MetricMilitia

Your action on the Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Aric_Gilinsky has led to you being suspected of being a sockpuppet of Cicero Dog - a known trouble-maker. It is not official nor detrimental. The template will be taken off shortly after we establish the facts. Please do not remove the template.

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June 2007

'Sockpuppet' debate

Calm down. If you don't know what a sockpuppet is, well that's unfortunate. I'm sure your name will be cleared soon if that's the case. However, it would still be best to leave the notice up to streamline the process. I don't know what you did, if anything, I was just reverting the deletion because I knew that, for the time being, the notice has to remain here. LiamUK 20:24, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

I honestly don't know. I'm just a lowly editor. In the meantime, however, the notice won't affect your ability to use and improve Wikipedia at all. It just puts you on a list. LiamUK 20:39, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

That's not the point, I'm afraid. Someone's added you for a reason, in good faith because they genuinely believe this username is a sockpuppet. This isn't a case of innocent until proven guilty, because the tag does not make you guilty. It just means you are under investigation, which you are. Removing it won't change that, it will just be disruptive to the process, and will make you look more guilty. LiamUK 20:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

I doesn't matter what I think, all that matters is that you shouldn't be deleting warnings off your own userpage. The only person who should do that is the person who put it there originally, if they admit they made an error of judgement, or an admin after consensus has been reached. In fact, the warning itself tells you specifically not to delete it. It's something of a no-brainer; leave the tag until the matter is resolved, please. LiamUK 21:09, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Rules is rules. I'm staying out of it... LiamUK 21:18, 22 June 2007 (UTC) File:4q4jvxc.gif File:4q4jvxc.gif File:4q4jvxc.gif File:4q4jvxc.gif

Creation of attack page

Please do not make personal attacks as you did at User:217.44.184.205. Wikipedia has a strict policy against personal attacks. Attack pages and images are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images in violation of our Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you.

I'm not quite sure about you. The majority of your edits are useful contributions to the project, but your most recent looks like a personal attack. You're not really supposed to edit other people's user pages either... LiamUK 21:15, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Apology accepted. If you do see someone making bigoted comments on Wikipedia, I would agree something must be done. However, there is a method to it, just like dealing with vandalism, that makes sure it's dealt with, and you don't end up looking like the bad guy. If you see it, report it to an admin, or preferably tag their talk page (not their user page) with a warning. Look at the links I put up top for help on that. LiamUK 20:00, 25 June 2007 (UTC)