User talk:LenBudney

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Cleaned up on 2003-09-09


Coming across your user page, I realized that you still haven't apologized for waging that personal crusade against me when I was a new user, accusing me of 'whitewashing every socialist in history' and disparaging me with all your choice insults. If you admit that the charges you conjured up were misguided, I could perhaps reconsider my negative opinion of you as a Wikipedia contributor. 172 06:56, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I'll take a look at your current contributions to see whether you've improved any. As it stands, your combination of poor editing and personal narcissism make apology impossible. Anyone who claims to have "boundlessly improved" an article by injecting his own weird POV is going to get short shrift from anyone with sense. --Len.
Followup: you seem to have toned down the egotistical rhetoric considerably. Still rather POV and left-wing, but considerably less self-absorbed. If you are, then I'm ready to let bygones be bygones. Pax? --Len.

We don't need to be liked by everyone. So I'll accept the fact that your ideological worldview will always taint your perceptions of my contributions. Anyway, I gain enough solace from the respect that I have gained from many fellow professional academics on this site. 172 18:47, 9 Sep 2003 (EDT)

Mature answer, thanks. But don't misunderstand! A quick survey of your recent contributions suggests that you're making a positive contribution to the Wikipedia. So while I don't recant my objection to some of your previous submissions, that is not a blanket condemnation of your work. As for liking, I certainly don't dislike you. Our lives have intersected too little to have a strong opinion one way or the other. Pax. --Len.
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