User:Cullen328/sandbox/Anythingyouwant


 * I am usually inclined to want to lift a four year old topic ban, but there are aspects of this appeal thar give me pause. I will neither support nor oppose at this time but let me explain my concerns and invite Anythingyouwant to address them.


 * The appeal frames the topic ban as the result of two specific edits, but when I read the discussion that led to the topic ban, I see ample evidence presented of previous disruptions in the contemporary American politics topic area, including an AE sanction followed by an AE topic ban followed by an extension of that topic ban. Accordingly, there were many edits (not just two) which led to this broader topic ban, and I do not appreciate a misleading summary of what led up to the current topic ban.


 * In that original discussion, we can see links to statements by Anythingyouwant that claims that mentioning reports that Politician T is being investigating for something is equivalent to an analogous to changing their infobox photo to an image of a chimpanzee. This in the context of a good faith discussion of the proper place to report Piltician T's denial, not of rge existence of the investigation, but of the truaccuracy of the underlying allegations.


 * One aspect of the original topic ban was an apparent misunderstanding of policies regarding the use of user talk pages.