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• Sorry, I can't let you insult other editors. Drmies (talk) 03:02, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

• Fair enough. I only wish people would be equally willing to block the editors who have spent so long attacking me and destroying my work for no good reason. I think reverting for no good reason with false accusations is far, far more damaging to the encyclopaedia that calling someone an "idiot" ever could be, but perhaps we disagree on that. Good night. 190.163.4.132 (talk) 03:10, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

You are editing in violation of a block (actually several). You are making personal attacks in violation of WP:NPA. "Anyone is free to revert any edits made in violation of a block, without giving any further reason and without regard to the three-revert rule." Boo hoo. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:36, 25 October 2014 (UTC) (a.k.a. the "fucking retarded little cunt")

And so you turn up to taunt me. You disruptively reverted masses of my edits, restoring false information to prominent articles, while making dishonest accusations at the same time. And apparently you feel proud enough of that to turn up here and taunt me. You are a true asset to Misplaced Pages. 190.163.4.132 (talk) 03:50, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

And once again you are working tirelessly to restore copyright violations, factual errors and basic mistakes to articles. Well done, you. Well done. *claps wildly*. The reputation Misplaced Pages has for reliability and integrity is thanks to people like you.

By the way, falsely accusing someone of being banned, just so that you can thrill yourself by undoing their edits, is a grievous personal attack. I wait expectantly for someone to tell you that you shouldn't have done that, and for an apology from you. 190.163.4.132 (talk) 03:55, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

So go on, why not restore the incorrect use of first names to those tennis articles? Your mission is to provoke me as much as possible, right? Without regard to the quality of the encyclopaedia? So why are you holding back? 190.163.4.132 (talk) 03:58, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Editing archives

I saw this edit and wondered if you really meant to edit archives which is a waste of time and whether you meant to say "I have used more than one account, never used even one account" because, just to me, this appears a little self-contradictory given your recent rampage through Misplaced Pages under the current IP correcting "obvious" errors. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:30, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

I explained why I was editing an archive in the edit summary. Did you read that? I did unfortunately miss out a "never", however. I am not sure how not using an account would be contradictory with the statement that I have never used an account, and I am not sure why you would use the pejorative term "rampage" and put the word obvious in scare quotes to describe my edits. 190.163.4.132 (talk) 21:35, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Carry on! The Rambling Man (talk) 21:39, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

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Block evasion WP:Long-term_abuse/Best_known_for_IP

OhNoitsJamie 18:05, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

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

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The usual claim of disruptive editing - not true, never has been. As usual, false accusations are not just tolerated but encouraged.190.163.4.132 (talk) 18:12, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

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As has been made clear before in previous blocks, you are blocked for block evasion. I've customized the standard block notification template to be more specific to your case. I hope that is satisfactory. OhNoitsJamie 18:17, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

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Indeed, the least one could hope for is basic honesty in the message to people you're going to block. As for this block: "you must convince the reviewing administrator(s) that the block is not necessary to prevent damage or disruption to Misplaced Pages". They could just have a look at my edits and see that none of them damaged or disrupted Misplaced Pages. 190.163.4.132 (talk) 6:35 pm, Yesterday (UTC+0)

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Perhaps in the meantime, someone would like to convey to this user that I accept their apology, and instruct them in the basic practice of not reverting for no reason. 190.163.4.132 (talk) Perhaps someone would like to tell that user that posting some kind of "apology" on their talk page in which they dishonestly made it look as if I had signed their comment, and then immediately afterwards reverting two more edits for no reason is extremely offensive and damaging. 190.163.4.132 (talk) 04:31, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Unstoppable trolling

And so the trolling continues, as always. The repetitive refusals to unblock which expect me to prove a negative must be jolly good fun for the admins concerned. An admin protecting the noticeboard page and applying a range block specifically to prevent me from continuing the discussion, just as it was beginning to appear productive - that was very good work. The continuing effort of User:SummerPhD to restore nonsense to the encyclopaedia is amusing to watch, as is their descent into ever more infantile language to try to justify what they are doing. And their continuing lies about vandalism, showing that they don't understand what it is, or that they are simply trying to provoke me even more, or most likely both. And their behaviour encourages more trolls to join in the hilarity, of course. Now we have a brand new editor moronically reverting my work, and altering their talk page to falsely imply that I said something. And we have User:Epicgenius who must have enjoyed restoring a copyright violation very much. And not just any copyright violation but a spectacularly badly written and unencyclopaedic one as well. Plainly, his intention is not to improve the encyclopaedia. Leaving this truly bizarre and confused edit summary surely tickled him greatly as well. And his belief that the MOS can be ignored under the brave assumption that English speakers will find Dutch, French and Spanish articles useful... what can one say. If someone created the articles for which a Spanish one exists, I'd translate them, but obviously people with particular mentalities would then undo that work repeatedly over many months.

And then there's Wee Curry Monster, ranting about persecution complexes. A persecution complex is a belief in persecution where none exists. Wee Curry Monster did not understand the grammar of a sentence, so rather than ask about it or try to improve it, he simply reverted it, and then stalked my edits to all the unrelated articles I'd been working on and reverted them all, with no explanation other than edit summaries like "rv IP edits". And then he has the cheek to dishonestly claim to "have gone to extra lengths to explain myself to him", while denigrating my contributions, and claiming that I have a persecution complex. Is he deliberately trolling or is it just that he's so inept he doesn't even realise what he's doing?

