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Brusegadi
03:23, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
You said:
To which I answer: I've removed irrelevance, and so have others. Please try to show some discipline and discuss only matters relevant to the topic at hand. Sadly, t:GW suffers from bloat. You were a pariah because of your comments, not for being anon. Do you not understand that signing comments as though you were a different, totally unrelated user, is unacceptable?
And lastly: legal threats are sufficient to get you banned until you rescind the threats. Please do so William M. Connolley 08:21, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Mr. Feht: You may rest assured your current behavior will not last long in Wikipedia. After coming onto Talk:Global warming and pushing a non-reliable POV of a professional global-warming-skeptic "think tank", you have the temerity to make legal threats against Mr. Connolley and demand that he "refrain from further unethical activity on Wikipedia discussion pages". For what? Removing irrelevant material from the talk page? I point out that Connolley is well within his range of discretion as a WP admin. I've seen him act equally w.r.t. both sides of the NPOV coin, seeking to write Wikipedia articles in keeping with Wikipedia contant policies of WP:NPOV, WP:V and WP:NOR, as well as WP:RS and WP:NPOV#Undue_weight. The statement you made, "Regardless of your answer or lack of an answer, I will pursue this matter further through legal channels", to any reasonable person who reads it, is offensive and obviously threatening, and clearly was intended to be threatening. And, incidentally, you misrepresent the law w.r.t. emails. Obviously you sent it to him, he received it, and it's fair game for Mr. Connolley to post anywhere he wishes. He's under no obligation to suffer your threats privately. You, however, are under an obligation to immediately desist from making such threats. This assumes, of course, that a decision has not already been made within the community of Wikipedia administrators about any applicable administrative sanctions which may be brought to bear in response to this incident. ... Kenosis 22:54, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Re: this edit. It's not nit-picking. By inserting your name that way, your words were being attributed/assigned to a different user. Putting "Alexander" between the brackets sends everyone, who clicks on the name following your comments, directly to his page (try it, User:Alexander). Surely you can see how that is, at the very least misleading, and if done intentionally (at this point, I'm guessing that is not the case) extremely dishonest. R. Baley 08:32, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Welcome!
Hello, Alexander Feht, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}}
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Brusegadi
03:23, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
You said:
To which I answer: I've removed irrelevance, and so have others. Please try to show some discipline and discuss only matters relevant to the topic at hand. Sadly, t:GW suffers from bloat. You were a pariah because of your comments, not for being anon. Do you not understand that signing comments as though you were a different, totally unrelated user, is unacceptable?
And lastly: legal threats are sufficient to get you banned until you rescind the threats. Please do so William M. Connolley 08:21, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Mr. Feht: You may rest assured your current behavior will not last long in Wikipedia. After coming onto Talk:Global warming and pushing a non-reliable POV of a professional global-warming-skeptic "think tank", you have the temerity to make legal threats against Mr. Connolley and demand that he "refrain from further unethical activity on Wikipedia discussion pages". For what? Removing irrelevant material from the talk page? I point out that Connolley is well within his range of discretion as a WP admin. I've seen him act equally w.r.t. both sides of the NPOV coin, seeking to write Wikipedia articles in keeping with Wikipedia contant policies of WP:NPOV, WP:V and WP:NOR, as well as WP:RS and WP:NPOV#Undue_weight. The statement you made, "Regardless of your answer or lack of an answer, I will pursue this matter further through legal channels", to any reasonable person who reads it, is offensive and obviously threatening, and clearly was intended to be threatening. And, incidentally, you misrepresent the law w.r.t. emails. Obviously you sent it to him, he received it, and it's fair game for Mr. Connolley to post anywhere he wishes. He's under no obligation to suffer your threats privately. You, however, are under an obligation to immediately desist from making such threats. This assumes, of course, that a decision has not already been made within the community of Wikipedia administrators about any applicable administrative sanctions which may be brought to bear in response to this incident. ... Kenosis 22:54, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Re: this edit. It's not nit-picking. By inserting your name that way, your words were being attributed/assigned to a different user. Putting "Alexander" between the brackets sends everyone, who clicks on the name following your comments, directly to his page (try it, User:Alexander). Surely you can see how that is, at the very least misleading, and if done intentionally (at this point, I'm guessing that is not the case) extremely dishonest. R. Baley 08:32, 2 October 2007 (UTC)