Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Michael D. Wolok

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[edit] Two issues

Lethe's summary includes "Note that one of the recipients of Wolok's campaign was Sam Blanning, whom Wolok had called "patronizing, condescending and scolding like [a] school marm with PMS." The pluperfect tense gets the order of events slightly wrong - Wolok first spammed me, then later called me a school marm with PMS on WP:AN - although it's still confusing, as the events that marked me as a school marm with PMS took place well before Michael included me in his search for an advocate, as I noted, it's not as confusing as the current wording implies.

Also, is it plausible that Michael "only learned about his talk page (despite several references to it) quite late in the game"? As far as I know, whenever you get a new message, you get a big orange box at the top of every page that doesn't go away until you go to your talk page. And the orange box contains blue links to that talk page, and everyone who can navigate Wikipedia knows blue text means, so I find it very odd that someone would just go on and on, never clicking any of the links despite the obtrusive banner. Is it possible that Michael just ignored the messages? --Sam Blanning^(talk) 16:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I will revise the wording in light of your first suggestion. As for the talk page, I agree that it defies belief that someone could miss the notice about new messages. Nevertheless, I don't believe he was lying when he said he didn't know he had it. He uses it quite extensively once he discovers it (though never in a way that looks anything like a dialogue). I am able to formulate some hypotheses about Wolok's failure to see the bright orange message, but I think I'd better keep them to myself. -lethe ^{talk +} 19:04, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Much of his behaviour is explained by his self-description as an ADD sufferer. --Michael C. Price ^talk 22:34, 22 June 2006 (UTC)