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Help desk

Your question on the help desk has been replied to. --Malthusian (talk) 20:34, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk page etiquette

Comments like these are inappropriate and will be removed. · Katefan0/poll 18:58, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Randazzo and I have talked, and I thank him/her for the coutesy, and I believe such won't happen again, and this user will be, as they were with Bonnie and Clyde, a positive contributer! old windy bear 22:51, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

bonnie and clyde

I was not the source of the "battery acid" quote - I am well aware most (though not all, some reports do indicate it was leaking battery acid from the old, huge, batteries which did the msot damage) say it was fire damage from being trapped underneth a red hot frame from the fire -- but yours was a good edit. and congrats, and also thank you for talking to me about the other comment - that takes a big person, and a good one. You will make a fine user here, helping! old windy bear 22:48, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

More inappropriate comments

It's not appropriate -- it's uncivil and hurtful. I am blocking you for 24 hours; please stop making comments like this, or the block will be longer next time. · Katefan0/poll 14:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I like what I like

Please don't tell me what cars I like and what cars I don't like. If I like the Eagle Premier (which, by the way, is not an "impossible to repair", "throw away" car like you claim it is), then tough. --ApolloBoy 02:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Again, STOP harassing me about my choices in cars. I know all about Chrysler engines and transmissions; I don't need your advice. If you leave another demeaning message on my talk page again, I will be forced to take action against you. --ApolloBoy 01:28, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

ApolloBoy I was asked as a disinterested party to look at the comments you deleted from Randazzo56 on your talk page. I realize it is your talk page, but it is generally not good wikipedia Etiquette to delete someone's comments on an article just because you disagree with them. When someone with genuine expertise offers an opinion, it is not meant to attack you, or dictate your choice of cars, merely offering an opinion as to their reliability and the general cost of repair of that vehicle over it's lifetime. As to your articles, you need to understand, as I had to, that anyone may edit them, mercilessly, and the three revert rule applies to you as well as the user editing. You seem very well versed on automobiles, and I am sure it is frustrating to have your expertise questioned, but again, I had to learn on history issues, (I am a historian), that MANY people have expertise, and many of them will disagree with you! The comments in question were not personally demeaning, or an attack on you, just a statement on the car. old windy bear 13:08, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I never directly said he was challenging my expertise. The way he arose his opinions made it sound like he was being demeaning towards me. He's also attacked me as well, if you look at the vandalism he did on the Requests for Investigation page. An top of that, I still think Fat Carl and the AOL IP that vandalized my talk page are his sockpuppets, since they both edited similar pages and edited my talk page in less than 2 hours. --ApolloBoy 05:31, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

ApolloBoy Good morning! I honestly do not believe he was trying to personally challange your expertise, which is pretty formidable, by the way. I really believe at the onset he was just commenting on repair issues. I think that was simply a professional disagreement between two experts, and you and I both know that happens on wikipedia a great deal! Lord, if you look at the disagreements I have had on some of the history articles I have worked on, you would think they were dogfights! I think he lost his temper on the request for investigations page, which I have done myself, when things turn personal. That was why I advised him to NEVER let a professional disagreement - because he is also an expert - turn personal. He is also a genuinely nice guy, and I really don't believe he meant to insult you - this just got out of hand, and you knom, from your time here, how easily that happens! I truly don't believe Fat Carl is a sock puppet of User:Randazzo56because both have been involved on different sides of an issue with the Bonnie and Clyde article. I have not known User:Randazzo56 to use an AOL IP either. In any case, I don't believe ] will use your talk page to disagree - if there are professional differences, he will put them on the talk page of the article, where they can be discussed appropriately. I don't know Fat Carl and truly don't believe he is the same person. Again, they disagreed on a very heated issue on the Bonnie and Clyde article, which tells me that they are not the same person. Besides, I know User:Randazzo56 and believe him when he says that he does not use sock puppets. I think that was a coincidence, and they do happen. I appreciate your discussing this with me, and trying to reach a resolution that avoids trouble between users who both want to help wikipedia. You are a genius with cars. So is ]! I think you would actually find you two have more in common with your love of cars than differences! Remember please that experts do disagree - something that was hard for me to learn, believe me! Misplaced Pages needs you both, and where you disagree, let it be on the talk page of the article involved, and both can discuss it professionally, not personally. Take care! old windy bear 11:14, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Randazzo56 As requested, I went and looked at the comments in question. I do not feel you left anything inappropriate. I would simply not leave comments on ApolloBoy's talk page, because he obviously does not wish to discuss his articles there unless you agree with him. As to the specific articles, you are free, as any user is, to edit his article. If you feel, as an expert, that those cars are hard to repair, (an opinion shared by many, look at their sales statistics!), then you are certainly allowed to edit the article to reflect that. The 3 r rule would then come into effect. If either party reverted more than 3 times in 24 hours they would be violating wikipedia policy. I would appreciate a link to the article in question, so I can look at that also. (I might add some things on those cars myself, because i support your comments on the talk page!) But as to his talk page, your comments were not inappropriate, and he should not have deleted them - but it probably is not worth arbitration. I just would not leave comments on his talk page, since he does not want them. But again, as to the articles, I have had mine (as you know!) mercilessly edited, and reedited, and that is simply the reality of writing on wikipedia! If your comments were deleted on an ARTICLE then that is a serious breach of wikipedia rules. Leave me a link to the article page, and I will check that.I strongly suggest with your expertise that you join project automobile, and instead of just amauters giving us opinions, we can have an expert! The link to that project is http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Automobiles You merely enter your name on the project list - you don't need to be nominated or anything like that, and with your background, you are needed on that project.old windy bear 13:00, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Get A Job

