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ANI Discussion

Hello, WillOakland. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:WillOakland regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. NW (Talk) 15:39, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

September 2009

WillOakland (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Hello. I stated in the noticeboard discussion relating to this block that I was no longer subject to the prior ban on User:Gazpacho. I directed people to my block log to verify this. Specifically, this entry:

• 17:57, 15 February 2009 Xymmax (talk | contribs) unblocked "WillOakland (talk | contribs)" (User all ready had consulted with blocking admin on this return. Edits themselves unproblematic.)

Xymmax unblocked me after checking with the admin who blocked the Gazpacho account. Therefore, the reason provided for blocking me indefinitely is fundamentally wrong. I was not using the WillOakland account to evade any active ban.

I edit pages here and there on varying subjects. I take credit for my contributions while logged in, and those I have made without bothering to log in, usually from 24.17.110.94. (Logging in is not required, last I heard.) I take credit for changes I have made at Wikiquote from the same address. Nowhere else do I run into the kind of extreme reactionary attitude that I have at Ian Halperin.

To date, the only change that I have been allowed to make at this article without being reverted is a spacing change! Removing redundant sources for the same claim has been reverted. Reordering sentences into chronological order has been reverted. Removing the attribution (not the citation) for an utterly uncontroversial statement has been reverted.

This got on my nerves. I got angry. Still, I do not intend to simply walk away from the article, should I have a chance to make changes again. It is poorly written. It is outdated. (Check today's news; Michael Jackson's autopsy report totally contradicted Halperin's claims.) I can try making a sandbox copy of the article and working on it with review by Cirt and whoever else is interested. That way I can try changes without people responding in such an abrupt manner (and without any basis to run to the noticeboard right away). It seems like that should work. If it doesn't, however, I would need to pursue other standard dispute resolution options.

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