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Just wanted to say thank you to COLONEL77 for his edits and continuing interest in a great American, LTC Mucci. It's so important that those who served in WWII, Tom Brokaw's "greatest generation" be remembered. Hawkeye1968 (talk) 20:04, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

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I just saw your Facebook-worthy meltdown on Larry Hockett's talk page. Not cool. There are problems with the edits that you are making, so instead of throwing a tantrum and whining about perceived insults, you should try doing a better job. At any rate, I will not permit you to continue yelling at Larry, so consider this your last warning. LEPRICAVARK (talk) 16:45, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

COLONEL77 (talk) 22:48, 23 February 2020 (UTC) Lepricavark - Sir - Are you not even going to ever respond to WikiLove response inquiry sent back to you right after your above send as it has been more than 24 hours - ??? - What exactly do you mean by insultingly say a " Facebook-worthy meltdown " - ??? -Am not ever on FB other than to check the very few things yearly where people send best wishes / birthdays / condolences / etc. - ??? - What is wrong with this Larry Hockett person where he has to have you butt in for him like a crying little baby over all of these wrongly perceived silly ' problems he has with me - NOT APPRECIATED !!! - ??? - Why are you even seeing what is actually only being sent back to him in the first place as have never heard of or addressed anything to you before - ??? - Is this standard Wikipedia policy to do such - ??? - If so that also needs to be dealt with - Next, no one is ' THROWING A TANTRUM ' /' WHINING ' - This is exactly the sort of thing I and so many others have been talking about with you not at all with it Wikipedia ' editing ' people who will not decently answer any questions, always threatening as you have meanly done above, will not respond to ' real ' email nor provide any proper real Wikipedia email address(es) to send inquiries / complaints to, nor give a Wikipedia phone number to call in order to go through these so called ' problems ' like real educated gentlemen should - ??? - This is what so many say about Wikipedia that you are all in your little world doing this sort of very poor 'editing ' of mainly areas you appear to know nothing at all about and not treating people properly / fairly / decently - If you have time to send out what you did in your most insulting response above then you should have at least some time daily / weekly / monthly to do some ' real ' work to correct and amend the, literally, thousands of things found by many of us out there who try to help out Wikipedia with, such as missing letters in words / missing words / wrong words / wrong dates / wrong facts / incomplete areas / etc. - Is none of this at all appreciated - ??? - Certainly appears that way on the face of it - Something to think about, right - ??? - Therefore as it appears as if none of you types wish to be in contact to discuss these matters in a manner to which should be expected so be it although all of this is on you as have been trying to only speak to someone / anyone over all of this - Personally, I only joined because I saw, and still see, so many areas almost ever time on Wikipedia which needed attending to although never expected to be attacked in this manner over doing something for Wikipedia ' FREE !!! ' / ' NO CHARGE !!! / taking time to be of some help / some assistance, which appears to be not at all welcomed. COLONEL77. COLONEL77 (talk) 22:48, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

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I've blocked you for your consistently rude interactions with other editors and admitted account sharing. Money emoji💵^{Talk💸Help out at CCI!} 23:15, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

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Thank You - Expected this - That's it -

Am done with all of you so insultingly awful people as have only ever asked nicely to be heard, however to have so many of you all ' chirp ' so dumbly like this is way beyond absolutely disgraceful.

Am so terribly sorry I spoiled your little time wasting play toy.

You do not deserve anyone like me and I, at my advanced years, most certainly do not need any of you terribly unintelligent ignorant types.

None of you apparently went to the trouble to ever think to delve into fact the entire JACK DENNETT page I entered so many proper changes / additions to was originally from my radio obituary and a fuller written printed piece for funeral, written years ago ( 1975 ), way before Wikipedia even began and was not any kind of joint effort as your idiotic emoji fool claimed.

Would not expect any of you were even born before 1975 !!!

The other time was when working 24 / 7 on television news and my lady felt it best to respond to provide an answer within hours not knowing you people would then become all bent out of shape in such a silly ass manner, seemingly something you people could not understand even when explained to.

You all need to lighten up, actually you all need to smarten up.

Everyone knows you are doing this as ' volunteers ', BIG DEAL !!!

There is no way anyone with a working brain would pay any of you for any of this !!!

Reading your collective rubbish biographical entries all would see you wipe down cars with a sandy rag !!!

I am one of very few ever entering anything on Wikipedia who actually knows many if not all the sports figures and military personages have done up entries for, many with approval and thanks of families for making their entries read better with fuller material, having been on television / radio from age of 10 to now just short of 73.

Who of you served in the military, who of you actually played any sports, who of you actually has ever been on television/ radio for 60+ years ???

Likely NONE !!!

So, go right ahead, block FOREVER, no problem, although Wikipedia are the end losers in all of this.

Be very sure to tell your Wikipedia ' bosses ' and show them the entire file as would not feel they would be at all pleased in seeing good people tossed away like garbage in this manner.

No thanks ever from any one of you so smart types who seem afraid to respond to inquiries in a proper / intelligent manner or to provide a Wikipedia person to talk with, a Wikipedia phone number to call, a real Wikipedia email address, as asked for a number of times, for these thousands of additions / corrections, by count of over 8,000 individual letters / words / sentences / whole paragraphs / corrections / etc., which is not needed but one would think some of you would realize something is wrong in almost all of this.

Will not ever darken your door again.

COLONEL77

Sunday 23 February 2020

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PLEASE NOW CLOSE OUT THE ACCOUNT OF -- COLONEL77 -- THEN REMOVE ALL ENTRIES EVER PLACED FROM THE VERY START ON EVERY WIKIPEDIA PAGE -

FAILURE TO DO SO MIGHT BRING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST WIKIPEDIA AND ALL NAMES NOTED -

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

COLONEL77

SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2020

February 2020

I have revoked your talk page access for violating the policy Wikipedia:No legal threats. If you want to be unblocked, please follow the process described at Wikipedia:Unblock Ticket Request System. I notice that you are belittling other editors based on your presumption that they are young. Please be aware that I am 67 years old and am proud to be an administrator on one of the world's most popular websites. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 04:40, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

And I, too, am an administrator who, like you, was born pre-1960, and who is proud to defend all reasonable contributors' rights here. You are not alone in being an old bloke here, nor an expert in your field. But you are alone in your unreasonable view of how this amazing encyclopaedia functions, and your foolish dismissal of anyone younger than you. I clearly misjudged your ability to contribute in a collaborative manner, and now there is no place for you here. Thank you for your past contributions. You released these under a free licence, and have no claim over them. Good luck for the future. Nick Moyes (talk) 09:45, 24 February 2020 (UTC)