Leavepuckgackle1998

Discussions flow from top to bottom; please place this at the bottom of the page. Pings do not work unless you sign your posts with four tildes(~~~~). 331dot (talk) 08:54, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Welcome Leavepuckgackle1998!

Now that you've joined Wikipedia, there are 47,376,064 registered editors!

Hello Leavepuckgackle1998. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions!

I'm Walter Görlitz, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge.

Some pages of helpful information to get you started:   Introduction to Wikipedia   The five pillars of Wikipedia   Editing tutorial   How to edit a page   Simplified Manual of Style   The basics of Wikicode   How to develop an article   How to create an article   Help pages   What Wikipedia is not

Some common sense Dos and Don'ts:   Do be bold   Do assume good faith   Do be civil   Do keep cool!   Do maintain a neutral point of view   Don't spam   Don't infringe copyright   Don't edit where you have a conflict of interest   Don't commit vandalism   Don't get blocked

If you need further help, you can:   Ask a question

or you can:   Get help at the Teahouse

or even:   Ask an experienced editor to "adopt" you

Alternatively, leave me a message at my talk page or type {{helpme}} here on your talk page and someone will try to help.

There are many ways you can contribute to Wikipedia. Here are a few ideas:   Fight vandalism   Be a WikiFairy or a WikiGnome   Help contribute to articles   Perform maintenance tasks

Become a member of a project that interests you   Help design new templates   Subscribe and contribute to The Signpost

To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can create your own personal sandbox for use any time. It's perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you can put {{My sandbox}} on your user page. By the way, seeing as you haven't created a user page yet, simply click here to start it.

Please remember to:

• Always sign your posts on talk pages. You can do this either by clicking on the button on the edit toolbar or by typing four tildes ~~~~ at the end of your post. This will automatically insert your signature, a link to your talk page, and a timestamp.
• Leave descriptive edit summaries for your edits. Doing so helps other editors understand what changes you have made and why you made them.
  

The best way to learn about something is to experience it. Explore, learn, contribute, and don't forget to have some fun!

Sincerely, Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:03, 22 October 2018 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)

• Español
• Deutsch
• Français
• Italiano
• עברית
• Русский
• 日本語
• Polski
• فارسی

Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:03, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

An extended welcome

Hi Leavepuckgackle1998. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 16:02, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Problems with images?

Hi Leavepuckgackle1998. Thanks for the message. I'm not sure I can help. I don't understand the processes around accepting an image for use in Wikipedia, and have only found frustration when I've tried to work with images myself. You'll need to find someone who understands the policies specific to images. You should also add enough information about the situation so that others understand it. I'm not finding any discussions, warnings, etc. You might want to start at the Help desk or at the Teahouse. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. --Ronz (talk) 04:51, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

What's the problem? I might be able to assist. Schwede66 08:46, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

New Zealand flag debate

Leavepuckgackle1998, I think there has been a misunderstanding. I did not remove your content. I moved it. I had some reservations about the writing (I don't have time to go into those details right now) but I appreciated the additional points and citations. As I mentioned in the edit summary, this content was more suited to the referendums article. Thus, I personally took the liberty of rewriting the content to address these concerns and moving it to that article at the same time. You may notice that the criticism section of the referendum page is now very expanded, includes the citations you added, and contains points familiar to you (e.g. the "national disgrace" quote, discussion of crowdsourcing and the reference to groupthink), just heavily rewritten to fit the existing standards, structure and style. At the end of your message on my talk page, you propose retaining your contribution but making adjustments to address any specific concerns that others may have. This has already happened. Your efforts have been appreciated and not been dismissed nor gone to waste. It has simply been migrated to the page in which it belongs and is not worded in the exact form that you remember it.

Transparent 6lue (talk) 10:42, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Rutherford

I think your point is well made. I keep seeing people try to revert this but I have never seen a legitimate argument. If you are seeing the same person change this, perhaps its time to give them a warning. StevenBKrivit (talk) 23:00, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Editing the lead section

Please see WP:MOSLEAD I think it might be helpful.SovalValtos (talk) 10:35, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

An understanding of WP:MOSLEAD may help you with editing the Wellington page. Please do not edit war over anything and pay attention to what others say in their edit summaries. Please also sign your posts on talk pages with ~~~~ Best wishes.SovalValtos (talk) 11:31, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Your editing pattern on the Wellington article is getting disruptive. Stop this right now. Take your issue to the article's talk page and gain consensus. You aren't far away from getting blocked. Schwede66 20:16, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

I appreciate that you are a good-faith editor, and have tried to explain to you why your edits to Wellington were problematic. Your most recent post on my talk page indicate that you have not understood my point at all. I think you should be finding simpler tasks to do on Wikipedia, and leave lead sections of well-established articles alone.-gadfium 21:43, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Your RfA

Hi. I noticed you created Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Leavepuckgackle1998. As an FYI, since you are not yet WP:Extended confirmed you can't actually transclude this to the main WP:RFA page, and at this point (as a user with only 406 edits) it is very unlikely to succeed. If you decide to withdraw it at this point, you can still tag it for speedy deletion per WP:CSD#G7. Let me know if you have any questions. --DannyS712 (talk) 13:02, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Culture of Wellington moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Culture of Wellington, I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 04:48, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Māori Australians

You have put a text warning at the top of Māori Australians asking for expert review, but you do not explain what the issues you see in the article are. Please add a section to Talk:Māori Australians explaining these issues. You should replace your warning with one of the standard templates. See Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup, and you may find an appropriate template at Category:Cleanup templates.-gadfium 09:15, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for July 28

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Theo Schoon, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Dutchman (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:32, 28 July 2019 (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).

