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Welcome to Misplaced Pages! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as My Potty and I) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Betaeleven 00:25, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Misplaced Pages! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as The Berenstain Bears Cook-It!: Breakfast for Mama!) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Mr.Z-mantalk 00:27, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Personal Attacks

Please do not place links on user talk pages which contain personal attacks. Franamax (talk) 15:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

For the record, it was a link to a newspaper article that covered the Durova incident. I don't think we should get into the business of accusing The Register of making personal attacks. Carcharoth (talk) 20:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

To explain this a little bit, the link had been added and removed earlier in the day and Durova had also responded to the previous poster. I don't think The Register is an attack site but I found the article somewhat lacking in balance and certain quotes and statements could be construed as slipping in a PA in the guise of a news link. I had also just previously removed a definite PA on Durova, so perhaps I acted somewhat reflexively and could have worded this notice better. I was still considering how to answer Mets post on my talk page (where they say that their question has already been answered - so why did you ask then?) when I saw that Mets had been indeffed. I am a little surprised at the severity of the response to Mets' actions - but that is being discussed extensivley elsewhere by others ;) I would support removal of Mets block, perhaps with some kind of a warning. Franamax (talk) 01:52, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Blocked

This account is blocked. I'm sure you can find something better to do then create Misplaced Pages accounts solely to cause trouble and insult people. Neil ☎ 15:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Metsguy234 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

User only asked a question about an article he read online and asked for an article to be made more neutral- has never personally insulted anyone- most other edits have been good

Decline reason:

This does not address the reason you were blocked. — Yamla (talk) 19:32, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

For the record, discussion about this block has taken place at the blocking admin's talk page. See User talk:Neil#Indefinite blocks versus warnings and calming things down (permanent link as at time of writing). I am waiting for Neil to respond there, but my opinion is that the allegation that this account was created "solely to cause trouble and insult people" is not warranted. Another editor has agreed with me, so I am hopeful this can be sorted out when Neil logs back on. I am going to leave a note for Yamla as well. Carcharoth (talk) 20:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I believe that the unblock request does not address the reason given for the block. However, if this user makes another unblock request, I hope and expect the reviewing admin to review independently of me and override my decline if they believe it warranted. Such would always be appropriate even when the block has not been questioned, as it has here. --Yamla (talk) 21:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Metsguy234 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Note to reviewing admin. Please note the discussions above and the other discussions linked from those discussions, I'm already engaged in dialogue with the blocking admin, so I don't feel I can unblock without waiting for a response there, but what I see here is an account created by someone from another wiki, not an account created for the sole purpose of causing trouble and insulting people. At the very least, I suggest the indefinite block should be turned into a definite block (say, a week), or overturned completely. But the best thing to do might be to wait for Neil to comment, because I would like to see a note in the unblock log to the effect that the account was too new to properly judge whether the contributions might improve (ie. "No good contributions" is excessive), and that the allegation of creating an account to attack others is not sustainable when you look at the creation history. It was created by someone arriving here from another wiki over a year ago. Carcharoth (talk) 21:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

It's unfortunate that no discussion took place at all before the hammer came down. From his contributions at wikiHow, he seems to be capable of positive contributions. I support an unblock and some watching/mentoring. —Wknight94 (talk) 23:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Guys, sorry for any trouble I caused. I just started using my Misplaced Pages account recently. When I read about the secret mailing list fiasco- I wanted to know the truth- so, not knowing that it was decided (for whatever reason) to stop pestering Durova with questions- I asked a simple question- which I did not intend to be a personal attack. Sorry if it was taken that way. P.S.- I remember someone (I believe it was Neil) citing my message on an anon's talk page against me because of my comment "I'm looking into your identity.". There's a misunderstanding here. I used to write for a school newspaper and I was doing research on a school computer (not logged in). I found that the IP of the computer I was using had done some bad edits in the past. I decided to write an article about it and also attempt to find who was vandalizing the pages- since it was someone at my school- I never meant it as a stalker-type thing. Sorry if it was taken that way... Metsguy234 (talk) 02:16, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

It's bad form for us to simply undo an admin's block and he's offline now so please be patient. Your best bet in the future is to contribute to the encyclopedia content more, and make off-color comments and poke your head into touchy situations less. Hopefully you realize that now and this can be resolved soon. —Wknight94 (talk) 02:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

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