The Duke of Madras

Hey, Duke, I noticed that, despite your name change, you're still using your old name. You actually have to log out and log back in with the new name in order for it to work;the two names are separate accounts now. Thanks! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:21, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Stop trolling

Or I will block both your accounts. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:39, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

On reflection, this was probably unfair, I apologize. I see that your initial page was called "vandalism" several times, and that was the deletion rationale.

So the situation is:

• Your first stab at a user page really needed to be deleted; it was a copyright violation. Even if you changed it, it would still have violated WP:COPYRIGHT.
• You should not have been expected to know that, so a gentler approach was called for.
• It wasn't vandalism, and shouldn't have been called that.
• User:The Duke of Waltham doesn't need to be deleted, as it is not a copyright violation. but please don't copy it and then change it; in addition to copyright concerns, no one likes to have their jokes stolen.
• You've made your point on Bwilkins' talk page; any sympathy/empathy you might have gotten has probably been erased by the (somewhat understandable) aggression. There is no benefit to further discussion there.
• I suggest a reboot: see below.
• Again, my "trolling" description wasn't fair, sorry about that.

--Floquenbeam (talk) 19:15, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

• And of course, further complicating things, you were blocked while I was writing this. I've unblocked in order to not be too Kafkaesque, but please if you haven't been driven off in a rage yet, and would like to contribute, please don't post to Bwilkins' talk page anymore. Leave me a message here if you'd like, I'll watch this page for a while. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:37, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
  • In particular, let me know if you get an Autoblocked messages. I don't think you should get one, but let me know if I'm wrong. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:48, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. I just tried logging in to this account and it worked (although I did not intentionally reactivate this ID like BWilkins repeatedly asserted). I did not know about the existence of sandbox to build the article before publishing. In fact, no one has mentioned it in all this discussion over the past one day and I discovered it myself accidentally midway through all this. I was only going to use the userpage as a starting point for a spoof page since I liked that one. I was not going to use the jokes or even any of the material. Maybe if Wikipedia wasn't too geeky or programmer-language-like to write articles in, I may not have needed a template, and used just the WYSIWYG editor and be done with it, but that is not the case. Anyway, what I don't understand is why one cannot get outraged by offending behavior? You have acknowledged it was wrong to have a label slapped on by the other editor without speaking to me or bothering to enlighten me. He clearly was more intent on getting brownie points as an editor or whatever it is that gets people here high. However, everyone else seems intent on labeling me as a "troll". Is that the high-handed way of dealing with uncomfortable things around here? Wouldn't they all be offended and outraged in real life if they were trying to make a cake and someone slapped a pink sheet on top of it and squashed it, and walked off without an explanation?

Well, no, it's more like someone accidentally cut you off in traffic, and you followed them home, honking at them and giving them the finger the whole way, yelled at them, their wife and kids, threatened to make them sorry they were born, and the got a bunch of cousins to go to their house that night and throw rocks thru the windows. If this is how you react to one instance of being offended, then I don't think you're cut out for collaboratively editing an encyclopedia. --Floquenbeam (talk) 12:58, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

People who accidentally cut me off in traffic don't continuously allege that I was in the wrong, and that I was in the wrong because I have my lights on at noon and because it is the town they live in, they can decide I should have my car taken away. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.193.55.167 (talk) 14:07, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

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