User talk:Weirbales

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Valenciano (talk) 20:02, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Ireland: "fields of literature"

Hi. Please explain this reversion: [1]. I understand that different cultures have different literatures, but all of them fall into the "field of literature", just as all cooking styles of the world fall into the "field of cooking". I feel that the version you reverted to sounds ugly and jarring, distracting the reader. Equinox ◑ 04:19, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

I have changed it back and explained in the edit summary. Weirbales (talk) 19:12, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019

Your recent editing history at Ireland shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Valenciano (talk) 20:02, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

@Valenciano: If I understand correctly, you left a warning on my talk page regarding edit warring, followed immediately by a welcome template. I would like to point out two things:

1. I am not fooled by the welcome template. One could rightly assert that this was done to sell the illusion that you are acting in and assuming good faith (the “good guy” as it were) in preparation for the report you plan to file requesting my block.
2. I reverted twice in the past 24 hours. Good luck with your report.

I might suggest that you spend time reading and studying subject matter for many years as I have, rather than seeking out conflicts. Cheers! Politely and pleasantly yours, Weirbales (talk) 20:40, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

No one is seeking out conflicts. The opposite, I am advising you of the rules here to avoid you continuing on a course that may lead to you being blocked, something which I don't want to happen. For now, I suggest you follow WP:BRD and if you disagree when reverted, make use of the article talk page, in this case Talk:Ireland. Incidentally, did you edit under a previous account? For an account with fewer than 50 edits, you seem incredibly well versed in Wikipedia ways. Valenciano (talk) 20:50, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

I have knowledge of the workings of Wikipedia from my masters degree studies. However, this was as a reader and as a casual anonymous contributor. That being said, I am not an idiot: Please don’t ever accuse me of sockpuppetry again. This is the definition of a personal attack. Weirbales (talk) 21:04, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

No one said anything about sockpuppetry, people sometimes have previous accounts which they forget the password to. The reason I asked was because, if you are familiar with the workings of things, it will save people spending time explaining them to you, something which you invariably seem to take as an insult to yourself when people are only trying to help. Valenciano (talk) 21:52, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I'm The Banner. I noticed that you made a comment on the page Ireland that didn't seem very civil, so it has been removed. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. The Banner talk 20:02, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Friendly greetings, @The Banner: If you are referring to my response to your request that I “please specify all fields of Irish literature involved, exhaustive,” then my comment is best interpreted as one in which I politely explain that I found it to be an offensive, aggressive, and unnecessary attack on the knowledge and expertise I bring to the project. If you are upset that I have taken offense, please consider refraining from making aggressive, hostile, less-than-subtle insinuations which border on personal attacks. Cheers! Weirbales (talk) 20:54, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

I take is as an unnecessary personal attack and as an aggressive attempt to silence another editor. Please read: WP:NPA. The Banner talk 21:47, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

I understand. Allow me to apologise. I am truly sorry that while you seem to be perfectly comfortable disparaging the credentials of others, your own delicate sensibilities prevent you from acknowledging the hypocrisy in your own behaviour. Weirbales (talk) 21:54, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Wario

Just to let you know, this may have been an accident to find out that the edit you've undid was back to the vandalised version that the IP address originally edited. That has been reverted back to the version by EthanRossie2000. Thanks, Iggy (Swan) 22:19, 10 March 2019 (UTC)