[WikiEN-l] Autoblock problem: not working, not right

brian bs_politic at yahoo.ca
Thu Apr 27 21:47:48 UTC 2006


Yes, of course, I shouldn't of left that out.  I was invited to get an account by atleast 3 people, namely one individual who has "low patience" for anon editors.  Fair enough, so I started up an accout, Neztielz.  Unfortunatly, it was very late, and had some beer, so did not realise that Neztielz was an inappropriate name violating naming policy.  PLAK, on the otherhand, I created with the hope of bringing peoples attention to the parts of the article that were full of misinformation and serious pov problems.  The Cuba article is suffering through an extended fight between two groups of editors, and nothing is getting accomplished.  I felt if i could just focus attention on some of the serious problems, perhaps some progress could be made.  For example the infrastructure section literally only adresses positives prior to the revolution, and negatives following it.  In reality, Cubas infrastrucure has grown, and continues to do so.  While Cuba is behind in areas such as
 telecommunications,  in other areas it is doing quite well.  While the actual edits made by PLAK were a little unscroupulous, I never used a secondary account to back up my work, or make others look bad. 

Brian


That's an interesting story, brian, but it doesn't explain why you
first edited with an IP address, then had to create three separate
userids to edit that page, Neztielz, PLAK, and Mystork, before finally
using your real account Colle.

Jay.

On 4/27/06, brian <bs_politic at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hi, I was recently blocked by a great admin who seems to of gotten a 
little jaded.  The block was related to my alledged motives, which in 
reality were quite good!  Anyways, my block was supposed to end about 8 
or 9 hours ago, so if someone with the know how would like to look into 
it, please give me a hand!
>
> If you want to know why I was unjustly blocked (which I know you 
really do) please read on! PLEASE!
>
> Well I had given up on wikipedia a few months ago, and had left my 
user:colle account to gather some dust.  But then you know what happens, 
I ended up coming crawling back---but I was only going to edit one 
article (Cuba).  I read the article before I went to Cuba, so it has a bit 
of sentimental value to me, but I digress.  So I made a new account 
rather than dig up the old password. Over a day or two I did some edits, 
worked on a sandbox, and signed a RFC. Unfortunatly I was labled a 
sockpuppet by an avatar and another user because I had unfortunatly appeared 
minutes after a high-profile editor was banned indefinatly.  So... I 
went and found my old accounts password (very lucky), and then used that 
account to prove I wasn't a sockpuppet by removing the "suspected 
sockpuppet of.." template from my new userpage, and replacing it with one 
stating "this user is the legitimate sock puppet of Colle."  The next day 
Sarah indef banned my legitimate sockpuppet, and gave me a 12
>  hour break from editing.  I've tried to explain the situation, but I 
haven't had much progress getting back from her lately.  I really don't 
want people thinking I intentionally mess around with the system --it 
is just how it happened.  Also, I really didn't break any rules that I 
know of.  Thanks a bunch!
>
> Brian

		
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