User talk:GusChiggins21 - Misplaced Pages

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A tag has been placed on Pitch blackjack, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done for the following reason:

covered by Blackjack article

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Your recent edits

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Edit war

Gus - I noticed this edit summary. May I request that you tone things down a little bit? Edit warring is against wikipedia policy, and if you engage in it you will be blocked. I don't have the time to evaluate and contribute to the discussion regarding the content of the article, but regardless of who is correct, edit warring is harmful. --best, kevin 06:28, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Gus - It takes two to edit war. Regardless of who started it, edit warring is harmful. Try working on a compromise on the talk page. Once there is consensus for a particular wording, then it should be put onto the main page. Thanks! --best, kevin 04:45, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Italics

Titles of books don't belong in quotation marks. They should be italicized. You can italicize something by adding two apostrophes before and after the words you want italicized. (This is an apostrophe: ' .) Thanks! Rray (talk) 01:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Dennis McCallum

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   ==Notability of Dennis McCallum==

AfD nomination of Dennis McCallum

I have nominated Dennis McCallum, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Dennis McCallum. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. - Philippe | Talk 13:50, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Personal attacks and edit warring

Your enthusiasm for your point of view is understandable, but please understand that this is supposed to be a collaborative environment. Personal attacks and edit warring don't encourage collaboration or improve articles.

Accusing me of spamming is a personal attack. Accusing me of deliberately "messing up" your articles is also a personal attack.

Reverting my edits to the references of an article by replacing them with lower quality links is edit warring.

I'm asking you to cease the personal attacks and cease edit warring. Your editing privileges here can be blocked for both behaviors. I'd rather work it out with you reasonably here on your talk page, but I can and will ask an administrator to intervene if this behavior continues. I've made over 4000 edits here to hundreds of articles, and I'm pretty transparent about my identity in the real world. Were I really a spammer, I would have made far fewer edits to a far smaller range of articles, and I'd be a lot more anonymous about my identity than using my first initial and last name. :)

Anyway, thanks for your time. Rray (talk) 20:20, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

You wrote on my talk page:

I don't like you, and you don't like me, so quit following me around and fucking up good articles, claiming that you're doing wikipedia a service by enforcing reliability, and constantly claiming that I just must not understand wikipedia policies. I understand them, and you clearly don't enforce them the same way with people that you don't like. So I'd appreciate if you didn't follow me around here, editing articles that you know nothing about, and linking to policies that don't support your edits, as if it somehow lends you the moral high ground. LEAVE ME ALONE

Please understand that I'm not following you around, I don't dislike you, and I don't damage good articles. I have a degree in Literature, so my copyediting skills are excellent. My repeated requests that you try to understand policies here have been polite and reasonable. I'm not interested in moral high ground. My only goal here is to improve the quality of the articles in the encyclopedia.

You have no authority to tell me not to edit any articles here; I have an interest and knowledge related to gambling-related topics, so I'll continue to edit them.

I've asked you before to stop with the personal attacks and the edit warring. Now I'm asking you to be civil. Using profanity and shouting by typing in all caps on my talk page isn't civil. Rray (talk) 20:38, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

You wrote:

Cutting out sections of all of someone's articles because you consider them a "bad editor" who "doesn't understand wikipedia policies" is completely inappropriate.

I never said you were a "bad editor". I said you've made some bad edits. Big difference.

It's entirely possible that you do understand Misplaced Pages policies here, but I prefer to assume that you don't understand them rather than assume you're deliberately ignoring them. Rray (talk) 20:49, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Since I've asked you to stop being uncivil and making personal attacks, you've:

used profanity on my talk page
shouted at me on my talk page
called me obnoxious
told me you didn't like me
and accused me of starting an edit war.

I've asked for help at Misplaced Pages:Wikiquette_alerts#User:GusChiggins21. It's considered appropriate to advise you that I've done so, which is why I'm leaving you this message. If that doesn't work, I'll ask for administrative help. Rray (talk) 21:07, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

December 2007

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Michael Behe. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. OrangeMarlin 07:11, 25 December 2007 (UTC)