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Do not expect any response to anything posted here. If for some reason your behavior here has annoyed me sufficiently to post something on your talk page reply there. I may notice your response. Silent Billy (talk) 00:22, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion has begun about whether the article Queensland School for Travelling Show Children, which you created or to which you contributed, should be deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Wikipedia policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the deletion policy.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Queensland School for Travelling Show Children until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

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A personal warning for you (AKA overbearing person thinks he can intimidate other editors)[edit]

I am politely advising you that your comments about me on various talk pages may be bordering on a slow and indirect form of personal attack, and I would be fully within Wikipedia policies to make a formal complaint. Now delete this page as read as per your usual practice. --Kudpung (talk) 12:05, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps this isn't my battle to get involved with, but I would like to politely quote from your last post.
"I am politely advising you"
"Now delete this page"
Personally I'm unsure that this is polite, or advice. I am aware that there are many Wikipedians who find they have differences with one another, and I do not dispute that this user may in fact be slowly and indirectly abusing you. However, sometimes it is best to try the truly honest peer to peer approach of diplomacy. Far too often here, we snipe at one another to try to point score. At the end of the day, (almost) every user on en.wikipedia has made an account because they care about the project. We want to make a positive difference, and the whole ethos on en.wikipedia, is that we do it co-operatively and together.
I would urge both parties to try to remember this before replying to one another. (Note: I am a wiki nobody, and carry no authority or "well earned" respect of the administrators.. I'm just trying to do the right thing. Like you are.) Philip.t.day (talk) 19:50, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kapdung is one of those editors who thinks he is the proprietor of Wikipedia and that what he does or says is "it". I only ever heard about him because he ran an AfD on a new article I had set up. Fair enough you might say. But it was only two minutes after I had put it up and I was still actively editing it. Fortunately other editors told him to stick his AfD where the sun don't shine but as you can see he took the "keep" with ill grace. Silent Billy (talk) 12:01, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]


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