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Hello, Malpaso and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking   if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! JOJ Hutton 17:04, 27 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Malpaso, I'm sending you this message because you're one of about 300 users who have recently edited an article in the umbrella category of open educational resources (OER) (or open education). In evaluating several projects we've been working on (e.g. the WIKISOO course and WikiProject Open), my colleague Pete Forsyth and I have wondered who chooses to edit OER-related articles and why. Regardless of whether you've taken the WIKISOO course yourself - and/or never even heard the term OER before - we'd be extremely grateful for your participation in this brief, anonymous survey before 27 April. No personal data is being collected. If you have any ideas or questions, please get in touch. My talk page awaits. Thanks for your support! - Sara FB (talk) 20:44, 23 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

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  Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 18:38, 5 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

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  Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 00:31, 6 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

August 2014

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You have been blocked from editing for a period of 60 hours for violating WP:3RR and committing WP:BLP violations at Henry Kissinger. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  Bbb23 (talk) 00:59, 6 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

{{unblock|I don't understand why I am blocked from making changes to the Kissinger page. Every time I made changes to the page TheTimesAreAChanging reverted to his version without justification. Why is he not being blocked. In the Talk section I started to justify my changes but TTAAC kept reverting my edits with no justification. If you look at my edits they are all sourced. Some of the sources are: Robert Dallek, one of the foremost American historians; Kenneth Maxwell, Professor at Harvard at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies"; Gary J. Bass, Professor of International Relations at Princeton University; and papers from the National Security Archives; Please explain to me how TheTimesAreAChanging gets to revert to his version no matter what.}}

First, you reverted at least five times. Second, TTAAC reverted twice. Third, you were not edit-warring only against TTAAC but also against an IP. Fourth, your dialog on the talk page was unconstructive. Finally, whatever you think of your sources, your editing violated WP:BLP in a number of ways.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:44, 6 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

{{unblock|"you were not edit-warring only against TTAAC but also against an IP." What does that mean? Isn't it possible that the same user, namely TTAAC, comes in as a different user. It's obvious from the comments that it is the same user. "whatever you think of your sources, your editing violated WP:BLP in a number of ways." Please explain what that means? What was the exact nature of my violation? You can't expect people to conform to your policies if you don't explain clearly the nature of the infraction.}}

I resent the false accusation of sockpuppetry and warn you that making such accusations against other editors will not help your case.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 02:03, 6 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

{{unblock|It's pretty clear that TTAAC reverted more than three times coming off a different IP. His footprints are all over this. I am beginning to understand how this works. He is a master at this. Hats off to Kissinger for planting a guy to keep his web page clean. Hats off to you also TTAAC.}}

Why don't you file a SPI?TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 03:41, 6 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
As if I have the time. You and I know it's you. Hats off to you. You win :)
Talking about other editors will not help you get unblocked. Nor will opening multiple unblock requests. Only one unblock request is needed. 129.78.68.1 (talk) 03:54, 6 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

{{unblock|I retract my request to be unblocked. I will wait until I am unblocked. Thank you.}}

Who are these "other" editors? Why don't they have names and legitimate userids?

There's only one explanation: They're all me!TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 11:53, 6 August 2014 (UTC)Reply