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Hello Swarm. I haven't touched WP all year and I am just getting used to strange editing features I have never noticed before!! Incredible what you miss when you're away. Anyhow. I am still topic banned on Balkans subjects and basically I would like to have this reviewed. I tried once before but it failed to register, and got one negative remark from one admin who said he wasn't going to support the lifting, and so I steered clear for a while. I may be in need of guidance as to what the correct procedure is, that is if you cannot grant the privilege yourself. BTW I am happy to kick off on some form of 1RR rule that applies personally to my account. Or sommething else to that effect. Thankyou. --Sinbad Barron (talk) 10:22, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

ps Here is link. --Sinbad Barron (talk) 10:29, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, but ...

Would you mind protecting Momoiro Clover Z again? Spacecowboy420 waited for the protection to expire, then waited a bit more to avoid seeming tendentious, then started edit-warring again. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:00, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Shit. Sorry. Forget I said that. You're "involved" at this point so I'm not requesting you do what actually needs to be done, but the above-requested action would probably decrease the chances of someone else doing that. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:13, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Aargh Too late! I'm really sorry about this... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:14, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Hijiri88: Hey, what’s up? Is there some sort of concern as to my involvement? If so, i’ll gladly reverse the action, but I personally see no problem with it. Swarm ♠ 12:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict)No one will challenge your protecting the page, since the offending parties can just game the system by pretending to support "the option that prevents edit-warring" while actively refusing to use the talk page and just waiting it out. I meant that if you tried actually blocking those parties (which is the only real solution at this point, sans a TBAN) they might raise an uproar about your being involved, and I wouldn't post on your talk page requesting that anyway. The problem was that I realized there was an ANEW thread open moments after posting the above, and now I'm worried that with the page protected someone will just close the ANEW as "page protected by Swarm, apparently". Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:27, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Hijiri88: Oh, I think I get it. You think that this should be handled via blocking and were hoping that AN3 would produce that result. Oh well. FWIW, I agree with your assessment that if they don’t take this time to resolve the dispute through discussion, blocking or a TBAN would be the next step, which I would be willing to do myself and can do via DS. Just let me know. Regards, Swarm ♠ 12:24, 23 April 2018 (UTC)