User talk:Shim119

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File copyright problem with File:New York License Plate.jpg
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Orphaned non-free image File:New York License Plate.jpg
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License tagging for File:New York plate 4-2010.jpg
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Nomination of Paper Tag Nation for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Paper Tag Nation is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Paper Tag Nation until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Black Kite (talk) 19:23, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Your complaint about User:Zzuuzz
Please note that ArbCom probably won't do anything given the request you made. The proper procedure is: Animal lover &#124;666&#124; 19:49, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) Talk to Zzuuzz on  talk page.
 * 2) The next escalation (if  doesn't respond within a reasonable amount of time, or if you are unsatisfied at the result of the discussion) is to the administrators' noticeboard.
 * 3) Unless you can show either a pattern of wrong decisions on  part, or a serious and blatant violation, don't go to ArbCom.
 * 4) Both on Zzuuzz's talk page, and on AN, please specify the IP address you're talking about.


 * This is OK general advice, but as a checkuser I am sometimes limited in what I can say and what I can link together in public. Many of my actions, especially when it comes to IP addresses or checkuser blocks, are answerable to Arbcom and they are indeed the correct forum for some of my actions including this one (unless you think there's a pattern, or that I'm compromised, etc). However, contacting them privately is really the way to go about it. I sometimes take it for granted that this is known. See CheckUser, and I can tell you this falls well inside Arbcom's remit, and outside of others' remit. If you want to go to AN you're welcome to, but be warned we have a saying about WP:BOOMERANGS, and I still won't be able to discuss some things. Anyone will tell you that discussing a complaint with hidden facts is usually a waste of time. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:06, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

are you official wikimedia staff or something? I'm not asking you to tell us which ip address belong to which accounts. i'm just asking you to assume good faith with newer users. remember, not everyone is aware of the policies and WP:BITEing them only makes thing worse for you. Shim119 (talk) 20:23, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not staff or anything official. I'm just a volunteer (albeit a highly experienced one with more tools than most). I am answerable to the WP:CHECKUSER and WP:ADMIN policies, among others. I'm hampered here about how much I can say publicly unless you want to divulge some extra details (which I'm not encouraging), so I'll try and keep this vague. Your account is not blocked. No accounts relating to you have been blocked. You have experienced one of the mildest restrictions available, something we regularly ask of institutions such as schools or mobile networks, and it's in response to some serious abuse going on right in your vicinity. You are being asked to log in to edit some of the time. This is evidently not an onerous imposition, and in fact constantly switching between logged-in editing and logged-out editing is quite frowned upon. It's frowned upon to the extent that I can justify weighing the abuse we're receiving against this imposition. And to be clear this is not even a restriction against you logging out to edit using other IP addresses as I know you sometimes do. I've used some of the lightest possible actions, and I think they're justified. You're welcome to the opinions of Arbcom (or other checkusers if you prefer) if you want a measure of whether I'm right. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:52, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Zzuuzz blocked Shim119's IP address: Arbitration request declined
Hello ,

In response to your request for arbitration, the Arbitration Committee has agreed that arbitration is not required at this stage. Arbitration on Wikipedia is a lengthy, complicated process that involves the unilateral adjudication of a dispute by an elected committee. Although the Committee's decisions can be useful to certain disputes, in many cases the actual process of arbitration is unenjoyable and time-consuming. Moreover, for most disputes the community maintains an effective set of mechanisms for reaching a compromise or resolving a grievance.

Grievances about the actions of an administrator (like their decision to block an editor, or protect or delete a page) should also be approached in the first instance on the administrator's talk page, but administrators are expected to be accountable and you can ask on the administrators' incidents noticeboard for the action to be reviewed. In the case of deletions by deletion discussion, you can also open a deletion review.

In all cases, you should review Dispute resolution to learn more about resolving disputes on Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia community has many venues for resolving disputes and grievances, and it is important to explore them instead of requesting arbitration in the first instance. For more information on the process of arbitration, please see the Arbitration Policy and the Guide to Arbitration. I hope this advice is useful, and please do not hesitate to contact me or a member of the community if you have more questions.

