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I don't edit Misplaced Pages very often

I have previously edited maybe 10 or 12 Misplaced Pages articles. They included ones about C-Span, Marcel Proust, and Raymond Chandler. One major contribution (almost 50%) I made to an article is something that I think very few people in the world could have done, and now that is owned by Misplaced Pages thanks to me (no, I won't say what it was so you'll have to take my word for it). The edits took place in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, and now. I only have the whim to edit every few years, so I just created a new username each time then forgot about it. I have forgotten the passwords, usernames, or both for my previous usernames, and I never set up any password retrieval system. I have never engaged in sock puppetry, nor am I a single-purpose account. I personally feel unqualified to comment meaningfully on a wide variety of articles. Useitorloseit (talk) 17:52, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Blocked

This is ridiculous. You cannot keep asking the same thing over and over and over. Your topic ban has been discussed enough. If you make a request that it be removed before December 11, 2014, I'll block you indefinitely. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:47, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

I only made 1 request before. Consensus split 2-1 and 3-3, so there was no dead horse. Only after the most recent RfC was consensus truly clear. Useitorloseit (talk) 21:48, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

You are not blocked because of your position on the article in question. You are blocked because:

• You obsessed over one issue of that article for months.
• You were topic banned from the article last week.
• You appealed that topic ban a few days ago, and that was declined.
• You have now appealed it again today.
• I have no confidence that you will stop with the disruptive appeals.

--Floquenbeam (talk) 21:56, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

They told me I didn't have a good reason for the unban request, so I supplied one. I made more than one unblock request previously, so I didn't know there was a "rule" about ban requests. Yes I fought for my proposed edit (which even the editor who started the ban request admitted there was a reasonable case for) but I went through the RfC process. You have allowed the opposing editors to influence your view of this whole thing. I was about to move on after the current RfC. I am very capable of dropping this whole thing: that's what Ive been trying to do but opposing editors keep taking it to ANI. Useitorloseit (talk) 22:03, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

And Floquenbeam, it's a little troubling that you seem not to have even read my request. I realize wading into it is time-consuming and hard to sort out, but after all you signed up to be an admin and it's supposed to be your job, like it or not. You're not supposed to just shoot first and ask questions never. Useitorloseit (talk) 22:28, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

It doesn't make sense

It doesn't make sense to say someone is an "SPA" yet acknowledge there's a consensus split over their "reasonable" proposed edit. That is the definition of process winning out over content. If there's a legitimate split over an edit, HOWEVER SMALL, the proper procedure is to work it out with RfCs. So what if it's minor? Who is Misplaced Pages to judge which items are too minor to really pay attention to? And so what if it's the only thing an editor does? Nothing in the rules says you can't have one small edit and work to change consensus. Every little bit helps. If the content has support, then let the process play out. Useitorloseit (talk) 22:19, 11 June 2014 (UTC)