Rick K writes about Anthere unblocking me:

I disagree with this action. RK continued to attempt to edit during his ban, as is evident by a practically daily entry into the block log showing that he had done so.

This is not true! I simply did not do this, and I am outraged by this false claim. Where is this so-called record of 120 attenpts to circumvent Wikipedia?

He did not serve his ban appropriately, and the ban should have been reinstated from the date he last attempted to edit. RickK, who had no opinion on either side of RK's banning

Does anyone have any idea of why RickK would claim such a thing? I checked the log myself, and what he says IS NOT THERE. If I did this every day, as he falsely claims, then there would be some 120 records of an attenpt to edit from my ISP! But as far as I can see, they are just not there.

(Also, I suspect that there are many people who might also use my ISP. I live in a densely populated area. I DO NOT have my own ISP; mine is shared with potentially thousands of other people, which is NOT uncommon.)

Does merely *viewing* Wikipedia count as a violation of a ban? Are views recorded?

Look, I have some three hundred articles on my Watchlist. I suppose I could easily have edited all of them over the last four months at any time, by dialing in through another local ISP portal. Each separate phone number - as far as I know - has a separate IP, and would not be blocked. Heck, I could even have gone to my local public library and edited my three hundred Watchlist articles from there.

If what RickK says about my intentions were true, then by now there would be thousands of edits by me on articles I have always done edits on! (Conservative responsa, anyone?) So he is claiming that I am not only trying to violate a ban, but that I am incompetant in doing so! He thinks that I can't even figure out how to drive to my local public library and use their computer?

In any case, my free time has been spent on creating an entire High School science course on Evolution. This was an unexpected bonus from my boss, who allowed me this luxury prize; thus under no circumstances would I have had time over the last few months to work much on Wikipedia anyways.

Confused as hell,

Robert (RK)

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