Willibs

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May 2016

Your addition to Statecraft has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Content was copied from http://social-ecology.org/wp/1999/01/the-politics-of-social-ecology-libertarian-municipalism/ or some such source Drmies (talk) 14:00, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Willibs, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia. Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who use multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. You are obviously also User:WilliVerse. This is something you need to explain. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 14:06, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

• I have reverted your edits to Statecraft again, and will block your account until you come up with a satisfactory answer for the socking question. Drmies (talk) 14:52, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but using them for illegitimate reasons is not, and that any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Drmies (talk) 14:53, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi Drmies how do I reply to you?

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

Willibs (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, I use a laptop and a smartphone separately and somehow have created two separate accounts on each one - must be because I couldn't remember the password, anyway I randomly switch between the two devices on an adhoc basis depending on whichever is accessible to whatever I'm doing at that point in time. Should I try and deactivate one of the accounts and try log in to the same one on both devices? What does socking mean? What is wrong with creating a page for the definition of statecraft? At the moment there is no page solely dedicated to describing the word "statecraft". At the moment there is only a page that links you to random pages that don't describe statecraft, but use the word statecraft to talk about the topics that they are interested in talking about. Keen to hear any feedback from you so that I know what is the appropriate course of action to take.

Accept reason:

I am unblocking, with the agreement of the blocking administrator. It is best to use only one account unless you have specific reasons for using more than one, and if you do have reason to do so then you should clearly state on the user page of each account what other accounts you have, and preferably also briefly explain why you use more than one. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:11, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

• At User talk:WilliVerse you seem to be saying you want to abandon this account (Willibs) and retain that one (WilliVerse). Can you clarify that is what you want? Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:47, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

• To be perfectly clear about this, there is nothing to say you can't have more than one account, only that you mustn't use them in abusive ways. Common examples of abuse of two or more accounts are using different accounts to contribute to the same discussion, so as to give the misleading impression of independent support for an opinion from another person, and repeating the same edits to an article to try to get round the policy on edit-warring. I have checked the editing history of both your accounts, and I see no sign of abuse of multiple accounts. From what Drmies wrote above, it seems that he blocked you because you didn't answer his question about use of two accounts. If that is the right understanding, then since you have now answered, it should now be OK to unblock you. However, I will check with Drmies to see whether there are other considerations that I have missed. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:21, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

• You asked what "socking" means. It's a sort of abbreviation for "using sockpuppets", which means using alternative accounts for dishonest purposes. You can read the policy regarding sockpuppets at Wikipedia:Sock puppetry if you are interested. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:32, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Okay, well I have logged out of Willibs now, probably forever, and only logged into williverse. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliVerse (talk • contribs) 11:07, 19 May 2016 (UTC)