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Re: question posed to Shell about my comments above

Re: a question posed to Shell over on her talk page: I did not say that Shell advised me to delete comments made about the block or the Sept. 5, 2008 AN/I from my current talk page; I said that ""upon the advice of Shell"", which she made to me, not to continue the discussion of the AN/I on my current talk page, that neither should anyone else be doing that on my current talk page. I explained (in this section) that I would be at first editing out (using < !  /  >) and then deleting any comments made subsequent to the blocking of me by gnangarra/garra. (They are still visible in preview mode so that people who posted them can copy and post them as comments to Shell, e.g., or in a pertinent not closed AN/I, which they are free to re-open if they wish.)
See ""NYScholar issues revisited"" (archived discussion): instructions are in the top of the archive box; w/ the closing administrator's Gnangarra/garra's Conclusion/Summary.  The directions say that if one wants to engage in ""subsequent"" discussion of it, one needs to start a new page at WP:AN/I.  My current talk page is not for that kind of discussion.
(cont.) My point: If I can't discuss the AN/I on my talk page, neither can others continue to do so on my talk page. I do not welcome further comments about it (since I am restricted from replying to them by Shell and the current blocking administrator's block), and, therefore, I will delete them.  To continue to place them here, on my talk page, is, in my view, based on what Shell has advised me about my own comments, inappropriate.
(cont.) Re: views about the current block by Gnangarra/garra:  people can contact the blocking administrator Gnangarra/garra directly to comment on the block one way or the other.  But one does need to keep in mind that it is a violation of WP:CIVIL and Wikipedia:Etiquette to lobby for blocks of other users who are not engaging in any currently blockable behavior (as I am not).
(cont.) See WP:BLOCK for policy; blocks are not supposed to be punitive; they are supposed to be preventative.  I and Shell have questioned the validity of the current block. Scroll up to unblock request(s).
(cont.) If unsure, people do need to consult the links provided in my #N.B. section above, which will go to policies and guidelines relating to commenting on user talk pages.
(cont.) At Shell's request in the AN/I (at end of archived version), she asks people to contact her directly if they have specific concerns about my editing in Wikipedia done after the closing of the AN/I, as she is currently my mentor and is trying to guide me to have better communications with other Wikipedians in talk pages particularly.  Please see the end of the now-archived closed report via WP:ANI.  Thanks again.    
My current talk page is also not for debating Gnangarra/garra's (in my view and that of Shell) unfounded block of me (my unblock request explains my view of it); if you have your own views about the block, please communicate them on Gnangarra/garra's talk page or on the talk page of the last declining administrator , not on my talk page, but please be mindful of WP:CIVIL and Wikipedia:Etiquette, or you yourselves may find yourselves blocked (!).  Lobbying for (or perhaps even against) blocks of me on my talk page (or elsewhere) is, in my view, uncivil and a violation of Wikipedia:Etiquette, and I will delete further such discussions from my current talk page.  I am not currently editing Wikipedia because I am blocked from doing so.  I don't want also to become blocked from my own talk page.  If people make personal comments about me as a contributor, I will consider them potential violations of WP:CIVIL, and I will remove them, as per the policies already linked in my ""N.B."" section; please read it.  Thank you.   "