Meowy

I did not make any edits to the article content before making this initial post, nor did I immediately afterwards. This again shows I was not trolling or intent on provoking anyone. However, the only responses I got to my raising of this legitimate issue was a tirade of the foulest incivility from two editors. Because of the lack of usable responses to the issue I raised I then felt free to deleted the word "terrorist" from the article. When I did this I gave it a proper edit summary and I fully explained the edit reason in the talk page, quoting the Manual of Style advice. In what way could that edit be said to be "provoking incivility"? It was a normal content edit, it was justified, and it was made in an entirely regular way.

 

 

'''Thirdly,''' De728631 appears to give massive importance to this [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Meowy&diff=508302535&oldid=508300689] In doing so he has forgotten the general advice that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Incivility#Incivility] "an editor's talk page is more like their kitchen; it's more informal, and (within reason) it's up to them what happens in there". He has also completely ignored the context of the post and does not seem to have understood it was meant to be read ironically. That post was written in a few minutes and was '''given as a humourous reply''' to an editor who tried to justify some drive-by fact tagging of an article by claiming knowledge of the "fundamental principles of Wikipedia" and, essentially, saying ''"Jimmy Wales would have approved".'' Well, Jimmy Wales can go screw a kangaroo for all I care (we've all seen the 4-Chan "photo" of a Wikpedia admin doing it). If I had said something crude like that as aresponse, maybe De728631 would have understood that '''my reply was not meant to be serious'''. John Carter below describes the post's content as "arrogance, self-righteousness, disregard for objectivity, and (I feel justified in saying) delusion" YES, OF COURSE IT IS - IT WAS INTENDED TO BE EXACTLY LIKE THAT! It was written as a joke reply to someone who considered that they were so familiar with the opinions of Jimmy Wales that they could state, quite confidently, that "he is with him". The post did not even contain the words ''"I don't even want to contribute in a constructive way to Wikipedia"'' used by De728631! The post was not meant to be a 5-line essay on the failings of Wikipedia (and I'm not aware of any ''Catch-22''-like Wikipedia requirement to "like Jimbo"). [[User:Meowy|<font face="Trebuchet MS, verdana, sans serif" color="#0088BB">'''Meowy'''</font>]] 03:47, 28 August 2012 (UTC)}},