User talk:Dunneh

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Hi, I suggest that quoting the full version of race hate grafitti on a discusion page is unnecessary and opens you to being seen as someone spreading race-hate messages. Dee did this 20:25, 13 October 2007 (UTC) on the Talk:AIDS origin page. If I were you I'd edit my comments, quote the appropriate WP policy for doing so, and think how things will look before I do them in future. SmithBlue 06:46, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

In my comment it is made clear I am quoting the graffiti. Anyone able to see my comment on the discussion page would also be able to read the entirety of my message-- case in point-- you did. I personally felt it necessary to quote the entire graffiti as it pertains to the edit I made; in that someone removed part of the vandalism yet retained the incorrect (racist) part intact on the page, not realizing that it was part of the vandalism. Because of this, it was quoted on the talk page as an effort to explain my revert. Regardless of the tone of your message, it was not me spreading race-hate messages. I haven't really the time to worry about "how it looks" to people; after all if someone quotes Hitler's speech on a talk page, does that make them a Nazi? If people are under the mistaken assumption that I am spreading race-hate messages, then I ask them to re-read my comment in its entirety, where it is made very clear, under a 'Vandalism' heading, that I am not. I reverted the AIDS origin page to stop vandalism, not condone it, and I resent the insinuation that I did so only to spread hate propaganda in discussion. Furthermore, no-one, apart from you, had a problem with what I quoted in discussion. If your opinion is that quoting the graffiti was unnecessary and if it bothers you to the point where you could not bear to even look at it, I would have preferred you say so, upon which I would have edited the quote out (which I now have), rather than a mis-guided lecture questioning my motives. If I were you, I'd refrain from using 'if I were you,' when trying to make a point. It tends to come across as condescending. In any case, I appreciate your suggestion, if not the way in which you suggested it. -- Dee 11:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)