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Why title change in acupuncture talk page?

You've turned it from a descriptive title into an almost meaningless title. --Mindjuicer (talk) 04:12, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

I agree. It should be restored. -- Brangifer (talk) 05:05, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

It gives essentially the same content (link to the article) but there's now a lot more room in the edit summary bar to write things. But change it back, I don't really care. WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 13:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Username

Hello. Your username suggests you have an official connection with Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. Your idiosyncratic communication style and edit patterns also suggest a connection with this school and the province in which it is located. I am happy to provide diffs off-wiki if you wish. I have concerns that your username suggests you are an official representative of that institution, and as such, it may violate our username policy. Accounts that purport to represent an entire group or company are not permitted. Can you expand on how you are personally or professionally connected with this school, and if you are connected, will you consider changing your username? I prefer to conduct these discussions on-wiki, but I am happy to take this off-wiki in the interest of your privacy. Jokestress (talk) 09:01, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

My user name is actually my initials, I have never represented myself as having any relationship to that institution, and I don't know if I've ever even edited the Wilfrid Laurier page. Also, be aware that this sort of comment really looks like a combination of outing and a mild, barely even a hint of a threat, that you might try to figure out my real-life identity and do something about it. I'm willing to assume good faith that this is not the intent of the post, but frankly when you completely fail to provide any diffs suggesting any sort of actually problematic edits (particularly when I've never, ever intimated on any level that I in any way represent the actual institution), it's a little hard. WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 13:01, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. As I said, I am happy to provide diffs off-wiki. Also as I said, I didn't include them because they do include identifying information. However, since you say your connection to WLU is merely a coincidence, I will take you at your word and consider this resolved. Jokestress (talk) 18:26, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

This discussion may interest you

Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Medicine#Giving MEDRS teeth, similar to BLP. Also, the discussion Sandy links to at the end of her opening comment. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 01:51, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

ANI on Kuliukas

I've filed an ANI report on Kuliukas. Please feel free to expand or clarify if you wish. Thanks. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 17:02, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Signed and awaiting your comment. Thanks. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 17:24, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Currently drafting, you're slowing me down :) WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 17:29, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Story

What's the deal with you and User:Bittergrey? Is s/he actually involved in the BLP dispute or just wikistalking you? Something that needs to be dealt with at AN/I? It seems personal and obsessive. I also checked his tp archives and found a lot of strange responses to what seem to be innocuous posts from you (e.g. about being the "better wikipedian"). Nformation 20:13, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Bittergrey is a he as far as I know.

The history of it all starts here, but the real guts of it are found at talk:paraphilic infantilism and it's archives (starting at archive 3). Other flashpoints are here (note that the paraphilic infantilism discussion started before outsaurus.com), here and if you really, really want a headache, you can read this, this, this and this, all ongoing simultaneously, and the latter three on the same page.

So there's a bit of wikistalking (on both sides) but Bittergrey has a habit of continuously bringing up my motivation, any past action he considers in any way questionable (to an absurd degree) and completely failing to ever recognize past consensus or editor improvements (for instance, note the dates of some of the edits brought up here, and my comment here. I keep getting annoyed and starting lists of all the accusations, but I hate (and often find unproductive) RFC/U, WQA, AN, ANI and related editor-assessing venues. I basically haven't been cheesed off enough to climb the mountain that is trying to resolve stuff like this. Doesn't help that I can't stop beating dead horses. As you can see if you read the RSN/FTN discussion, there's a lot, a LOT, of repetition - on BG's part because...I don't know why, and on my part because he keeps repeating the same essentially incorrect information. If someone points out that I'm wrong, I feel the need to both admit it (i.e. ) and let it drop. Despite repeating the same point many, many times (such as "the DSM does not discuss paraphilic infantilism, there is a pretty clear consensus on the topic" see here and here) he keeps citing it as if it did (i.e. ).

Yes, quite personal and obsessive. I can't say it's only one-way either, but I don't think the lion's share of the fault lies with me. A thumbnail's sketch can be found on my user page (search for "shiny dollar"). WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 20:44, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Do you think an interaction ban would be beneficial? I appreciate that you can admit fault in the matter but from what I've read (so far) I haven't seen you do anything egregiously rude or bad; at least on his talk page you've been as civil as can be expected. An RFC/U might also be an option. Honestly I probably have a shorter fuse than most editors when it comes to snarky and condescending responses, but at the end of the day I guess we have to remember that we're all just talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe :). Nformation 21:14, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Chimps and humans are apes, not monkeys :P My favourite comeback to creationists.

Personally? I think wikipedia would be flat-out best served if he were site-banned. Beneath the dispute between he and I is an unwillingness to compromise on articles, intolerance of dissenting POV, POV-pushing and willfull misrepresentation of sources. Another layer to that is the endless incivility that gets turned on anyone who disagrees with him. And I do mean "anyone" - look at his treatment of James Cantor (which has perpetuated for years) and WhatamIdoing, both of whom do not deserve it. Witness his treatment of FiachraByrne on talk:paraphilic infantilism. An interaction ban would help me, but wikipedia still has to deal with pointless drama. WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 23:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)