User talk:GusChiggins21 - Misplaced Pages

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covered by Blackjack article

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Your recent edits

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Edit war

Gus - I noticed this edit summary. May I request that you tone things down a little bit? Edit warring is against wikipedia policy, and if you engage in it you will be blocked. I don't have the time to evaluate and contribute to the discussion regarding the content of the article, but regardless of who is correct, edit warring is harmful. --best, kevin 06:28, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Gus - It takes two to edit war. Regardless of who started it, edit warring is harmful. Try working on a compromise on the talk page. Once there is consensus for a particular wording, then it should be put onto the main page. Thanks! --best, kevin 04:45, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Italics

Titles of books don't belong in quotation marks. They should be italicized. You can italicize something by adding two apostrophes before and after the words you want italicized. (This is an apostrophe: ' .) Thanks! Rray (talk) 01:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Dennis McCallum

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   ==Notability of Dennis McCallum==

AfD nomination of Dennis McCallum

I have nominated Dennis McCallum, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Dennis McCallum. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. - Philippe | Talk 13:50, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Personal attacks and edit warring

Your enthusiasm for your point of view is understandable, but please understand that this is supposed to be a collaborative environment. Personal attacks and edit warring don't encourage collaboration or improve articles.

Accusing me of spamming is a personal attack. Accusing me of deliberately "messing up" your articles is also a personal attack.

Reverting my edits to the references of an article by replacing them with lower quality links is edit warring.

I'm asking you to cease the personal attacks and cease edit warring. Your editing privileges here can be blocked for both behaviors. I'd rather work it out with you reasonably here on your talk page, but I can and will ask an administrator to intervene if this behavior continues. I've made over 4000 edits here to hundreds of articles, and I'm pretty transparent about my identity in the real world. Were I really a spammer, I would have made far fewer edits to a far smaller range of articles, and I'd be a lot more anonymous about my identity than using my first initial and last name. :)

Anyway, thanks for your time. Rray (talk) 20:20, 9 December 2007 (UTC)