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Please...

..read the links in the "Welcome" section of this page. I understand you want to contribute to Wikipedia, and I hope you find a place here, but you really need to work on your civility. You are managing to piss off the very people that would be willing to help you get up to speed at Wikipedia. There is a manual of style and many guidelines that we all follow. We are the ones who SET the guidelines and policies here, it is all by consensus. You can too, but you start by learning the guidelines instead of ignoring them, and working with others instead of attacking them. Otherwise, you will burn out from all the confrontation, and most of your edits will end up being reverting, wasting your time and everyone else's. This is friendly advice, and if you want to be happy and a valuable contributor here, I would suggest you take it as that, friendly advice, and learn a bit about the community and policies here very soon. Dennis Brown (talk) 22:05, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Dear Mr Dennis Brown,

If you read your last message you will see that your are very patronising. I am civil, I do not suspend users, try to kill their articles as some low lives do. No I don't mean you and I don't suggest you do. My edits do not in the end end up "being reverted" because they are accurate good and helpful and what the spirit of the 'Pedia is. I have even been accused of being a troll. If you look at my work both signed and unsigned you will find I have made literally thousands of edits through the years.

Most are uncontroversial. Some aren't like Crieff Hydr, Greaves' Rules or back gardens. They have been attacked by "editors", and we are all "editors", who jump up and sown and say "no, no, tis is not what the 'Pedia is about" and then want to fight kindergarten wars and about who hit whom first. I almost never mention anyone by name, and if you analyse what I have written forensically, you will find I have not attacked you here.

But you represent an insufferable attitude towards the 'Pedia, up with which I cannot put.

Charles Norrie

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