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 :Thanks for your thoughtful input here, Elonka.  You are almost certainly correct that there are  better approaches to problems like this than mine.   

 :That said, given your role in recommending my block, and given the time you've taken to write the above, I do find it a little odd that you've not read through the dispute closely enough even to know that there's no beef with SlimVirgin here, none at all.  SV's only role in any of this is to have written a superb – and entirely policy-compliant, notwithstanding Jay's convoluted claims to the contrary – summary of Elie Wiesel's Night.  I am also a little taken aback by your recommendations to edit more in ""non-Jayjg areas.""  Jay is one of the most prolific editors on WP, and his ""area"" covers everything related to Jews, Jewish history, Judaism, and the Israel-Palestine conflict.  I'm running a comparatively tiny operation here, and beyond my interest in (not specifically Jewish) literature my edits focus on a small topical subsection of Israel-Palestine articles – namely, articles covering ethical issues surrounding journalistic and scholarly commentary about the conflict.  This brings me into necessary contact and regular friction with Jay.  I don't consider our small area of overlap to be his ""area,"" and I'm a little surprised that you've taken seriously his allegations of ""stalking.""  

 :In the present case I was alerted to the page in question by an email from an editor called PalestineRemembered, who is under Ryan Postlewaite's mentorship.  In a very ugly episode last year, PR was falsely accused of importing Holocaust-denial material into Wikipedia.  The accusation was very quickly and unanswerably discredited, but he came within an inch of being permabanned.  About a week afterward Jay, who was PR's accuser, apologized.  In a post several days ago to Ryan's talk page generally questioning PR's good faith, Jay specifically insinuated that PR had a ""history"" regarding Holocaust denial.  This is what I've referred to as a ""lie.""  I don't think that's too strong a word. 

 :I understand why you and Khoikhoi felt this block was justified.  I appreciate your warnings and even your restraint (odd as it feels to be saying that, given that I don't think the block was justified).   And again, I really do appreciate your helpful remarks about tone, civility and so on.  If you'll allow just a small piece of counter-advice, I would suggest that in approaching admittedly nasty disputes like this, that you not measure civility solely by the temperature of one's tone.  One can be lethally uncivil in the coolest of tones.  Knowingly false insinuations about something as morally serious as Holocaust denial would be a good example of that.  "