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To administrators and others:

I have been the subject of harassment by two Misplaced Pages users: User:IronDuke and an anonymous editor 69.117.7.84, who may be the same person as IronDuke. The sequence of events is:

• I made an innocuous but ill-advised edit to IronDuke's user page, simply adding an invisible HTML comment to make it non-empty. This policy states: "In general it is considered polite to avoid substantially editing another's user page without their permission." My edit was not at all substantial -- indeed, it was invisible, and WP:User page says "User pages that have been deleted can be recreated with a blank page", and that is what I did. Nonetheless, I now regret it, as I am being made the subject of endless harrassment.
• User:IronDuke placed a two messages on my Talk page in quick succession, demanding to know who I was. His tone was extremely hostile and I decided not to engage him at all. I deleted his messages from my page, but he reversed that deletion and added an even more hostile note.
• Another user User:MrFish reversed IronDuke's reinstatement of his comments, and I thought the matter was over, but an anonymous user (User:69.117.7.84) who I assume to be also IronDuke, placed an unsigned warning template on my page.
• At this point I had no idea why three different users were editing what I thought was a personal page! I decided to follow the directions listed in Misplaced Pages:How_to_archive_a_talk_page#Move_procedure to archive the page and on WP:User_page#How_do_I_delete_my_user_subpages.3F to request deletion of the comments.
• Then IronDuke (in his anonymous form as 69.117.7.84) again wrote on my page about his User page. Not wanting to escalate again, I left this as-is
• But a few days later IronDuke pops up again, this time accusing me of being a sockpuppet, though he will not say who he thinks I really am, and admits to "having no hard evidence".
• Now he has gone so far as to having the original Talk page undeleted and he is adding his silly comments back onto my main talk page.

As I understand it, if I wish to, I can request deletion of all of my pesonal page, per WP:User_page#How_do_I_delete_my_user_and_user_talk_pages.3F, as I have been not been found guilty of "significant abuse", and indeed I may decide to permanently leave Misplaced Pages because of this level of unwarranted harrassment. Other than a minor, invisible edit to IronDuke's page (which I regret), I have done nothing!

I have spent considerable time studying Misplaced Pages's policies, and have been trying to follow them, but instead I get accused by an anonymous user of vandalism for editing my own pages, and now called a sock puppet because I followed the listed instructions on how to delete such unwarranted charges! If this is Misplaced Pages, then Kafka would have loved it!

This policy: ] seems to indicate that I may delete comments from my Talk page after replying to them. As noted above, other policies seem to indicate that I may delete my pages at my discretion. So can someone please make these users stop harassing me??? -- Gomi-no-sensei 19:28, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok, just ignore IronDuke and 69.117.7.84. I'll keep an eye on this page. Put the matter behind you, and concentrate on building the encyclopedia.--Commander Keane 20:07, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

What Commander Keane said. Other folks are watching, too. Friday (talk) 20:15, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Me

I apologise if I can be seen as helping in the harassment. As I believe stated on WP:SUSPSOCK, I do not think that the sock puppet accusation was appropriate, but I was quite tired at the time and may hanve not have emphasized this enough. It appears, unfortunately, that you have been a victim of your own learning speed and thoughtfulness. Most new users here don't bother to read the help or policy pages, and due to their utter cluelessness, anyone who, like you, is thoughtful enough to go through such pages, is often suspected to be an alternate account of another user. The guidelines and help also fail to mention some things which shouldn't be done, such as deleting talk pages so soon. Unfortunately, some editors here can be quite abrasive. Don't mind them too much, and if you feel you are being overly harassed, and I do believe you were in this case, feel free to ask around for help. There are many editors here who are friendly. --Philosophus 22:00, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Blocked (Indefinite)

You have been indefinitely blocked from editing for vandalism of Misplaced Pages. Please note that page blanking, addition of random text or spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, and repeated and blatant violation of WP:NPOV are considered vandalism. (Vandal sockpuppet, checkuser confirmed)

~Kylu (u|t) 04:20, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Block

Hi Gomi, I've blocked this account because check user has confirmed you're also editing as User:Anomicene and that you created User:IronDuck, presumably to mimic or cause a problem for IronDuke. There's also concern that you're editing with other accounts too. If you want to discuss this with me further, you're welcome to e-mail me. In particular, I'd be curious to know why you created IronDuck and why your first edit was to IronDuke's user page. SlimVirgin 04:23, 14 May 2006 (UTC)