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April 2018
Anonymous users from this IP address have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for block evasion. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Guy (Help!) 23:26, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
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 * Please read Advice for parents. He was blocked because some of his edits were vandalism. That is all. If he can't deal with it, then Wikipedia is not for him; we cannot let him cause problems for us no matter how extenuating the circumstances.--Jasper Deng (talk) 00:17, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I would add that a child dying, however tragic, is not a reason to hand out administrator powers. Administrators are nominated and go through a community vetting process. The community will never give those powers to someone who has only vandalized articles and has not shown an understanding of Wikipedia policies. 331dot (talk) 00:37, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Beyond that, madam, let's get a grip here and inject some common sense into this sordid episode. Presuming this isn't some fairy tale altogether -- the "oh, we need to give the dying child his heart's desire" being a well-known Internet trope -- how was Brendan treated?  He wanted to become an admin, and was told that was not going to happen.  (In like fashion, he wasn't going to be put in the starting lineup of the Boston Bruins, made an officer in the US Army, become a line firefighter, or any other position requiring years of long hard work, dedication and skill, just because he might want it.)  He then started to vandalize Wikipedia, was told to stop, and was ultimately blocked for it.  If you consider that "bullying" and "appalling treatment," whatever, but we're not going to suspend our standards any more than the Bruins, the military or the fire department will.  Your son was treated, throughout, with civility; we just didn't -- however much American culture is buying into the premise these days -- equate "rudeness" with "not giving you what you want." But ultimately, this is what don't I find easy to credit: your son, madam, has been a registered Wikipedia user for precisely six days.  And you, and he, want us to believe that becoming a Wikipedia admin is his heart's desire and the only thing he wants in all the world?  Seriously?   Ravenswing   02:59, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * One modest postscript: I talked this over with my wife, who is an elementary school teacher teaching special needs students. She commented on her student "Ivy."  Poor Ivy has a serious learning disability, and needs (and has permission to use) a calculator for her math work in class.  None of her seventeen other classmates have such permission, they resent the hell out of it, and Ivy gets bullied over it.  Unlike your son, Ivy doesn't have options.  She doesn't get to not take math, and she doesn't get to opt out of the third grade, and she doesn't have Mom standing over her shoulder as a rabid protector.  (Mom, with five different kids by five different fathers, isn't that invested anyway.)  My wife's take is that your son being told he can't just be handed a position in the most widely read and used encyclopedia in world history -- one requiring maturity, discipline, arcane knowledge and high skill -- is very far indeed from her definition of "bullying."   Ravenswing   18:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

To the mother of ~S.Brendan.S~
If you have been telling the truth this entire time, I'm very sorry for your loss. I can't imagine how you must feel, but this site is not the place for you to grieve. Further activity here will only keep negative experiences in your mind, when it would be better to remember the joy your son brought into your life. If you care about your son's continued image here, then just stop and walk away. Continued disruptive editing will only cause us to conclude that you are trolling the site in an offensively ghoulish manner, because there are some really sick people on the internet who very well would pretend to be the mother of a dying child just to mess with people. If you do nothing, this account will either be forgotten or maybe your claims will be taken at face value by later scholars of internet culture (possibly resulting in some sort of future reform). If you try to push us, people will assume you were just another troll. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:21, 9 July 2018 (UTC)