Shieldsgeordie

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December 2009

Removed warning, sorry. Jusdafax 19:53, 26 December 2009 (UTC) No problem, thanks. I should be the one apologising. Shieldsgeordie (talk) 20:41, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

March 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. Please remember to observe this important core policy. Thank you.--John (talk) 16:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC) John my contributions were backed up by evidence.

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you.--John (talk) 17:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --John (talk) 20:51, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Why the insult?

In what way did I vandalise the Tiananmen protests page? I had my entire contribution deleted by John for a small rule breach that I was unaware of. I think he should have just deleted the bits he was unhappy about but I apologised to him on the discussion page in any case because we got off on the wrong foot. I stand up for myself and admit it when I'm wrong but I'm no vandal. Shieldsgeordie (talk) 18:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

This is indeed absolutely and completely my fault, my apologies.

As for some background: I was busy checking for vandalism with Huggle, and i noticed that the edit contained "John Is OK :)". Around that time there were a lot of "X is Hawt" / "I am cool" and similar edits, thus i reverted it. However, i completely missed the fact that this was a talk page, and not an article. Had i seen that, i would have (obviously) never reverted it.

As for the unfriendly warning: Huggle checks the users talk page for previous warnings, and automatically placed the next warning level on that users talk page. Since a level 1 and level 2 warning was already present, it added a level 3, which assumes bad faith. I striped the error on your talk page, but your obviously more then welcome to remove it should you wish to do so. The reason i didn't do so was that it would seem as if i was hiding this incident.

Again, my sincere apologies for this mistake. With kind regards, Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 18:15, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. It's ok. You seem like a great guy. Only the best people admit when they make mistakes. I would say that because I've just done it too ha ha. Anyway nice to meet to meet you :) Shieldsgeordie (talk) 18:23, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

And it is a pleasure to meet you as well, though it would probably have been better if another reason would be the basis for our meeting (Somehow i cannot shake the cinematic of two persons walking around a corner and colliding full-force, with me being the person that is holding the newspaper and not watching anything else). Either way, based upon your edit history it would seem you are a fairly new user edit-wise, so let me say "Welcome!" as well, and slap one of those slightly-useless welcome templates on your user page for good measure. Somehow it seems no one got around to pointing you to 150+ pages of policy no new user is ever going to read. O well, guess ity is a custom to welcome new users that way, and seeing you didn't get that treatment yet...

Sillyness aside, if you need any assistance or if you have questions, feel free to ask them on my talk page. Naturally the helpdesk, the second helpdesk, the Help where is the help desk? and the self-help desk are also available for that purpose, but im availible nontheless. With kind regards, Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 18:41, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

This kind of stuff will get you an enforced break from Wikipedia (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 21:06, 18 March 2010 (UTC)