User talk:PersnicketyGareth

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Hello PersnicketyGareth, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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PersnicketyGareth, good luck, and have fun. – GeorgeLouis (talk) 07:23, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions

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The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding all edits about, and all pages related to, (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

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Random ^(?) 06:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)Template:Z33

RE: Semi-protection + AGF

AGF is not a suicide pact - in other words, practicality has to take precedence over it. In this case, there are at least four confirmed off-wiki boards' worth of people without active WP accounts who have repeatedly posted some form of BLP violation or another (typically against Quinn, Sarkeesian, or Gjoni) to the article and/or talk page, in complete ignorance (or, often, defiance) of WP:VNT, WP:NOR, and/or WP:RGW. At this point, it's not really the best topic area for new editors (or anyone, really, IMO), but, if you edit some other articles, take the time to learn our policies, and then insist on participating, I won't stop you. Good luck, in any case. Random ^(?) 06:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)