User talk:Pater Wourer


 * To the reviewing admin -it is likely this account is a sock of . TN X Man  14:53, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I have some difficulty in accepting that if, as this user claims, he has never edited here before, his very first edit ever should be a wholly competent download of a photograph onto his user page.--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 19:12, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

I need some more information please I was told to post here if I needed more informaton...


 * 1) Do I need to supply references who will vouch for my "good character"?
 * 2) Is there a time-out on unused accounts?
 * 3) What exactly do I need to do to unlock my account?

I said I hadn't edited Wikipedia before, not that I hadn't used a computer before or that I couldn't read.
 * A note to Anthony Bradbury

Who is the "the reviewing admin" and what do you mean by "it is likely this account is a sock of "?
 * A note to TNXMan

--Pater Wourer (talk) 06:33, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Your request
Please be patient, we are all volunteers here. For instance, I am at work and will not be able to respond in detail immediately. Regards  Tide  rolls  13:02, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Another possibility is posting an template for more attention to your request.  Tide  rolls  13:04, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry if my impatience annoys you but, with all due respect, I'm a volunteer too, itching to get stuck in, and I don't know why I haven't been connected up properly yet. Pater Wourer (talk) 17:33, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

I need some more information please I was told to post here if I needed more informaton...


 * 1) Do I need to supply references who will vouch for my "good character"?
 * 2) Is there a time-out on unused accounts?
 * 3) What exactly do I need to do to unlock my account?

--Pater Wourer (talk) 17:53, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I will offer my answers to your questions, but leave your help template live so that other admins might correct my information as needed.
 * 1) No.
 * 2) No.
 * 3) As a sockpuppet of a banned user, this account will most likely never be unblocked.  Tide  rolls  22:56, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I have removed the template. This account almost certainly is a sockpuppet, and has been blocked per checkuser, so normal admins will not unblock it. If you wish to be unblocked, please email . Thanks. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:22, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help. I've done as you advised. Let's hope they can get this thing fixed. Pater Wourer (talk) 08:38, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I did that, yet my account is still locked and I haven't had any reponse here, or by email, in more than four days now. Pater Wourer (talk) 14:52, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

What do I have to do to get this account unlocked? Perhaps it would be quicker to create a new one from scratch. Any suggestions please? Pater Wourer (talk) 14:52, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * You cannot. We don't usually unblock socks - you need to go back to your original account and sort out unblock there as suggested there User talk:DeFacto. Keep asking for unblock here, will just get the access removed. Create a new account and you will be spotted.  Ron h jones (Talk) 19:44, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

It's been nearly 2 weeks now, and I've still had no response from mailto:arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org. Ronhjones says that socks aren't unblocked. Well I'm not asking for a "sock" to be unblocked, just this, my one and only account. Does anyone else have any suggestions? Abandon this lost cause and create a new account and start again? Pater Wourer (talk) 20:21, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Denial of sockpuppetry does not translate to unblock. If you find the original advice (to seek unblock from your original account) unworkable then you are, indeed, at an impasse.  To create new accounts will only result in more blocks.  Tide  rolls  23:33, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Why doesn't a block for sockpuppetry require any sort of proof of sockpuppetry? This is my original (one and only so far) account. Why can't you, or whoever counts, seem to understand that? Where have I abused this account? Pater Wourer (talk) 22:07, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I have looked extensively at the editing history of this account and of the "DeFacto" account. There are striking similarities, so much so that if two separate users came up with such similar editing, and also happened by sheer chance to show up on checkuser as the same, it would be a most astonishing coincidence. As for creating another sockpuppet account (or, as you prefer to call it, "Abandon this lost cause and create a new account and start again") all I can say is that if you do then I hope you will still retain the lack of self-awareness that has made your attempts to pretend to be a new user so unsuccessful. My advice is "Abandon this lost cause and find something else to do with your time, other than disrupting Wikipedia". JamesBWatson (talk) 09:33, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * You have "looked extensively at the editing history of this account"? That wouldn't have taken you very long then as the problem here is that this account was blocked for abuse before it had ever been used for editing anything at all, other than the one edit action of adding a picture to its homepage! And it is exactly that problem that I am still waitng for an explanation for and help to resolve. Have the details of this account been somehow confused with those of another, or were the "striking similarities" with "DeFacto" that they had also added a picture to their homepage at some point? Pater Wourer (talk) 05:36, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

June 2012
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. Your ability to edit your talk page has also been revoked. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you should read the guide to appealing blocks, then contact the Arbitration Committee at . AGK [•] 09:39, 18 June 2012 (UTC)