User talk:Artie2

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, Artie2, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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 ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Jayjg ^(talk) 02:11, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits[edit]

Hi Artie2,

I know you mean well, and I appreciate your attempts to improve the Beth Israel article, but your edits have been mostly unhelpful, for reasons outlined here: Talk:Congregation Beth Israel (Berkeley, California)#Artie2's edits. Please respond there before editing the article again. Cheers! 01:08, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Response:

Dear Jayjg, Thank you for your appreciation of my efforts. You are obviously a very accomplished Wikipedia moderator. At the same time, I and probably other Wikipedia contributors do not appreciate comments of yours such as "your edits have been mostly unhelpful" I have my drafts and various other publishings saved just as you do. If comments such as yours above, plus your continued deletions/reversions, are part of some sort of Reversion/Deletion Game, then I am more than ready and willing to continue playing with you to the best of my ability. It would be greatly appreciated if you do not encourage this!

If possible, why don't we kindly work TOGETHER on this :-) Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Artie2 (talk) 10:03, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Artie2.

The best way to work with me is by working with me. I appreciate that you want to help improve the article, but please appreciate that you have very little experience with Wikipedia, whereas I have a great deal of it. Please propose changes on the article's Talk: page, rather than directly changing the article. Thank you. Jayjg ^(talk) 18:21, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]