User talk:Ruud64
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User Angr[edit]
Hi Ruud!
Regarding Angr, if his edits are too nonsensical, maybe you should seek arbitration instead of a protracted edit war. I don't think that user can be blocked (some of his edits are good, others less so), but you could get some more people on your side so hopefully Angr will lose interest in that article. Angr seems to be intelligent, but not exactly very socially aware (autistic?), so to him his behavior might seem entirely reasonable. I think it's true that many WP editors, especially those who seem to spend their entire day on WP, are a bit, ummm, special, if you get my drift, so you have to take that into account.
So don't expect that you can make him understand what he's doing wrong, instead look for some reinforcements. What I wrote was also meant to document his behavior rather than in the hopes of reforming him. Besides, he has deleted material from his user talk page where somebody called him an idiot (and rightly so), so maybe that would be a nice way to prove to others he's not very fair and truthful. Just point them to his talk page history.
Ultimately that user is almost certain to be blocked at some point, so the goal right now should be to limit the damage (if any) he's causing so we don't have to endlessly clean up after him later. :-) Morn (talk) 12:07, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
July 2011[edit]
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Protestant Church in the Netherlands. Doing so helps everyone understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. Cognate247 (talk) 21:36, 21 July 2011 (UTC)