User talk:Matt.T.911
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[edit] January 2008
[edit] Re: Edits to Goober
On User talk:BlastOButter42, Matt.T.911 said:
I find it offensive that you, as a supposedly "avid Wikipedian", are attempting to distort the accepted meaning of a word by claiming that the word means something other than it really does. I encourage you to properly familiarise yourself with Wikipedia's neutral point-of-view policy and then re-assess your position on getting into a revert war with me over the content of the page. Matt.T.911 (talk) 09:59, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- Nice try. Unfortunately, due to the very open nature of Wikipedia's revision histories, it's very easy to see that your edits, which describe "goober" as being "the official nickname for NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning" and include a personal attack ([1], [2], [3]), are vandalism. Wikipedia was deliberately set up so that trolling like this is easy to detect, though I must compliment you on your very professional manner in going about it. -- BlastOButter42 See Hear Speak 11:04, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- Considering that such information was already in the disambiguation page, I was not going to remove it without verifying it. I was unwilling to verify it, so I fixed up the formatting and left it. It is not my fault that such vandalism (assuming it was vandalism) was not picked up on earlier. You, however, brazenly reverted my obvious attempts to fix the article without even looking at what I had done, then you had the audacity to call me a vandal. I challenge you to submit proof that I was the one who left that statement about the NFL players on the page. If you cannot, suck it up, apologise to me and fix my User Talk page. Matt.T.911 (talk) 13:18, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- Whether or not the IP who originally left it (98.193.109.72) is the same person as you, after I removed the obvious vandalism (and don't say it isn't obvious), you added it again, claiming that that was a "more intelligent version of the page." I once again removed the vandalism, and you added it once again, this time claiming that there's some sort of dispute about whether or not "goober" is the official nickname for two NFL quarterbacks. Now anyone can see that that's not true, whether you're familiar with American football or not -- and you restored it to the page, twice. Then, you get clever, though. I can't report you as a vandal, since you haven't vandalized enough times, and now, with this edit, you act as if all you were doing was rewording the bottom of the page. As I said before, you're very good at concealing your trolling under a guise of innocence, but because of the nature of Wikipedia, it's easy for anyone to see the true nature of your actions.
- Please, stop wasting my time. If you wish to open an RfC, go ahead and do so -- but no, you can't, since that would bring admins' attention to this, and they would see the true situation here and bring your trolling to an end. -- BlastOButter42 See Hear Speak 22:17, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- Let us ignore the obvious issue of your lack of an assumption of good faith for a moment. On the talk page for goober, there are TWO entries from users who have used the term "goober" in a friendly context. The same context could be applied to such usage for official nicknames for official players in an official sport that I officially know absolutely nothing about. You know, being an Australian and all, it's difficult to know a lot, or even anything, about a 'sport' that is only played professionally in one country on this planet which just so happens to be on the polar opposite of the world to where I live (proof of which I would be more than happy to provide in the form of a telephone call, should it be required). As such, I'll repeat: it is not my fault that something that cannot be easily identified as vandalism was not identified and removed earlier when it was actually posted. It is also not my fault that I decided to leave the vandalism there for the reasons specified above. It is also not my fault that you are so dense as to be completely unable to identify the user who posted the vandalism as residing on the opposite side of the planet to myself, which I once again can easily prove if necessary. In closing, I'd like to pose this challenge to you: prove that the word 'goober' is a synonym for the word 'hillbilly', as you have repeatedly put in your reverts. What, you can't do that? I demand that you immediately remove the accusations of vandalism that you have posted on my talk page, and I further demand that you issue an apology to me, or else I WILL get an admin involved. Matt.T.911 (talk) 23:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- *sigh* If you couldn't figure out that goober is not their official nickname by the fact that I removed it twice as vandalism, then you are the one who is "dense," my friend. Anyone could figure out that despite the two anonymous posts to which you refer, goober is not, in general, a compliment, based simply on the content of the page -- and you yourself added that it is similar in meaning to "idiot." It is not a synonym for hillbilly, but restoring that was a side effect of removing the much more obvious vandalism (which you added twice along with your improvements, so don't accuse me of being careless). -- BlastOButter42 See Hear Speak 00:25, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- Let us ignore the obvious issue of your lack of an assumption of good faith for a moment. On the talk page for goober, there are TWO entries from users who have used the term "goober" in a friendly context. The same context could be applied to such usage for official nicknames for official players in an official sport that I officially know absolutely nothing about. You know, being an Australian and all, it's difficult to know a lot, or even anything, about a 'sport' that is only played professionally in one country on this planet which just so happens to be on the polar opposite of the world to where I live (proof of which I would be more than happy to provide in the form of a telephone call, should it be required). As such, I'll repeat: it is not my fault that something that cannot be easily identified as vandalism was not identified and removed earlier when it was actually posted. It is also not my fault that I decided to leave the vandalism there for the reasons specified above. It is also not my fault that you are so dense as to be completely unable to identify the user who posted the vandalism as residing on the opposite side of the planet to myself, which I once again can easily prove if necessary. In closing, I'd like to pose this challenge to you: prove that the word 'goober' is a synonym for the word 'hillbilly', as you have repeatedly put in your reverts. What, you can't do that? I demand that you immediately remove the accusations of vandalism that you have posted on my talk page, and I further demand that you issue an apology to me, or else I WILL get an admin involved. Matt.T.911 (talk) 23:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- Considering that such information was already in the disambiguation page, I was not going to remove it without verifying it. I was unwilling to verify it, so I fixed up the formatting and left it. It is not my fault that such vandalism (assuming it was vandalism) was not picked up on earlier. You, however, brazenly reverted my obvious attempts to fix the article without even looking at what I had done, then you had the audacity to call me a vandal. I challenge you to submit proof that I was the one who left that statement about the NFL players on the page. If you cannot, suck it up, apologise to me and fix my User Talk page. Matt.T.911 (talk) 13:18, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Your userpage.
Your user page states you are seeking a Cisco Associate Certificate, but not which. Do you plan on getting a CCNA or CCDA? I'd also recommend you not edit pages on submarine cable downtime until you understand how they work much better, or can atleast properly reference them and not leave out the other affected sites. Good luck with your CCNA/CCDA. Jcb temp (talk) 04:18, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
