User talk:Spalagdama

Welcome!

Hello, Spalagdama, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 17:55, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that I've had to fix or undo one of your recent changes, due to a bug in the software you're using to edit. This is through no fault of your own; there are a few known bugs (link to bug tracking) in the Visual Editor software that you're using. If you'd like, please feel free to report this at the feedback page, otherwise, feel free to try the edit again and see if it works.

The VisualEditor software is a new gadget that is being tested with around half of randomly selected new accounts. Its purpose is to allow for a visual editing environment, or a WYSIWYG environment, for editing using MediaWiki markup, the technical and complicated old version of editing Wikipedia and similar sites. The VisualEditor test is only being enabled in articles and on userpages at this time. For more information, see the project page. Happy editing! JohnCD (talk) 17:55, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you. Bishonen | talk 21:59, 14 August 2013 (UTC).

Dispute between you and Thomas W.

I unblocked you when Thomas told me that his report to me was erroneous. Other than that, I'm not really taking any position in this one way or the other. Daniel Case (talk) 20:09, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

@Spalagdama: Which best can be described as you being temporarily aquitted because of a technicality, that is me retracting a report to Daniel Case only because you were lucky enough to make a revert a minute or two before the IP was blocked, instead of just after. My SPI-report stands, and also my assessment that this is a clear case of WP:DUCK. And I would like to point out that this is not a dispute between two editors but a clear case of systematically making unsourced (and/or deliberately false) and biased edits, and abusing multiple accounts while doing it. Thomas.W ^{talk to me} 20:21, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

@Thomas.W: Sour grapes. Not a "technicality" might I add. And not me; this is actually best described as you being temporarily aquitted after you owned up to your lies, prior to an investigation showing them as just that. You filed an erroneous report, falsely labeled my protection of wikipedia content i.e. reversion of khestwol's repetitive valdalism, as "unsourced (and/or deliberately false) and biased edits", tried to summon reinforcements (which never arrived), and in the end, had to admit to your fabrications in order to avoid facing further humiliation. Now stop being obsessive, snooping in on everything I do (in hopes of twisting it around) and get a life while you're at it. Enough said.Spalagdama (talk) 15:49, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

September 2013

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:19, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Blocked

You've been blocked for 10 days for edit warring on Apraca and for battlefield editing such as here. I warn you that if you continue with this aggressive and non-collaborative editing, you're headed for an indefinite block. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Bishonen | talk 15:50, 13 September 2013 (UTC).