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June 2018 edit

 

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3RR block edit

You have been blocked per WP:3RR for 24 hours. Andrevan@ 00:08, 9 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

You’ll have to excuse Andrevan, they apparently don’t know how to issue a proper block template after a mere 13 years as an admin here. I’l do that for you now should you wish to appeal the block, and I have also already asked for an impartial review of this situation. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:34, 9 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

June 2018 edit

 
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You're unblocked. Consecutive edits count as one revert. --NeilN talk to me 01:50, 9 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

  • Dewythiel, I'd love for you to explain to me why you have two accounts editing in the same area. Please answer soon or I'll have to block this one. Drmies (talk) 01:55, 9 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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Damn, I stop looking at Wikipedia for a weekend and all this stuff happened? I'm not trying to abuse or troll, I don't know why the two of you are blocking me. Dewythiel (talk) 04:36, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

  • Andrevan got a little het up and blocked you for edit warring, though I guess they say he was wrong. So NielN unblocked you. So then someone thought something looked, well, suspicious and ran a WP:checkuser. So that's when Drmies blocked you for sockpuppetry.Dlohcierekim's sock User talk:Dlohcierekim 05:20, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
 
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Request reason:

I wasn't trolling or abusing in any way, I discussed the reasons for my edits in both the edit history and talk pages. Apparently Drmies is concerned about the fact that I have two accounts, but I didn't break any of the rules about having multiple accounts in WP:Sock puppetry

Decline reason:

Baloney. I can see where you are very clearly IP socking and using your account and IP in the same thread as if there were two different editors against another that you have edit-warred with. Next, I can identify other accounts that I believe to be yours based on behavior and those are Rowtorch and Yhbn84 which you didn't disclose below. If you file another unblock request, you should consider giving permission to the checkusers to reveal your IP info so the evidence may be made clear. I don't believe you at all.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 12:02, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply


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Sockpuppetry edit

Please see WP:SOCK. Using two accounts, when you have not declared you are using two accounts, is abuse. Alternate accounts are permissible-- this is my non admin account for when I'm at work. (If someone hijacks this account by skimming my password it's no big deal.) At any rate, you will need to explain this two accounts business to have any hope of being unblocked. Might as well say it-- please disclose all accounts you are using on Wikipedia.Dlohcierekim's sock User talk:Dlohcierekim 05:12, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

I was under the impression that privacy was a legitimate reason to have more than one account. Basically one was for home and one was for work. But if it's such a big deal, my other account is waterbursa Dewythiel (talk) 06:50, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Well, I guess this is what Drmies was asking. We'll see what he says. Not seeing how the privacy consideration applies in this case. There may be some consideration I cannot see as I am not a checkuser.Dlohcierekim's sock User talk:Dlohcierekim 06:59, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
  • User:Dlohcierekim's sock, how amusing that it's your sock responding here! Anyway, I was fine with an unblock and a one-account restriction, but given Berean Hunter's discovery, I'm going to pass the mic and let him decide on any unblock, and which account deserves to be unblocked. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 21:24, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply