I have apoligized, on numerous occasions and via numerous channels of communication. I have apoligized both publicly and privately. I have apoligized both to the general community and to specific individuals.
I have even apoligized for specific behaviour which I felt was inappropriate but which the general community does not view as bannable behavior and which nobody has ever attacked me for and that several sysops frequently enage in without any condemnation; for example, swearing.
It would be appropriate, for those who argue that I am a vandal, to stop stating that I have refused to abide by wiki guidelines, that I have refused to apoligize, or that I have refused to admit that my behavior was inappropriate.
I would like to further note, that while my opponents my claim I am a vandal for referring to the people of "Minoa" (an allegedly fictitous empire), engaging in an edit war over the name of Christopher Columbus, referring to the Queen of England as Ms. Bowes-Lyon, and insisting that regime is a POV term...I must note, I have NEVER taken paragraphs of text inserted by any user and deleted them - the worst I have done is taken paragraphs of text and moved them.
Nor have I ever entered swearwords into an article or changed dates, names, people, places, or any other information in such a way as to render the article clearly fallacious. The closest allegation of this sort which was made against me was, "I don't see anything factually wrong with Lir's additions; but I'm certain there is some hidden POV which we will find upon further investigation."
I was banned for 1 week because when other users deleted my additions, leading to an edit war, I started swearing at them and making personal attacks. That was a very very long time ago, at a point in time where I was suffering from a nicotine addiction.
It is true that I violated my ban, first with one account and then another, but during all that time and all those thousands and thousands and thousands of edits, did I ever vandalize an article? Did I ever swear at anybody? In all those thousands of edits, did I ever do anything wrong besides being me, admitting to being me, writing on topics which only I have been working on, and use an identifiable OS/browser/IP?
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