User talk:StevePAbbott

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wikileak/wikipedia confusion

Hi Steve, I noticed that you appear to have got a bit mixed up between wikipedia and wikileaks over at Talk:Israel_Shamir#Did he really serve in IDF?. Just in case you didn't already know, they are not related. You might want to correct it by ~~striking~~ through the incorrect parts using this code: <s> </s> on either side of the text. Please let me know if you have any questions about how wikipedia works. SmartSE (talk) 17:17, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Smart, Thanks for that. I fixed it as you suggested. I am a novice and probably got involved too early. I've withdrawn from the discussion. I found I was spending too much time sparring with one editor and feeling shot down. I had not known Shamir and am distressed by the tone of his articles, but do not feel his intentions are malevolent. I was very disappointed when I looked him up out of curiosity, to see a political battle being conducted on the pages of Wikipedia. It seemed to me that considerable damage was done between one edit and the next, with an incomplete translation of a quote, now propagated throughout the web. I find I am not qualified to mitigate that damage. Best regardsStevePAbbott (talk) 21:32, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]