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

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wikiHow helped me notice my recently disruptive behavior: wasting time of other privileged editors cleaning up a mess. I notice exactly what I should do: revert vandalism, fix spelling, request page protection only if there is vandalism, tag pages with copyvio, and make edits to articles I feel like I know a lot about (such as technology and Wikipedia). And I want to say one more thing: I am kind, civil, only intending to improve Wikipedia. In other words: no more editing in the Wikipedia namespace unless if it is necessary (i.e. a policy prevents improvement of an article). I am not a vandal, I am here to build an encyclopedia, and I completely believe that projects such as Wikipedia, Wikimedia projects, and wikiHow will continue to succeed.

My second mistake: crossing policies from wikiHow and Wikipedia. That has gotten me blocked there, Anna let me know that it is a waste of my time, and that it is a waste of other wikiHow contributors' time. So I will respect that one project is one project is one project and another project is another project.

Finally, I think it is best that you revoke talk page access and shorten my block to six months from there. I am turning 16 tomorrow, I am getting less glued to policies, more specifically policies about pages in user space, user talk space, and much more. And yes Iridescent, Wikipedia is not my personal sandbox, it is an encyclopedia that is trying to gather all of the knowledge of all the persons into one relatively small array of servers (for a project with over 6833642 articles, no server size can satisfy Wikipedia's needs). I requested a block for six months about five months ago because I thought after six months I would become less disruptive. Now I am thinking six months from now, I will have my bad behavior in the distant past, and will start over and stop editing Wikipedia for a while. So all I am just asking is shorten my block to six months, and you will see that the disruption will stop. I no longer even click the "edit" button unless if I see something that I am interested in viewing the source of. I am very honest, have never evaded blocks, never committed sock puppetry, and now I am asking a shortening of my block to six months. I am competent in editing tech related articles, just not competent in other articles, or in certain tasks that I rush, such as new page patrolling. So let's just have my block shortened to six months, and my talk page access revoked, so that I can continue editing Wikipedia normally. I may have not been here to improve Wikipedia about six months ago, but I am now.

Thanks,

Ups and Downs (↕) 18:40, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Sup, U&D? I suppose we're ~in WP:SO territory now, so @Primefac and Iridescent: as the original movers and shakers. >SerialNumber54129^{...speculates} 18:50, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• I'd have no issue with unblocking iff it's on the understanding that:
  1. You make no edits to Wikipedia policies and guidelines (if a policy prevents improvement of an article you can discuss your proposed changes somewhere else);
  2. No disruption of Wikipedia processes such as your drive-by nominations at WP:RFPP, and we decide what's disruptive not you;
  3. No experimentation on any page other than sandboxes;
  4. No creation of redirects; if you genuinely feel a redirect is necessary, you can suggest to somebody else that they create it;
  5. No screwing around with html to make your userpage or talkpage intentionally difficult to read;
  6. If anyone complains about anything you do, regardless of whether you feel the complaint is merited, you immediately stop whatever it is that caused the complaint.

If you're willing to abide by the above, I don't see an issue with giving you a second chance; if you're not, then I do. If you don't like these conditions, propose some others and I'll copy the request to ANI so others can discuss them. ‑ Iridescent 19:13, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is best to bring it to the administrator noticeboard before imposing these sanctions on me upon unblocking. Like I said, 6 months no talk page access should do. After a discussion at ANI, any uninvolved admin may alter my block. But first, discuss. And I would say regarding No creation of redirects, let's make it so that there are no creation of redirects that redirect to the project namespace. Anna on wikiHow also discussed that I should not create redirects such as Template:Db because wikiHow is different that Wikipedia and has different rules than Wikipedia. Ups and Downs (↕) 20:15, 11 February 2018 (UTC) Note to uninvolved admins: If you shorten or remove my block, then mark the unblock request as successful, otherwise, mark the unblock request as unsuccessful.[reply]

Oh, and for sure, no Twinkle! Twinkle is also a big reason for this disruption. Ups and Downs (↕) 20:22, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Just to say, I'm not sure what the no talk-page access is meant to achieve, really; yes, I know it's because you (Redacted) about on it, and want to tesponsd positively (more power to that), but it wasn't the most egregious of your "offences" such as to require such a drastic remedy and in any case, it's unthinkable, surely, that in a collaborative environment—where communication is not just necessary but paramount—that you are unable to respond to other editors-! Meh, I think Iridescent's suggestions are sound in this matter. The point is, that after a ~?few months of successful, productive editing under those constraints will make it (probably) a dead cert when you come to ask for them to be lifted. See what I mean? >SerialNumber54129^{...speculates} 20:25, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]