Kirby I just moments ago posted an apology to you on the talk page for Allegations sic of Israeli Apartheid I may have given if only implicitly too much credence to Jay s characterization of your views even though he s quite prone to misrepresentations of editors he disagrees with In reponse to your question on my talk page Jay has a policy of deleting anything negative from his talk page pointing offending editors to his big yellow box Negative for him as you know includes any challenge on content conduct or even procedural grounds But if I m not mistaken editors get to make the rules on their own talk pages Regarding CJ s question yes those edits are a violation of NPA