User talk:Hotblackice

March 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to John Dalli, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --Atyndall93 ^{(talk | contribs)} 07:16, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your recent edits to John Dalli have been reverted as they could be seen to be defamatory or potentially libellous. Take a look at our welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 08:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

John Dalli

Your edits on the above article do not appear to meet our requirements for neutrality in articles. Please read the neutral point of view policy for information on what must be done to assure articles remain neutral. Your version of the article is written in a biased manner, and puts undue weight on the allegations made against the subject. If you continue to insist on inserting this information in that manner, you may be blocked from editing. Please discuss your additions of factual, sourced and neutral information on the article talk page. Thank you. Tony Fox (arf!) 22:50, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April 2008

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Tony Fox (arf!) 05:28, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by inserting commentary or your personal analysis into an article, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Tony Fox (arf!) 05:53, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As you have ignored the warnings above, you have now been blocked from editing for 31 hours, for edit warring and insertion of non-neutral point of view content. When your block expires, use the talk page of the article to discuss your concerns and any additions you feel would be useful in the article. You may appeal this block if you so choose. Tony Fox (arf!) 16:47, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: your note to me

You'll note that nowhere above do I state that you were vandalizing the encyclopedia; the problems with your edits are that in them, you essentially usurped what is a neutral and well sourced article, and turned it into a soapbox to attack the subject of the article. Any edit that starts out referring to the subject as "questionable" is assuredly not going to meet our needs for neutrality, and edit summaries like "THE SUPPRESSION OF TRUTH IS THE ENEMY OF KNOWLEDGE" are usually a red flag that the editor in question is not neutral.

You state that you're new to Wikipedia. Let me educate you on how things are done here: instead of wholesale changes as you were making, when we've got potentially contentious material we discuss its addition on the article talk page first to determine what information is best added, and how to meet the neutral point of view in a way that provides both sides of the story. Your edits did not do that. You are not blocked at this point; if you wish to edit, you're welcome to do so - as long as you follow the guidelines as noted above.

I'd also stay clear of discussing legal matters on Wikipedia, as we have a policy that requires us to indefinitely block anyone who threatens such actions until such time as the actions are completed or the threats are retracted. Tony Fox (arf!) 16:20, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]