ClosingBracketBot

September 2020

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because your username, ClosingBracketBot, contains the suffix "-bot", which is generally reserved for authorized bot accounts.

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you wish for your existing contributions to carry over under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:

1. Adding {{unblock-un|your new username here}} below. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "Email this user" from their talk page.
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Appeals: If, after reading the guide to appealing blocks you believe you were blocked in error, then you may appeal this block by adding {{unblock|Your reason here}} below this notice,. 331dot (talk) 19:36, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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

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Request reason:

Sorry to cause trouble, I created this account before fully reading the bot guidelines, I am the real ClosingBracket as stated on my user page. This is an account for a bot which flags grammatical mistakes for a human, who will make the edits on their own account. I haven't yet applied for authorisation as the bot doesn't make edits yet and is not in "production" stage; it is working only on my local machine running through curated articles to check that it works correctly. (Please tell me if I am misunderstanding this)

Decline reason:

You will need to ask for approval from WP:BAG before running a bot :) CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 02:54, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

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