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27 February 2014

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In an edit war on Samsung Galaxy S5, he switched to this account for another revert on the third revert. Its talk page is a redirect to GadgetsGuy's talk page, which reads that he had previously been asked to stop using that name because it sounded promotional. Yet, he made a new account under the old name. ViperSnake151  Talk  04:10, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * First of all I did not create a new account under my old name, its just that the integration is not done properly by the admin who approved my request as i transfer from wikipedia to wikimedia commons and when I return to wikipedia it signed in under my old name instead of the new one which seems to be causing the problem. even if you look at the logs, i clearly did not create a new account. This is merely a technical glitch as it seems that my wikimedia commons account was not renamed to the new name under the old name. Plus I do think that Vipersnake might be attacking me personally already as I am promoting the Image licensing and OTRS rule of wikipedia. GadgetsGuy (talk) 04:35, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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According to User talk:GalaxyOptimus, GagdgetsGuy's story above is confirmed, as Xeno created a redirect while doing a rename from one editor's name to the other. That means two things... GadgetsGuy isn't guilty of anything more than a simple mistake, and the GalaxyOptimus account is not needed. Therefore, I'm not taking any action against GadgetsGuy, but to prevent this error from happening again in the future I'm putting a block on the GalaxyOptimus account so that GadgetsGuy won't accidentally post with that account again. I'll try to be careful to avoid an autoblock or anything of the sort that will interfere with GadgetsGuy's editing privileges. --  At am a  頭 19:38, 3 March 2014 (UTC)