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November 2024
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Amortias (T)(C) 19:37, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Craigevans2 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log) • SI)
Request reason:
I was provocked into an editing war by FlightTime who himself noted that my original edits on the Pink Floyd "Money" page were in good faith. He was not an admin or mod of that page, yet he felt the unncessary need to keep on threatening me with heavy handed warnings of policies against "original research". I despise people who act like they own the place even when they don't. He even threatened me on my own talk page. I believe I deserve to be unblocked. I did not engage in any edit wars in all the years i've been editing on wikipedia until today. I am an avid Pink Floyd. I just get overzealous sometimes. I will be more careful about posting unsourced edits. I will avoid edit wars from now on.Craigevans2 (talk) 19:56, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Only your actions are relevant here. Please reread WP:GAB. Yamla (talk) 20:59, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
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Craigevans2 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log) • SI)
Request reason:
I'm very sorry. I was wrong. Its my fault alright!? I got banned yet again from something in my shit life! I was provocked into an editing war. my original edits on the Pink Floyd "Money" page were in good faith. I retaliated too much. I believe I deserve to be unblocked at some point. I have been editing in good faith since 2011. I have never been banned before. I did not engage in any edit wars in all the years i've been editing on wikipedia until today. I am an avid Pink Floyd. I just get overzealous sometimes. I will be more careful about posting unsourced edits. I will avoid edit wars from now on and I will avoid retaliations. That's what I really should have done instead of becoming involved in an edit war. If I really need to I will seek a dispute resolution rather than retaliate. I am very sorry. This is all my long windied way of saying that my behaviour was wrong for the site and I will never do it again.Craigevans2 (talk) 21:15, 2 November 2024 (UTC
Decline reason:
You are blocked, not banned; there is a difference, the words are not synonyms here. Like FlightTime, I too think you can return to productive contributions- but unfortunately this request doesn't do it for me. I would like to know what specific steps you will take to avoid edit warring such as how you will resolve disputes(hint) and what you will do when you get a little overzealous(which you kinda do in this very request, at least based on the first line) so that you don't go off the rails again. Again, I think you're almost there, and I hope the next admin sees fit to unblock you, but it's not time yet. 331dot (talk) 07:54, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
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Non-Administrator comment: To the next patrolling Admin, I beleve the editor will return to postiive contribution - FlightTime (open channel) 00:20, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
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I got your email. Please use WP:UTRS as instructed. 331dot (talk) 12:44, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
UTRS appeal #96119
is closed. WP:topic ban on Pink Floyd, broadly construed, is an unblock condition. User will need to describe what to do instead of edit warring and attacking other editors. And commit to no further threats of self harm. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:04, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
Email rants
Please don't email me with your rants, if you want to say something, use my talk. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:26, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
- I received your extensive email today, however, I have nothing to do with the unblocking process. The best place to begin is Wikipedia:Blocking policy. Good luck. - FlightTime (open channel) 20:22, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
Craigevans2 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log) • SI)
Request reason:
The most difficult thing now in this whole mess is convincing you that I truly deserve to be unbanned. I will not engage in any more edit wars, and I will not troll anyone.
I strongly and honestly believe that enough water has passed under the proverbial bridge that I can be unbanned from wiki and I am no danger to the integrity of the community whatsoever anymore. Moreover, I had been a member of wiki from 2011 to 2024 without any trouble until that unfortunate bad turn, which I promise will never be repeated if I am unbanned. I know exactly what I can do now to avoid edit wars and trolling. Even if someone removes my edits I will never troll them or edit war again. I can always use a dispute resolution if need be. I know now I could retire. Before you consider rejecting my apology and unban request, I would appreciate it if you consider these alternative solutions that I will be willing to accept:-
1) I wish i knew about the "retire template" on the day i got in an edit war. if i knew at the time, i would not have got in that edit war. i would have retired gracefully. even if I am no longer welcome to edit anything, I would be willing to retire as long as its with a clean slate and all of the failed appeals, horrible stop signs, ban messages and permanent ban are removed. I would be willing to retire even if it's under a cloud.
or
2) I will be willing to accept a topic ban as long as it will not last more than another year or worse to the next Preston Guild which isn't until 2032!
