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Joe I 17:32, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

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Disagreement with Just to clarify

I've left a note for Just to clarify regarding our content policies. In future, I would suggest that you carefully phrase your comments in such a manner that avoids escalating a dispute. Also, you could consider using a standard message. Thanks! Addhoc 16:49, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

A friendly suggestion

Hi,

Regarding the Gothic chess article, note that continual unexplained reversions and addition of inappropriate material are both considered disruptive editing. Please consider this before making any further edits to this article; I suggest using the talk page - that's what it's there for. Oli Filth 21:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

If you continue to perform unexplained reverts on the Gothic chess article, I will have no choice but to report you for violating the three revert rule. Oli Filth 21:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

We need more help

A person with the AceVentura id is causing havoc on the Gothic chess page. He is known to be "Derek Nalls", a person who slanders anyone who does not like his very unsuccessful "Symmetrical Chess Collection" variants, which are extremely esoteric and unpopular.

I would like to request that AceVentura be denied acces to the Gothic chess page because of his disruptive history. Thanks.

GothicEnthusiast 21:11, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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Blocked

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 14 hours in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for violating the three-revert rule on Gothic chess. Please be more careful to discuss controversial changes or seek dispute resolution rather than engaging in an edit war. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below.

Anthøny 22:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 31 July, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ed Trice, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Espresso Addict 01:04, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Citations

Hi,

You recently said at Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2007-08-03_Gothic_chess "adding [citation needed] to the point the article is becoming unreadable, forcing readers to pause every half sentence to refer to something in another section of the page". This is an exaggeration, and the number of citation-needed tags (4) is not unusual. See e.g. Sabbath in Christianity, Radcliffe, Greater Manchester and Obscurantism. See also Labor theory of value, where there are three in the same sentence.

At any rate, this is considered better than the alternative, which is unsupported statements being presented as fact, with nothing to indicate them as such. See WP:Verifiability for the rationale and the standard approach.

Thanks, Oli Filth 19:04, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

MedCab request

Please follow the instructions to file a MedCab request. The request regarding Gothic chess is missing an important template needed for properly listing the case in MedCab related categories and proper operation of the maintenance bot. It will be automatically overwritten the next time the bot runs.

I have moved the current request page to your user space at User:GothicEnthusiast/2007-08-03 Gothic chess so that you can copy and paste the contents into the correct form that will be generated when you follow the directions. --Ideogram 15:34, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

August 2007

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