User talk:Avengah

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Look, I'm sorry!
My disruptive activities stopped some time ago, and my most recent edits have been constructive. The only possible exception is when I repeatedly put "emphasised" back into the Okay article, because I misinterpreted the MoS. I thought it meant that the original form of the word should be there, and someone changed it to "emphasize" which not only changed the form, but also messed up the grammar of the sentence. When I reverted it, someone changed it back to "emphasized" so naturally, I reverted it again. This was not done out of malice, but I thought I was following the MoS. Anyway, I've stopped all that now, so I hope I can be unblocked.

Also, how can this account be a sock puppet of itself? This is my ONLY account, and I only registered it today. I haven't got any other accounts at all. Honest!

Please unblock me, and I'll make an effort to contribute - in fact, I was attempting to correct quotations' punctuation when I realised I was blocked. Thanks!

My other contributions are here:[]

Avengah (talk) 02:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

I found an article that I want to clean up (apply the logical quotes rule), and I can't currently do that. Avengah (talk) 02:58, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Your disruptive behavior continued until mere minutes before you were blocked, when you violated WP:3RR and attempted to distort the apparent center of opinion by the use of this account after previous anonymous edits from IP #90.205.80.22. Further, this abusive use of a sock-puppet itself followed just minutes after you previously claimed to have reformed. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 03:23, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I thought I was in the right as regards the Okay article - as I say, I thought the MoS was on my side. It wasn't until it was explained properly to me that I realised. Anyway, that's all in the past now, and I would appreciate another chance. Please? I promise, my disruptive posts have stopped.

I also didn't realise that what I was doing counted as sock puppetry - I didn't know the rule. The reason why I put that message there was because I was trying to clarify that I was not actually changing the spelling of "emphasizes" - but reverting it to how it was before, and I thought, quite simply, that I was being ignored. Since I thought the MoS was on my side, it would have been nice to have been told WHY it might not have been, then I would have stopped reverting the article much sooner.

Also, I thought I was being accused of changing the word rather than reverting it, and the reasons why it should not have been left as it was were not made clear originally. The fact that I didn't know I was blocked until I tried to fix that quotation problem in a different article surely shows that I'd finished disrupting "Okay". I also didn't realise I'd reverted the article more than three times.

Anyway, enough of that. I'm sorry, please unblock me and I'll behave, I promise. I tell you what - please give me another chance, and if I blow it, you can ban me again instantly. Can't say fairer than that, surely? Avengah (talk) 03:40, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


 * And should it be taken that it is also “all in the past” that in your plea above you deceptively referred to having ceased to be disruptive “some time ago”? (The fact that you now offer an excuse of ignorance — which simply won't cover the use of the puppet to shift the apparent center of opinion — for the disruption doesn't change the fact that you have nothing to show but disruption between your last claim of reform and the block, and that the disruption itself continued up until the block.) —SlamDiego&#8592;T 03:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

While you were typing that, I changed something above.

Actually, the disruption stopped when you explained that the article shouldn't be a mix of British and American English. As I said, if you'd explained it sooner, I'd have stopped sooner. I put "MoS" in all my edit summaries, so that should have told you that I thought the MoS was on my side - yet you didn't explain it to me at first, which is why I carried on reverting it! I hope that makes sense. Anyway, when you DID explain it to me, that's when I stopped reverting it, and I didn't find out I was blocked until I tried to fix the quotes in a completely unrelated article.

I'm sorry for the puppet thing, too, I didn't know the rule. I just wanted you to actually check to see that I was indeed simply reverting the article, not changing it - as you simply put "reverting vandalism" I thought you thought I was vandalising it when I was simply reverting it in good faith, as I said.

Anyway, I added to the above section this: I tell you what - please give me another chance, and if I blow it, you can ban me again instantly. Can't say fairer than that, surely? Avengah (talk) 03:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

There's more! Someone has explained the situation to me at Talk:Okay in great detail, and it is clear that I misunderstood the MoS. Having read this person's reply, it all makes perfect sense to me now. Avengah (talk) 03:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for unblocking me!
I appreciate it. No more disruptive posts, I promise! My first constructive post is to fix the quotations in Murder, Inc. Avengah (talk) 03:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I for one would be glad to see all the d_mn'd quotations in Wikipedia fixed. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 04:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

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