User talk:Pohlmark

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September 2015
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Daniel Ek has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

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January 2016
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Triple J Hottest 100 has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

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August 2021
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Brad Hazzard. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Longhair\talk 09:46, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for vandalism. 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:. Longhair\talk 09:47, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

??? Why have I been blocked indefinitely? One strike and I’m out? I don’t see how that was “vandalism”. Protesting against the man is illegal. Parliament is suspended, so he’s not being challenged or scrutinised. A simple Wikipedia edit is one of the very small avenues a person can voice any sort of discontent with the policies he’s perpetuating that are destroying livelihoods, have some empathy and compassion for those of us locked down and bitterly angry with his perpetual home imprisonment of us. Pohlmark (talk) 11:41, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

I’m any case you could have simply reverted the edit and made a comment “don’t do that”. Banning me from wikiiedia for it seems extraordinarily tone deaf and I empathetic to what’s going on in New South Wales. Pohlmark (talk) 11:42, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * unempathetic Pohlmark (talk) 11:43, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * You've barely made a single constructive edit to Wikipedia since 2014. -- Longhair\talk 19:00, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * So? I’ve avoided Wikipedia because of editor attitudes like this. A warning would be appropriate not a lifetime ban. It’s extreme and unnecessarily punitive. Especially given lockdown. Well there goes my donation then. Forget it. Pohlmark (talk) 20:49, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * You’ve also banned the entire IP address. Which adversely affects at least 8 families and guests. Again, a warning would have been more appropriate. Pohlmark (talk) 20:51, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I won't be unblocking you. You should have considered your behaviour here if others are now affected. If you wish to seek an unblock, follow the directions in the block notice above. -- Longhair\talk 20:52, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * This is an extraordinary abuse of admin powers and I will be seeking to have you removed. Pohlmark (talk) 21:01, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * You can do as you please. Refer to your own abuse of editing privileges which were revoked for good reason. Have a good day. BTW, as an Australian, I am also in lockdown. But I pass the time somewhat more constructively. -- Longhair\talk 21:06, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * less constructively. You’re adding restrictions to those already restricted. This makes your abuse even worse. Again, a warning would have been appropriate. But then extreme punitive measures are in vogue in Australia. $1000 fine for sitting down or going to a store 2 miles away but in a different LGA. $5000 fines handed out to people banned from working who’ve lost everything. Imprisonment for protesting the extreme lockdown measures.


 * And here you are, banning a user for life, for voicing a protest at the architect of so much misery in New South Wales. You’re a tool of the autocratic state and you’re abusing your authority. Eventually, there will be a reckoning. Pohlmark (talk) 21:19, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Again, you're welcome to request to be unblocked. I'll remind you again, your entire editing career has been little more than vandalism. And now you think Wikipedia is your soapbox? It's not. I won't be replying any further. Good luck with everything, and all the best dealing with things from here. -- Longhair\talk 21:24, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Your opinion is not fact. You’ve made poor bad faith assumptions. I never said Wikipedia was my soapbox. I simply said Brad Hazzard is evil. To revert the edit it’s a one click rectification on your end. Simple and done. Haha we all had a laugh and let out some discontent. Had I engaged in an edit war and undone your reversion, well now we escalate with threat of a block. If I keep reverting the edit, we’ll then blocked for a week. If after a week I keep reverting the edit, well then a life ban. But you went straight to the life ban. This is misuse of power and all done in bad faith on incorrect assumptions. Pohlmark (talk) 21:32, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Please unblock

 * What edits do you want to make, if unblocked? PhilKnight (talk) 06:59, 28 December 2022 (UTC)


 * You do not have a "permanent lifetime ban"; a ban is different from a block; you have a block which will be removed when you make a successful unblock request. Only a single person should have access to your account, but you seem to suggest your whole family has access. 331dot (talk) 09:23, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Why can't you teach your children about Wikipedia editing at home during the public health measures? 331dot (talk) 09:24, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

This account is a single user. But the kids can’t create accounts because the IP address has been blocked all year.

Regarding edits: I went in to correct Jacques Kallis page which has incorrect info on it. A small wording issue but one that ignores Graeme Pollock. That’s when I realised I was still blocked/banned/restricted whatever synonym you want to use. Pohlmark (talk) 05:37, 29 December 2022 (UTC)