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Happy editing! Cheers, Doug Weller talk 13:42, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024

Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to Kaspersky bans and allegations of Russian government ties while logged out. Please be mindful not to perform controversial edits while logged out, or your account risks being blocked from editing. Please consider reading up on Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts before editing further. Additionally, making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Also, stop revert warring and actually talk to Ilike2burnthing, preferably on Talk:Kaspersky bans and allegations of Russian government ties. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 06:12, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for reaching out. The last revert was done from my mobile phone and I did not realize I was logged out at the time. Byte-ul (talk) 09:12, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Happens to the best of us. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 11:25, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Looks like it happened again... Ilike2burnthing (talk) 18:07, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Kaspersky bans and allegations of Russian government ties

WP:WARN templates are for user talk pages, not article talk pages. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 16:54, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Dispute resolution notice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations_of_Russian_government_ties Ilike2burnthing (talk) 21:54, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

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Ilike2burnthing (talk) 06:31, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Third_opinion#Active_disagreements Ilike2burnthing (talk) 01:11, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

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Warning

Hello. You need to observe WP:NOTVANDALISM, whose maxim you violated multiple times @Kaspersky bans and allegations of Russian government ties. Such violations count as a personal attacks, and accordingly, are subject to sanctions. Thank you. El_C 14:29, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

@El C from WP:NOTVANDALISM: "Bold edits, though they may precede consensus or be inconsistent with prior consensus, are not vandalism unless other aspects of the edits identify them as vandalism".

Can you please list the exact aspects of my edits that identify as vandalism?

I never personally attacked anyone, nor did I vandalize any articles. If anything, I tried to prevent vandalism on the Kaspersky article.

You can read more about this here: Talk:Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations_of_Russian_government_ties Byte-ul (talk) 14:10, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't appear you even understood Wikipedia:Vandalism#What is not vandalism. It means don't falsely accuse others of committing acts of vandalism, because that would be a personal attack. If you're struggling with the English Wikipedia's own definition of vandalism, as dictated by that policy, all the more reason for you to exercise restraint concerning accusations that are unlikely to withstand scrutiny. Not that I really remember the specifics here, a month later, but these are the broad strokes at least. El_C 14:29, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Focus on content

Hi Byte-ul. Please stop personalizing the dispute at Talk:Vlachs, and focus on the content. If you have something to say about another editor's conduct, please follow the steps of WP:CONDUCTDISPUTE, which generally begin with civil discussion at their user talk page. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:59, 6 March 2024 (UTC)