Balkywrest

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Block

My apologies for the block, I was wrong and realized that immediately.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:30, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

It's ok! Nobody's perfect. Balkywrest (talk) 12:32, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for helping us out on Backwater Blues.—Mythdon (talk • contribs) 11:05, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

November 2018

Hello Balkywrest. Your account has been granted the "rollbacker" and "pending changes reviewer" user rights. These user rights allow you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes and quickly revert the edits of other users.

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• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
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Thank you! Balkywrest (talk) 16:33, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

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Reminder: Rollback is only for clear cases of vandalism

Hi there. I noted you used rollback with this edit and wanted to remind you that rollback is only to be used for clear cases of vandalism. This was not one of those cases but a good faith attempt to change the date format to the one used on Germany, which is where the subject is from. Such reverts, if necessary, should always be accompanied with an explanation in the edit summary and consistent misuse of rollback to undo good faith edits will result in the right being revoked. You can use Twinkle to pseudo-rollback such edits with an explanation. Regards SoWhy 08:16, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

@SoWhy: Sorry about that! I was mass reverting edits made by Kipperfield socks. Balkywrest (talk) 12:03, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

No worries, just be careful with that button, it can easily be misused. Regards SoWhy 13:00, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

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G11

Hi, a number of your WP:CSDcsd nominations for G11 have been inappropriate as they are not spam enough for G11 in draftspace. Please read WP:CSD, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 13:47, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

@Atlantic306: I don't see anything WP:CSD#G11 that says the spam threshold should be higher for drafts than in mainspace. Balkywrest (talk) 02:09, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Help

I wanted to create an article for a certain artist or rapper but am having troubles making it an actual article, it ends up being a talk page or a personal page or something... what am i doing and what aren't i doing ?? Plz help ! Sagher Genesis (talk) 11:20, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

I have moved it to draft space. Balkywrest (talk) 11:23, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Steemit edit

In an edit to Steemit you removed a notability tag with an edit summary remove tag added by sock. The edit who placed that tag was David Gerard who certainly is not a sock of anyone. Can you please explain and explain how this fits with assume good faith?  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   03:53, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

I'd love to hear that too - David Gerard (talk) 06:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

@David Gerard: Sorry about that. I removed the tag because it was added by blocked puppet R2d232h2 in this diff, not realizing that you had originally tagged here. I never assumed that you were a sockpuppet. Balkywrest (talk) 23:09, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

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Blocked as a sockpuppet

I have blocked this account as a sockpuppet of User:Septrillion (who in turn also was probably a sockpuppet of another user, but that's a story for another day). I'd rather not reveal what evidence led me to believe this here per WP:BEANS but am willing to share that info via email to anyone who asks. Sro23 (talk) 04:53, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Eva Reich

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Draft:Alla Dorofeeva concern

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Your draft article, Draft:Alla Dorofeeva

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