User talk:QuietOwl/Archives/2018/January

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi QuietOwl! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 02:53, Saturday, December 9, 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi QuietOwl! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 04:44, Saturday, December 9, 2017 (UTC)

Request for unblock

 * I've run a checkuser, and the account is from Dsmatthews. PhilKnight (talk) 01:08, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * User:PhilKnight, my account and Dsmatthews's may be technically indistinguishable to you if your investigation was superficial, but that is because of what I have already stated above: I share the same internet connection with multiple other people. I am a separate person. I'm not a man. That other account is. Please do not discriminate against me any further, I am my own person, and edit what I think is appropriate. In this case, technically indistinguishable is a measure of the system's inability to distinguish the truth, and not the actual truth of the matter, therefore the onus is on you to please provide me with a method acceptable to you/Wikipedia of verifying my independent identity. QuietOwl (talk) 01:35, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'm afraid that a checkuser is much more in depth that you can imagine. And it goes deeper than a shared internet connection. We are nor discriminating. Editing here, being a member of the community is a privilege. It is not a right. There is no "onus". Please reread the guide to appealing blocks. You are straying perilously close to legalese. The mumbo jumbo does not help you even a little bit. Thanks,  -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 03:19, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * User:Dlohcierekim, what evidence do you have, if it isn't the IP address? I have read the pages on Checkusers, all I can see is that you can query the servers "in order to ascertain the IP addresses used by a Wikipedia user account, as well as other technical data stored by the server about a user account or IP address." What is this other technical data?

You are discriminating, because you are assuming that I am another person, and you have not given me any way of proving that I am not that person, that I am a completely different person. I never said editing Wikipedia was a right. I was implying that if you block someone because you think they have been abusing multiple accounts, you should also give them an opportunity to prove that they are innocent, at least if it is a first-time offence.

I repeat my question, what is the acceptable way of proving that I am a separate person, and that I have not been abusing multiple accounts? QuietOwl (talk) 04:21, 16 January 2018 (UTC)