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* ] Repeated personal attacks on his talk page and mine. I am fairly new to Misplaced Pages and appreciate suggestions on proper editing. However, this user's virulent personal attacks and gratuitous insults are way beyond the pale. --] 18:08, 12 March 2006 (UTC) * ] Repeated personal attacks on his talk page and mine. I am fairly new to Misplaced Pages and appreciate suggestions on proper editing. However, this user's virulent personal attacks and gratuitous insults are way beyond the pale. --] 18:08, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
**I would appreciate careful investigation of this one. What this user describes as "virulent personal attacks" and "gratuitous insults" are what I think a reasonable editor would consider "notifying a new user that it is not acceptable to , nor to determine what deserves to be despite ''not'' meeting the Misplaced Pages definition of vandalism." I am tired of my attempts to communicate to this editor being maligned as "virulent personal attacks" and "gratuitous insults" and "flames" and "ad hominems". -- ] 18:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC) **I would appreciate careful investigation of this one. What this user describes as "virulent personal attacks" and "gratuitous insults" are what I think a reasonable editor would consider "notifying a new user that it is not acceptable to , nor to determine what deserves to be despite ''not'' meeting the Misplaced Pages definition of vandalism." I am tired of my attempts to communicate to this editor being maligned as "virulent personal attacks" and "gratuitous insults" and "flames" and "ad hominems". -- ] 18:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
The fact that I made a grand total of <em>one edit</em> this editor disagrees with and <em>one</em> comment that I admit was incorrect does not give this person license to stalk me to my talk page and attack me personally on that page and his own -- identical attacks on each -- despite my requests that he desist. I admitted the "vandalism" comment was incorrect at least three times. What does he want me to do? Slash my wrists? I don't have any problem with the substance of his comments concerning that <em>one</em> edit and <em>one</em> comment. I do have a problem with this editor saying, on the basis of that, that I am a bad editor whose judgment cannot be trusted and who needs to be "watched." (I refer to his comments on his talk page and the ones on my talk page and which I removed.) If he is "tired" of my defending myself from his attacks then he should cease making them and behave in a civil fashion. --] 19:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)


* {{user|Garglebutt}} Garglebutt's user talk page contains a personal attack on two editors, including myself, Darren Ray under a heading ''Student Politics'' I propose a 24 hour block for the user and the removal of the attack by someone other than me, preferably an administrator. ] 01:54, 12 March 2006 (UTC) * {{user|Garglebutt}} Garglebutt's user talk page contains a personal attack on two editors, including myself, Darren Ray under a heading ''Student Politics'' I propose a 24 hour block for the user and the removal of the attack by someone other than me, preferably an administrator. ] 01:54, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

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  • Antaeus Feldspar Repeated personal attacks on his talk page and mine. I am fairly new to Misplaced Pages and appreciate suggestions on proper editing. However, this user's virulent personal attacks and gratuitous insults are way beyond the pale. --Tomstoner 18:08, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
    • I would appreciate careful investigation of this one. What this user describes as "virulent personal attacks" and "gratuitous insults" are what I think a reasonable editor would consider "notifying a new user that it is not acceptable to make attacks on the sanity of one's opponents in article space, nor to determine what deserves to be removed as vandalism despite not meeting the Misplaced Pages definition of vandalism." I am tired of my attempts to communicate to this editor being maligned as "virulent personal attacks" and "gratuitous insults" and "flames" and "ad hominems". -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

The fact that I made a grand total of one edit this editor disagrees with and one comment that I admit was incorrect does not give this person license to stalk me to my talk page and attack me personally on that page and his own -- identical attacks on each -- despite my requests that he desist. I admitted the "vandalism" comment was incorrect at least three times. What does he want me to do? Slash my wrists? I don't have any problem with the substance of his comments concerning that one edit and one comment. I do have a problem with this editor saying, on the basis of that, that I am a bad editor whose judgment cannot be trusted and who needs to be "watched." (I refer to his comments on his talk page and the ones on my talk page and which I removed.) If he is "tired" of my defending myself from his attacks then he should cease making them and behave in a civil fashion. --Tomstoner 19:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Garglebutt (talk · contribs) Garglebutt's user talk page contains a personal attack on two editors, including myself, Darren Ray under a heading Student Politics I propose a 24 hour block for the user and the removal of the attack by someone other than me, preferably an administrator. DarrenRay 01:54, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
The personal attack as above I have also been attacked and would appreciate the user being blocked and the attack removed. --2006BC 02:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)



  • User:Xtra has lauched repeated personal attacks against User:Lefty on campus. Xtra insists that I am also user PSYCH, posting these accusations on his own page , as well as other users' pages spreading his lies that we are the same person, even making these accusations on my own talk page , even when I EXPLICITLY told him I wasn't. This however is impossible, as I was blocked this morning for failing to remove links on my page. Both my account and IP address were blocked by Mark here 00:38, 12 March 2006 and unblocked by Danny here 02:54, 12 March 2006. There is no way I could have possibly posted during that time if I were User:PSYCH, as PSYCH posted here while I was still blocked from editing. Despite these facts, Xtra still maintains and insists we are one and the same encouraging other users to believe his personal attacks . Please, can't someone make him stop this silliness? Very uncouth. Lefty on campus 11:54, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

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