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Hello WikiGnosis! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 03:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Legal threats

This edit appears to make an oblique legal threat by labeling comments as libel. Wikipedia has a strict no legal threats policy, I urge you to reword your comment, I don't get the vibe that that was your intention. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 05:47, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have respectfully appended a reassurance to my comment, that it is not a legal threat. No legal action will result from it alone; however, perhaps some brain cells might become engaged. Thanks for looking out for me. --WikiGnosis 05:55, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiGnosis, we generally refer to Wikipedians by their online handle, not their full name and state of residence. I've replaced the subject's info with his or her username. Regards, Iamunknown 06:02, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You'll note (or, apparently not) that User:Chairboy had given his full name and state (and city, to boot!) of residence in the very same thread that I was responding to. My use of the real name was intended to be something of tongue-in-cheek humor, since we were talking about a "legal" issue. Wikipedians generally need to unwind themselves a little, too, it seems. --WikiGnosis 06:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And perhaps read a bit of the Meatball Wiki: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?LegalThreat, stop making personal comments directed towards me when I made none to you and consider that legal insinuations, whether "philosophical" or not, act as a chilling effect. --Iamunknown 06:18, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When words like "stalker", "terrorist", and "criminal" are being used to describe a fellow User of Wikipedia (who has just been reinstituted by the co-founder of the whole project, no less), perhaps some "chilling" is in order?

And since when is leaving a personal comment on someone's Talk page NOT "making personal comments"? This is really very telling about some philosophies here! --WikiGnosis 11:28, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 :You'll note (or, apparently not) that [[User:Chairboy]] had given his full name and state (and city, to boot!) of residence in the very same thread that I was responding to.  My use of the real name was intended to be something of tongue-in-cheek humor, since we were talking about a "legal" issue.  Wikipedians generally need to unwind themselves a little, too, it seems. --[[User:WikiGnosis|WikiGnosis]] 06:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 :: And perhaps read a bit of the Meatball Wiki: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?LegalThreat, stop making personal comments directed towards me when I made none to you and consider that legal insinuations, whether "philosophical" or not, act as a chilling effect.  --[[User talk:Iamunknown|Iamunknown]] 06:18, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
-:::When words like "stalker", "terrorist", and "criminal" are being used to describe a fellow User of Wikipedia (whose just been reinstituted by the co-founder of the whole project, no less), perhaps some "chilling" is in order?
+:::When words like "stalker", "terrorist", and "criminal" are being used to describe a fellow User of Wikipedia (who has just been reinstituted by the co-founder of the whole project, no less), perhaps some "chilling" is in order?
 :::And since when is leaving a personal comment on someone's Talk page NOT "making personal comments"? This is really very telling about some philosophies here! --[[User:WikiGnosis|WikiGnosis]] 11:28, 19 April 2007 (UTC)