Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:Born2cycle/dicklyon

For the record, I want to apologize for being so dense in this discussion. In particular, I should have read all 3 bullets of WP:UP, instead of stopping at the 2nd. Prior to this MfD I had never encountered WP:UP. When I did start reading it, I stopped when I got to bullet #2 because I interpreted it as specifically allowing this type of file, and quoted it in my comment accordingly. If someone had quoted the 3rd bullet to me, even just the first sentence,, I would have understood why people were so upset, because "maintain[ing] in public view negative information related to others" was exactly what I was doing, and whether it was for a "very good reason" was debatable at best. But that's no excuse, because I should have read it myself. Eventually I did read it, and I blanked out the file (per guidance there) as soon as I understood. Had I understood sooner, I would have done that sooner. With so many people agreeing this was inappropriate, I should have dug deeper sooner.

Anyway, I'm sorry, and I most certainly will not do that again. --Born2cycle (talk) 09:03, 20 January 2012 (UTC)


 * It's funny how little blindspots happen. You miss something looking right at you while concentrating on something nearby.  I know the feeling.
 * I've been watching that little rule for a long time. We clarifed it here, and I added it here.  I couldn't understand how to better explain my !vote.  I guess a quote would have helped.  I think this little rule helps keep things calm where sometimes (not always), justifiable criticism irritates and inflames.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:46, 20 January 2012 (UTC)


 * The trouble with this explanation, B2C, is you at first stated that you created the file because it was a compilation of factual evidence (diffs) in user subpages, for purposes such as preparing for a dispute resolution process . You stated I created that file yesterday. Let's give it some time, shall we? However, your going to Dicklyon’s talk page to wave the existence of the file in his face and suggest that if he doesn’t create problems for you, then you won’t create problems for him proved the perfectly obvious fact that you created the dirt file to intimidate and deter. So the new-found epiphany you had when painted into a corner at the bottom of that MfD that you shouldn’t have created the dirtfile page in the first place and merely hadn’t fully read the policy page that you yourself quoted is tantamount to asking us to overlook that your previous excuses and justifications that the page was *actually* part of in impending dispute resolution. Your misdirection simply didn’t work this time around for you because Wikipedia’s servers use a journaling method where every difference is archived and you own words were permanently recorded when you went to Dicklyon’s talk page and made it 110-percent clear why you really created that page. . You wrote FYI, I just started a file about your inappropriate and disruptive behavior here: User_talk:Born2cycle/dicklyon I hope this will be enough to give you pause the next time you find yourself inclined .... It would be great to never have to add to it again. Those words of yours proved you were lying at the MfD. You will no longer be allowed to deceive others without being called out on it. Please stop making arguments that amount to “Don’t read any of what I wrote above; please pay attention to my deception du jour at the bottom here.” Evidence of your own chronic behavior—your own words and actions—will be your undoing here. Greg L (talk) 18:19, 20 January 2012 (UTC)