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- Alastair Haines (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
This user has been blocked indefinitely for repeated use of real or implied legal threats, by reference to Misplaced Pages:No legal threats. This talk page has been protected due to past issues of possible baiting of this user.
Any issues with comments considered defamatory or in other ways problematic, and identifying this user by name, should be notified to the OTRS team at info-en-q@wikimedia.org -- Guy (Help!) 16:19, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Unblocked
I'm going to unblock you, as suggested by others, on an assumption of good faith. I would have preferred to have waited until some pending issues were resolved, but reality imposes a number of delays on the necessary discussion that I have to agree have grown beyond reasonably fair delay.
This unblock is not unconditional, however. The first, and most important, of those conditions is that you are to shy away from anything that could be vaguely be seen as so much as legal hints. Avoid legal terms like "defamation" and "libel". Do not demand things "or else" or place deadlines. Don't test the limits. If you have a genuine worry, email arbcom or myself directly. Don't raise a fuss on-wiki.
Secondly, I'm going to strongly suggest you stay entirely away from biblical topics for the time being. There are strong suggestions of a financial conflict of interest between you, your publisher, its primary author, and a book written (and sold) on the topic— and until that has been clarified, anything that looks even just a little bit like edit warring or deviation from neutrality is going to be scrutinized.
Lastly, and that is simply advice: please seriously consider renaming your account to something that is not related to your real-life identity. The nature of Misplaced Pages editing guarantees that you will be put to task if you make edits that other editors feel are improper; if you feel that associating your real-life identity with those comments is detrimental then the proper response is to make sure it isn't, not to bluster, threaten and demand when that happens. To date, almost all your troubles have been directly related to the fact that your real name is also your account name.
On the related matter of the arbitration case pages, the matter is still under discussion within ArbCom, but we are receptive to the idea of blanking them as a courtesy to you— but please keep discussion of this to email.