At no time did I attempt to tell you what you may or may not like. I never offered any advice. Find a dictionary and look up the term "Demeaning". I simply offered my opinion on your article, which any contributer is entitled to do. If you cant take criticism, you dont belong on wikipedia. randazzo56

{Please do not make personal attacks on other people. Misplaced Pages has a policy against personal attacks. In some cases, users who engage in personal attacks may be blocked from editing by admins or banned by the arbitration committee. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Please resolve disputes appropriately. Thank you. FYI: this post is in regards to your edits on the Misplaced Pages Administration's Investigation Page Signature 02:55, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

brendel is right on this one, don't let your distress at people lead you to make comments on them personally. I had to learn that one! Stay with the issues! You have genuine expertise on automobiles, in particular, and have every right to edit any article on automobiles, and defend the edit on the talk page OF THAT ARTICLE. Just be careful, don't give people who disagree with you ammunition to get you blocked by saying anything personal, no matter how irritating they are! I got blocked for the same thing, and in the end, saw that the administrator was right -- stay with the issues. You have made some very good edits on ISSUES, don't get sidetracked into personalities. On the opinions on articles, leave them on the article talk page, and as long as nothing personal is said about the writer, you may mercilessly rip the article - as users frequently do mine! No one who cannot take criticism, belongs on wikipedia, but it has to be criticism of the article, on the article talk page, rather than their personal page. (I personally don't care if people leave comments on my talk page, but i am less thin skinned than some. It is better as policy to leave disagreements on the ARTICLE talk page, because that is what it is there for). old windy bear 13:19, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for experimenting with the page User:Fat Carl on Misplaced Pages. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. AmiDaniel (Talk) 01:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

User pages

Please don't edit other peoples' user pages. If you're the same person as User:Fat Carl, then you need to say so. · Katefan0/poll 02:18, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Not necessarily, no... if you want, you can just redirect that account's user and talk pages here to these pages, and just make sure to only edit from this account going forward. That sound OK? · Katefan0/poll 03:11, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

To this account. So if anybody clicks on the Fat Carl account's user or talk pages, they'll be redirected to these instead. I went ahead and just made the change. So, just edit from this account going forward. Good luck and let me know if you need any help. · Katefan0/poll 03:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Blocked

Hi. I have blocked you for a month for your activities today, which have included trolling, inflammatory rhetoric , altering others' talk page comments , and vandalizing other users' userpages . Misplaced Pages has strict rules about conducting yourself civilly and refraining from making personal attacks. I know you know about these rules, because we've had discussions about them in the past. Please use this time to figure out how you can contribute to Misplaced Pages without falling afoul of these rules. · Katefan0/poll 00:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

((Quote))"Vandalism of userpages, inflammatory rhetoric, and altering others' talk page comments"((End Quote))

Thats the reason I got for my IP being blocked from this Biased, Censored, Myth mixing with Facts site called Misplaced Pages. Id Like you to explain to me right now each and everyone of those accusations without foolishness, what I mean is give me a "Real reason"...

The last one 'Altering others Talk page comments" Two Words DEAD WRONG! I did no such thing perhaps you would like to quote the edit history of this blatant claim...-Marduk

You can see links to the cited behavior above (links "3," "4," and "5." · Katefan0/poll 17:43, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

AOL Denial of service vandal, please clean up long trail of autoblocks--205.188.117.67 01:48, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

BACK AT LAST

want a laugh?

randazzo56 Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:70.128.224.128 and look at that fool and my answer. Feel free to pitch in, you never minded a good rumble! old windy bear 21:33, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

randazzo56 Go look at what MyTwoCents is trying, yet again, to do to Bonnie and Clyde, which I will obviously fight, and would appreciate your help. old windy bear 11:03, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Everyone

Wants to be an "Editor" and choose their own rules. Erasing comments on talk pages is also vandalism. If you dont like vandals then perhaps its not a good idea to engage in this practice. Continuing to do so will encourage Creative Vandalism. randazzo56 00:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

aurora

hi i live in new haven, and the local paper carried a piece on the aurora, since branford is a local town. amazing vehicle! Gzuckier 15:05, 6 July 2006 (UTC)