User talk:Agnat86
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Happy editing! Cheers, Doug Weller talk 10:17, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
December 2024
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Editors are expected to treat each other with respect and civility. On this encyclopedia project, editors assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not appear to do at Talk:Nationwide opinion polling for the 2024 United States presidential election. Here is Wikipedia's welcome page, and it is hoped that you will assume the good faith of other editors and continue to help us improve Wikipedia! Thank you very much! Doug Weller talk 10:18, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Doug. Thank you for the welcome. As for assuming good faith, I would suggest you lead by example there, as I simply had substantive criticism of community decisions in the discussion you refer to. Suggesting that I weren't assuming good faith there is incorrect and, ironically, seems to indicate you're not assuming good faith on my part. Agnat86 (talk) 08:39, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- Calling the community immature is not showing good faith. You won't convince me that it was. Doug Weller talk 10:01, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
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