Mr Barnaby

Blocked as a sockpuppet

You have been blocked indefinitely as a sockpuppet of a banned or blocked user and for vandalism. As a blocked or banned user you are not entitled to edit Wikipedia. All your edits have been reverted.
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Netsnipe ► 13:23, 7 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

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).

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

Request reason:

i am confused.... what have i done wrong..... One of my friends from colledge asked my to vote for him on some article on this website. I did and i get accused of being a sock puppet. What is a sock puppet? What on earth have i done wrong? I am on a school ip, so you arent blocking one person you are blocking a school of people

Decline reason:

Sockpuppetry confirmed per Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Hunter91 -- Netsnipe ► 15:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Based on what you said, about your friend asking you to vote for him, you have not engaged in sockpuppetry, but the 3rd party process will help sort it out. Rather, this is called Meatpuppetry: debates on this site are virtually never "votes," so the number of users is unimportant: what matters is to get a clean and unbiased view of what the Wikipedia community thinks of an issue. When someone asks their friends to help them in a debate, it only screws things up. And it can look like they created themselves a bunch of new accounts so they could vote multiple times. Mango juice^talk 17:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Ok thanks... i really dint know what i had done thats why. I would now appreciate getting unblocked soon... not now if this will affect that voting thing, but after it is complete?Mr Barnaby 18:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

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