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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2012-11-08 18:58, Jo wrote :<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAJ6DwMD2BZDhmVGfkYEhyxRa1C0EmgoPgS-+7hs0C75OeA8MSw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">On talk-fr he's such a know-it-all, but not all of his
'wisdom' is always appreciated, to put it mildly. There's a bit
too much of it too. Impossible to read all of it, even if one
would try.<br>
Anyway, Belgium's situation is complicated enough without him
coming to introduce errors.<br>
<br>
Would I write a message to him, or could somebody who speaks
French properly/natively do that?<br>
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know-it-all is the right word if you add arrogant.<br>
I've had an off-track discussion where he methodically denied every
word I said.<br>
He said that the Julian calendar has no leap years, that there are
no negative dates (would we be in year 13 700 000 000 ± ?) that the
Romans had no number 0 because they used negation (yet in my mind,
nihil positively means 0, what they lacked is the digit 0) etc... <br>
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He almost called me a twit. To which I would answer with the French
word twat ;-)<br>
You just can't debate, even less compromise with him.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2012-11-08 19:17, Jo wrote :<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAJ6DwMC0RqMJVRVSiaqoYn-Skbe-+tyX10AF6WvdcmOkhgmz7g@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">All I know is that he is largely ignored on talk-fr.
So I don't think anybody knows how to handle him. My impression is
that he became a little bit less verbose, but not by much.<br>
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If it gets to the point where it starts looking like an edit war,
we could always ask pnorman to warn and subsequently block him for
a while.</blockquote>
Knowing him, I think that's the good idea.<br>
Warning him that if<br>
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<li>he doesn't come and discuss Belgian matters here and follow
our decisions<br>
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<li>he continues to stress very nice contributors, being coercive
instead of cooperative</li>
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<p>we will have to resort to what you mention.<br>
It's worse that an edit war, he depressed and discouraged ever so
nice people.<br>
I've tried to mitigate. No way.</p>
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Cordialement,<br>
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