MatildaQ22

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December 2019

Wikipedia's technical logs indicate that this user account has been or may be used abusively. It has been blocked indefinitely from editing to prevent abuse.

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If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you should review the guide to appealing blocks, and then appeal your block by adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|Your reason here ~~~~}}. Note that anything you post in your unblock request will be public, so you may alternatively use the Unblock Ticket Request System to submit an appeal if it contains information that must be private.

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 — Berean Hunter (talk) 15:09, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

This account is  Confirmed to מאגמה and  Likely to יניב הורון. Pertinent policy is the sockpuppetry policy. Any correspondence should occur here as I won't reply in email.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 18:03, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Unblock please.

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

MatildaQ22 (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:

This block was put on because someone assumes I am using two or more accounts. This is incorrect. I am a new Wikipedia editor. The only person I have met whom I know edits in Wikipedia is a stranger. I was on a train in Israel with a friend. I was researching quilting and my friend was reading. I am retired now, but I worked as a technical writer for many years documenting both electro-mechanical equipment and software, and I have also written many articles and edited documents from Ph.D. dissertations to textbooks. I teach sewing now part-time. Researching on my phone on the train, I found some inaccuracies and some missing information in a Wikipedia article about quilting and I said something to my friend. The man sitting across from us said I could be a Wikipedia editor and offered to show me how. He used his laptop and showed me how, and helped me open an account. When I got home I spent some time reading about editing on Wikipedia and when I had time, I went and made the changes to the quilting articles. Then I made some grammatical changes to an article about garbage-burning steam turbines, a technology which I documented in the 1980's and which I have followed since then. A couple of weeks later I was talking to a friend who was an emergency room nurse at the Afula hospital and told me about the bus bombing there in 1994, so I looked it up. I decided that the Wikipedia article did not begin to relate the carnage that she described, so I found some articles in major US newspapers online and beefed up the article using information that I found there. That is all I have done. I do not know any Wikipedia editors. When reading about reasons new editors are blocked, I saw that when a new editor seems to have little trouble technically, this is a sign that they are really not new, but are sockpuppets. As I said, I was a technical writer for years. I have studied electronic technology and have taken an HTML course among other education, both necessary for the career that I had for most of my worklife. Thank you for reconsidering the block. I hope you remove it. MatildaQ22MatildaQ22 (talk) 18:57, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Accept explanation on good faith and the condition that you will not edit Israeli/Palestine conflict or Zionist/Anti-Zionist material per below.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 15:56, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Are you willing to stay away from Israeli/Palestine conflict and Zionist/Anti-Zionist material? In addition to the technical evidence, the bus bombing edit is what likened you to the sockmaster who is taking up militant causes. If you edit about sewing/quilting and benign article subjects then you shouldn't have a problem but veer into the militant subjects and that would arouse suspicion again.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 19:25, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Do you mean that I cannot write about modern Jewish history? It is my history and the history of my people. I have no interest in writing about conflict, but about what happened in this country. My grandmother was a student of the founder of the Hadassah organization and active in it all her life, and my life was shaped by modern Jewish history. I have no interest in writing about who is right or wrong, just what happened to the Jews. Is this prohibited?

Yes, it would be prohibited as a condition of an unblock. Otherwise I may continue to presume that you are a sockpuppet. Tons of other topics exist that you could write about.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 04:14, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Most of the sewing articles I have found are written pretty well and completely, but I love the history of my country and people, and you seem to be saying that since some guy on the train writes inflammatory stuff I cannot write at all about that general subject. Okay, this seems to be something that will not become my new hobby. But I am disappointed in Wikipedia, it appears to have a political bias that I did not expect. Thanks for your explanations.

You're welcome. Someone will decline your request shortly.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 04:42, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

I didn't mean to suggest I didn't accept your terms for being unblocked, just that it will not be as much fun if I have to be very careful what I edit.

Do you accept the terms?
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 05:55, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Yes I accept your terms. MatildaQ22 (talk) 14:11, 8 December 2019 (UTC)