Topic on User talk:Jason taylor

Jason's first brush with a permaban for ignoring moderator requests to improve his low-quality contributions.

Less than an hour ago, your tempban ended. You have 167 hours to stop being a juvenile jerk and actually respond to an administrator message. If you don't, you will be permanently banned from the wiki.

CC: @Labster, @GethN7, @Robkelk, @QuestionableSanity, @DocColress, @LulzKiller, @SelfCloak

I am trying to reply. I did not receive these messages until today and I apologize for the inconvenience.

Quite frankly, Jason, we are not inclined to accept that you haven't seen these messages, given the games you've been playing in the last few weeks. You expect us to believe you just magically discovered your talk page in the last 24 hours before your permanent ban? Especially since you responded to messages here at least once before with a "thanks" note that pointed right back here? And you expect us to believe you never thought to ask why you were tempbanned if you really were ignorant of this page? No, this is more games.

A new user who is motivated, contributing a lot, and has a few problems with structure and formatting gets a lot of good will from us. Your repeated refusal to engage us, and the games you have played (such as ban evasion) have burned most if not all of the good will. We didn't really ask a lot from you -- use the quote markup when adding quotes, don't use abbreviations, maybe learn a little about punctuation and avoiding run-on sentences. Apparently, that was so much effort to ask of you that it was easier for you to ignore us, evade bans, and generally act like a vandal.

However, since you did respond before the end of your deadline, you get a chance. But it's your last chance. When you get advice, either on this page or elsewhere (like comments on edits made to your contributions), we want you to acknowledge the advice and do your best to not make the mistakes in the future. You are not required to start off by writing letter-perfect text, and if you don't understand why we ask something or suggest something, you are welcome to ask for clarification or explanations. But if we see any evidence you are ignoring us and just dumping stuff into the wiki without a care for common standards of usage or our guidelines for style and content, you will be immediately and permanently banned. No more attempts to get your attention, no more patience with your gameplaying. I trust you understand.

So, to reiterate our initial requests to you (and add a few which were implied or only mentioned in edit reasons):

• When adding quotes to quotes page, use the {{quote}} markup. If looking at the hundreds of examples you can find on almost every page doesn't help you figure out how to do so, ask.
• When adding work names to text, mark them up with both italics and link markup, even if we don't have a page for the work at the moment.
• Don't dump bare URLs into the text of an example. Put them in potholes instead, like this

You can see it [http://www.website.com/pagename.html here].

Note that links to other sites only use single square brackets, not double square brackets like links to other wiki pages. Also, there is no vertical bar between the destination and the pothole text.

• Do not use abbreviations anywhere, ever.
• Parentheses have a space before and after them. Exception: if a close parenthesis is followed by a punctuation mark like a comma or a period, don't add a space.
• Break up your contributions into smaller sentences; you have a tendency to write massively run-on sentences that are difficult to read and parse.
• Learn how to use commas to make your shorter sentences flow better.
• Some of your contributions have been basically "Oh, and here's this interesting fact about the subject of that last example, but it really doesn't have anything to do with the trope." Try not to do that.
• There is a word, "too", that means "also" or "as well". It is not the same word as "to".
• This is trivial but hey, since we're at it -- when you start an example, put a space between the asterisk(s) and the first word. Don't run them up against each other.

This is not intended as a complete or exhaustive list. Whenever we note something that is clearly a pattern and not a simple typo, we'll let you know how to fix it.

For your reference:

• Our style guide
• How to write an example
• Markup guide
• Signal to Noise Train Wreck

Please respond and let us know you understand what we're asking of you. If it's too much for you to write in clear English and to use the proper markup, please let us know that, too.

Thank you.

CC: @Labster, @GethN7, @Robkelk, @QuestionableSanity, @DocColress, @LulzKiller, @SelfCloak

In this matter, Looney Toons speaks for me.

OK

Very good. Thank you.

Marking this thread as "resolved" is not replying.

You have less than 24 hours to respond to this or another thread below. If you don't, you will be permanently banned as a vandal.

CC: @Labster, @GethN7, @Robkelk, @QuestionableSanity, @DocColress, @LulzKiller, @SelfCloak

Look I am trying. I am just catching up to this whether you believe me or not.

Glad to hear that.

He doesn't want to play nice, then I completely support dropping the hammer.