User talk:MickR

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. Thank you. Notinasnaid 23:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edit war...

I am trying to protect an article about our entity. Someone keeps adding irrelevant links. I asked for help yesterday and didn't get very far.

I'd like to suggest you reread Wikipedia:Ownership of articles. This may help you to keep cool while dealing with difficult discussions on what belongs in the article. You should keep up the discussion towards consensus. Notinasnaid 00:10, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I feel I should add that my actions here are a response to your request for help. All parties currently in dispute seem fairly new to Wikipedia, and in fact many disputes can be resolved by a better understanding of Wikipedia's policies. The three revert rule is there to encourage discussion. The discussion should aim at deciding whether the link is "irrelevant", and whether other policies or guidelines apply. I will endeavour to remain neutral, and allow the parties to steer a course through Wikipedia's sometimes baffling policies and guidelines. Notinasnaid 00:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: edit war

I appreciate what your saying and suggesting. I know the article in question doesn't belong to us, but the entity in which the article relates, does belong to us and there is someone with an axe to grind because they got banned from the website, which the article relates (see talk page for nthellworld they even gloat that I cannot ban them from here). This was a provocative statement from them. Clearly this is disruptive behaviour on their part.

Anyone can make something up on a website and then post links to that unreliable source of information. This is what is happening in the article. The offending person is carrying on a dispute and shouldn't be using wikipedia for this means.

I can assure you I am not new to wikipedia, I just haven't in the past had the urge to register an account before. MickR 00:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can I just add that external links have been reverted yet again - I cannot prove that it is by the same person but checking the history - the person might of logged out to avoid getting caught up in the edit war block etc.

MickR 01:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]