User talk:Ruffenready

January 2017
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Guy (Help!) 18:53, 1 January 2017 (UTC)


 * According to the available info, this account was created on 16 April 2013 and didn't edit until 1 January 2017 (the edit referred to above). I can see no deleted edits. The Carlos Danger account was created on 30 October 2016. Peridon (talk) 11:45, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I have never heard of edits 'expiring', but I believe that some were lost in the very early days of Wikipedia before I was on here. I could be wrong on that. That was well before 2007 anyway. Peridon (talk) 11:47, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Anyone who has followed GamerGate and other alt-right crap on Wikipedia will be familiar with the pattern of long-dormant accounts that suddenly become active to promote a conservative agenda. I guess there's a marketplace where such accounts are exchanged. In this case the edit summaries and edits mean that if it's not a sock then it's a meatpuppet. But a sock is vastly more likely. Remember, it's not the account we block, it's the person. Guy (Help!) 13:12, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

The reason why you could not edit Rex Tillerson was not due to a prior block but simply that you tried to edit a semi-protected article without the necessary user rights. See WP:SEMI and WP:CONFIRM. Just Chilling (talk) 02:25, 22 January 2017 (UTC)