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Hello, Kipa Aduma, Esq., and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Policy on multiple accounts

Hi, Kipa, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. While we're all greatly pleased when genuinely new users show up to contribute, your initial behaviour gives the impression that you might already be familiar with contributing to the encyclopaedia. For that reason, and because you've elected to participate in an extremely contentious topic area that sees a great many violations every day of our policy that prohibits multiple accounts, would you please let the community here know whether you've edited Misplaced Pages previously, and what accounts you may have used to do so? And if you haven't edited here previously, perhaps you'd be willing to explain how you seem to be more familiar than new users typically are with editing procedures? I'd recommend that you not provide any personally identifying information in your reply, by the way, although that's up to you.

I'd like to stress that the last thing any of us want is to discourage any genuinely new user, so please don't take these questions as off-putting or in any way personally. I'm sure you can understand that the interest I have in asking you to address these questions is only that I want to ensure that the policies designed to protect the neutrality and integrity of the encyclopaedia are upheld. I hope you'll also understand that if you are, in fact, a genuinely new user whose interest is to help improve the encyclopaedia, we'll all be delighted to have you here. Many thanks, --OhioStandard (talk) 21:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

You've already determined that I'm an "obvious" sock, so what's the point of this smarmy welcome note? -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kipa Aduma, Esq. (talk • contribs) 04:16, 15 June 2012 UTC

Well, one does like to practice one's smarminess from time to time, you know, just to stay in form.

Look, I don't want to prevent you from editing, I just want to prevent you from using multiple accounts. That's like counterfeiting, or stuffing a ballot box, as I see it, one of the most emphatic and fundamental breaches of faith with a community that one can undertake, in that it subverts the basis of all cooperative endeavour. What about coming in from the cold, disclosing your alternate accounts, and promising to stick with just this one?

It's a pretty cool name, after all, one of the better ones I've seen from you. I can't speak for everyone else here, as you no doubt know, but I'm pretty sure the "regulars" in the topic area would be all right with what I'm proposing. We'd have to run a checkuser to see if you'd been candid in disclosing other accounts, but I'd be fine with leaving this one intact if it turns out you've truthfully disclosed the others, and if you'd agree to periodic informal runs of the checkuser tools, from time to time subsequently. I'll even give you an appropriate anthem to listen to, while you consider. Cheers, --OhioStandard (talk) 05:28, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Afterword: The preceding "You've already determined that I'm an 'obvious' sock" comment by "Kipa" refers to my post of 23:24, 13 June 2012 (UTC) in this ANI thread, where I mentioned this account in passing, saying, "there were a lot of IPs and obvious socks (e.g. Kipa Aduma, Esq.) at an article that's normally pretty quiet", as the fourth post there. This account was not informed of that ANI thread. --OhioStandard (talk) 01:24, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Judging by recent edits on the King David Hotel bombing article, I'd take a guess that Curls100 is one of the alternative accounts.     ←   ZScarpia   15:05, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Welcome back

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