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February 2019

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This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, GamerBenShapiro, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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 — Berean Hunter (talk) 14:58, 28 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Email received but you will have to follow through here with an unblock request and choose a name that has nothing to do with Ben Shapiro or anyone else famous. Please follow the instructions in the original message above. Sorry.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 16:40, 28 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

New Name

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My former username was "GamerBenShapiro". However, that was banned due to the fact the name is to close to the real Ben Shapiro.

 
This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

GamerPeterGriffin (block logactive blocksglobal blocksautoblockscontribsdeleted contribsfilter logcreation logchange block settingsunblockcheckuser (log))


Requested username:

Accept reason:

I've changed the account name and unblocked. PhilKnight (talk) 22:18, 5 March 2019 (UTC)Reply