User talk:Eric Burns

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

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ClockworkTroll 06:42, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Your continued public personal attacks

Your continued personal attacks both here in wikipedia as well as on your blog are innapropriate. Please see the policies of Wikiquette, no personal attacks, and civility. AfDs are for discussing articles and whether they ought to be deleted, not for discussing your personal feelings about other editors. It is best to leave personal notes on talk pages, and best to avoid personal attacks altogether. Dragonfiend 16:13, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, no offense (well, within reason), but I'm going to call things as I see them. You're attempting to dictate notability without knowledge of subject matter, and take pride in it. And your actions are contributing to a wholesale degradation of Wikipedia, to the point where I direct people to more appropriate reference materials. The idea that somehow saying that to you is inappropriate -- and editorializing about it on my own blog is even remotely Wikipedia's business -- is patently ridiculous.Eric Burns 18:06, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Dragonfiend, accusing someone of making personal attacks is serious business. Can you provide links to the edits in question? Making accusations without citing reasons, as you have done, comes across as fairly hostile, even if that was not your intent. Factitious 08:41, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Factitious, I think she's referring to Eric's comments on her talk space, his website, Websnark and Articles for deletion/Checkerboard Nightmare. J•A•K 23:14, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

That's possible, but she hasn't identified any specific edits as being personal attacks. Regardless of whether a foundation could exist, her accusations are as of yet unfounded. Wikipedia:Civility advises against such behavior. Factitious 23:58, 23 November 2005 (UTC)