3) Point me to an oversight board so I can have my appeals considered by more impartial people.
4) Consult with Flighttime who will vouch for me on the fact that I have apologized to him properly and that I deserve another chance.
Once again, I am very sorry for trolling and edit warring back in November 2024. My only wish now is that I can finally be unbanned and prove myself that I deserve to be unbanned. If I fail to achieve restoration than, I wish to retire with a clean slate and put wiki behind me on better terms. i was a member from about 2011 until october 2024. i don't want it to end with horrible stop signs and ban messages and permanent bans, and me getting upset and angry at everyone in my life... i want to retire even if it's under a cloud.
Kind regards,
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{{Unblock on hold |1=blocking administrator |2=Hello, it has been over a whole year since I made my last failed appeal to get unbanned from wiki in November 2024. That is also more than double the so-called "standard offer" waiting time of six months before posting unban appeals. As hard as I know it is, I am ready to start the appeals again. I apologized to Flighttime for everything that I have done wrong. firstly I want to say I am very sorry for the edit war on "Money". I just got annoyed by the twinkle auto mod bot. I have a very great distrust of ai mod software. Case in point, Last October I was banned from facebook by their auto admin just for posting a very popular post about the classic St George's Shopping Centre in Preston from 1964-1999. I had spent weeks recreating a detailed directory of all of the old shops which I was worried I would lose forever. Fortunately the ban went away completely after 5 days after it was realised by the staff that a wholesale series of wrongful bans had taken place that month on facebook as a result of the faulty ai algorythm. However, I have learned to accept that Flighttime trusted it and he was only using twinkle in good faith to protect his work. I am also very sorry for misjudging Flighttime, I know that he is a librarian who was only protecting the integrity of the Pink Floyd pages. I am also very sorry for trolling Flighttime before he first reported me. That was very spiteful of me. I am not escusing my poor judgement too much but I guess it was the result of people often thinking the worst of me over the years. But Flighttime had proven not long after I was banned that not everyone thinks the worst of me. I am also very sorry that I underestimated Flighttime's sincerity and how much good faith he had in my edits despite their inadmisability. Last but not least, I said thank you so to Flighttime much for putting in a good word about me on my talk page after I was first banned. That was a very respectable gesture that Flighttime did, that no one has ever done for me before. Flighttime's good faith commands my respect to him. I am sorry that I blew it. I meant what I said. I am sorry for the edit war on "Money". I am also sorry for fouling of the rules in the first place when I posted the the inadmisabil edits on "Money". I accept why Flighttime removed them in the first place. I am also sorry for trolling Flighttime. I accept now that Flighttime was only doing his job. The most difficult thing now in this whole mess is convincing you that I truly deserve to be unbanned. I will not engage in any more edit wars, and I will not troll anyone. I strongly and honestly believe that enough water has passed under the proverbial bridge that I can be unbanned from wiki and I am no danger to the integrity of the community whatsoever anymore. Moreover, I had been a member of wiki from 2011 to 2024 without any trouble until that unfortunate bad turn, which I promise will never be repeated if I am unbanned. I know exactly what I can do now to avoid edit wars and trolling. Even if someone removes my edits I will never troll them or edit war again. I can always use a dispute resolution if need be. I know now I could retire. Before you consider rejecting my apology and unban request, I would appreciate it if you consider these alternative solutions that I will be willing to accept:- 1) I wish i knew about the "retire template" on the day i got in an edit war. if i knew at the time, i would not have got in that edit war. i would have retired gracefully. even if I am no longer welcome to edit anything, I would be willing to retire as long as its with a clean slate and all of the failed appeals, horrible stop signs, ban messages and permanent ban are removed. I would be willing to retire even if it's under a cloud. or 2) I will be willing to accept a topic ban as long as it will not last more than another year or worse to the next Preston Guild which isn't until 2032! 3) Point me to an oversight board so I can have my appeals considered by more impartial people. 4) Consult with Flighttime who will vouch for me on the fact that I have apologized to him properly and that I deserve another chance. Once again, I am very sorry for trolling and edit warring back in November 2024. My only wish now is that I can finally be unbanned and prove myself that I deserve to be unbanned. If I fail to achieve restoration than, I wish to retire with a clean slate and put wiki behind me on better terms. i was a member from about 2011 until october 2024. i don't want it to end with horrible stop signs and ban messages and permanent bans, and me getting upset and angry at everyone in my life... i want to retire even if it's under a cloud. Kind regards, Craigevans2 [[User:Craigevans2|Craigevans2]] ([[User talk:Craigevans2#top|talk]]) 20:21, 4 March 2026 (UTC) |3 = ~~~~}}
