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::The comment, {{tq|To pretend like an RFC on a different topic provides you with some sort of backing on this topic is ... based on nothing}} might be inelegant prose, but I can't see a personal attack there. [[User:Newimpartial|Newimpartial]] ([[User talk:Newimpartial|talk]]) 14:46, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
:::'Pretending' should not be there, Nableezy. I've quietly noted for over a decade that editors generally use 'disingenuous' to make the same point, and even admins, (not SFR to my knowledge), find nothing problematical in the latter, which implies 'pretending'. The reason we bridle at the former, and not the latter, is that generally people don't appear to know '''precisely''' what 'disingenuous' means. But a very experienced editor, esp. in the technicalities, like BilledMammal, certainly did 'try and make out' that one RfC supported another RfC when the two were self-evidently unrelated. I think we would save ourselves a lot of time if we didn't make major issues out of fine print generally. It only makes for the usual [[Sturm und Drang]] in a teacup, which can be put to better uses, like studying the physics of a meniscus.[[User:Nishidani|Nishidani]] ([[User talk:Nishidani|talk]]) 14:59, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
:::Talk page stalker here. Lots of editors talk about trying to keep things calm in this topic area, but even if {{tq|To pretend like an RFC on a different topic provides you with some sort of backing on this topic is I suppose par for the course here but nonetheless based on nothing.}} is not a personal attack (which I think it's borderline) it definitely raises the temperature greatly. Would not the following "I cannot see how a RFC on a different topic applies to this topic." get the point across equally without getting close to the line? Generally, we should avoid the use of "you" when discussing things in contentious topic areas - it's not always easy but it will certainly be better. [[User:Ealdgyth|Ealdgyth]] ([[User talk:Ealdgyth|talk]]) 15:03, 19 July 2024 (UTC)