User talk:163.1.230.21

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[edit] Personal attack

Please do not attack other editors, which you did here: Talk:Timothy Noah. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. · j e r s y k o talk · 14:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Interesting. I think it pretty unconvincing that my last one was insufficiently civil. Giovanni wrote very similar things to me. I don't believe you've blocked him. Oh well. Could you at least simply block my account - Chris111222333 - and not the I.P., since it is the I.P. of around 10,000 people from a world-leading academic institution, and to prevent them from contributing seems a bit silly. Cheers. 163.1.230.21 15:31, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Giovanni's statements have hardly approached the level of incivility that yours have. I haven't singled you out for any reason other than the persistence of your incivility post warnings and the ferocity of your recent personal attack. Please read and abide by WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA in the future, and we won't have any further interaction on this point. Finally, the block is short in duration because the IP you use is shared. Given that no other contributions have been made to Wikipedia from this IP other than to the Noah article, and given that another user can request an unblock if they wish to contribute, I will keep the block in place for now. · j e r s y k o talk · 15:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry. I quite understand what's going on here. Thank you for making it perfectly clear. I didn't know "obdurate ignorance" was considered fierce. There we go. I see you consider yourself "centre-left" on your profile. I guess that explains everything; well, I'm not particularly offended by naked political corruption in a free encyclopaedia's editing system. I guess it is to be expected. Thanks for not hiding it. 163.1.230.21 16:25, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

You should also try to assume good faith. The "ignorance" comment was uncivil; calling an editor a "screeching, useless, hysterical moron and telling them to "fuck off" is both incivil and a personal attack. You seem more interested right now in ascribing political motives to everyone you've interacted with than abiding by Wikipedia policy. I exhort you, again, to read the relevant policies linked above. · j e r s y k o talk · 17:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

"Uncivil" is the word you're looking for.

And I'm hardly ascribing political motives to everyone: merely you two.

Finally: I don't think his being an editor has anything to do with it. Surely I wasn't punished because I was rude to - shock - one of the prefects of Wikipedia? What kind of a show do you think you're running here? This isn't school.

Etc.