User talk:GeneralPericles

Blocked as a sockpuppet
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  04:08, 24 May 2015 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  04:50, 24 May 2015 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  04:50, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: we actually can't see your email unless you email us. And the name in email itself doesn't mean anything. I can prolly register Barack.H.Obama@gmail.com or similar with a bunch of email providers. Steam appears to display users' previous public names, so this is the original account name. Still, the looks of you jumping into an article as if you've just edited it while this was your first edit ever is slightly suspicious, I admit. And looks similar to the modus operandi of Sju hav's previous sockpuppets., do you think there is a room for reevaluating this block? Max Semenik (talk) 02:07, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay so this is going to be a dumb question but how would I go about emailing you, then? Like I said, I can email you from a university account which cannot just be randomly created -- it is commonly used as evidence that I am enrolled as a student at that institution. And while I understand how that could look suspicious, I would also like to reiterate that the content of that edit was simply reverting changes that were very obviously wrong. When I went to view Fall of Saigon, it looked like this. The fact that the title of the article was "Fall of Saigon" but the first paragraph referred to it as the "Liberation" was extremely jarring, so I looked into it. I read through this very lengthy discussion on the use of "Fall" vs. "Liberation" and used that to address what looked like edit warring on the page. --GeneralPericles (talk) 02:14, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, re-reading your comment re-Steam: I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if you mouse over the arrow next to my name you should be able to see all of the screen names that account has used. In my case, it is just GeneralPericles. (Whoops, now understand that this is what you were saying. My bad.) My Steam account has existed for several years (proof: Civ 5 achievements dating to 2011), and I just edited the description the account description to include a hello to Wikipedia.
 * All right. I looked up Special:EmailUser and changed the email my account is associated with to my university email. I emailed both you (Max) and Berean Hunter with the email tool and disclosed my Facebook and LinkedIn profiles which you can verify are associated with that name and provide further proof that I am not Sju hav. Hopefully this helps. Thanks for your help, Max.
 * You managed to wade into a contentious area that has been subject to significant sockpuppetry. A new editor that cites policies and guidelines knowledgeably such as consensus, edit warring and NPOV for their very first edits will usually raise the suspicions of most editors that you aren't new. To explain why your good edits might appear bad to experienced editors, sockmasters are known to use good hand and bad hand accounts to try to get what they want. Nonetheless, I'm accepting your explanations as truthful and unblocking you. Please accept my apology and I hope you will enjoy editing here. I will leave a welcome below with links that should help you get started.
 * actually, I have spent at least an hour reading various policies and manuals before making my first anon edit so not entirely improbable =) Max Semenik (talk) 04:26, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * True. I recall charging ahead boldly, albeit unwittingly into a contentious area when I first started. I had to figure out what all those @*%$! TLAs meant on-the-fly.
 * Thank you both for your help and for the explanation. I can definitely see how my edits could be seen as sockpuppetry -- it was definitely a reasonable conclusion to come to, especially given that I have such a small body of edits to try to make a judgment call with. Thank you for your help! --GeneralPericles (talk) 04:38, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. I have noted your unblocking in the archived case.