Wikipedia:You spat in my soup!
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Wikipedia is home to many disruptive editors. Some engage on Talk, though others do not. Those who do, often make use of distraction fallacies, falling into a pattern which has been characterised as:
Like someone who spits in your soup in a restaurant, then when you complain says: “Thank you for your comment. What do we mean by spit? What do we mean by soup? The 473 differing recipes for soup in Larousse Gastronomique show that there is no agreed definition of soup. Your complaint fails to address specifically how the supposed soup might be improved. I welcome constructive discussion to reach an amicable solution.”
Sometimes this is trolling, other times they are pushing a barrow; sometimes they genuinely think that spitting in your soup was fine, because it was their spit and your soup.
