User talk:Crud3w4re
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[edit] Conversation about you
Hope we have resolved our differences, happy wikiediting, and if you need any help, please let me know.
I also Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages your archived talk page, for easier reading.
In regards to some of your posts on your talk page: In my own experience, long irrelevant messages, [even if what you are saying is dead-on true], rarely get read. Worse, those long, off topic messages garner no sympathy from fellow wikipedians. Travb (talk) 13:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Free advice
Please keep in mind the analogy:
| "You get more bees with honey than vinegar." |
...I personally know it can be infurating when people mess with your user page. The smart, veteran wikiuser watches every word he/she says on wikipedia, and quickly learns that words are cheap, and are much less costly than protracted edit wars are.
You could have phrased your response to Pinkville very diplomatically, and he would have gone away and left you alone. (But In my experience, the best response is no response). Instead, with your virulent, angry words, you have got him upset. When people get upset, they act irrationally, and tend to lash out at those people who make them upset.
Instead of saying you got an "okay" from an admin to delete all your comments, you could have said:
| I am sorry, I am a new user at wikipedia. I apologize if I am breaking the rules. [[User:XXX]], an admin, told me that it was okay to delete the warnings on my user page. (link to message from admin) Maybe he is wrong, I am sorry if I broke any rules. Have a great day, thanks for all of your hard work. I would hate to be an admin because you have to deal with nasty wikiusers who don't know the rules as well as you do. Keep up the good work. |
Remember, words cost you nothing, and they are much cheaper than the alternative: edit wars and eventually being booted. There is no shame in kissing other wikipedians asses to avoid contention and edit wars. Be a crafty and sly "POV diplomat", not a ignorant and bumbling "POV warrior". Travb (talk) 13:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
