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Oh, if only User:KNM treated all editors of Karnataka articles alike! Your cut and pastes of my contributions were accepted as O.K., unlike the care User:KNM took in his diff presented above not involving you. As you said in you emails, it was User:KNM who constantly updated your user pages with your glorious achievements and not you at all.

I drastically failed to understand my lowly editorial status in the eyes of you and User:KNM. I had been feeling increasingly uneasy and unhappy being in any way involved in your work for Karnataka (and uncomfortable with what seemed to me your non-neutral political views). I do thank you for that last massive cut and paste (plus your explanatory emails emphatically outlining your opinion of my role), making it clear to me that my desire to copy edit for Karnataka was at an end. I am very sure Karnataka will do excellently as the Indian block seems to be enabling Karnataka (and related articles) in its quest to take over Misplaced Pages! Sincerely, Mattisse 17:40, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Mattisse, I believe, you have misinterpreted my edit and edit-summary.

Article contents must not be blanked out by cutting its contents and pasting it into another article, with a different name. If we do this, then the article history doesn't get moved. For this, we should always be using the "MOVE" tool (link present in the top of every article, just beside the history link). When we use this tool to move an article, even the history of the article gets moved.

For better explanation on what I am trying to say, please refer to: WP:MOVE#Page_histories

I fail to understand what made you upset over this edit of mine. Anyways, I hope this clarification gives you the clear picture on what I have done. I have a high respect to you for all your massive contributions to Karnataka related articles, which have helped Dinesh on several of his FA drives. I do not want any misunderstanding between us, and you will continue to have high respect from my side. If you still have any questions, or if you still have any doubts on the integrity of all editors of Karnataka articles, please let me know. Cheers - KNM 18:39, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

User:KNM, I am quite aware of WP:MOVE#Page_histories and discussed it with Dinesh before his cut and paste. Your edit happened to catch my eye because it was a minor example of the very situation that I endured with Dinesh. I am upset with you because you undo the cut and paste for others, but did not do so ever for me on Dinesh's articles. For example, my last copy edited article for Dinesh was under a temporary name in my sandbox. (If you have ever copy edited one of Dinesh's articles you know what horrendous work it is.) Although Dinesh and I had discussed the Move option, he decided to cut it out of my sandbox and paste it into a new wiki page with a totally different name without consulting me. The article edit history were blanked out by this cutting of its total contents and the pasting into a blank page under a different name. It looked as if the author had created the whole article from scratch and there is no indication of my contributions in the cut and pasted article. This occurred despite the fact that I had explained the Move options as in WP:MOVE#Page_histories and the reasons for using it to Dinesh. I complained at the time to Dinesh and expressed my hurt to him. I had mistakenly thought we were in somewhat of a collaborative relationship as I contributed far more that the copy editing although he wrote the draft articles and referenced them. All I received from him was a figurative shrug.

As perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are explaining about above (as I am not getting a clearer picture of how I am missing your point), I would appreciate your explanation of how I have misunderstand the WP:MOVE#Page_histories option, if this is the case. In any event, my edit history is gone from an article that became FA. This episode and others have personally saddened me greatly. Sincerely, Mattisse 19:38, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

My reply

Mattisse, I am sorry to read the kind of stuff you have posted on my talk page. I though when you left editing KA related articles, we had parted as friends. I really think you should direct your frustration and grouse against the people who had harrassed you no end before you came on to helping me on Karnataka related articles. And as to imbalanced views, all the citations are there to prove the balance. I dont want to go on about this issue with you, as you seem to be getting more and more petty after all the effort I took to involve you in Karnataka articles. I think you did a great job. Lets leave it at that and stop throwing mud at me or the Karnataka work group. I wish you all the best.Dineshkannambadi 19:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)