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Please check the archives for anything older. Moreschi 17:44, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Finally. It was like roll, roll, roll, yawn, roll, roll... But don't worry will make this one as big in no time. VartanM (talk) 17:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Macedonia naming dispute

Oh the irony... Will 23:44, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

FYI

Lawrence § t/e 00:00, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

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VartanM

I hope you can take a look at this and my report . The comments are inappropriate and are essentially a personal attack to which I prefer not to respond. But this form of targeting of myself for article contribution grievances really needs to stop. Thanks. Atabek (talk) 05:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

But he is truly being immature here. Accusing me of POV and OR for presenting the majority position is senseless. He lied on his report about me to have me sanctioned. I wasn't even included in the proposed decisions neither in the AA1 nor the AA2, I was placed in restriction months after AA2 for a dubious reason. Check the discussion on the articles talkpage, as he does not even read what others write and basically repeats the same things which were addressed. He even lies about the harassment for a material presented in the evidence of this arbitration case. I am getting tired of his creative wiki-lawyering, and he just abused the report incidence once again. Anyway, I already mentioned that I won't bother, he can disrupt all he wants and you can ignore it all you want. VartanM (talk) 18:41, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Meanwhile you never addressed the inflammatory, racist and incivil comments on your talkpage. , VartanM (talk) 20:43, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps because I thought the comments from Tigran were just as bad? Having a go at each other's nations is not, strictly speaking, a policy violation, though as far as you lot are concerned that may change. Now, please, Vartan. Cool it. I realise the ArbCom case means things are all a little heated at the moment, but it's no reason to go totally overboard. Moreschi (talk) 20:59, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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Notice of editing restrictions

Dear Moreschi, Unfortunately I cannot disagree with your reasons for giving me a notice for being uncivil on several discussion pages. When people are rude and dishonest, it irritates me plain and simple. I'm sure I get sucked into it too much, and get too reactive. If you wish to achieve the laudable objectives implied by your warning, I hope you have also issued similar warnings to Tymek, Ostap, Molobo and, especially, Space Cadet, and that you will devote similar attention to their posts. Ubudoda (talk) 03:48, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Space Cadet was warned earlier by another admin and I did, in fact, recently block him for his violation of the civility supervision. I'll take a look at the contributions of the others. Moreschi (talk) 13:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

RfB

You never asked me to comment, Moreschi. You stated you had concerns, and far be it from me to try and influence your decision unasked and unprompted. But, should you be interested, I have responded to Jay at length. Thank you for taking the time to participate and make your opinion heard. -- Avi (talk) 15:14, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

And, as an aside, I supported Riana and opposed Mongo, so do you still think I am under the influence of shadowy cabals? -- Avi (talk) 16:46, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

You are being discussed

Perhaps you were already aware of this, but just in case you aren't . --Folantin (talk) 09:23, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I'd missed that, but seeing as my IRC is broken, it's scarcely relevant. Irpen can waste his time if he wishes. Moreschi (talk) 13:55, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

My RfB

I wanted to personally thank you, Moreschi, for your participation in my recent RfB. I am sorry that you feel that once incident, in which I was a passive participant, and over which I had no control was enough to outweigh 30+ months and 21K+ edits, and I am gratified that almost everyone else saw fit to either support my request, or oppose for technical and not fundamental reasons. Regardless, if you have any suggestions, comments, or constructive criticisms, please let me know via talkpage or e-mail. Thank you again. -- Avi (talk) 18:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

For the record, I really don't think you're an evil person, or a sicko cabalist. You dealt with my comments, and those of others, well and in an honourable fashion. I still have...a feeling, shall we say? I apologise for the irrationality, but...ah. Anyway, good luck. Moreschi (talk) 21:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Gah

He's back at it I'll undo this, but surely this kind of behaviour warrants admin action as a disruptive, pointy, poor faith exercise. Thanks for taking care of the rollbacks. Eusebeus (talk) 16:17, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Left a final, final warning. Moreschi (talk) 21:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Something to consider... whether or not the initial intention was "pointy" (and I'm not addressing that here), the fact is that a discussion about merging did actually start, and is still under way. Repeatedly removing the template before that debate is concluded could in fact be considered disruptive. (Removing it would be more appropriate if there had been no discussion; given that there is, it makes more sense to allow it to conclude and then remove the template.) --Ckatz_spy 06:50, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Plague sock

AerospaceM (talk · contribs) seems to be identical with a serial dynamic-IP edit warrior, 77.83.xx.xx, and most likely is a reincarnation of Mywayyy (talk · contribs), who was banned for incessant revert warring in summer of 2006 (and subsequently waged a weeks-long sock war on Misplaced Pages). All of these users focus on removing Turkish placenames from Greek locality articles, edit-warring over the "FYROM" naming, or removing references to non-Greek minorities in general.

• National Bank of Greece , (note extreme revert-warring spree)
• Komotini ,
• Xanthi ,
• Minorities in Greece ,
• Greece ,

• IPs:
  • 77.83.40.55 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
  • 77.83.38.159 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
  • 77.83.42.118 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
  • 77.83.43.254 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
  • 77.83.37.237 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
  • 77.83.23.111 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
  • 77.83.46.197 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Other thematic links with Mywayyy

• Interest in communications companies, especially OTE, in Greece

• Interest in macroeconomic statistics (GDP data etc.)

Please do as your wisdom guids you. :-)

Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:55, 9 March 2008 (UTC)