User:Robertinventor/Unblock appeal4

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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:

Firstly, apologies for taking up so much of everyone’s time in the past. With guidance from friends, I have been able to learn valuable lessons on Wiki editing. I would now like to re-engage, mainly as a wikignome, with no hard feelings on my side.

My plan is to do minor edits and corrections for six months. After that, to do any major content with collaborators. This would deal with issues of competence, because we would be working together. I already do this on Wikinews[1][2][3][4]. After completing it together we'd submit it for review as a Good Article again similarly to WikiNews. I have already worked on an article with another editor here in this way[5]. I can probably find microtonal collaborators[6]

As per WP:OTHERWIKIS the deleted content is now in other wikis or blogs (e.g. [7][8][9][10][11]). I accept the consensus decision to delete it here.

I have a ten year history of Wikignoming with no issues.

I am also committed to reducing my word count.

The closing admin didn't pick out any particular points[12]. In the discussion, only a couple of points relate to wikignoming:

  • Made a minor mistake in Perigean tides.[13]. However WP:BOLD says "Think about it this way: if you don't find one of your edits being reverted now and then, perhaps you're not being bold enough".

The other minor edit discussed originated in Black hole [14](1,859 watchers[15] and a Good article[16]) where it was immediately reviewed by WolfmanSF[17]. It is still there[18] as are the other two I mentioned [19][20][21][22].

Affirmations of good faith:

  • Never used Wikipedia for WP:PROMO, sourced 2008 article[23] to "Sound on Sound", often used for notability[24][25][26][27] and added COI statement[28] once I found guidelines[29].
  • Commercial use of Wikipedia content permitted under its license[30], only a few sentences from deleted section[31], credited and correctly licensed[32].
  • Added content under dual licensing[33][1]: CC by SA here, all rights reserved in my 2017 book[34], originated as Wikipedia draft.
  • Deleted article was not personal views. Aimed to add material sourced[35] mainly to NASA[2][3] and astrobiologists[4] who I consider pre-eminent WP:RS on Mars astrobiology. I accept consensus to delete it. Just to clarify intent.
  • Wikipedia has articles on fringe medicine[36] and the article I added in 2015[37] followed guidelines for WP:FRINGE.

Note, I was the main editor of Planetary protection (69.3% mine, check with WhoColor[38]). However, if unblocked, I will not even do minor edits because of connection with deleted material[39][40] but edit my copy[41].

Is there anything else I need to respond to?

I ask to be unblocked to return to minor edits[42] which I did most weeks as volunteer editor for Wikipedia. I have a good track record. In the year before the block, I fixed over 90 articles[43], with only 2 reverts[44]

Thank you for your time in considering this appeal.

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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. ↑ Hamilton, V.E., Rafkin, S., Withers, P., Ruff, S., Yingst, R.A., Whitley, R., Center, J.S., Beaty, D.W., Diniega, S., Hays, L. and Zurek, R., Mars Science Goals, Objectives, Investigations, and Priorities: 2015 Version.

    "Goal I: determine if Mars ever supported life

    • Objective A: ...[past life].
    • Objective B: determine if environments with high potential for current habitability and expression of biosignatures contain evidence of extant life."

    Please note - I give this and the other cites solely to show that I was presenting views expressed by others and not myself. I am not trying to use these cites to try to say that Wikipedia has to present these views in Life on Mars, or indeed anywhere else, and I accept the community decision to delete this material.

  3. ↑ Chang, Kenneth (October 5, 2015). "Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at NASA Is to Keep It That Way". New York Times.  Interview with Catherine Conley, NASA's Planetary protection officer[45] at the time

    "The salts known as perchlorates that lower the freezing temperature of water at the R.S.L.s, keeping it liquid, can be consumed by some Earth microbes. “The environment on Mars potentially is basically one giant dinner plate for Earth organisms,” Dr. Conley said."

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  4. ↑ 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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