Crazybus911

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Using Multiple Computers / Sock Puppetry

Hello Crazybus911, please refrain from editing the same article from multiple computers (and IP addresses) while not logged in - as it is considered Wikipedia:Sock puppetry and forbidden under Wiki policy. Thus far, you appear to be a quasi-WP:SPA and in the past week have made unconstructive content removals from the Fulgencio Batista article under the following IP addresses (from a computer lab at Vanderbilt University) ...

• 129.59.254.86
• 129.59.254.118
• 129.59.180.52
• 129.59.254.14
• 129.59.254.40

Since you appear to possibly be new to Wikipedia, you may not have known that this was against policy. Moreover, I would point you toward the WP:3RR policy as you have clearly violated this guideline while Wikipedia:Edit warring when all of your ip edits are taken into account. I would suggest you utilize the article’s talk page if you would like to propose changes which have clearly been challenged by multiple other editors and hence reverted. Your challenged additions and subtractions – which violate a range of guidelines in my opinion – would need to garner WP:Consensus before they should be added again to the article in question. If you would like to discuss the article specifics further, please use the article’s talk page – and not the page for personal users. Thanks and welcome to Wikipedia.  Redthoreau -- (talk) 03:08, 20 February 2011 (UTC)