User talk:82.6.96.66

February 2008 blocking fiasco

February 2008

Your recent edit to Satellite (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. The edit was identified as adding vandalism, or link spam to the page or having an inappropriate edit summary. If you want to experiment, please use the preview button while editing or consider using the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. If you made an edit that removed a large amount of content, try doing smaller edits instead. Thanks! // VoABot II (talk) 14:54, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edit to Satellite (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. The edit was identified as adding vandalism, or link spam to the page or having an inappropriate edit summary. If you want to experiment, please use the preview button while editing or consider using the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. If you made an edit that removed a large amount of content, try doing smaller edits instead. Thanks! // VoABot II (talk) 14:57, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Satellite, you will be blocked from editing. Mifter (talk) 15:05, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Satellite, you will be blocked from editing. ÐeadΣyeДrrow (Talk | Contribs) 15:06, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

okay okay

in my own defence, this isn't vandalism. i'm trying to move a section of the article to List of orbits where it should be, but the bot won't let me. 82.6.96.66 (talk) 15:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for Vandalism. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may do so when the block expires. · AndonicO ^Hail! 15:17, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

lovely.. 82.6.96.66 (talk) 15:45, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{unblock|Although I appreciate the machine that is the wikipedia anti-vandalism unit, this has been a mistake. I was trying to move the section on Orbit type in the article Satellite to the List of orbits. I had just finished the (rather time consuming) merger into List of orbits, and then went to remove the redundant section in Satellite. I replaced the list with a couple of paragraphs summarizing different orbits types. I was reverted by a bot twice because the section was so large. The bot recommended I make edits in smaller chunks, which I did. This led the anti-vandals to revert these changes and post-notices on the user page. Then I left notices on their talk pages explaining my actions, and one of them replied, recommending that i leave a reason for the edit in the edit summary (which i didn't do before). He was also mistakenly under the impression that i blanked the entire page - which i clearly didn't. So after about ten minutes, i took a deep breath and tried to make the changes again, this time with a clear edit summary, and within moments i was blocked. I hope whoever reads this understands that the changes I was trying to make are completely legitimate. 82.6.96.66 (talk) 15:35, 9 February 2008 (UTC)}[reply]

Please stand by as I contact the blocking admin. Sandstein (talk) 16:13, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Very sorry for my misunderstanding; I've unblocked you now. · AndonicO ^Hail! 16:24, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they do unfortunately; especially when IP address users remove sections from articles, it's hard to differentiate between the good and bad edits. I hope you're not too bothered by my mistake. · AndonicO ^Hail! 16:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thanks. and my talk page was so pretty and clean before this fiasco :( 82.6.96.66 (talk) 16:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ARCHIVE. ;) · AndonicO ^Hail! 17:02, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

See above.

Request handled by: Sandstein (talk) 16:32, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: The comment that you put on my userpage

I posted a reply to the comment that you left on my userpage if you would like to take a look at it, hit the(Talk) that is after my name. --Mifter (talk) 15:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

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I would also like to apologize for the mis-understanding that had happened earlier, with you trying to move some content around from Satellite and mistakenly getting blocked for content removal.--Mifter (talk) 20:24, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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