User talk:Mapeal
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Blocked[edit]
I've had no choice but to block both you and User:BalkanFever for that wild revert-warring spree on Macedonia naming dispute. Block duration is 24h. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:28, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- I've re-blocked you. You went right back to exactly the same contentious edits only minutes after the previous block expired? That's not what we understand by dispute resolution on Wikipedia. Please make an effort to learn how we handle conflicts constructively here. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:30, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- The Wikipedia policy on the FYROM naming dispute is perfectly clear when editing pages concerning Greece or International Organisations, in that is states that the term Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia should be used to refer to this entity, and all that I have done is implement this policy in accordance with the official dispute resolution policy, therefore I should not have been blocked unfairly.--Mapeal (talk) 20:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- You're quite wrong; I've explained why on the article talk page. I've also protected the article in the meantime to put an end to this edit war. I'll echo what Fut. Perf. says and point out to you that it's not a good idea, if you've just been blocked for edit warring on an article, to come back to the same article and restart the edit war. Please take the time to discuss your changes and obtain consensus, rather than trying to impose your preferred version. -- ChrisO (talk) 23:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- The Wikipedia policy on the FYROM naming dispute is perfectly clear when editing pages concerning Greece or International Organisations, in that is states that the term Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia should be used to refer to this entity, and all that I have done is implement this policy in accordance with the official dispute resolution policy, therefore I should not have been blocked unfairly.--Mapeal (talk) 20:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)