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My main reason for asking for the unblock is to fix errors in Wikipedia, patrol proposals for deletion and continue my work in the topic area of microtonal music. |
My main reason for asking for the unblock is to fix errors in Wikipedia, patrol proposals for deletion and continue my work in the topic area of microtonal music. |
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Most of the issues |
Most of the issues raised were in a situation where |
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* I or someone else as sole author spent a long time adding content to Wikipedia, following |
* I or someone else as sole author spent a long time adding content to Wikipedia, following guidelines to best of our ability. |
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* Another editor suddenly, in a bold edit, removed the content or nominated it for deletion, without prior discussion or editor involvement. |
* Another editor suddenly, in a bold edit, removed the content or nominated it for deletion, without prior discussion or editor involvement. |
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The problems arose when I tried to get |
The problems arose when I tried to get it restored or defended it from deletion. |
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It is rare that I add new articles. My article creation list has only one other in the two years |
It is rare that I add new articles. My article creation list has only one other in the two years previously; the rest are redirects [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Robertinventor&namespace=0&tagfilter=&newOnly=1&start=2015-08-01&end=2017-08-31]. |
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To prevent this in the future I will endeavour to find support of co-editors with diverse views before starting on substantial content. I also recommend this to friends. This will also help with gray area issues of encyclopedic tone, notability, reliable sources and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view WP:NPOV]. |
To prevent this in the future I will endeavour to find support of co-editors with diverse views before starting on substantial content. I also recommend this to friends. This will also help with gray area issues of encyclopedic tone, notability, reliable sources and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view WP:NPOV]. |
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If I only answer correct charges, that's my complete appeal. However sadly there were many mistaken points. The puzzle is, which |
If I only answer correct charges, that's my complete appeal. However sadly there were many mistaken points. The puzzle is, which am I expected to answer? The closing admin just wrote: ''"Closing with a consensus towards an indef block, plus my own admin judgment in that direction"''[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=855723651#User:Robertinventor,_again]. Though there was a consensus to block me, there was no consensus about what I was sanctioned for. |
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I will answer the top three charges briefly. I give the dates because most of this happened long before the sanction debate |
I will answer the top three charges briefly. I give the dates because most of this happened long before the sanction debate (August 2018). Only the Buddhism topic ban appeal and my attempt to defend the Mars astrobiology article from deletion were new. |
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* '''''Contributing an article in 2017 that contradicts statements in Life on Mars[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars#Cumulative_effects] that the Mars surface is known to be sterile [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FModern_Mars_habitability&diff=prev&oldid=855472459], and defending it from deletion.''''' Please don't use Wikipedia as your only source. For another perspective watch this short (less than two minutes) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk-Ycp5llEI official NASA video] and listen to what their planetary protection officer says about Mars organisms. |
* '''''Contributing an article in 2017 that contradicts statements in Life on Mars[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars#Cumulative_effects] that the Mars surface is known to be sterile [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FModern_Mars_habitability&diff=prev&oldid=855472459], and defending it from deletion.''''' Please don't use Wikipedia as your only source. For another perspective watch this short (less than two minutes) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk-Ycp5llEI official NASA video] and listen to what their planetary protection officer says about Mars organisms. It's the third video on the main overview page for the NASA Office of Planetary Protection[https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/overview]. I defended it from deletion in an attempt to prevent removal from Wikipedia of NASA's views on extant Martian life. |
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{{cot|Details}}NASA's planetary protection officer is also the author of the quote in that diff about Mars being a giant dinner plate for Earth organisms<ref name=Conley>{{cite news|last1=Chang|first1=Kenneth|title=Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at NASA Is to Keep It That Way.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/science/mars-catharine-conley-nasa-planetary-protection-officer.html|agency=New York Times|date=October 5, 2015}} |
{{cot|Details}}NASA's planetary protection officer is also the author of the quote in that diff about Mars being a giant dinner plate for Earth organisms<ref name=Conley>{{cite news|last1=Chang|first1=Kenneth|title=Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at NASA Is to Keep It That Way.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/science/mars-catharine-conley-nasa-planetary-protection-officer.html|agency=New York Times|date=October 5, 2015}} |
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