Nguyenhai314

Contact me at vi:user talk:Nguyenhai314. ３ ▪ １４ 12:39, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Blocked as a sockpuppet

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts as a sockpuppet of User:Nguyễn Trần Minh Long per the evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nguyễn Trần Minh Long. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

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 ~~~~}}.  -- RoySmith (talk) 21:09, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

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

Nguyenhai314 (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:

@RoySmith: The file I uploaded to Commons is a part of Mig Gilbert's album (see here). I uploaded thousands of Gilbert photos (by flickr2commons) and there's someone use one of those pictures doesn't mean I'm related to him. I don't know who is this guy (Nguyễn Trần Minh Long) and I'm not related to him. Please check again. Thank you. ３ ▪ １４ 06:42, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Accept reason:

With the consent of the blocking admin, I have lifted the block. Nguyenhai314, you have our sincere apologies here. Like the blocking admin, I have checkuser access and the technical data did initially look like all the accounts were controlled by the same person. Based on your statements, both the blocking admin and I took a deeper look and, on deeper investigation, it looks like it's only the other three accounts that are related. Obviously, this will not be held against you because you are blameless. We sincerely thank you for your tens of thousands of edits across the various wikis. Yamla (talk) 13:50, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

What on earth is going on? I'm a trusted user on Vietnamese Wikipedia with more than 50.000 edits global. I also made many many good edits on other wikis, but one day, an English Wikipedia admin blocked me forever for being a sock of a guy that I don't know who he is, and leave me no reason. At least you have to show me if my IP address and this guy address is the same, or give me an evidence that we are sharing an account. But nothing. You just block and block and block, just because one of a thousand pictures that I uploaded to Commons was being used by a sock. That's really stupid! What would happen if one day some of your pictures on Commons were being used by a guy you don't know, and then you got blocked for socking? How would you feel in that time? I'm a good editor and I come here to contribute, to make Wikipedia better. You can check my contributions on this project. It's all good. You don't have enough evidence. You can't accuse me of being a sock just because I uploaded a photo (by flickr2commons) to Commons. This guy user name is written in Vietnamese so he may be in Vietnam now. But he could be in Hanoi, HCMC, Da Nang, Hue, and it could be not my place. Two editors from a country does not mean they are sock. I don't care who is this guy and what he had done, I just care about myself. I'm innocent. I do nothing wrong. I just want to contribute here and other wikis, so I request this case to be re-checked, by another CU, because I don't trust this admin anymore. He blocked me for no reason, without evidence. ３ ▪ １４ 09:21, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Hold please, looking into this. --Yamla (talk) 11:42, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

@Yamla: I took another look at the CU data, and agree that I probably made a mistake interpreting it. I have no objection to an unblock. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:36, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Just to clarify the problem, there were two different issues here. One was a purely technical problem with me mis-reading long strings of digits. The other was cultural. I looked at "Nguyễn Trần Minh Long" and "Nguyenhai314" and spotted the username similarity. After that, the digit-string issue was an example of confirmation bias. But, looking at our own Nguyen article, I see it says "Nguyễn is the most common Vietnamese surname / family name". I suffer from the same problem; "Smith" is the most common surname here in the US, so I really should be more sensitive to that. My apologies. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:57, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

@Yamla: I'm an active user who working on sockpuppet accounts on both vi.viki and Commons but this is the first time I met a reckless CU like this. If there was a vote of no confidence on this wiki, I would think about leaving a comment. For a very short moment, I thought about WP:ARB. Hope this mistake won't happen again. I wasted too much of my precious time for this. ３ ▪ １４ 14:36, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

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