User talk:Banned in 2010


 * My guess is that you have been told how to request that your ban be lifted (or your block, perhaps, since many editors use the word "ban" in reference to blocks). If by any chance you haven't, you can ask to be given instructions. Either way, to stand any chance of being unbanned you will need to tell us what your previous account was so that we can assess the reason for the ban and whether you have now addressed that reason, and also as an indication of good faith and transparency. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:21, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I think I was told how to request it back in 2010. I was banned and not just blocked. I'm not sure if I need instructions; I could easily have not openly declared that I was banned 7 years ago, and I can easily make another account under a new IP or use any of the millions of ways to circumvent IP bans. Of your stated reason for re-blocking me, only the first part holds any merit. I clearly stated in my open letter that I have no intention of refusing to accept Wikipedia policy. I clearly stated everything that I would not do. I clearly stated that my only intention was to fix the many spelling, grammar, and stylistic errors on the many Wikipedia articles that I read. Of course, there's no way to prove this since you deleted my user page. Flat out deleted. The only "evidence" is your three-clause assessment of my open letter, which I personally think is incorrect. Incidentally, this is exactly the sort of behaviour on the part of the admins that I find highly objectionable. What more, you reverted the only edit I made, one that fixed a lot of issues like ambiguous dates (or no dates at all), dead links, factual errors, awkward phrasing typical of non-native English speakers. (I'm an immigration paralegal, a native Russian speaker, I work with other native Russian speakers, and half of my job is correcting stuff that they write so that it sounds like someone educated in an English-speaking country wrote it.) I was sincerely hoping to turn over a new leaf with the admins here, to shake my belief that you care more about bureaucracy, protocol, and thought-policing than the actual quality of the articles. I don't have any illusions of grandeur, and I'm not claiming to be some sort of indispensable part of the project, I'm just here to clean up the little things that drive me crazy and break my concentration when I read Wikipedia since I'm a total autist when it comes to proper writing. Certainly others will come along to put little [citation needed] tags, or fix run-on sentences, or correct outdated information. I'm not important or anything. Who cares what I think about you? Even if I complain to friends and family and random strangers, they're still going to use the site. I'm still going to use the site. I just won't be allowed to improve it because I dared to let it be known to the world that I think poorly of Wikipedia admins for the very behaviour they then proceeded to demonstrate. You're taking someone who is actually willing to spend time correcting minor issues on literally every single one of the thousands of articles that I read each month and kicking him out of the club because he thinks you collectively have sticks inserted rectally. Not because he intends to vandalize, harrass, hack, or do anything bad, but because he doesn't like the way you act, even though he is willing to restrain from making negative comments since improving the quality of the content is more important than personal grudges.


 * I'm out of things to say, and I'm not sure what happens now, but I am truly disappointed. Banned in 2010 (talk) 00:15, 10 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I went back and checked and it looks like I was merely "blocked". My feelings remain the same, however. Banned in 2010 (talk) 00:25, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * I have read your email. The points it raised are already covered by my message above. Since you have used email to once again post an uncivil diatribe against a Wikipedia editor that you disagree with, really amounting to a personal attack, your email access will be removed. You have been told how to request to be unblocked, and if you choose not to do so, but prefer instead to post diatribes about how inferior to you you think everybody on Wikipedia that you don't agree with is, then you will not be unblocked. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 18:32, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Would you kindly explain to me exactly how my "diatribe" is uncivil? Or how it is a "personal attack" against you? (Just to be clear, in the above I used the general "you" to refer to administrators as a whole--and not just on Wikipedia; from what I've noticed, the kinds of people who care enough to obtain power and authority in an online community are usually the kind that will flex it indiscriminately) The only thing I disagree with is your reason for blocking me, especially considering that I clearly stated on my user page my desire to discuss any concerns administrators might have in a civil and friendly manner instead of just slapping me with more blocks and bans, right after the part where I clearly stated that I have no intent to harass, vandalize, disrupt, or do anything else that would be proper cause for administrative action. I sincerely apologize there is anything you find inappropriate about the tone of my response, but I get a bit triggered when people accuse me of things (I think) I am not guilty of, especially if they then use their authority to unjustly (IMO) penalize me for it. Banned in 2010 (talk) 19:25, 14 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Are you prepared to tell us your previous username?--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 20:19, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
 * For personal and psychological reasons, I would prefer not to. Is this an absolute requirement for someone who made a new account 7+ years after their old account was blocked for acting childishly? All I want to do is fix minor errors when I spot them. In hindsight, it was extremely foolish of me to openly declare that I was blocked in the past. Banned in 2010 (talk) 20:37, 14 June 2017 (UTC)