So, well, there we were, trying to resolve things fairly, and someone decided they knew better than everyone else what was required in the situation, and blocked me and protected the page. No-one questioned them about that so I take it that people prefer to carry on as before. If people really want to spend nearly four months fighting to support the destructive trolling of User:AlanS and his ilk, then so be it, let's carry on doing things like that. If it gives you so much satisfaction to waste your time undoing my work in a deliberate effort to harm the encyclopaedia, then you'd better just carry on, hadn't you.

Thanks to the two administrators who seemed to understand that years of constant baiting and attacks don't bring out the best in people. Sorry that you were outnumbered by the people who enjoy the baiting. 190.163.4.132 (talk) 01:20, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Four months of destructive trolling? Any halfwit with half a brain who bothered to look at my edit history for the last three months would quickly summarise that I would have to of had been on here a lot more to do done any sort of trolling at all. AlanS 11:43, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

@AlanS: Just ignore the user. They will keep lying, making personal attacks, trolling, and edit warring, and any attempt to remove their comments will not be fruitful. – Epicgenius (talk) 12:26, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

• Erm. I apologise - I had no idea AN/I had been protected. I knew a number of the IPs you'd been using had been blocked, because I checked their contribs to try to find out why you had stopped responding there; but I reckoned you'd use a different one when you were ready to respond (you're a volunteer like the rest of us, and you'd mentioned you were called away and missed the archiving of the earlier AN thread). But why in all the worlds didn't you ping me - or Drmies - or whoever protected it? Don't you know about pinging? We can't ping you (one of the disadvantages of your not having registered a username) but so far as I know you can ping any registered editor: if you type either Yngvadottir or User:Yngvadottir within a new signed comment, I get an annoying red number at the top of my screen linked to one of those vertiginous scrolls that all the kewl kid programmers lurve, and from it I can see who invoked my nick where. I feel a bit stupid typing this here since your talk page access has been revoked, so I'm going to be bold and re-enable it. I hope you'll see this. Please, if you do, don't respond with more personal attacks, or Ymblanter may demand I be desysopped. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:33, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the message, and nothing at all to apologise for of course. I knew about pinging but just assumed it only worked for registered users actually. You'll have seen that my post was removed from my own talk page no less than 31 times over the course of a little over an hour by User:Epicgenius, who accompanied this harassment with yet more false accusations of vandalism. They've put in their own stint of pointlessly reverting my work, as have so many others now, no doubt encouraged by the indifference of the community to false claims of vandalism, and the existence of the attack page about me. Now I see that User:SummerPhD is at it yet again, digging up edits I made in some cases several months ago and reverting them for spurious reasons. As an example, see Lava lake, where they have restored, yet again, false information, with an edit summary that doesn't make sense and is presumably not intended to, but was left simply for the sake of appearances. See also John Challis (laughable claim of "unambiguous" for this subjective statement); restoration of spectacularly poor writing to article: "Idi Amin came into power and said, “anyone with a British Passport can get out of my country or I'm going to kill you”! A very evil man with bad intentions."; , this reversion which does not seek to "attribute a point of view" but rather represents that point of view in the voice of the encyclopaedia; this pointlessly verbose contravention of the MOS; this pointless obscuration of the meaning of a term; this misuse of "as of"; these subjective claims, this promotion of an external website. You may also have seen this user's sneering and immature tone when stating clearly that they intend to continue attacking my work. Their interest is obviously not in the improvement of the encyclopaedia; provoking me is obviously the priority for them.

And now User:Ohnoitsjamie, who led the effort to keep Wind wave in a deficient state, reverting and protecting it to keep false statements in it, has given me no less than a six month ban, ultimately for being pissed off that people destroy my work needlessly. This then means that the likes of User:SummerPhD will feel justified in gleefully continuing to destroy my work. And their ridiculous suggestion that I should start sockpuppeting in response to their ban can only be yet more trolling, and I do hope it makes him/her very happy. Perhaps they were seriously anticipating that I'd take them seriously and were looking forward to banning me if I did.

Like I've said all along, we would never have had any problems at all if people didn't revert for no reason, didn't lie about me, and didn't ever make false accusations of vandalism. But every time I say it, someone new pops out of the woodwork to do all three, User:Epicgenius just being the latest in a long, long line. Until the community decides that such behaviour cannot be tolerated, then you'll be driving away legions of productive editors and you'll find that the only ones who want to stick around for any length of time are the most abrasive and pugnacious. Let me assure you I have no intention of leaving basic errors uncorrected when I find them, and if User:SummerPhD and their ilk are going to spend their time undoing all my work, they had better be prepared to be wasting their time on that for years to come yet. 190.163.4.132 (talk) 23:47, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

190.163.4.132, your reverts didn't count under WP:3RRNO (see #5, "Reverting actions performed by banned users, and sockpuppets of banned or blocked users" does not count, and you are a sockpuppet of a user who is considered to be indefinitely blocked from editing the encyclopedia, see your LTA page for more details). And you continue to be wrong and make bad accusations as such. For example, all of us who have reverted you are part of the "legions of productive editors" because your edits were disruptive. If you stopped edit warring and insulting people, your edits will be better believed.

Yngvadottir, this sounds like a personal attack ("Epicgenius accompanied this harassment with yet more false accusations of vandalism"). Uh-oh... – Epicgenius (talk) 01:52, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Postscript

My rule of wikipedia is that complaining about false accusations of vandalism will generate at least three further false accusations. And now it appears that a complaint about trolling will result in yet more trolling. Fun for everyone, I guess. 190.163.4.132 (talk) 01:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

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