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Sockpuppetry
editI chose to leave a message of my own on your talk page in order to both address the specific diffs and to address the issue of sockpuppetry, which MarnetteD had not done in his/her message, which is not only my perogative as an editor, but one of my duties as an administrator, as MarnetteD is not one himself/herself. This has nothing to do with "gaining strength by numbers" or with the notion that you are somehow not capable of being a colleague yourself, as I never said nor implied either of these ideas. If I observe an editor repeatedly violate the site's guidelines or policies, those same guidelines are the only thing I need to take administrative action, so I don't need "numbers" to do so.
"Sockpuppet" and "meatpuppet" are not "disparaging names". They're the accepted terms for editors who attempt to use multiple accounts in order to violate the site's rules. If one observes this activity, then rightfully pointing it out does not constitute "biting the newcomers". Calling a spade a spade is not biting a newcomer if the description of the behavior is accurate. (Though if you disagree, perhaps you'd like to work to have the Wikipedia:Sock puppetry policy page deleted because it calls sock puppets sock puppets?) The only relevant point, therefore, is whether you engaged in the behavior in question: You were observed removing sourced content from the Matt Stone article not once, but at least twice, without any valid policy-based rationale, but merely a personal aesthetic or philosophical bias against personal information in biographical articles that is not reflected by accepted practices among the Wikipedia community, and even attempted to claim that someone "requested" that you do this, without offering any further elaboration on this. You also ignored the edit summaries of other editors who pointed out that this was inappropriate when they reverted these deletions, as well as the messages that were left on your talk page regarding this. A new account was created with the apparent purpose of making just one edit to date, which was to blank the same content you had. That's sockpuppetry. Therefore, placing a warning on your page regarding this was entirely legitimate, and does not constitute "name calling". The rationales you provided on the article talk page and MarnetteD's talk page do not justify your edits, as MarnetteD pointed out. But if you feel you've been mistreated, then feel free to report my messages to the Administrator Noticeboard. Nightscream (talk) 06:01, 31 March 2011 (UTC)