The mission of the U.S. government is not to keep the people SAFE; it is to keep them FREE

I am a newbie. All I can say is that my talk page kept changing in ways that not only were not my changes, but kept clobbering my changes. Either the software was doing it or another user was doing it. I was definitely not doing it. My own changes kept getting overwritten.

These kinds of things often happen with newbies. When a person is unfamiliar with a computer environment, he or she does not notice telltales that would reveal to a more experienced user what is going on. Newbies can misunderstand a user interface and unintentionally cause weird things to happen, especially if the system is also new and not thoroughly tested.

I saw enough viewpoint hostility on the part of admins here that I have no faith whatsoever in the editorial objectivity of the people who administer this environment. Given the information that I have, I am convinced that some administrator who knows how to cover his or her tracks intentionally sabotaged my talk page during the ten days in which I was trying to set it up, figure out how everything works here, and respond to Ms. Hale's unreasonable demand that I apologize for saying something that I never said.

I am willing to persevere because I think that you all are doing something very important and something very "new school". I am old and very "old school" and I am quite intrigued and want to understand the new ideas that appear to seem common sense to you but are quite strange to me.

Ms. Hale, please restart your conversation with me on my talk page, and let's have a pleasant conversation there. If the conversation disappears, please be assured that it was not I who deleted/blanked it.

So... to be clear, you are admitting 1) Your page was not vandalized, 2) No material was deleted by any contributors, 3) You made a false allegation that you have since retracted where you alleged misconduct, 4) You now understand that your talk page is a place anyone can engage you and that you do not have complete control of this space?

Is this the correct interpretation of your tl;dr (teal deer) response? Respected equal, are you we understanding your words in the same way?

No, no, no, and no. Please read my post again and pay particular attention to:

"...I am convinced that some administrator who knows how to cover his or her tracks intentionally sabotaged my talk page..."

I just discovered what is happening: I have two talk pages, one for Wikipedia and one for Wikinews.

The integration of the two into what the user experiences as a single web site was confusing for me because the talk pages have an almost identical format and function, and the links at the top of the page that you click to get to them are the same. Which talk page I saw depended randomly on what I happened to be doing before deciding to view my talk page.

Confusions happen. Tbh, though, you should not have been so ready to embrace a nefarious explanation. WN:Never assume.