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Hi VarmtheHawk. In the above noticeboard, you have said The complainer and their collaborator saw fit to change the article repeatedly without coordination. "Collaborator" appears to refer to myself. This is false and I ask you to withdraw this. I also ask you to self-revert your most recent revert on List of chess grandmasters. Thank you. Onetwothreeip (talk) 02:49, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the editing history I see what you mean. There's a small coterie of "article split activist" editors who prowl around looking for large articles in areas where they have no subject expertise and splitting them up. They don't seem to realise that people aren't using Pentium 4 PCs and dial-ups anymore. They will WP:BLUDGEON away until you give in. First it was links to player profiles on the sport's governing body's page, then it was birth places, then it was name formats, then it was numbering, then it was splitting into living and dead players. Of course none of them know anything about chess or chess culture, they even speculated that there are a whole lot of deaths that haven't been noted (there are not). MaxBrowne2 (talk) 18:47, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Use of external link in citations on Cave de Sueth etc
