User talk:NickCassidy

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November 2018
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Yunshui 雲 水 13:47, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Apologies if this is an annoyance, and I appreciate everyone is probably very busy, but my previous unblock request has currently not been responded to. Thanks for any help. NickCassidy (talk) 10:59, 4 December 2018 (UTC)


 * I agree with the comment above from NinjaRobotPirate: you're clearly connected to the other accounts, whether you are the same person or not, and you need to explain what the connection is.
 * Incidentally, sockpuppets of one person attacking one another, edit-warring with one another, posting to one another's talk pages, and reverting one another's edits happens all the time. I am not saying that you have done that, and in fact on the whole I think it's more likely that you are telling the truth, but it does happen, so it isn't convincing evidence, I'm afraid. (Why do people do that? Sometimes it seems to be done precisely in order to make it look unlikely that they are the same person, but I get the impression that it's often just a childish sort of game, pretending to be several people.) The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 13:49, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Submitting this as another unblock request (sorry) as it is in addendum to those previous. I'll go through and explain what I can about the people behind the accounts. We covered Man on a Ledge in English a short while ago, and it became an inside joke, so I suspect that is why there has been such an influx of edit activity.

Cedgar23 matches the initials of someone who attends the same school as me (the shared IP in question). Although the edits are very different to mine, they seem to be vandalising topics that we have covered in Further Maths, a subject they do take.

craigndave is using the name of the group that provide Computer Science education, so I presume they take that subject.

Dave Englander and David Englander (obvious sockpuppets) are both, along with me, utilising usernames inspired by characters from the film, so I suspect they have actually watched it.

I have no idea who Razorbeard is.

This is essentially all I can give you. Thanks for your consideration.

NickCassidy (talk) 09:12, 6 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Nick, I am removing the formatting of your latest two posts as unblock requests, as only one unblock request is needed at a time, and having several creates more work for the reviewing admin, and can sometimes cause confusion. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 17:26, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

There is certainly a good deal of overlap among the accounts, but I can also see significant differences, which encourage me to think that NickCassidy is likely to be telling the truth. Would you like to have another look at this? You may be able to see things that I can't, such as whether the editing is from a school IP address, which would fit in with what Nick has said. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 17:31, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * One of the IPs used by this account - also the IP on which most of the sockpuppets are present - does indeed trace back to a school, with several sets of useragent data that match one another exactly (indicating multiple devices shared by the various confirmed socks). On the surface, the explanation presented seems to fit the evidence, and were it only the school IP being used I would be happy to accept NickCassidy's explanation and unblock. However, they have also made use of a proxy server and have made edits which geolocate to a different country. This reveals a crossover with at least two of the other accounts editing from the same non-native country (in the same location), one of which also edited from the school IP. That, I think makes it far more likely that we are being woven a yarn here., I'm always happy to accept your decision when you're reviewing one of my blocks; whichever way you choose to go on this now that you have this additional info is fine by me. Yunshui 雲 水  23:01, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that information. It suggests that what has been said above is not the whole story so I will not be accepting this unblock request. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:49, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

I can't explain that evidence, so I accept this decision as the correct one based on the given evidence. Thanks to everyone for their professionalism and being prepared to listen fairly to my side. NickCassidy (talk) 16:44, 7 December 2018 (UTC)