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Please stop aggressively trying to police other users' talk pages. User talk exists primarily for editors to work out issues between each other, without resorting to dramaboards and other process that is consumptive of other editors' time and attention (or unconstructive behavior like sniping at each other in edit summaries, etc.). If one of the two editors involved in that sort of user-talk discussion isn't interested in continuing it, they will say so, and do not need you to interlope as a pretend mindreader who must muzzle everyone. You're especially in no position to repeatedly browbeat another editor at their own talk page that they mustn't continue the discussion.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  19:13, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

PS: You've only been here 18 months and somehow have amassed a grand total of only 292 edits of any kind. You are not in a position to lecture and dictate at long-term editors on how Wikipedia works.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  19:26, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Noted. _WADroughtOfVowels^P 19:49, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

(Or more humorously, I shall abide by my username more closely. Also, I confess that this was to me at the time too aggressive, but I, against my better judgement, didn't revert it.) _WADroughtOfVowels^P 19:55, 31 October 2024 (UTC)