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Happy editing!  Skomorokh  17:38, 19 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your message on my talkpage, I have responded there. Regards,  Skomorokh  20:18, 19 May 2009 (UTC) You might also be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Objectivism. Regards,  Skomorokh  20:21, 19 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Pelagius1, are you by any chance the Pelagius who posts (or used to post) on Hatrack? Or on AI Jane? Just wondering. -Lisa (talk) 14:28, 20 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Pelagius1, I responded to your query on my talk page. --Karbinski (talk) 14:55, 21 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Debate on cross-talk page edit

Hi, Pelagius1. I just deleted the most recent comments made by Neil Parille‎ and yourself on the Objectivism cross-talk page. I had previously left Neil a message encouraging him to remove his comments because they were inappropriately focused on debating the subject matter. Unfortunately, he did not do so before you saw them and responded. So rather than let the cross-talk page get taken totally off track, I deleted both his comment and your reply. I explained this on the cross-talk page also, but thought I owed you the courtesy of a direct explanation. --RL0919 (talk) 16:05, 8 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Pelagius, I strongly encourage you to review Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy, especially with respect to "close relationships" and consider whether it is appropriate for you to be involved in the discussion about PARC at all. Thanks.KD Tries Again (talk) 18:03, 11 June 2009 (UTC)KD Tries AgainReply

I'll also note for the record that based on these edits,[1][2] you are the same editor as User:72.199.110.160 who was topicbanned from editing Ayn Rand related articles for six months beginning in May 2009.[3] These kinds of restrictions apply to the editor behind the IP address and/or user name, so you should be restricting yourself to the talkpages until November. I note that apart from a few early edits in May, you have done so, which is fine.--Slp1 (talk) 13:13, 15 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

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