Leavepuckgackle1998 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

---

Request reason:

I've been blocked indefinitely by User:Favonian, and I don't understand. I had a minor edit war over the Maori people page today, but that can't be why. Please help. I beg you.

Decline reason:

This account is not directly blocked. I or another administrator cannot help you unless you copy and paste the exact message that appears when you attempt to edit, along with the IP address that comes up. If you do not wish to give the IP address publicly, you should use WP:UTRS to request unblock. Please post any future messages below this one, as it is standard practice to post new messages at the bottom. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 08:13, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

---

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.

I see no block on this account. To help you, please tell the exact message that appears when you attempt to edit, including any IP address that comes up. If you do not wish to give your IP address publicly, you may use WP:UTRS to request unblock. 331dot (talk) 07:56, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

I can't help you unless you tell the exact message that comes up when you attempt to edit; please copy/paste it here. Please also make your posts at the bottom of the page as is standard practice. 331dot (talk) 08:00, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

I've been blocked indefinitely by User:Favonian, and I don't understand. He said my account was only created for vandalism. This has crushed me. I cannot comprehend what has happened. Did I do something wrong? Why can't he leave a message on the talk page explaining what I did? Was it that someone hijacked my account? Was I logged into a computer that a vandaliser was logged into too? Was my account created wit the same IP address that someone who had vanadlised wikipedia had used?

During my time on Wikipedia, I've only ever made completely just, well-cited edits. I worked hard on the New Zealand flag debate page, on the Theo Schoon page, and I have been planning to extend on the Rita Angus page. I'd just like to take the time to make it absolutely, positively clear that I have never, ever vandalised Wikipedia. It's not in my interest. I've been trusted with this resource and I would never exploit it. Therefore, I'm requesting this block be lifted and someone explain to me why it happened. Please help. I beg you. I love doing editing so much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leavepuckgackle1998 (talk • contribs)

Hey 331dot. When I attempt to edit, it comes up with the following- You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia. You are still able to view pages, but you are not currently able to edit, move, or create them.

Editing from ‪Justin's a mega hustler‬ has been blocked (disabled) by ‪Favonian‬ for the following reason(s): Vandalism-only account This block has been set to expire: no expiry set.

Even if blocked, you will usually still be able to edit your user talk page and email other editors and administrators.

Other useful links: Blocking policy · Username policy · Appealing blocks: policy and guide

If the block notice is unclear, or it does not appear to relate to your actions, please ask for assistance as described at Help:I have been blocked.

This message does not state any IP address. I didn't create this account, and I don't know who did. Can you help me?

Are you using a public network(such as a school/university/library) or WiFi? 331dot (talk) 08:19, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I’ve been working at the library at the moment. The wi-fi in my apartment is terrible.

Then it seems that someone else using the same network or computer you are currently using got it blocked. I'm afraid that you will have to use other means to be able to edit Wikipedia. I must leave my computer at this time; you could log out of your account and see what IP address appears when you are logged out(you may need to edit the Sandbox while logged out) and make a new request, giving the IP address, but the result will probably be the same. 331dot (talk) 08:32, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Wait, before you go, could you put me in contact with an administrator who can help me get a new account please? I really appreaciate you trying to help me. Who knows? Maybe I might be able to be unblocked after all.

If you make a new unblock request, another administrator will see it. 331dot (talk) 08:45, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

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

Leavepuckgackle1998 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

---

Request reason:

This account has been unfairly blocked. I, the owner, was editing on a public wi fi server when I was suddenly blocked, with the blocker User:Favonian stating the account was “not directly blocked” and that editing from an account called User:Justin’s a mega hustler was prohibited. I am stumped, and it seems my only option is create or request a new account unless someone unblocks me. I am also currently unsure if others using the wifi server I was using, having been vandalised with, meant that others that had used the server while editing wikipedia have been blocked too. And that is just terrible. So, please, if you can, unblock me. Because I would never vandalise Wikipedia.

Accept reason:

I've set your permissions to ignore blocks on IP addresses, so a block on some other user on the same network should no longer affect you.gadfium 08:57, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing, because it has been used in collaboration with other accounts for disruptive purposes. So much for your "innocent" protestations about being "unfairly" blocked before. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} to the bottom of the talk page of your original account, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:22, 31 July 2019 (UTC)