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September 2005
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Please temporarily unblock this account for a few minutes - it seems this is a collateral blanket block against the innocent which I was just about to add an extensive contribution to human geography topics (which is quite lacking seeing how city is very poor). Or at least, revert hydrogen chloride to the last version, because it does not have "other names" of hydrochloric acid unlike what the last contributor believed. Oh wikify monorail on the HarbourFront MRT Station article please. You know you have to do this, Jpgordon since you just blocked a legitimate contributor. Therefore you are obligated to do my legitimate contributions since I can't do it. ;-) I am debating the Central Area in Singapore is an agglomeration with the Downtown Core (a central business district) as its focus, or something else. The Central business district article itself needs to wikify city. Do all this for me, please. At least you can sleep at night not knowing you blocked legitimate contributions. -- A victim of collateral damage
OK, I'll unblock and if there's more vandalism I'll block for longer. I suggest you register a username; easier to stay unlocked that way. Your classmates aren't being helpful. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆16:00, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Bah? No positive contributions? That's a sharp way to generalize thousands of people...anyhow since I can't do it myself, someone has to do it for me *again* - and you sysops have to do it because well, you're obligated. In the rip current article, fix metre to metres please. You know, for grammar's sake - a decimal requires plural agreement. -- 169.244.143.11515:56, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, few positive contributions. I'd recommend registering for an account if you do not wish to get painted with the overly broad brush this IP engenders. (PS, I fixed rip current.) Wikibofh16:59, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
RE: [1] You have been blocked for 2 weeks for continuing to vandalise Wikipedia despite repeated requests not to. Please note that this is now your ninth block, and any further acts of vandalism will result in a significantly longer ban. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Until that time, you will be able to read all articles on Wikipedia, but not make any page changes. Should you have any questions regarding this block, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. Best regards, Hall Monitor19:30, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You realise this is a shared IP, shared by, I don't know, thousands, if not tens of thousands of students? Why do you lump the good with the bad? And why is it when I try to log in to my account, which currently has 6500 good edits (sorry to bring editcountitis in here, but I really really have to invoke it right now), do I get blocked also? Why do you arrogantly tell me to "go create an account if you don't want to be associated blah blah", when having an account of over 6500 edits doesn't even matter because your entire IP of your school, oh wait, state gets blocked? And why do sysops block for days or weeks at a time, knowing this IP is merely an IP shared by public schools whose vandalism sprees will last merely hours? Oh justice wherefore art thou? I'm on the verge of taking this to an RFAr. -- 169.244.143.11519:28, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Two weeks seems reasonable to me, though IP blocks affecting registered users is a major problem. You can try to take it up for arbritration, but I highly doubt your case will be accepted without you even contacting the administrator above. // Pathoschild21:02, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This off-and-on, mostly-on, banning has been plaguing me for months. What they need to do is to change the blocking settings available to Wikipedia moderators. One should be able to choose between blocking all access from a given IP Address, as we do now, and blocking only anonymous edits from that IP Address. Those accessing from schools and public libraries won't have to be lumped together then, just because they live in the same state. Phoenix-forgotten04:05, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. I edit from a college resnet IP, and I would be rather displeased if my neigbours' moronic misbehaviour were to spill onto Wikipedia and get me blocked. Feel free to make a feature request if you wish. // Pathoschild13:04, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Reversion requests
Can you revert this edit to the last version before it please - namely to conform to verifiability and NPOV policy. I trust some sysop will do it, since I cannot. // (preceding unsigned comment by169.244.100.47 (talk • contribs) 15:46, November 4, 2005)
Also revert Meiosis to this last good edit here, since the mention of tetraphase is not part of the normal sequence and does not bode well for the article flow. // (preceding unsigned comment by169.244.143.115 (talk • contribs) 15:48, November 4, 2005)
