User talk:CrayonS

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Again, welcome! —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 16:27, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
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Stop patronising me. Why don't you get acquainted with our policies before getting on your high horse? Per utramque cavernam 20:30, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Boris Johnson said something about women in burkas looking like letterboxes- he was referring to literal letterboxes in that comment. If he said "that hat makes you look stupid" to a certain person, that wouldn't justify adding an entry to stupid with the person's name. Aside from that, you need to show that the word has entered the language as a term independent of reference to Boris Johnson's quote with one or more specific meanings. It may happen, but I don't believe it's happened yet. Our Criteria for inclusion page says you need to show the term being used to convey meaning in three durably-archived sources spanning at least a year. Normally we would tag if with en and go through the process, but your wording shows that your entry is based solely on a fundamental misunderstanding that invalidates the whole thing, so speedy deletion seems appropriate. Also, your definition is poorly written- even after 19 edits, all of them full of errors. Please try to learn more about how dictionaries work before adding more entries. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:12, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Looking over your edit history, I notice a couple of times that you referred to edits you disagreed with as "possible vandalism". That doesn't go over very well here- it's a tactic that's almost exclusively used by vandals and other bad-faith editors to justify edit-warring. Worse, one of those times was reverting addition of an rfd tag- removing any kind of deletion template (including rfv) by the person whose edits are nominated for removal is generally perceived as a clear demonstration of bad faith and is a blockable offense (it doesn't help that it was added by a veteran admin). I don't know if you're really editing in bad faith or just acting like it due to not thinking things through, but you're building a fairly strong circumstantial case for bad faith or irresponsibility on your part that could be used by any admin who wants to block you for disruptive edits. Please be more careful and thoughtful in the future. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:04, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

I am sorry. I was acting in good faith for this page entry. CrayonS (talk) 17:27, 23 September 2018 (UTC)