User talk:New Orleans Jazz

Welcome to Wikipedia!!!
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Blocked for vandalism of Wikipedia
You have been temporarily blocked from editing for vandalism of Wikipedia. Please note that page blanking, addition of random text or spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, and other deliberate attempts to disrupt Wikipedia are considered vandalism. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may come back after the block expires. ≈ jossi ≈ t &bull; @ 03:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hello -- I have been posting study reviews tonight. I have done this similar thing over the past two or three days. However, tonight I all of a sudden found that I was blocked. I have not vandalized or posted spam, or deliberate misinformation, or any of the other things that can result in blocking (as noted above).


 * I fear that maybe I've posted too many reviews, and that somehow it looks like I'm spamming? I'm not sure.


 * Thanks.
 * NOJ New Orleans Jazz 04:29, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hello again -- I saw the term 'blanking' as a possible reason for being blocked. I don't know what that is, and have tried to find it in the faq, and help areas of Wikipedia, but have had no luck in doing so. I hope I was not 'blanking'. I didn't mean to, or have intention to, if it's a vanadlism term.


 * Thanks. New Orleans Jazz 04:41, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Patience
I'm examining your case - prima facie, your block seems inappropriate, but I have to figure out what happened first.

Please remain calm. Thank you. DS 04:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, and a quick explanation - it certainly looks like your actions could have been misinterpreted as spamming. And removing large blocks of text from an article for no apparent reason is known as "blanking", because vandals who do it will leave an entire article blank. DS 04:57, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Wow! That was quick!  Thanks for responding so fast.


 * I have been adding reviews, but at the same time, at the request of another editor, have also been trying to rearrange the existing content into chronological order. This meant that I had to cut and past large chunks of text to move them from one area to another. That may have been what caught your eye.


 * I'm curious. Does a robot of some sort look for this sort of thing?


 * Thanks again for your help. New Orleans Jazz 05:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

You have been unblocked, I notified Jossi of it. Your contributions history does read suspicious because of the links, but the were not of the nature to warrant the block on such notice. Stay away from the article linking, but by all means dig in to the project. Teke ( talk ) 05:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much. I think the 'blanking' thing must have come up because I'd cut and then pasted large chunks of text. I did not delete any of the text, just moved it to different areas on the page. Sorry about that.  I was trying to get everthing in chronological order. I'm done with that part, so no more false alarms.


 * What is the suspicious links activity that you mention?


 * Thanks again for such fast help and resolution. I only have one more review to do tonight, and appreciate your fixing this so quickly. New Orleans Jazz 05:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Your revert to a previous version has lost all my hard work, and I'm not sure how to get it back. Can you fix that for me? New Orleans Jazz 05:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I apologize for having to put the 'helpme' sign on here again, but I've tried to finish my edits, but am still blocked. Also, I'm embarrassed to say, I don't know how to get the page back to where it was before you reverted it to a previous version, and a lot of my work was lost.  All the movement of the large blocks of text, to rearrage them in chronological order, was lost. Ugh.  What now? New Orleans Jazz 05:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You should be unblocked, unless you're recieving a notice about your IP being blocked. As to the reverts, I'm not sure what/who did what you speak of but you can fix it.  Teke ( talk ) 05:36, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks Teke. I'm not sure what has happened.  Here's what is on the page when I try to edit:

Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Jossi for the following reason (see our blocking policy): Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "New Orleans Jazz". The reason given for New Orleans Jazz's block is: "Vandalism & blanking". Your IP address is 209.248.254.66. New Orleans Jazz 05:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Your block was lifted, the IP was not blocked. You may need to do a hard refresh on your browser (Mozilla/Firefox: shift-refresh, IE ctr-F5)  Teke ( talk ) 05:48, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh boy. This is really embarrassing. I'll give that a try. Sorry for bothering you. And, I just figured out how to email Jossi and sent her an email about this.  Yikes. New Orleans Jazz 05:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)