User talk:Nomalias

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June 2019
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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:. Bbb23 (talk) 13:43, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

this is your block, so perhaps you will be willing to comment. It's a CheckUser block, but since the fact that the same person used multiple accounts is not in dispute, that doesn't seem to me to be significant. On the basis of having a fairly brief look at the editing history of all four accounts, it looks to me as though what happened is something like the following. This editor created several accounts, thinking it would be convenient to segregate different types of edits into different accounts. He or she did not declare on user pages that these were alternative accounts of one person, but on the did not attempt to keep the use of more than one account a carefully guarded secret; in fact in at least one (now deleted) edit here this account explicitly referred to "my other account". Two user pages were deleted as web-host violations, but at least in one case the content was related to editing Wikipedia. As far as the use of multiple accounts goes, I haven't found anything that would, as far as I can see, have been considered unacceptable had the editor simply linked the accounts on each of their user pages, and it seems to me that not doing so was simply because they didn't realise there was a need to do so, rather than because of any wish to deceive. That is how it looks to me, but you may have noticed things that I have missed that change the picture, so your comments would be welcome. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:11, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  17:52, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Putting aside the socking (I don't think the user was that transparent, at least not about all of the accounts), I don't see how the user's edits, which were mainly to their userspace, benefited the project.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:18, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Frankly, I'm inclined to unblock, unless user engaged in nefariousness not mentioned above.  Dlohcierekim (talk) 16:59, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * This has been lying here gasping for 3 weeks. Frankly, I was hoping for more feedback. I'm still inclined to give this user a chance-- even if it's a "last chance".  Dlohcierekim (talk) 00:32, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * He gave us feedback today by evading his block and creating another account.
 * Yes, and who can blame him or her for that? A perfectly good-faith unblock request is left languishing for over a month, with no reason given for not unblocking. Would you not be likely to create a new account in that situation? Or at least strongly tempted to do so? JamesBWatson (talk) 20:16, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * That comment is unworthy of you.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:19, 29 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Because of your refactoring of this page, including the most recent decline, I have revoked TPA.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:35, 30 July 2019 (UTC)