User talk:A Gift and a Curse

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Welcome to Wikipedia, A Gift and a Curse! Thank you for your contributions. I am Aranya and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! – Aranya (talk) 14:23, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
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October 2019
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for obvious sock of someone evading CheckUser.. 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:. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:57, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

For the reviewing admin: TonyBallioni (talk) 04:30, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) You have not been editing Wikipedia previously that I could tell. If you were, you were using a different device. Your technical details would make it very easy to determine if you had been editing previously as an IP on the range you are using, so I don't believe this.
 * 2) You are using a user agent string that in my opinion is most likely spoofed.
 * 3) CheckUser data is consistent with the geolocation you state here (policy explicitly allows me to confirm this.) That being said, I think the odds of someone both being from Malta, a country that has virtually no presence on this project, and having a suspect user agent are very low.
 * 4) The behaviour is quite frankly overwhelming. Your first edit was creating a userpage trolling "Wiki-Masters" and you've been using script assisted edits since before you even installed the script.
 * 5) This is a normal admin block, not a CU block. The sock policy says that I can take into account the fact that the technical data doesn't add up when making blocks, which I did. That being said, it ultimately is a behavioural block and any administrator who disagrees with it is free to lift it (but I would appreciate a ping first).


 * 1) Dear, Tony. I have a MacBook Pro which I use at home. Typically I edited or read Wikipedia from my institution, their devices are different.
 * 2) I am not sure how that works or how to use it.
 * 3) I don't know about that but many people use Wikipedia here.
 * 4) I copied the userpage partially from this page: User:Reyk. And I have a default tool that allows me to use Javascript codes, so I didn't have to apply it on Wikipedia manually. However, as I became more interested in patrolling and read the userscript manual thoroughly, I decided to put it permanently on Wikipedia so I can use it anywhere on any device. Previously I could only use it on one device.
 * 5) Please unblock me, I would like to continue reverting vandalism, a thing I am fond of, because I feel Wikipedia is very valuable to the world and vandalism to it is disastrous so I'm keen on doing my part in helping. Thank you. A Gift and a Curse (talk) 08:08, 14 October 2019 (UTC)


 * I don't know what to do! I thought I could help by looking for vandalism and removing it. My contributions are entirely reversions of vandalism. But it looks like people who do this get called a sock evading CU. How can I prove to you that I am not? In my last message, I was telling the truth. I don't even know the exact reason why I got blocked. I don't want to be misidentified as someone I'm not, if this is the case, please let me know how I can confirm myself. The part about "has produced evidence that you are", I'm not following this. What evidence? A Gift and a Curse (talk) 17:47, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Have you used any other accounts? -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:40, 14 October 2019 (UTC)


 * This is now a checkuser block and I've revoked TPA. Please see my finding at Sockpuppet investigations/Zawl for .--Bbb23 (talk) 11:16, 15 October 2019 (UTC)