User talk:DuncanHill/Archives/2011/March

User Kwami
Hi, I read your discussion with user Kwami on his talk page. I've never had so much trouble working with an established Admin before on WP, and I think it's probably a good idea to start an ANI or some other type of disciplinary procedure. The complaints against this user are very common and stretch through an amazing number of articles mostly dealing with linguistics and anthropology. Do you have the motivation/time to do it? This user goes everywhere on WP unchecked and someone has got to stop his recklessness. Colipon+ (Talk) 14:41, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I completely agree with Colipon. This user went wild inserting inappropriate hyphens, and redirecting pages, in a number of articles on different types of LUNG CANCER (of all things) that I'd spent a TON of time on!


 * Then, after consensus was reached that his changes were inappropriate, just just left all his changes in situ, creating one heck of a mess. It made me SO DISCOURAGED that I started checking around, and noticed he CONSTANTLY has MYRIAD problems with NUMEROUS users.


 * I don't mean to be disrespectful, and having a near-stroke over this is probably some violation of a WikiStandard of some sort, but he's got me running a temperature of about 104 F. Just wanted to throw in my $0.02 U.S. on this Users behavior.


 * Best regards:
 * Cliff L. Knickerbocker, MS (talk) 04:16, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Homework on the Ref Desks
Hi, Duncan. I've just posted some thoughts to the ref desk talk page. Some of them concern you, so you might like to have a look and give us the benefit of your responses. Cheers. --  Jack of Oz   [your turn]  05:40, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I've replied there this time, I won't reply there again. DuncanHill (talk) 11:52, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Dragged back here against my will – really, Duncan? After I specifically said: Where, how and even whether [Duncan] responds to the bits that concern him, is up to him?  Well, play the victim if you like, but it doesn't wash with me.


 * As to the content of your response, it doesn't really advance matters. You seem fixed in your view of what was in my mind at any particular point, and nothing I can say seems to make any difference.  Choose to believe you know better about my mind than I myself do, if you like.  It doesn't affect me.


 * Just in passing, I couldn’t help comparing your statement:
 * Still, I suppose the OP got an accurate picture of the Wikipedia community - a bunch of grumpy, suspicious, snide misanthropes
 * with the statement on your talk page:
 * That said, if I make a comment on your talk page, I will keep it watchlisted until the conversation reaches a conclusion or grinds to a halt, or I can't bear the thought of communicating with you anymore.


 * You talk of kindness and appear not to like grumpiness – yet you foreshadow that, no matter who you come into contact with, you will eventually not be able to bear the thought of communicating with them anymore. If that's not misanthropy writ large, I don't know what is.  If it was a joke, it went way over my head.  But that's OK, I'm probably far worse than misanthropic.


 * Anyway, none of the above or the recent argy-bargy has to affect the good relations you and I have always had. I hope they continue.  --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  12:00, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I had to go there to read it, so yes, dragged back is right - I could hardly reply anywhere unless I had gone there first!


 * Things that make me grumpy? Taking the piss out of non-native speakers of English (and yes Jack, that was exactly what you were doing with your "Parnassus" remark - your intentions are irrelevant here, your actions are what matter), pettifogging insistence on silly rules (telling people that they shouldn't try to answer because someone has decided it might be homework for example).


 * I don't watchlist user talk pages much now because it's just too depressing. I have seen far too many new (and not so new) editors driven off, and I just don't have the energy to keep fighting the same old battles over and over again.


 * I was really surprised by your behaviour on the German thread, it didn't seem like you at all - not the friendly, helpful, good-natured Jack I used to know.


 * On the refdesks, 90% of the crap could be avoided if people just didn't answer the questions that they don't want to answer. It's the "oh no, nobody else should answer" that creates the trouble there. DuncanHill (talk) 12:41, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback. You're not the only one to tell me to check my attitude, so I'd better have that looked into.  I guess my only point of departure is whether a rule is "silly" or not; I don't feel I have the right to unilaterally abandon a rule that the majority want to operate, and so any defence of that rule can hardly be "pettifogging".  --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  20:53, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Anyway, well done on the Bonythons, have you seen this? DuncanHill (talk) 13:06, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Lovely, thanks. Whence your interest in this Australian family?  Your Cornish connections?  --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  20:53, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

warning against vandalism
this is your first warning against vandalism as you did on Freddie Mercury. Any further vandals will get you reported to admins. -184.253.183.121 (talk) 15:20, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Please do. DuncanHill (talk) 15:39, 22 March 2011 (UTC)