User talk:ProfTirak

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. Rather than reverting, discuss disputed changes on the talk page. The revision you want is not going to be implemented by edit warring. Thank you. --Sina111 (talk) 10:50, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Please do not add WP:OR, or unencyclopedic phrases such as "Iranian sensitivities" to Wikipedia articles. --Sina111 (talk) 10:55, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Notice that all your edits on The arab states of the Persian Gulf are intact, I just removed the "Iranian sensitivities" part, which is unencyclopedic. Please don't add that part back, thank you. --Sina111 (talk) 11:10, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Dear Sina111, I find this rather sad, I'm afraid... I myself more often use the term 'Persian Gulf' than any other, but there is nothing 'unencyclopaedic' about stating the plain fact that most of those (other than Iranians) who use inelegant terms such as 'Gulf Arab states' and 'Persian Gulf Arab states', do so out of deference to the sensitivity surrounding the whole naming question in Iran. I am not even questioning here the right of Iranians to feel aggrieved about this. I certainly was not engaging in any editing war - in fact I merely pasted a whole bunch of edits together and then corrected little mistakes in my own edits in a series of subsequent edits in quick succession - and somehow that got taken as 'warring'. I am not bothered about leaving out the 'sensitivity' phrase - although it is rather a pity to obscure to the general mystified reader why some of these linguistically inelegant terms might be used.

ProfTirak (talk) 13:29, 8 June 2009 (UTC)