User talk:158.222.189.226

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Happy editing! I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @  05:57, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

August 2017
Hello, I'm Robvanvee. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Bossanova (Pixies album), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.  Rob van  vee  09:06, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
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Please do not add or significantly change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Jim1138 (talk) 09:58, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

I don't see it. Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to The Neverending Story. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Jim1138 (talk) 10:03, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Monster of Udine. Jim1138 (talk) 10:06, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Please Unblock

 * This is a checkuser block, and as such there are two points which you may not be aware of. Firstly, a checkuser block can only be overturned by an admin with checkuser ability, which most admins do not possess; secondly, there is absolutely no requirement within Wikipedia for checkusers to reveal the evidence on which they base their blocks, and good reasons why they should not. It is unlikely that this block will be removed. your only option other than waiting it out, is to create an account, from a different IP if necessary - an internet café, for example. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 10:41, 4 September 2017 (UTC)


 * No, the CheckUser and Privacy policies limit what I'm able to reveal, and especially since you insist that the accounts aren't yours, I won't be able to publicly link them to this IP a address. P.S. Since you made multiple edits to your latest request, the notification to me failed to send. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:39, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * you admit the accounts are not linked to me - I didn't "admit" any such thing, so I have corrected your request below. You and the accounts look exactly the same to me, I'm simply not allowed to publicly announce them in relation to this IP address. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:31, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * DoRD I apologize, my mistake. Please reduce the length my block if you are unable to completely unblock me. I have never been blocked before or accused of vandalism/sock before this incident. 3 months seems like an extremely long time to be blocked for something that is not my fault and is a "first time offense" so to speak. Thank you.


 * DoRD I apologize, my mistake. Please reduce the length my block if you are unable to completely unblock me. I have never been blocked before or accused of vandalism/sock before this incident. 3 months seems like an extremely long time to be blocked for something that is not my fault and is a "first time offense" so to speak. Thank you. 158.222.189.226 (talk) 22:15, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Question
Question for Anthony Bradbury or other users who know the answer: if I create a new account from another location (e.g. a cafe) will I still be able to edit Wikipedia articles once I return back to my home or will I get in trouble for "avoiding a block" or something like that? Thanks...158.222.189.226 (talk) 05:27, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * You wouldn't be able to edit once you returned back home. PhilKnight (talk) 23:00, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Please reduce block length
Berean_Hunter please reduce the length of the block you imposed on this IP address. You issued a block of ONE YEAR, which seems very severe and unfair. The past few days I have been doing research on WP and observed that other users who abusively edited articles (unlike myself who always edited in good faith) and had many more sockpuppets, were only blocked for a 1 month, or 2 months, or 3 months. To be clear, I can edit on WP tomorrow by simply changing my IP or editing from a family members home but I wanted to do things the right way and appeal to you first to shorten the length of the block. If you shorten it to something more reasonable like 1 month or a few weeks I will wait until the block expires before I start editing again. If you need to, please check all of the edits I made so you can verify I edited articles in good faith. The main reason I created several different user names was simply because I enjoy creating new and different names (I know that may be dumb or corny, but it is harmless). I never abused WP or edited the same article using different user names. Here is the relevant sock investigation to verify: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/PZP-003

P.S. I never made any edits using the Zeisscontex username, and only made a handful of edits with each of the other user names, except for Neilen and PZP-003. 158.222.189.226 (talk) 08:51, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

One question, Berean_Hunter I noticed that you are not an admin. Are non-admins allowed to block users? 158.222.189.226 (talk) 08:57, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  11:56, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I saw that you had socked last year and am willing to keep this IP blocked to prevent further socking. Your implied threats, "To be clear, I can edit on WP tomorrow by simply changing my IP or editing from a family members home but I wanted to do things the right way and appeal to you first..." to me equals If you don't unblock me, I'm going to sock. You won't get anywhere that way. You've owned one set of socks which is some progress. Are you willing to own those from last year? Checkusers won't connect IPs to socks generally so it is left as an exercise for you to explain the other older accounts.


 * Berean_Hunter I'm confused by this statement: "Checkusers won't connect IPs to socks generally"...isn't that exactly what you did last week with the usernames you connected to this IP? Also, you didn't answer my question about non-admins such as yourself issuing blocks to users (especially lengthy 1 year blocks). As far as I am aware only admins can issue blocks. Regarding me threatening to sock, I'm not sure what you mean by that. I'm not threatening anything, I simply enjoy occasionally contributing to WP and helping make articles more accurate. If you check my edits you will see that they are all in good faith and there is no vandalism or false info that I add into articles (more importantly I never edited the same article using different user names)

There is no reason to block me for more than a few months at most. Moving forward I refuse to be censored from editing WP and helping contribute to articles. I don't really think of that as a threat, I am simply letting you know I can still edit articles by changing my IP or going to another residence to edit. Before I do that I wanted to appeal here first and find out what is going on and why a ONE YEAR BLOCK was issued to me which seems ridiculous and extremely harsh. If you are acting in good faith and not trying to censor or abuse other WP editors please answer the 2 questions I asked above, and please reduce the block to a fair reasonable length (few weeks or months at most)....thanks 158.222.189.226 (talk) 17:17, 7 May 2018 (UTC)