User talk:Δ/20150201

Use of your talk page
Δ, I thought you should be made aware that use of your talk page while blocked is a grey area of the project. As a result, it's sort of a wild wild west. There are plenty of administrators who would gladly block talk page access of a blocked user at the first inkling of misuse. There are some who think the only use should be for placing unblock requests. Since you are indefinitely banned from the project per the Arbitration Decision, and any appeal has to be run through ArbCom, an unblock request here on this talk page would likely be seen as out of process and immediately rejected. With that, there are some (as above) would would construe any use of your talk page as abusive.

Note that this is not without precedent; See User talk:Reguyla, where a six month block was reset with talk page access removed for a user who was extensively using ping, as you are beginning to do here. The project does not yet know what to do with ping for users who are blocked/banned. There is no guidance, no policy, no formal precedent.

You are in a very grey area of ban/block enforcement. Given there are so many who want (and got) your proverbial wiki-head on a platter, it is a matter of time before someone (or multiple someones) among that group demand your talk page access be removed. I strongly, strongly urge you to heavily restrict your use of ping only to contact people who have contacted you about a particular subject. Using ping to initiate discussion with someone is very likely to lead to a ban of your talk page editing restrictions.

Best regards, --Hammersoft (talk) 16:49, 20 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I share Hammersoft's concerns. It would be great to see your ban lifted and I am hopeful that an appeal of the ban would succeed. Please consider initiating such an appeal at your earliest convenience. I wish the very best for you and look forward to your return. Sincerely.--John Cline (talk) 16:02, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I am getting tired of seeing tools/requests go unanswered and users frustrated because they dont get the assistance that they need. It may be a grey area but it helps users so I will continue to provide assistance where I can. (See the section above for a new useful tool) I have been doing similar work for quite some time thru others having them leave notes in discussions for me. If users need/want a tool I will be more than happy to provide it, I am not making useless or harassing pings so arbcom shouldnt have an issue with it. I will file an appeal again when I can. ΔT The only constant 03:04, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * When you say: "I will file an appeal again when I can." are you saying that you have once filed an appeal and been declined? Is there any way your appeal can be done on Wikipedia? Perhaps you can request a modification of your sanction to allow the appeal on Wikipedia where interested users can participate. I hope the committee knows for a fact that there are users, like myself, who are very interested in seeing your ban set aside and your editing privileges restored.--John Cline (talk) 07:18, 23 February 2015 (UTC)