User talk:Coin945

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Jespinos (talk) 02:00, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

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McZusatz (talk) 15:25, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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Not helping

Dear Coin945,

Your actions regarding the block of David Condrey are only working counterproductive. What used to be a simple case has been turned out to some high profile drama, mainly because of your and David’s actions. This is not a wise thing to do when you want certain things to happen. An administrator will think twice before getting involved with David’s unblockrequest because of the escalation you caused. A unblockrequest has already been made and someone will look into it shortly, well, not shortly because of this escalation. Please do the right thing and walk away from this discussion. You are not helping, you are making things worse. The key to solve this drama is self-reflection and stopping the “canvassing” happening at en-wiki. I hope that you will think twice before harming someone else his cause with unmellow behavior. Let things cool down a bit.

Kind regards, Natuur12 (talk) 13:59, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Thankyou for your response @Natuur12: . I would actually argue the opposite of what you have stated. With his editing abilities (besides to his talk page) taken away, with no opportunity to defend himself prior, David was essentially silenced by those administrators who carried out the action. His only option is to find a Commons administrator who is also present at Wikipedia. Otherwise the only people he can talk to are those who were directly involved in the conflict and therefore have a WP:BIAS. It has already been proven that he is who he claims to be, and that all the images he uploaded are either original works, or within the public domain. All I seeing a proficient editor who has been targeted due to nominating a certain penis-related pic for deletion, causing this saga as a sort of revenge.

Many actions taken against David have been proven to be misguided, and this is reason enough for the block to be removed. DR-ing many images based on an anti-pornographic themed deletion without checking whether any of them were used on Wikipedia articles first (what David did) is one thing. Silly, yes. But we can get over this simple mistake. Hastily bulk deleting them all without much discussion or investigation (something an administrator did), is something else. Deleting images based on dubious (later proven false) claims, and blocking an editor based on those claims is just deceitful and knee-jerk. The injustice caused must be brought to the administrators' attention, or else David will not have a voice to defend himself.--Coin945 (talk) 02:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

P.S. The unblockrequest was made by David (I copied his text to the page), but decided it was not a good idea to post on behalf of a blocked person (regardless of how reasonable I think the block was), so hastily reverted myself. I.e. there is no unblock request to speak of.

As I said, David is currently searching on Wikipedia for a Commons administrator to help him in this case, so this is only going to get bigger as more evidence comes showing how David was wrongfully treated. As I have said, I am just the messenger, helping out a friend who I know has been given the short end of the stick. I guess we'll see what happens next.--Coin945 (talk) 02:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

I can only repeat what Natuur12 said above. Not only you does not help him, what you seems to be more and more someone looking for trouble. You should better use your time to provide some content. Regards, Yann (talk) 09:13, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

@Yann: Can you explain how our efforts are considered "not helping" and "looking for trouble"? Can you also give advice on how someone in David's position should go about getting their account unblocked? --Coin945 (talk) 13:34, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked

You have been blocked from editing Commons. The reason for the block is available in the block log as is the name of the administrator who blocked you. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may add {{Unblock}} below this message explaining clearly why you should be unblocked. For more information, see Appealing a block.

Yann (talk) 13:56, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

You have been told to get back, but you didn't listen. Get one week holiday until this issue is over. Regards, Yann (talk) 13:57, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much for notifying me of this. Have a good evening. :)--Coin945 (talk) 14:04, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Unblocking

@Yann: , it's been four years since I was blocked, and I've had some time to reflect. I believe I was wrong in the way I acted during the discussion all that time ago, and let my emotions get in the way of solid facts. You were right to block me. Now in 2018, may I be unblocked again?--Coin945 (talk) 13:21, 2 April 2018 (UTC)