Dude with old man glasses

July 2010

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at July 30. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Favonian (talk) 18:00, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Here's what happened

Another IP reverted the first IP's vandalism 2 minutes after it occurred. You came along 3 minutes later and reverted the 2nd IP, replacing the vandalism. Now that of course looked like vandalism, although I accepted that you didn't mean to do it and we all probably have done that at some time. Dougweller (talk) 18:05, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for vandalism. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Favonian (talk) 18:05, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Welcome!

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That's nice but I can't edit now because I've been blocked. What you said was true, I was trying to get rid of it but I messed up.

OK, I've unblocked you. It looked very suspiciously like the IP who had done the original vandalism created a named account to continue. Favonian (talk) 18:15, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for vandalism. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Dougweller (talk) 20:26, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Seeing African tiger (talk · contribs) and Xylophone clown (talk · contribs) and their edits on the same article, this is obvious. Dougweller (talk) 20:27, 30 July 2010 (UTC)