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Happy editing!  I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 06:32, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Insane two-year block

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

1.129.106.162 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Please quote the Wikipedia policy that endorses two-year blocks.
Firstly this block is supposedly justified as "long history of IP hopping disruption", making it sound like there is a single persistent person who is deliberately changing their IP address to cause disruption. These IP addresses are randomly assigned and will change automatically according to the whims of the ISP whenever the user reconnects. It should be obvious to anyone that a vast majority of disruptive editors on shared IP addresses come and go: they may amuse themselves as a once-off, or for a few weeks or even months. The "long history" is likely referring to actions taken by a variety of people, many of whom have already moved on (i.e. stopped editing WP) long ago. So this justification does not match the reality.

Secondly this block is supposedly justified as "compulsive overlinking." I also cannot believe that Wikipedia policy supports a ban over multiple years for "overlinking". The appropriate remedy for this is to advise the editor that less linking (presumably to other WP articles) would be better. Ask yourself whether the same punishment would be doled out to an editor who logs in with an account? If not, then it is just anti-IP editor bigotry. In either case, the duration of the block is excessive for this issue.
—DIV (1.129.106.162 (talk) 15:37, 23 May 2021 (UTC))

Decline reason:

As per below, thanks for the feedback, you are welcome to create an account to obviate this problem, if you haven't already. If you wish to make a general argument against range blocks, you may do that once you have an account. There is no right to edit via IP address and accounts are actually more anonymous. It has nothing to do with bigotry, but everything with specific activity here. You won't believe that, but that's the way it is. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 19:50, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

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Extra feedback

Why not make it easy for people to see what's going on?

The block notice says "see also 1.145.0.0/19, and block log". How? Why not provide the actual links for these?!
Yes, a block log link becomes available after posting an unblock request. But that's only for the present IP address (not the wide range), and it's also too late to inform the person composing the unblock request.

For the record:

• Editing from 1.129.104.0/21 has been blocked (disabled) by ‪Drmies‬.
• "This block has been set to expire: 17:55, 4 May 2023." (When I first read this I thought the block should have expired a few weeks ago, on 04 May 2021....)

—DIV (1.129.106.162 (talk) 15:44, 23 May 2021 (UTC))

Catalyst for unblock request

Reviewers of the unblock request might wonder what I was trying to edit. I wanted to add a note to the Talk page of Win-win_game to propose that the title (which uses a hyphen) should be changed to match the article text ((which uses an en-dash).

—DIV (1.129.106.162 (talk) 15:48, 23 May 2021 (UTC))

• Thanks for all your feedback. You are welcome to create an account. I'll have a look at the win-win thing; I understand and appreciate the urgency: of all the problems with that article (the sourcing is terrible, it's all from just personal and company websites; the links are actually commercial; none of the main text has footnotes; the article takes the American POV as the only one and it should be globalized; that "Thomas/Kilmann Conflict Profile" should be wikilinked to Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, and that article is also a mess) that hyphen is surely top of the list. Drmies (talk) 16:51, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

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