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{{unblock reviewed |1=Hello, it has been over a whole year since I made my last failed appeal to get unbanned from wiki in November 2024. That is also more than double the so-called "standard offer" waiting time of six months before posting unban appeals. As hard as I know it is, I am ready to start the appeals again. I apologized to Flighttime for everything that I have done wrong. firstly I want to say I am very sorry for the edit war on "Money". I just got annoyed by the twinkle auto mod bot. I have a very great distrust of ai mod software. Case in point, Last October I was banned from facebook by their auto admin just for posting a very popular post about the classic St George's Shopping Centre in Preston from 1964-1999. I had spent weeks recreating a detailed directory of all of the old shops which I was worried I would lose forever. Fortunately the ban went away completely after 5 days after it was realised by the staff that a wholesale series of wrongful bans had taken place that month on facebook as a result of the faulty ai algorythm. However, I have learned to accept that Flighttime trusted it and he was only using twinkle in good faith to protect his work. I am also very sorry for misjudging Flighttime, I know that he is a librarian who was only protecting the integrity of the Pink Floyd pages. I am also very sorry for trolling Flighttime before he first reported me. That was very spiteful of me. I am not escusing my poor judgement too much but I guess it was the result of people often thinking the worst of me over the years. But Flighttime had proven not long after I was banned that not everyone thinks the worst of me. I am also very sorry that I underestimated Flighttime's sincerity and how much good faith he had in my edits despite their inadmisability. Last but not least, I said thank you so to Flighttime much for putting in a good word about me on my talk page after I was first banned. That was a very respectable gesture that Flighttime did, that no one has ever done for me before. Flighttime's good faith commands my respect to him. I am sorry that I blew it. I meant what I said. I am sorry for the edit war on "Money". I am also sorry for fouling of the rules in the first place when I posted the the inadmisabil edits on "Money". I accept why Flighttime removed them in the first place. I am also sorry for trolling Flighttime. I accept now that Flighttime was only doing his job. The most difficult thing now in this whole mess is convincing you that I truly deserve to be unbanned. I will not engage in any more edit wars, and I will not troll anyone. I strongly and honestly believe that enough water has passed under the proverbial bridge that I can be unbanned from wiki and I am no danger to the integrity of the community whatsoever anymore. Moreover, I had been a member of wiki from 2011 to 2024 without any trouble until that unfortunate bad turn, which I promise will never be repeated if I am unbanned. I know exactly what I can do now to avoid edit wars and trolling. Even if someone removes my edits I will never troll them or edit war again. I can always use a dispute resolution if need be. I know now I could retire. Before you consider rejecting my apology and unban request, I would appreciate it if you consider these alternative solutions that I will be willing to accept:- 1) I wish i knew about the "retire template" on the day i got in an edit war. if i knew at the time, i would not have got in that edit war. i would have retired gracefully. even if I am no longer welcome to edit anything, I would be willing to retire as long as its with a clean slate and all of the failed appeals, horrible stop signs, ban messages and permanent ban are removed. I would be willing to retire even if it's under a cloud. or 2) I will be willing to accept a topic ban as long as it will not last more than another year or worse to the next Preston Guild which isn't until 2032! 3) Point me to an oversight board so I can have my appeals considered by more impartial people. 4) Consult with Flighttime who will vouch for me on the fact that I have apologized to him properly and that I deserve another chance. Once again, I am very sorry for trolling and edit warring back in November 2024. My only wish now is that I can finally be unbanned and prove myself that I deserve to be unbanned. If I fail to achieve restoration than, I wish to retire with a clean slate and put wiki behind me on better terms. i was a member from about 2011 until october 2024. i don't want it to end with horrible stop signs and ban messages and permanent bans, and me getting upset and angry at everyone in my life... i want to retire even if it's under a cloud. Kind regards, Craigevans2 [[User:Craigevans2|Craigevans2]] ([[User talk:Craigevans2#top|talk]]) 20:21, 4 March 2026 (UTC) |decline = {{subst:Decline reason here}} ~~~~}}
