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This is a draft for an appeal for my indef block in Wikipedia

Unblock request

 
This blocked user is asking that his block be reviewed:

Robertinventor (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Apologies for taking up so much time before, have learned my lesson and would love to get back to contributing, no hard feelings. Most of the issues arose when
  • I (or someone else) added substantial new content
  • spent a long time over it
  • another editor suddenly deleted it.

I become verbose when I try to defend it.

This deleted material is now in other Wikis, such as Dorje108's Encyclopedia of Buddhism[1], and my new Encyclopedia of Astrobiology[2]. Most of my encyclopedic content creation is now in these wikis.

My plan if unblocked is to mainly focus on fixing errors. I will

  • do most substantial editing in my own wikis.

In Wikipedia, if I do this at all, I will:

  • Endeavour to find support of co-editors with diverse views first. .
  • They will help with encyclopedic tone, notability, reliable sources and WP:NPOV.

This will help ensure that everyone is in agreement that the material is suitable for Wikipedia.

I will also continue to work on reducing my word count, but if I don't add material that gets deleted it's not likely to be an issue.

It is not easy to know what to answer by way of the other points, the closing admin just said "Closing with a consensus towards an indef block, plus my own admin judgment in that direction"[3]. I will answer a few, please ask if there are more I need to reply to.

  • I have never used Wikipedia for WP:PROMO. My Tune Smithy article in 2008 was cited to Sound on Sound similarly to other material in the topic area[4]. When I discovered WP:COI guidelines in 2011, I added a COI statement[5].
  • Commercial use - Wikipedia's license[6] permits this. Only a couple of sentences in my 2015 booklet were by other editors anyway[7].
  • Non free content - Wikipedia's license permits dual licensing[8][1]: CC by SA here, all rights reserved in my 2017 book[9].
  • None of the material was my own POV. The title of the deleted article came from an astrobiology conference sub session[2]. The views I tried to express mostly came from NASA, as in this short (less than two minutes) official NASA video, third on the main overview page for the NASA Office of Planetary Protection[10].

If unblocked I will keep well away from the topic of Mars astrobiology. I have no intention of appealing the Buddhism appeal again either. Most of this material is from years ago.

The main thing I do here is error fixing, though other editors mainly notice the content creation.

  • Examples of errors I've noticed since blocked, plus four suggested fixes that other editors said I should do, but I didn't notice this until after I was blocked[11].
When I have time I may also return to my work on patrolling proposals for deletion[12], and my work on microtonal music including the Microtonal Music project proposal "to do" list[13]

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  1. ↑ "It is legally possible to add more restrictions than the original license in some cases, for example, releasing a derivative work under all rights reserved which incorporates source materials licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license." Compatibility among different CC licenses
  2. ↑ Session Topics - ArbSciCon 2017:
    • Theme: Solar System Sites
    • Session: Mars
    • Subsession: Habitability
    • Topic: Modern Mars Habitability
    • Summary:

    Recent discoveries on Mars, including recurring slope lineae, ground ice, and active gully formation, have been interpreted as indications for the transient presence of water. The potential for liquid water on Mars has profound implications for the habitability of the modern Mars environment. This session solicits papers that examine the evidence for habitable environments on Mars, present results about life in analogs to these environments, discuss hypotheses to explain the active processes, evaluate issues for planetary protection, and explore the implications for future explorations of Mars.

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