User talk:216.38.176.18

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Thanks for experimenting with the page Joseph Stalin on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Scaife (Talk) Don't forget Hanlon's Razor 22:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to User talk:mohawk boy. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Scaife (Talk) Don't forget Hanlon's Razor 22:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

See WP:NPA

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Sango123 (e) 20:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Blanking other user's talk pages is generally regarded as deliberate vandalism. Please desist, or you will be blocked. -- Karada 20:28, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Ryan Delaney talk 21:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, as you did to User:Scaife, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Scaife (Talk) Don't forget Hanlon's Razor 22:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for recognizing that blanking Scaife's user page was an inappropriate response. I appreciate your willingness to own up to mistakes. :)

From your contributions list, it doesn't look like you actually tried to discuss things with Scaife. I suggest you drop a (polite) note on his talk page or the Joseph Stalin talk page explaining that you're frustrated and why, then try to work it out there.

For the record, I would definitely have reverted your edit to the Napoleon page as POV. Your edit to the Stalin page is a bit more in a gray area. I seem to recall a fierce debate about similar language in the article on Joseph McCarthy as well; you may want to check there and see if you can find the talk page section about that debate to see what the outcome of that was.

Hbackman 21:43, 17 March 2006 (UTC)