User:Colonies Chris/Evidence


 * My talk page: 21 July 2008 I explained about the change to the MoS but the editor would not accept that.
 * My talk page: 24 July 2008 An editor asked why I had unlinked dates, then noticed the earlier discussion on my talk page and considered that sufficient explanation
 * My talk page: 31 July 2008 User:Bzuk objected and would not accept my argument. User:Philip Baird Shearer accused me of disruptive behaviour [I had unlinked dates while fixing a spelling error; several weeks later I returned to the same article while fixing a different spelling error, and, not remembering that I had been there before, unlinked dates that he had relinked in the meantime; he took this as edit-warring]
 * My talk page: mid August User:BillCJ objected in extremely uncivil terms, describing my edits as 'trash' and 'vandalism', reverted all my changes, including many non-date related ones, and then wiped all my responses from his talk page. However, I preserved the interaction on my talk page.
 * My talk page: Aug 2008 User:MBK004 objected to my removal of date links, but another editor of the same article dissented. Among other things, MBK004 accused me of acting 'nefariously' by combining date delinking with other edits. This makes an interesting contrast with the discussion that took place later over the use of AWB, where Locke Cole and Tennis expert tried, unsuccessfully, to claim that making only unlinking edits to an article was a 'minor edit' prohibited under AWB rules. Damned if you do and damned if you don't, it would seem.
 * My talk page: 26 Aug 2008 User:Bluewave accepted my explanation
 * September - No objections or praise
 * My talk page: 22 October 2008 User:Smjg did not object to unlinking per se but complained that I had left the unlinked dates in an inconsistent state. My unlinking had revealed the inconsistency to him, not created it, but he seemed to think it was my fault. Another editor might have thanked me for showing him what almost all our readers had always been seeing, and fixed the inconsistencies himself, but 'nowt so queer as folk', as they say.
 * My talk page: 31 October 2008 An IP complained about my removal of a bare year link, but offered no explanation of why it should be retained.