User talk:Computerfan0

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Elijahandskip (talk) 14:40, 1 April 2020 (UTC) My edits are april fools edits and had the April Fools tag on them. Be careful or I will stick a fish on your back. ^{[April Fools!]}[reply]

Still is vandalism... Elijahandskip (talk) 14:55, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How do April Fools days edits count as vandalism? I didn't do it in the article or talk namespaces.

Well you did edit on the current events portal. Elijahandskip (talk) 15:37, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

African eelephant[edit]

Have a read of WP:FOOLS, before making an April Fools joke. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 15:34, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020[edit]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively, you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Someone's just been blocked for making virus-related April Fools' stuff. You want to reconsider your post (and your userr page for that matter). Cheers, ——SN 54129 16:28, 1 April 2020 (UTC) It's an April Fools day edit, stop being so serious.[reply]

But you realise that just saying sonething is "an April Fool's edit" doesn't give you carte blanche to say what you like, surely? ——SN 54129 16:35, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There are people using April Fools Day as an excuse to get Donald Trump deleted, suggesting the movement of a global event to another wiki is nothing compared to trying to delete the page of a living US president.

I wouldn't know about that. Still, for your records: ——SN 54129 16:42, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of noticeboard discussion[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. ——SN 54129 16:42, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Draft:African eelaphant[edit]

Draft:African eelaphant, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:African eelaphant and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Draft:African eelaphant during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Java Hurricane 16:40, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps we have not been clear enough[edit]

Stop ****** around in article space (e.g. Terraria) or you will be blocked. I do not care if this was a mistake, you've created a lot of disruption today, so mistakes will no longer be forgiven. This is not a playground. Is that clear enough? --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:19, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't touch the article, other than adding an April Fools AfD request for "1.4 not being released yet", which I removed traces of from the article.

Except you screwed up and didn't put the AFD in the April Fools section, so the bot put the AFD notice back in the article, and two of us had to clean up after you. This isn't a one-off; it comes on the heels of several other annoying things you've done today. All but 4-5 of your edits here have been screwing around. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:34, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Will you please just stop with all the "april fools jokes" entirely at this point? It's obnoxious when trying to patrol articles, causing havoc on watchlists and generally just fucking up AFD. It isn't funny. I'm referring to this edit following the discussion here. Praxidicae (talk) 18:45, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK OK, Make me leave Wikipedia if you want, it's my first April Fools on here and I don't know the rules perfectly.

You don't need to know the rules perfectly. You just have to stop when multiple people tell you to stop. Wait 24 hours for people to be less annoyed, then make an unblock request. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 19:01, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020[edit]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for April Fools disruption, AN consensus was for indef if it continued.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Computerfan0 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I completely understand what I did could be considered vandalism, and I have added work to keeping Wikipedia clean. However, I have no memory of seeing rules telling me not to edit the recent events or village pump section, and I definitely saw nothing telling me not to mess around with anything to do with the coronavirus. Also, I feel that going straight to an indefinite block was a bit much. I have made constructive edits in the past, and today I created a page on the R181 road in Ireland. Also, me not putting the AfD in the April Fools section was a genuine mistake. I do realise that you don't want me ruining your April Fools day, but I didn't intend on ruining it on you. Computerfan0 (talk) 19:08, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Your inability to understand sanctions, restrictions and community guidance is not an excuse for your behaviour. I also see no issues at all with an indefinite block, you have admitted to having significant and highly worrisome gaps in your knowledge when it comes to policies and guidelines, therefore it does not seem prudent to unblock you at this time. Nick (talk) 19:24, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Computerfan0 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I have read through the April Fool's Day policy (as my posts were April Fool's posts) and I found that although I have broken the Rules for Fools by creating a joke article and putting an AfD on a good article, these are the only violations of said poilicy. I edited the Current Events portal, placing the event of Wikipedia getting destroyed as there is nothing in said policy that says I can't edit portals. I also put a joke suggestion in the village pump as April Fools jokes are allowed in the Wikipedia namespace. My user page also got reverted, with the only reason given being "inappropriate contend". I thought Wikipedia wasn't censored? I understand that the "African Eelaphant" article was breaking the rules. But my AfD on the Terraria page, although breaking the rules, was a genuine accident as I meant to place it in the April Fools section. I do however understand the reasons behind my block as all of the above could appear as vandalism. However, they were marked as April Fool's jokes with the template and were in good spirit. Computerfan0 (talk) 09:46, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Try again. WP:GAB can help you understand how to accept responsibility and come up with a reasonable unblock request. Yamla (talk) 10:05, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Computerfan0, if you make another unblock request, please address this: now that April Fool's Day is over, what type of contributions would you like to make to Wikipedia if you were unblocked? Newyorkbrad (talk) 13:42, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to make contributions to the areas of roads and computers.

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Computerfan0 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I do completely understand that my actions could fall under vandalism. However, most of my actions were intended to be humourous, and I realise that they were not for you. I intend on editing articles about roads and computers (a new page on the R181 road in Ireland was made on the same day and can be viewed here) and I had plans for multiple more pages documenting roads. I also want to put my computer knowledge into use, and fix bad grammar and typos in articles.

I will try and keep a lower profile next April Fool's and hope to have build up a substantial number of constructive edits by then. Computerfan0 (talk) 16:19, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

Unblocked. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:22, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi[edit]

I've also removed some information from your user page and suppressed it for your own safety. Please don't add personal information about yourself to Wikipedia. Welcome back :) TonyBallioni (talk) 16:30, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fine with sharing my age though, it's my name that pushes it too far. Also isn't it generally supposed to be for phone numbers or adresses, not your age? Computerfan0 (talk) 16:33, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not really comfortable saying too much about this in public, but we just had this discussion about another user yesterday on our list, and the conclusion was to suppress the information for their own safety even if they objected to it. Please trust me that this is the right call and don't add it again. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't hard to figure out my age from other sources, i.e: go on a forum that I am on and it will be right there inside my user page. Also, one stating that my age is 0 rounded to the next 100 years got removed, despite the fact that one saying I'm in GenZ was kept. Computerfan0 (talk) 16:41, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wanted to say Welcome back to Wikipedia. I wanted to suggest a good place to work on getting some good constructive edits. So I tend to work on the "Current Events Portal" and it is a good place to work with other editors and gain some constructive edits. Just wanted to make that suggestion to you and if you have any questions at all, you can ask them to the "Teahouse" or you can message me on my talk page. Again, welcome back to the Wikipedia Community. Elijahandskip (talk) 17:33, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of User:Computerfan0/African eelaphant[edit]

User:Computerfan0/African eelaphant, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Computerfan0/African eelaphant and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Computerfan0/African eelaphant during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Vitaium (talk) 08:56, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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