User talk:Leonard Crofoot

February 2022
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Leonard Crofoot, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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Help me!
Please help me with... I have been blocked and need to send verification to Colin Fine. I am the person Leonard Crofoot aka Leonard John Crofoot. I do not want to change my user name, it is actually me. I've been asked to send an e-mail to Wikimedia to prove that I am the person on Wikipedia. I sent from both my emails attesting to this fact: I have received no reply. Apparently I need to post on the talk page to Colin Fine and am suddenly blocked. Please unblock me so I can proceed. My listing, which has been on Wikipedia for years, is about to be deleted for some arbitrary reason. Please contact me ASAP. I am very disillusioned with Wikipedia's handling of this matter. Leonard Crofoot (talk) 21:41, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Your request has been received by VRT, ticket:2022021610007571 for reference. Unfortunately these requests can sometimes take a few days to gt looked at, as we are all volunteers and someone able to act on your request might not be immediately available. Primefac (talk) 22:10, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, Leonard. I understand that you are distressed, but please have patience. In the meantime I have moved the article about you (which is not "your listing", I say again) to draft space, as Draft:Leonard Crofoot, and removed the proposed deletion. this means it will not get deleted quickly, and can be worked on by you and others, to bring it up to Wikipedia's standard of sourcing. If it can be improved sufficiently. it may be submitted for review by pasting at the top. But it is not currently part of the encyclopaedia, and external search engines such as Google will soon cease to list it: that will continue to be the situation, until such time as it is submitted for review, and passes review.
 * Incidentally, I was simply an editor who replied to your original query: I am not an admin, and have no part in the authentication process you are engaged in. ColinFine (talk) 13:21, 18 February 2022 (UTC)