466:: I regret that your first experience of editing at WP got you bitten as a newcomer. The unfortunate fact is that a large number of individuals and companies seem to want to use WP as a place to host their CVs or corporate descriptions; these are implicitly (and often explicitly) self-promotional, and more experienced editors here tire of dealing with this kind of thing and are sometimes less courteous about it than they should be.
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