User talk:Calgo

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Hello, Calgo! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Please stop....

Please stop editing your comments after they have been responded to; it makes the conversation impossible to follow. Further, please familiarize with our talk page guidelines; you seem to be mistaking article talk pages for a discussion forum or something of the sort. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 05:28, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are also making personal attacks on editors, this must stop. See WP:NPA. Dougweller (talk) 06:14, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And other editors's actions don't excuse yours. By the way, a number of schools actually have their students write or edit Wikipedia articles as part of their coursework. Dougweller (talk) 09:06, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Peter Lupus

iI've reverted it. First, the lead should summarise the article, which doesn't say he's Italian-American. Secondly, we don't mention people's ethnicity (at least that of living people) unless it is clearly relevant (well, we shouldn't, some articles still do). And thirdly it's unsourced, and the only reliable source I can find, [1] says he's Greek. Dougweller (talk) 06:17, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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"get in the weeds"

The phrase (no down in what Sam wrote) is definitely not an insult. Hard to define, here's one [2] explanation. Dougweller (talk) 09:14, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Calgo, Dougweller's right. The expression means 'to examine the specifics/minutiae'. See this web search.

Secondly, it was you who came in with the agressive tone in the first place. That's actually a typical rookie mistake, viz. treating Wikipedia as one of those flame war-infested online forums. Re-read your comments if you need a refresher.

As for the 'ignorant' matter, it's no crime to be ignorant of any specific subject at all, of course: each of us has his area of expertise or relative expertise. But I felt that since you'd taken it upon yourself to 'educate' others about Italian history, one would have expected you to know what you were talking about at least on some basic level, that's all.

I didn't want to write this on the article's talk page, lest you take this comment the wrong way as you did my former ones and try to begin another round of arguing. I won't cooperate, anyway, and indeed I hope you accept my apology for my use of the word "ignorance".

P.S. After you have 10 edits under your belt you'll be able to edit semi-protected articles. (See WP:AUTOCONFIRM) Good luck. SamEV (talk) 18:14, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

P.P.S. Don't make important changes to your comments without informing your interlocutors if you've been replied to. It's a matter of etiquette and good faith. See more at WP:REDACT. SamEV (talk) 18:25, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]