HawkNo1
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This would be a good time for you to read the guidelines for talk-page use, especially the notes about not altering/removing others' comments and the recommendation against substantially changing your own comments after others have responded to them. DMacks (talk) 06:22, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
No personal attacks please.
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on Stanley_Meyer's_water_fuel_cell . Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
Here are some choice quotes from your last posting:
- You are closed minded and biased as all get out. Your stuck in a box of laws and theories and you just plain are rude all the time.
- ...you have no common sense.
- ...you know nothing of electronics apparently.
(For what it's worth, I have a degree in electronics - and another in cybernetics. I've designed half a dozen chips from the ground up - I've engineered flight simulator electronic systems that sell for millions of dollars. How DARE you assume that I know nothing of electronics! You don't know the first thing about me - how could you possibly have any clue as to my electronics qualifications?) Have you any idea how rude it is to accuse someone of ignorance in a forum such as this where our intellects are all we have? You accuse me of being rude when I patiently replied to every single point you made in your first post to Talk:Stanley Meyer's water fuel cell - explaining carefully your misunderstandings! I don't think you even read what I wrote before spiralling off into another and then yet another diatribe. You won't get anywhere working on Wikipedia if you do that.
This is how our little community works: You write a post - I take considerable time to read it carefully, understand what you are saying - and then I spend about an hour writing a carefully thought out reply. I use the knowledge I have in the areas where I have expertise to explain what I know to be true. What's SUPPOSED to happen next is that you read my reply - and you note the things you agree with and the things you don't. Then you carefully - and VERY politely - reply to the points you disagree with. I read those and reply to them and very gradually over several days, we begin to understand each others position - and we can write an article that we can both live with (although we'll probably disagree in some areas still).
That is how Wikipedia works. By polite discussion and consensus building....not by long diatribes that read as if you have not read a word that the previous person wrote.
I can tell you this - the way you are going follows an all-too-common pattern. You'll survive here a couple of weeks - annoying every single person who works on the articles you frequent. At some point you'll start breaking more and more of our community rules (you already broke the "No Personal Attacks" rule. Then the admins will kick you out. You'll realise that you can just make another account (we call that a "sock puppet") but your ill-behavior will make you very easy to spot amongst the polite people here. Then you'll get a lifetime ban placed on your IP address - and you'll never be able to edit Wikipedia ever again. That's terribly sad - but I've seen it happen dozens and dozens of times.
So, while you have the chance: back off, calm down and work with the team here - then things will go much more smoothly. You don't have to change your opinions - you only have to moderate the way you express them on these pages.
Thank you.
SteveBaker (talk) 01:20, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
| “ | Unfortunately, the term has been somewhat hijacked by the free energy nuts to mean roughly: "something magical you get from water when you put electricity into it in a magical way". | ” |
| — SteveBaker@Talk:Hydrogen fuel enhancement | ||
| “ | ...you've been taken in by the conspiracy nuts - none of this stands up to actual examination.". | ” |
| — SteveBaker@Talk:Stanley_Meyer's_water_fuel_cell | ||
| “ | I think it could be all over the nut-job web pages within a week. | ” |
| — SteveBaker@Talk:Stanley_Meyer's_water_fuel_cell | ||
| “ | You'll survive here a couple of weeks - annoying every single person who works on the articles you frequent. | ” |
| — SteveBaker@User_talk:HawkNo1 | ||
| “ | How DARE you assume that I know nothing of electronics! | ” |
| — SteveBaker@User_talk:HawkNo1 | ||
It's not obvious at all you know anything about electronics. But anyway, just because I'm crazy doesn't mean you don't have to be kind and friendly to me. Free energy nuts are people to you know? Gdewilde (talk) 04:44, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
August 2013
edit Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Levitz Furniture. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted or removed.
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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive, until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively could result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Transcendence (talk) 21:58, 21 August 2013 (UTC)