User talk:Widr

Um, hello??

You blocked a /40 for 3 years. Seriously?? Please read User:TonyBallioni/Just block the /64. Look at Special:Contributions/2600:1007:B100:0:0:0:0:0/40 and you see that youve blocked editors literally all over the United States. Like for real. Fix this. Cheers. Rugendow (talk) 01:38, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

@Rugendow Have you looked at the contribs for this range? Have you looked at their block log? The history of disruption within that range goes back years, and it is pervasive. This is not the first block. It is not the second. It is the sixth. I Endorse the block. -Ad Orientem (talk) 04:25, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

OP indeffed as a sock of User:Soapbeats. -Ad Orientem (talk) 17:12, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

You need to learn to read before you reply and make wild endorsements. Rugendow didn’t say there hasn’t been any disruption from that range. The point-which you missed completely-is that it’s an enormous range, blocking countless editors who never did anything wrong and countless new would be editors who gave up trying. You said you endorse the block because of the history of disruption. By your logic we should block all IP’s for a long history of disruption because again you have blocked way more than 1 person. This needs to be fixed now. Cragadobe (talk) 17:43, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Assistance requested :)

Hello,

The IP who keeps coming back to my talk page has now emailed me and also left me a message over at Commons. Fun!

My intent with being kind at the initial talk page was to AGF and help a new user understand our policies and guidelines and perhaps become a productive contributor. Perhaps they have trouble with understanding social cues; perhaps they were young; perhaps they were blinded by their sense of righteousness. I have been all of those things at one time or another.

I knew that there was a chance that they were a troll or irredeemably attached to a complete sentence being on Pinellas County, Florida about it being in the West Central region of Florida; I went over there to see if their (admittedly, sourced) opinions were being respected. They were, just not their desire to add the sentence to the end of the paragraph. (Check the diffs, it's almost comical!)

Between them making the request and me actually checking out the article, all this crazy stuff happened, including the ECPing of my talk page. Who knew that could happen? Who would've thought that my talk page would be protected because of someone else being disruptive and not me?

Anyway, what are my next steps? I'm kind of tired of this user contacting me. My instincts tell me to leave a message saying that I won't do the edits; I'm going to do that because I want a clean conscience, but let me know if I should do anything else.

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 10:35, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Email:

Hey JuxtaposedJacob, About that user who removed that discussion we had yesterday, that user is lying and trying to get me banned again and that user keeps on removing any discussions I create asking for help about my ban because they want me to suffer from being blocked unfairly and treated unfairly on here for the rest of my life. That user is one of the many people on here who have been bullying me and stalking me and hounding me ever since I got blocked indefinitely in June. Because nobody gave me any help or any advice at all in any of the instances I asked for help about my ban. If you see them or any other user revert my edit and delete that discussion again then please report them to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global.

Good times in wiki-land !

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 10:42, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

This is indeed a banned troll. Just ignore, revert or delete if you see any more of this. Widr (talk) 13:21, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Luke Elaine Burke

Hello, Widr,

I'd email you about this but you don't have an email link listed. I just wondered about your indefinite block of this new editor. I have had my suspicions about them and whether they are a returning editor but I'm not sure what prompted you to issue an indefinite block. I see some misguided edits that could be seen as trolling but nothing that I think would result in an indefinite block and since you removed talk page access, they should probably be advised about UTRS. Thanks for any details you can provide here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:50, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Several disruptive edits and a report to AIV prompted the block. I don't think it makes much of a difference if it's a returning troll or a new one, most of their recent edits were clearly just messing around and wasting others' time. If you disagree or want to unblock, that's up to you of course. Widr (talk) 09:51, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

I was wondering about this one too, so I'll take you up on that and unblock. I'll keep an eye on them and see where it goes from there. -- asilvering (talk) 23:09, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

UTRS appeal #97945

This is one of yours. Just checking in before unblocking. -- asilvering (talk) 17:31, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't use UTRS, so I don't know what's there. Widr (talk) 17:42, 13 December 2024 (UTC)