Curtis1230

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Notification of Arbitration Committee Discretionary Sanctions for biographies of living people

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You have shown interest in living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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--Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:11, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

August 2020

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia.

Please review WP:COI, and work from edit requests for articles where you have a conflict of interest. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 01:05, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Your editing is being discussed at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Please respond. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 15:47, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Curtis and @Hipal: I recommend you talk it out here or on the article talk page. Let’s not clutter up AIV when it’s not a discussion page. I’m sure there’s more than a reasonable explanation going both ways. Red Phoenix ^talk 17:55, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Curtis1230 has had two years to respond, and the sole response is this. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:23, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

@Red Phoenix: How about a block now? [1]. Looks like there's some meatpuppetry going on as well: Ralph0411 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), Hyde1979 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), T.D. Hoxey (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), 2602:306:37da:e40:4c97:d876:b347:7fe6 (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), 2602:306:37DA:E40:CD7F:F07:C97:A92D (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), , 73.110.34.55 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), 73.110.37.207 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 22:09, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

@Ad Orientem:, you blocked two of the above through 73.110.0.0/18 . I've found Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MakaveliReed. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 23:16, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

@Hipal: That might be a good idea, just to establish a pattern and history. Thanks... -Ad Orientem (talk) 23:33, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Courtesy notice - SPI

Your editing is being discussed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MakaveliReed. Please consider joining the discussion. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 00:04, 6 August 2020 (UTC)