User talk:Schily

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Please don't abuse the edit summary as you did with this edit. Dishonest descriptions will generally get a change reverted regardless of the quality of the edit. In extreme cases of abuse it will also get the perpetrator blocked from editing. — Saxifrage ✎ 15:33, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome to discuss your desired changes with the community at the talk pages of Cdrtools, Cdrkit, and Jörg Schilling. Trying to force them in by repeated editing, or sneaking them in by using deceptive edit summaries, will fail and earn you a very poor reputation. Please reconsider your tactics. Also, please look up the definition of "defamation" before you overstep the tolerance of this project for legal threats without good reason. — Saxifrage ✎ 01:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

You seem unfamiliar with the way Wikipedia works. (As for myself, I've been here quite a while and have earned a good reputation. Use ad hominem attacks at the risk of your own credibility. I'm also not a cracker: I am a pseudonymous editor. Wikipedia respects privacy and doesn't care about identity, only about established reputation.) The way a conflict gets resolved is you make the change, find out that someone disagrees (usually by their reverting it) and then you discuss it with them. If a mutually-satisfactory conclusion cannot be found, the input of the wider community is solicited. If it cannot be resolved then, the even-wider input is solicited. Nothing is done by fiat unless you are Jimbo or the Arbitration Committee.

As such, your demand that I restore the page before discussing is tantamount to you saying that you are unwilling to talk unless you get your way. You're welcome to try that, but I can assure you that such a social tactic will fail and Wikipedia is well-set-up to foil such tactics.

Finally, you are welcome, as I have said, to discuss your desired changes at the relevant pages. You are also welcome to discuss your problems with the version I changed them back to. In otherwords, you must explain your objections, not simply say that you don't like the changes. For instance, you claim that your changes are neutral and that the version before was offensive. Please give concrete details that can be dissected and evaluated clearly and openly.

Threats, bullying, and name-calling will fail. That's just how Wikipedia works and I've seen enough people try to force their way that I hope for your own sake that you will stop trying to use those tactics. (Besides, they are morally bankrupt tactics.) You will find it much more effective to work with me and other editors you encounter that to try to "defeat" us. — Saxifrage ✎ 21:05, 26 September 2006 (UTC)