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I take it from your comments on the IP SPI you spotted the same behavioural similarities I did eg wikilawyering? WCM_email 21:36, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Wee Curry Monster: No, the additional tells I was thinking of were linguistic. I didn't notice any wikilawyering in the sock's edits. Maybe my inability to see it is one the reasons I get along with Martin. I'm an aspie, so I tend to read what Martin writes more or less literally. I suspect that you and others find much more in there, perhaps more than Martin intended. Ultimately, that's Martin's problem to deal with, but that might help explain why the two of you keep locking horns. (Or maybe not; I haven't been around for the MOSNUM conversations, so maybe I'm off base here.) Lesser Cartographies (talk) 00:01, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd spotted linguistic similarities too but I would pick out one edit in particular as characteristically wikilawyering in the Martin style. I don't know what his issue is, I have my suspicions but even when I walk away and leave him to it, he just won't let it drop. At the root of it, is that I think Martin sees things in binary terms, if you disagree, even slightly, from his position, then you're the enemy. Being an engineer, I'm pragmatic and I'll compromise, whereas I don't think he can. I just find the waste of potential, well sad, for want of a better expression. He's blown it again as far as I can tell. WCM_email 00:18, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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