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Per Elonka's advice I started a talk section here you are invited to participate there and explain your edits. Thank you. ≈Tulkolahten≈ 08:30, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I am sorry, but I really do not feel like reciting the whole story about WP:NCGN, WP:ENGLISH, and a vote at Talk:Bratislava for the twentieth time to the users, who already know all the relevant rules, but keep breaking them just because they can. They would either ignore me or dig into the history of my contributions to "prove" how "aggressive" and "disruptive" I am in general, in order not to discuss the articles themselves. I have been through all this crap before and it is the very reason for my wikibreak. I am burned out. I appreciate very very much what you are doing, but I cannot help you with this one. I do not believe any more that communication with those users can help and I do not see anything I can really do. Tankred (talk) 18:56, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Tankred (talk · contribs), I see that you went through several articles today, changing names. I have not researched the particular content of these articles, but it's fairly obvious from article history that these changes are controversial. However, I am not seeing corresponding discussion about your changes at the article talkpages. Please, whenever you make an edit that might be considered controversial, you must participate at the article talkpage, to explain your reasoning. If there is no existing discussion, then simply start a new thread. Whenever there is a disagreement about how to handle a particular article, Misplaced Pages requires that the involved editors engage in discussion about it at the article talkpage. Simply edit-warring is not an effective means of handling these things. Thanks, Elonka 08:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

(followup) I see that there is some controversy around your userpage, which some editors seem to regard as an Attack page. Because it's borderline, I am not going to revert the page, but I do recommend that at your next opportunity you rewrite things so that they do not refer to any particular user. Even though your comments are being done in a somewhat masked way, this could be seen as a violation of Misplaced Pages's policy on harassment.

If you feel that a particular user is disruptive, there are ways of dealing with that user, but complaining on your userpage is not wise. Better would be if, each time that you see the user do something which you feel is a clear violation of policy, that you caution them about it at their talkpage. To be most effective, cautions should be extremely polite, should include a diff of the behavior, a link to the related policy, and a suggestion of how the user can do better on Misplaced Pages. If multiple cautions do not seem to be effective, then you can notify an administrator. I can tell you from experience that an administrator's job is made much easier, when there is a history of calm (diffed) warnings on the user's talkpage.  :) Especially when those warnings are coming from an editor whose own behavior is exemplary. When two editors are equally disruptive, it is near impossible for an administrator to tell "who started it". But when one editor is calm and in adherence to policies, while the the other one is disruptive, it is much easier for the administrator to be able to take effective action. --Elonka 00:54, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for editing your user page earlier today, Tankred, without leaving a proper explanation at your talk page. Guess I was too busy and forgot. Anyway, I'm glad you removed much of the content that was bothering other users. Regards, Húsönd 02:22, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Noticeboard FYI

Discussion involving you has been posted at AN/I. --Onorem♠Dil 01:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)