For the Arbitration Committee, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:32, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

File:NY excelsior plate.jpg listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:NY excelsior plate.jpg, has been listed at Files for discussion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. — Red-tailed hawk  (nest) 02:45, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

File:NY2007Plate.png listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:NY2007Plate.png, has been listed at Files for discussion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. — Red-tailed hawk  (nest) 02:46, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about NJPlates
Hello, Shim119

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Mattdaviesfsic and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I've asked for a discussion about the redirect NJPlates, created by you. Your comments are welcome at Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 May 2.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment here and prepend it with. And, don't forget to sign your reply with. Thanks!

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Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 04:49, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

File:NY excelsior plate.jpg listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:NY excelsior plate.jpg, has been listed at Files for discussion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 12:55, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

May 2023
 You have been blocked from editing for a period of 60 hours for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text at the bottom of your talk page:. ✗ plicit  23:43, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

I wish you would have handled this more maturely. You know the file we’re under discussion and you still chose to delete them anyway. Shim119 (talk) 13:25, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Indef blocked July 2023
I know you & bbb23 annoyed at special:diff/1163996903 but if i agree to stick to mainspace and stay away from admin issues and noticeboards and images will you unblock me? i pretty much went a bit overboard with that WP:RFC. Making another account is only going to make things worse and I don't want to use the unblock because it's going to be denied with a template cookie-cutter denial. deal? Shim119 (talk) 15:45, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I will not support an unblock of your account. It's not about being annoyed, you are clearly WP:NOTHERE. RickinBaltimore (talk) 15:47, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Of course you won't because you were WP:INVOLVED in the XRV discussion and you didn't like what i said and beside up until the image dispute i had no issues. Shim119 (talk) 15:52, 7 July 2023 (UTC)


 * You're just digging a deeper hole. You refuse to follow WP:GAB and are already threatening to evade your block. I absolutely will not support an unblock as it's clear you "Don't get it." -- ferret (talk) 15:55, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

what are my options? Shim119 (talk) 15:56, 7 July 2023 (UTC)


 * ... WP:GAB. -- ferret (talk) 15:57, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay:

quote me where i am threatening to sock. that would be an exercise in futility. if i know the edits from the "socks" will be reverted why should i waist my own time instead if discussing it here? Shim119 (talk) 16:16, 7 July 2023 (UTC) , you're capable of auditing the IP address i'm using if you see any other logged in activity from the anon block on, this block is justified 100%. I'm trying UTRS --Shim119 (talk) 16:51, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Implied threats. In the first paragraph of this section. At any rate, acting as if your article edits are valuable is going to be very difficult for you. Courcelles (talk) 16:41, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

would you agree to discuss this on IRC chat? I'd like to resolve this in a proper way if you say no then i'll just see with UTRS holds. It's clear you took exception to my last two threads on WP:AN the WP:RFC was the last straw. is there any way i can get unblocked and be able to edit in line with WP:HERE? just the mainspace. mind you? i have not made any attempt to repost the image surrounding my first block so that should be reason enough to put an expiration date on the current one. Shim119 (talk) 17:28, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't use IRC, but even if I did, I don't see any reason to discuss your conduct off-wiki - and that includes UTRS. Unless you plan to post private information, there is no reason to appeal through UTRS.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:32, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Cool Hand Luke
I am posting here just to allow that, in your recent complaint about my rangeblock (which wound up serving as the latest of many spectacular examples of WP:BOOMERANG, but that's really neither here nor there) you had one small point: Despite what I put in the edit summary, it appears the block had nothing to do with any edits to this article. Either it was an accidental mistyping and I had that text on my clipboard for some other reason (doubtful, I think, because the control key is positioned such as to make accidentally hitting it instead of shift unlikely), or (more probably) I had confused two IPs/ranges I was blocking (In any event it also appears that I mistakenly hit enter as I was trying to complete the entry, a mistake I make more than I would like that explains the lack of closing brackets since the two keys are so close together).

You at most deserved an explanation for this. Daniel Case (talk) 17:59, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I really took it on the chin. Shim119 (talk) 13:45, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

This is now a checkuser block, specifically User:BuickCenturyDriver. It involves evidence that can't be publicly reviewed. I'm not going to review this block and can't tell reviewing admins what to do, but they can either use their own judgement to decline the unblock request (ignoring other problems I personally think the sockpuppetry is sufficiently publicly obvious), or they can decline in order to point the user to appeal a checkuser block, or both. The only appeal avenue is another CU or the Arbitration committee. I'm yanking TPA to prevent moot tedium. -- zzuuzz (talk) 11:54, 13 July 2023 (UTC)