User talk:Quaternionist

http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User:Quaternionist&oldid=284537719 The above link points to an older user approved version of my user page.

Below is an improved copy of its contents so that people can learn just a little bit more on what I am about.

This account (Quaternionist) is a doppelgänger account created by Example, an established user, to prevent impersonation by vandals. Please see their talk page for relevant discussion. You can also view Quaternionist's edit count by clicking here.

Administrators: Please notify Example when taking any action on this account, or any related user pages.

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I am not a person but rather doppelganger, which means in German the ghostly image of a living person.

The person I am the doppelganger or ghostly image of is interested in quaternions. This could also mean that you have basically mistaken me for someone else. I only edit from public libraries, cite sources on the subject of quaternions frequently, and so my style could easily be confused with someone else.

I think doppelgangers are cool so I put this tag on my page. If you think about it technically all users accounts on Wikipedia are ghostly images of living persons in one way or another. When a user claims to be a supernatural being, it is always best to assume good faith, and not start throwing around invective terms, and call them some kind of sock puppet or meat puppet, especially if all their edits are from public libraries and there is no proof.

According to the doppelganger rules of Wikipedia, since all users are technically doppelgangers, everybody is forbidden to edit.

Like just about all quaternionists, I really get a kick out of the rule, ignore all rules, because it applies to all other rules, except itself. So in my humble effort to comply with all policies sometimes I tend to ignore the rule that doppelgangers are not allowed to edit.

If you want to experiment with talking to ghostly images try this talk page.

How can a ghostly image be blocked from editing?

Err, me no understand. Chzz ► 01:49, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User:Quaternionist&direction=next&oldid=278787168

This is a very serious misunderstanding. Please click the link just above to see that even very early versions of this account have always had the proper doppelganger tag placed above it, indicating that the user what ever that means was using multiple accounts and made no secret of it. Of course you can't block a doppelganger, they walk through walls.

Here is why this problem is so serious, this mysterious type of account has never been logged into from any place other than a public library. Edits from this ghostly account have done nothing but to add citations and quotations to material, complete with links to page scans of the original document. If you are seeing anything from these edits, what you are seeing is not a actual user but just a ghostly image. In other words, you are dealing with a doppelganger. Blocking this account accomplishes no useful or constructive purpose. Blocking it has a negative effect that other users feel wiki-haunted. They start to see ghostly images of actual users everywhere.

Doppelganger Article

http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Quaternion&oldid=284242681

That the article quaternion now has its own article doppelganger, which has been placed into it from a doppelganger account, and appears to be wiki-haunting the current article. In other words the current version, now has a ghostly image following right behind it in the past. The ghostly image, has close to 100 inline citations. It will probably never try and become the current article, rather it will appear for a few seconds, as a new edit that improves the doppelganger article by say adding a new link or a new citation and then disappear again. This edit will have the effect of moving the doppelganger article forward in edit history, but then it will vanish again as the edit that created it is reversed from the same ghostly public library IP address.

Normally according to legend when a person sees their own doppelganger, it is a portent of their own death. This may be even more true for articles which have a doppelganger. Seeing its doppelganger is a portent of the present articles death.

Can a ghostly image request to be unblocked somehow?

Just wondering.

Err, me no understand. Please could you explain a bit more, I don't understand the question. Thx Chzz ► 01:49, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can help with the second question. This may be of more help to administrators than to a quaternionist doppelganger. A doppelganger is kind of like a ghost, except different. Dead people have ghosts, living people have doppelgangers. According to legend, doppelgangers know who you are, and where you are, they can walk through walls, and appear before you like a ghost, but the ghost of a living person, not a dead one. So since a doppelganger does not have a physical body, and is not a user in the normal sense, and only users can ask to be unblocked, no unfortunately doppelgangers can not request to be unblocked.

One option you might want to consider doppelganger:quaternionist, would be to come over to the robotics lab, and get the entire building blocked, because if it ever got unblocked, we supernatural entities, who are wiki-counted as a single legal person might technically all be unblocked.

Also according to this theory you might already be unblocked, since the robotics lab is not currently blocked. Coming to the robotics lab may be beyond your supernatural powers, I know that some doppelgangers can only inhabit certain places like train yards at night and public libraries. It is difficult for me to wade through all these technicalities, and sadly I don't think we will be able to get a straight answer from the administrators. I am not even going bother the administrators on-wiki about this one. Perhaps the computer engineers here in my lab can come up with a solution? I am sure they would find the problem interesting. user talk:robotics lab 18:32, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your suggesting, robotics lab, as a personage of brick and mortar, you can be blocked, and unblocked, unfortunately coming to the robotics lab is beyond my supernatural doppelganger powers. I was think that getting this user name unblocked might come under the snow ball clause? Since everybody inside you is now considered the same person, if you were unblocked, you are right everybody inside you would also be unblocked, because they would all be considered one person, in other words everybody inside you is you, but administrators might consider this gaming the system.Quaternionist (talk) 01:50, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]