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I wondered if you had a reply to my suggestion here? The thread was closed before you had a chance to reply, perhaps? Apologies if you already replied and I missed it, but I thought my suggestion made sense. --John (talk) 06:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- Certainly one of the more sensible things I've seen recently. I wasn't aware that it required a response. But I am in general agreement. However, I am not going to apologize for fixing a typo. I am learning from this experience, I don't mind saying. -R. fiend (talk) 19:41, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Easter Rising
Alison, on the Easter Rising article, there were two occasions were the page was protected, and on both occasions the page block was breached. The first occasion was here, protected by Luna, the protection was then breached here, with this comment on the talk page. Having pointed that they were told not to edit the page I got this response. There was a storm of protest on the talk page, if you notice there were two changes made. There was no agreement at all on the first of them, and it materially changed the whole context of the statement. This is outlined here and here in a rather long thread. The thing is, they knew what they were doing. They knew there was no agreement, and made me out to be a liar. I explained this and Fozzie checked it out, and agreed I was right. So while Jj137 page protected the article again the somewhat trivial edits take on a whole new aspect? So you have two breaches of page protection, despite the problems created. I just seems on the RfC, that the two have become mixed up? Thanks again, and I left a post here for you as well.--Domer48 (talk) 11:27, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Discussion from project page
To my (RxS (talk)) outside view R. fiend said:
RESPONSE: It seems you might be taking my "elsewhere" comment as a "don't edit Misplaced Pages if you don't like me personally", which is not the case. By elsewhere, I meant "if you're looking for a warm and friendly face, you're better off seeking another person." Not sure if you were interpreting that as such, but I want to clarify nevertheless. -R. fiend (talk) 19:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- When you say go elsewhere it's easy to imagine you mean some other site or article as opposed to if you had said go speak to someone else. But that's semantics and doesn't get to the heart of the point. An editor shouldn't have to pick and choose who to talk to if they want to avoid sarcastic/snide or generally uncivil responses. And they definitely shouldn't have to be afraid to approach an admin for the same reasons. The bottom line is that there's an enormous amount of space between warm/fuzzy and uncivil...and admins are really expected to act in that space. They can be warm and fuzzy if they want, but they can't be uncivil and snide if they want. I realize that everyone makes mistakes, and there has been times that everyone slips into incivility, but here it's a pattern and something you think (or seem to think) is ok. RxS (talk) 19:58, 5 January 2008 (UTC)