think as if I have been told to go to the headmaster's office, which was years ago... :) ThE bEaTLeS aka andreasegde 06:56, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I hope you've already figured this out yourself...
Regarding comments you left on User:Fuhghettaboutit's talk page a couple of months back, which I rather randomly ran across, I have a late-coming, but to me important, third-party response: Throwing WP:OWN at someone without really severe provocation and a whole lot of solid evidence of POV editwarring is often responded to with a counter-reference to WP:DICK. Accusations of WP:OWNership are outright accusations of bad faith. Perhaps you would not feel that the "You have new messages" banner was threatening (see immediately-above topic) if you weren't doing things to generate negative messages on your talk page (some of us are very happy when we see that notice appear). Just a word to the wise; not intended as a flame, and as the topic heading suggests, maybe you're already well past that phase. If so, please pardon my bringing it up again. If not, please rethink reliance on that (and any similar, e.g. WP:VANDAL) policy-page. I learned the hard way myself that over-reliance on it can bite one back, and pretty hard. :-/ — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 06:31, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] CC of posting
Thank you for your unsolicited comments. In response, it's necessary to note that the man's rationale for not accepting the proper subhead was "I wrote the article." One might ask: What does that mean? Why is he saying that? Any reasonable observer would conclude he is asserting ownership, saying his edits supersede those of other editors.
In this light, of course, your WP:DICK remark was needlessly insinuating, to be polite.
Finally, many editors have trepidation about new messages. That's because people are slow to compliment and quick to complain. I hope you can see why ascribing trepidation solely to those receiving the message paints a selective and incomplete picture. Thank you for the opportunity to respond. If you new issues at some other point, please do communicate them. --69.22.254.111 17:56, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- That was not his rationale for not accepting what you believe was an improved edit. Here's the quote: "Those are not references because they were not used as references (I wrote the article; please see the page history)." I.e. he was saying "I should know, since I'm the one that put them there". He then proceeds to explain to you in quite a bit of detail what his actual rationale is. "I wrote the article" wasn't even part of the rationale, it was a side note). And yes, I'm aware that it is pretty WP:DICKish to mention WP:DICK. I don't do it often, and I try to do it humorously. Maybe that wasn't conveyed well in your case - sorry! — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 22:18, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
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