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{{unblock reviewed |1=Hello, it has been over a whole year since I made my last failed appeal to get unbanned from wiki in November 2024. That is also more than double the so-called "standard offer" waiting time of six months before posting unban appeals. As hard as I know it is, I am ready to start the appeals again. I apologized to Flighttime for everything that I have done wrong. firstly I want to say I am very sorry for the edit war on "Money". I just got annoyed by the twinkle auto mod bot. I have a very great distrust of ai mod software. Case in point, Last October I was banned from facebook by their auto admin just for posting a very popular post about the classic St George's Shopping Centre in Preston from 1964-1999. I had spent weeks recreating a detailed directory of all of the old shops which I was worried I would lose forever. Fortunately the ban went away completely after 5 days after it was realised by the staff that a wholesale series of wrongful bans had taken place that month on facebook as a result of the faulty ai algorythm. However, I have learned to accept that Flighttime trusted it and he was only using twinkle in good faith to protect his work. I am also very sorry for misjudging Flighttime, I know that he is a librarian who was only protecting the integrity of the Pink Floyd pages. I am also very sorry for trolling Flighttime before he first reported me. That was very spiteful of me. I am not escusing my poor judgement too much but I guess it was the result of people often thinking the worst of me over the years. But Flighttime had proven not long after I was banned that not everyone thinks the worst of me. I am also very sorry that I underestimated Flighttime's sincerity and how much good faith he had in my edits despite their inadmisability. Last but not least, I said thank you so to Flighttime much for putting in a good word about me on my talk page after I was first banned. That was a very respectable gesture that Flighttime did, that no one has ever done for me before. Flighttime's good faith commands my respect to him. I am sorry that I blew it. I meant what I said. I am sorry for the edit war on "Money". I am also sorry for fouling of the rules in the first place when I posted the the inadmisabil edits on "Money". I accept why Flighttime removed them in the first place. I am also sorry for trolling Flighttime. I accept now that Flighttime was only doing his job. The most difficult thing now in this whole mess is convincing you that I truly deserve to be unbanned. I will not engage in any more edit wars, and I will not troll anyone. I strongly and honestly believe that enough water has passed under the proverbial bridge that I can be unbanned from wiki and I am no danger to the integrity of the community whatsoever anymore. Moreover, I had been a member of wiki from 2011 to 2024 without any trouble until that unfortunate bad turn, which I promise will never be repeated if I am unbanned. I know exactly what I can do now to avoid edit wars and trolling. Even if someone removes my edits I will never troll them or edit war again. I can always use a dispute resolution if need be. I know now I could retire. Before you consider rejecting my apology and unban request, I would appreciate it if you consider these alternative solutions that I will be willing to accept:- 1) I wish i knew about the "retire template" on the day i got in an edit war. if i knew at the time, i would not have got in that edit war. i would have retired gracefully. even if I am no longer welcome to edit anything, I would be willing to retire as long as its with a clean slate and all of the failed appeals, horrible stop signs, ban messages and permanent ban are removed. I would be willing to retire even if it's under a cloud. or 2) I will be willing to accept a topic ban as long as it will not last more than another year or worse to the next Preston Guild which isn't until 2032! 3) Point me to an oversight board so I can have my appeals considered by more impartial people. 4) Consult with Flighttime who will vouch for me on the fact that I have apologized to him properly and that I deserve another chance. Once again, I am very sorry for trolling and edit warring back in November 2024. My only wish now is that I can finally be unbanned and prove myself that I deserve to be unbanned. If I fail to achieve restoration than, I wish to retire with a clean slate and put wiki behind me on better terms. i was a member from about 2011 until october 2024. i don't want it to end with horrible stop signs and ban messages and permanent bans, and me getting upset and angry at everyone in my life... i want to retire even if it's under a cloud. Kind regards, Craigevans2 [[User:Craigevans2|Craigevans2]] ([[User talk:Craigevans2#top|talk]]) 20:21, 4 March 2026 (UTC) |accept = accept reason here ~~~~}}