DefendingPages

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Again, welcome! Boomer Vial^{Holla! We gonna ball!} 08:30, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

July 2018

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Guy (Help!) 16:27, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

DefendingPages (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:

Dear colleagues, I have spent a lot of time patrolling recent edits and tried my best to revert all edits that seemed to be disruptive. I restored entire pages and paragraphes after blanking, reverted suspicious or harmful edits whenever I found them. If I was wrong in some cases, I'm terribly sorry for that, but my only intention was to defend pages from countless vandals and all kinds of disruptive behavior. I have no idea why my account should be blocked, even if I made some mistakes (it looks like I restored some useless stuff, believing that it was unreasonably removed by one of many suspicious IPs. My bad, I should have paid more attention to the details), as I only wanted to help protect this project from vandalism. I may not be a contributor, as I don't write articles, but I believe that my work here was helpful for the community. DefendingPages (talk) 21:35, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Having looked at your editing history I am at a loss to see the reason for the block: what you have said about your editing seems to be right, so I am unblocking your account. However, I shall consult the blocking administrator, and if he knows of some problem that I can't see then the situation may have to be reviewed. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:02, 16 July 2018 (UTC)