User talk:Cloudboundsound

Welcome and reply to your email
Hi Cloudboundsound, welcome to Wikipedia. You emailed me today asking why I blocked you, which confused me because we have not interacted before and your account has never been blocked. I replied, but you seem to have either provided an invalid email address or deleted your email before I could reply. I can't reply in as much detail here because of privacy concerns, but I'll write what I can.

First, as I think you already figured out, your account is not blocked. However, you connect to Wikipedia over two networks which are blocked at the technical level:
 * One is an anonymous proxy block placed by a different administrator. If that block was affecting you, you would see something similar to this message, which gives information on how to edit from your account while affected by the block.
 * Another is an IP range that I did block, and you mentioned that you saw the "trolling" message from the block log, which means you must have been logged out at the time. This block is "anonymous only" which means it will not prevent you from editing when you are logged in to your account. That block was not directed at you and was not related to any edit you made today; in fact I made that block almost two years ago in response to a Freedom Convoy supporter who was using Wikipedia to post transphobic diatribes and attacks against politicians, which is what I referred to as "trolling". I presume that this had nothing to do with you, and I certainly was not directing that comment against you when I wrote it in January last year.

As for the edits you proposed in your message, nothing should be stopping you as long as you're logged in to your account and not connected to the proxy IP range. It looks like you figured that out already since you did edit nootropic after emailing. My education is in engineering and finance - I have worked in food science but nootropics aren't really a topic I have much insight on, and regardless I have no interest in preventing anyone from editing constructively, nor in defending science topics from new information, but you should be aware that we hold medical information to a higher standard for reliable sourcing. Your edit looked fine to me, except I think you made a mistake by including part of your edit in a template field meant for direct quotes from the source, so it appeared in the footnote instead of in the section I think you meant it to go in, and I tried to correct that. If anyone else wanted to challenge your edit they could, but they are compelled to explain why. Your contributions are welcome, regardless.

Anyway I hope this helps, and I'm sorry for the miscommunication and the inconvenience. If I can be of any further help please feel free to post here or on my talk page. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)