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*'''Oppose''' both the block ''and'' the proposed topic ban. EEng has written a interesting, well sourced, and informative article, and while they could/should try to behave a bit better, to topic ban them would be losing sight of Wikipedia's main goal (being an encyclopedia). [[User:G S Palmer|G S Palmer]] <small>([[User talk:G S Palmer|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/G S Palmer|contribs]])</small> 22:00, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

**It is for that reason that I proposed no restriction on editing the talk page. That way, we don't lose EEng's expertise about the content of the page, but we allow editors to edit the page itself in accordance with consensus, instead of having to defend against edit wars that go against consensus. ''That'' is the ''real'' way to advance the main goal of building an encyclopedia. --[[User:Tryptofish|Tryptofish]] ([[User talk:Tryptofish|talk]]) 22:13, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

* '''Oppose''' any topic ban on EEng largely per [[user:G S Palmer]] and comments by [[user:Nyttend]] earlier. The block handed out to him recently is outrageous. If anything EEng has shown remarkable restraint in the face of being baited for almost a year now. Tryptofish, your proposal to restrict EEng to the talk page is ridiculous, like many of the false content issues that you and others drowned the talk page in over the last year, such as supporting the idea that a children's book can be a good source from which to base medical facts. You never lifted a finger to help fix the citation and notes problems caused by others on this article, but join their chorus of 'ban him' when EEng's syntax takes advantage of the features available for making a page ''very'' attractive, even after they have been discussed at MOS. I have to say I am pleasantly surprised to see a discussion now underway at [[Talk:Phineas Gage]] which shows that [[user:ChrisGualtieri]], EEng's strongest critic, is engaged in fruitful collaboration with EEng, as it matches my experience over the years, where I've never had a problem finding an agreeable solution with EEng on this page even on aspects that I dont 100% agree with him, and I have enjoyed discussing gritty details with him re both content and syntax which have resulted in vast improvements to the article over the years. We should be so lucky to have such dedication shown to all our articles. <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] ^{'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''}</span> 03:53, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

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