Iainidc

Reply to unsigned message on my talk

The reasons for the removal were given in my edit summary. If you had plans to continue developing the article (start by providing sources), there are plenty of templates around to indicate as such. In short, the tone was completely inappropriate for an encyclopedia article. See WP:TONE and WP:MOS if you need elaboration.

I also strongly recommend you revert this [1] edit. It's a violation of a number of policies. I don't want to involve administration over such an minor issue, but I won't tolerate incivility of this sort. Majorclanger (talk) 23:08, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

But apparently your"Honours Degree in English and History" didn't teach you not to use Christian names alone in formal writing. Or how to make sure one is logged in before leaving a reply to a comment. Or how to properly cite sources. I'm not interested in the slightest in continuing this conversation, particularly if you continue to be belligerent. Again I will point out that the edit referenced above violated the civility policy, and could actually be considered vandalism. If it's there much longer, I'll revert it myself and begin the process of getting a neutral third party involved. Majorclanger (talk) 06:03, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

This whole thing has been a horrendous case of overreaction on both of our parts. It's time to let it go. Upon further review, the really bad non-encyclopedic stuff in the article existed before your edit. I have no particular interest in the subject of the article - honestly I have no idea who he is at all. You misspelled "Super Bowl" which caught my attention (this particular mistake has a high correlation with trollery and vandalism), and I tossed it all without looking closely at it. Afterward the most egregious part remained, so I zapped it. I should have gone back and redone it from an earlier version, but I didn't.

I make no claims to being a Wikipedia "genius", but when I started, I did read the new users guide and tried to do what it says. You've made a number of newbieish errors, the worst of which was the subsequent edit I've referenced before. Seriously - don't do that again. That kind of stuff will get you blocked and blocked quickly if noticed by an admin or reported.

I do seriously doubt that you would "wipe the floor with" me as it's also (in part), what I do for a living. We're heading for a draw on that one.

I will leave you with this: if instead of carefully wordsmithing several replies on my talk, you would have restored just your own edits without the additional text I removed, this would have all been over quite a while ago. I would have seen the misspelling, fixed it, and Bob's your uncle.

Now, having reversed my intention to continue this conversation, I'm signing out for real. You can re-do the edits if you want, or not. I'll either be eliminating the end of the conversation on my talk or moving it into a new section, so any further reply on your part is useless.Majorclanger (talk) 12:56, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

October 2014

Please do not add or change content, as you did to John Flood (footballer, born 1960), without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. GiantSnowman 17:26, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Well excuse me for trying to add a little well-informed substance to the article concerned.