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Hello, RV2014, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:03, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

October 2017

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Bombyx mandarina has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

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• The following is the log entry regarding this message: Bombyx mandarina was changed by RV2014 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.961546 on 2017-10-02T22:01:56+00:00 .

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 22:01, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Bombyx mandarina. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Simplexity22 (talk) 22:02, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Bombyx mandarina, you may be blocked from editing. Simplexity22 (talk) 22:04, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

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 ~~~~}}.  Ad Orientem (talk) 22:37, 2 October 2017 (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).

RV2014 (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:

I am part of a course in my university, and I am revising and editing this page as a part of this class. I have content that I would like to add, but my changes kept getting reverted even when I tried to add information.

Decline reason:

If your course requires you to completely erase a high quality Wikipedia article and replace it with your own inferior new version, then you're going to have to tell your teacher that you are not going to be allowed to do that. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:05, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Pinging User:Guettarda/User:Ian (Wiki Ed) for comment; based on the user's edits this appears to be an entirely valid and necessary block. Yunshui ^雲_水 07:59, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

@Yunshui and Boing! said Zebedee:. Yes, it's a perfectly valid block. I have communicated with RV2014 by email, and hopefully they understand what was problematic about their edits. They though the wiki pages was copied from EOL, and thought they were removing a plagiarised version. Edit warring and lack of accountability to the community is the real issue here, which hopefully they get.

Provided that they can convince you that they understand their mistakes, and you're willing to unblock (I'm not saying you should or shouldn't; obviously that's your call) I believe that they should draft their changes to the article in their sandbox, and only move it into mainspace after I've looked at it. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:56, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Also note that the fact that this is part of a graded assignment should not be part of your decision - I'm sure their instructor can find an alternative assignment in the event that they are not unblocked. I only brought up the other details to say that there's plenty of support for them, and I'm willing to work closely with them going forward. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:01, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Ian. Based on your comments, I would encourage RV2014 to add a new unblock appeal, below, setting out what they understand about the problems with their editing so far and how they intend to proceed. If the stipulation that you review their work in sandbox or draft before it goes live is held to, I'd be disposed towards lifting the block. Yunshui ^雲_水 15:10, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

That sounds good to me too - I have no objections to unblocking on those conditions. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:53, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

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

RV2014 (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:

I really apologize for this. As was mentioned above by Ian, I had accidentally thought that this Wikipedia page was copied from EOL.org, and I thought that I was removing plagiarism. I do understand the reasons for the block and what was problematic about my editing history thus far, and I apologize for not communicating on the edit summary page or on talk page about my intentions. I do understand that Wikipedia is a important community of writers and editors and the scientific community is very important to me, and I do really want to make a positive contribution to Wikipedia. In the future, I will be sure to explain and engage with other editors about what I’m doing. In addition, before posting in the page, I will also be sure to draft my work first in the sandbox, and then I will ask Ian to look at my work before it is posted onto Wikipedia. I really apologize again. RV2014 (talk) 17:47, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I'm unblocking you on the understanding that you will not repeat the same problematic behavior. Vanjagenije (talk) 21:07, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Feedback

See User_talk:RV2014/sandbox#Feedback. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:17, 6 October 2017 (UTC)