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| :: As it works out, your prediction was slightly inaccurate - someone called "Guy" jumped straight to indefinite blocks! Obviously I have now been unblocked, and there is a huge brouhaha on AN/I about this. It seems this place can be quite a snake-pit (present company excepted) - but I'm not giving up on it just yet. ] (]) 17:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC) | :: As it works out, your prediction was slightly inaccurate - someone called "Guy" jumped straight to indefinite blocks! Obviously I have now been unblocked, and there is a huge brouhaha on AN/I about this. It seems this place can be quite a snake-pit (present company excepted) - but I'm not giving up on it just yet. ] (]) 17:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC) | ||
| ::: Def. or indef blocks, either way, it was going to end badly. I'm glad I bowed out when I did. This situation occurred once before and I learned the lesson the hard way. The minute there's a wikidrama like this it's better to find something else to edit on the 'pedia. You can guarantee that the admin mop, wielded by fallible human beings, will be dirty by the end of it all. ]<sup>]</sup> 18:50, 10 February 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Recent attacks by other editors
Coldmachine, I wonder if you had a look at the talk page of one of the editors who recently made an accusation against you that amounted to "failing to assume good faith". I'm referring to Pete St.John - and if you have a look here you will see that he appears to have a long history of this sort of thing and is currently blocked from editing. I think most people will see his words as more a reflection on him than on you.
I hope this message doesn't go against your wishes about being contacted - my sincere apologies if it does. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 13:33, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- Hi, no, don't worry about it. I did take a look at that editor's contribution history and it's less than polite to say the least. Still, the AfD process has drawn the situation back into partisan lines and that has essentially ruined the progress which I, Tony, and other editors, had managed to accomplish in terms of drawing people back from an edit war and into dialogue over changes to article content. It's a shame, but when one entry on Misplaced Pages is taking up so much time and energy it isn't worth the long-term trouble which will eventually boil up. I've seen this before with other articles; first it start with edit wars, then an AfD, then it'll go to review, then there'll be accusations about sockpuppetry and RfC's against one another, and then there'll be blocks handed out by admins - whether they affect the innocent or not. Better to, as they say, duck and dive. Coldmachine 17:18, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- As it works out, your prediction was slightly inaccurate - someone called "Guy" jumped straight to indefinite blocks! Obviously I have now been unblocked, and there is a huge brouhaha on AN/I about this. It seems this place can be quite a snake-pit (present company excepted) - but I'm not giving up on it just yet. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 17:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
- Def. or indef blocks, either way, it was going to end badly. I'm glad I bowed out when I did. This situation occurred once before and I learned the lesson the hard way. The minute there's a wikidrama like this it's better to find something else to edit on the 'pedia. You can guarantee that the admin mop, wielded by fallible human beings, will be dirty by the end of it all. Coldmachine 18:50, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Oxford round table AfD
I made another comment. Bearian'sBooties (talk) 02:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)