Topic on User talk:Reddington

Hi Reddington...I'm a community-elected Miraheze Steward, responsible for assisting Miraheze wiki users with certain tasks on their wikis, undertaking certain actions requested from wikis that which they can't able to effect for various reasons, and enforcing the community's adopted global policies. Recently, one of this wiki community's significant contributors and bureaucrat/administrator requested Stewards' assistance to investigate a series of suspicious editing patterns on this wiki by different user accounts, within a very short period of time, in contravention of both the wiki's community-endorsed local policy guidance and the global Miraheze community's global policy. While Looney Toons guided you here in terms of linking you to the general All The Tropes' rules, he didn't mention either specifically or explicitly what provision he wanted you to pay particular attention to. As well, I believe you were neither aware of either policy or why it's problematic to edit pages, within a reasonably short window of time, with multiple user accounts. Chiefly, if one or more users take umbrage or otherwise object to one or more of your user accounts' edits, it becomes misleading at best and deceptive at worst, depending on whether or not it was intended, to then edit with a different user account.

So, I'm here, essentially, to link you to both policies, and strongly recommend that, in addition to picking one (1) user account around which to edit on this wiki, that you disclose all of your user accounts (presumably, via your All The Tropes' user page(s)), to make it easier to identify whether you've edited with more than one user account on this wiki. Pending that recommendation and your confirmation, I've kindly asked Robkelk to forgo any local blocks, as I do believe you just were not aware of either policy. If you wish, you can optionally request that I globally lock your alternate accounts or to Robkelk to locally block your alternate accounts. Many thanks! :)

In accordance with this, we won't be blocking your accounts locally. Please do identify a single account that you want to use to edit here.

Pinging the user and the local moderation team: @Reddington @Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

@Reddington, you are free to disagree with the moderation staff. You are not free to ignore the moderation staff, or the Miraheze Stewards.

I see unreviewed edits from both BalonGreyjoy and Reddington in the moderation queue. These edits have time stamps that show they were made after the posts made above in this thread.

I therefore modify my statement above: We won't be blocking your accounts locally as long as you speak with us.

This is the warning that you are required to receive as per All The Tropes:How We Do Bans Around Here.

Your posting history shows that you are online every day. If you do not reply within 24 hours, we will temporarily remove the distraction of being able to edit the wiki other than this page until you do reply.

@Reddington @BalonGreyjoy @Dmehus @Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

Note also that all edits made by all accounts involved are being held in the Moderation queue until you respond. You can edit as much as you want up until that temp ban is applied, but none of it will ever see the light of day until you engage with us.

It's been 24 hours and a few minutes, with no reply. Instituting the tempban mentioned above.

Robkelk, you may wish to also temporarily block, again with their user talk pages remaining available, their two other user accounts, DevanSeaworth78 and DagonGreyjoy. Thanks

Will do. (We weren't aware of DevanSeaworth78 being part of this cluster of accounts.)