User talk:Mackycoff

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Your submission at Articles for creation

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Crowthorne Golf Society concern

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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Crowthorne Golf Society

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January 2016 vandalism warning

Constructive contributions are appreciated and strongly encouraged, but your recent edit to the userpage of another user may be considered vandalism. Specifically, your edit to User:SovalValtos may be offensive or unwelcome. In general, it is considered polite to avoid substantially editing others' userpages without their permission. Instead, please bring the matter to their talk page and let them edit their user page themselves if they agree on a need to do so. Please refer to Wikipedia:User page for more information on User page etiquette. Thank you. Class455fan1 (talk) 19:23, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Please do not use Wikipedia to promote businesses, such as you did in the article Crowthorne. Wikipedia is not the Yellow pages. If you want to list a company for potential customers to find, please consider alternative outlets. Thank you. Class455fan1 (talk) 19:35, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Tooned, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Class455fan1 (talk) 20:04, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Recent edit to Crowthorne

Hello. I noticed that you made an edit that introduces praise or promotional language to the Crowthorne article. On Wikipedia, we adhere to a neutral point of view (NPOV) and avoid promotional language or puffery. Please read the NPOV policy page, as well as this page of language to avoid to better understand how to expand this article in a style suitable to an encyclopedia. If you have questions, please see the Help Desk page. Thank you! Dbfirs 20:50, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Blocked on 20 January 2016

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for vandalism. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Katie^talk 21:16, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I think a mistake may have been made in classing this account as a "vandalism only account", Katie.

If you examine, User:Mackycoff's first edit, he deleted no text and added

Crowthorne Golf Society has been going from 2010. It has around 60 members and meets 6 times a year. Downshire Golf Club, Bluemountain Golf Club, Pineridge Golf Club and Bird Hills Golf Clubs are the preferred venues due to there location. Once per year a weekend away is organised. Celtic Manor was visited in 2013 by 36 players. Meon Valley will be the 2014 venue. The days consist of breakfast, 18 holes, dinner followed by prizes and trophies. Crowthorne Golf Society has its own web site, this can be located at crowthornegolfsociety.co.uk

Admittedly this is not the most encyclopaedic and well-sourced prose and it hints that he may have a conflict of interest to declare, but this and subsequent edits don't strike me as the obvious work of a vandal with malicious intent. Can't we educate newbies with non-malicious intent rather than savage them?

I do see that a sixteen-year old vandalism patroller has wrongfully templated him here but this patroller is not exactly infallible, nor always judicious in his use of templates or even categorising vandalism at all.

I will concede that his edits on user talk pages have not been very judicious or conciliatory but this may well be caused by frustration at not being treated in a more collegiate manner in main, article space. BushelCandle (talk) 01:53, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

I've reduced your indefinite block to 48 hours based on BushelCandle's advocacy of your edit history. Don't disrupt the encyclopedia again like you did today or the next block may be indefinite. Katie^talk 03:23, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

User:KrakatoaKatie I was uneasy as well as User:BushelCandle as to how things went. Expression of regret from User:Mackycoff would be welcome and a declaration of any association with the golf society in order. SovalValtos (talk) 22:56, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Katie! I'll be checking this user's contribution history every once in a while and will try to issue an alert here if anything causes concern.

I agree with your comment User:SovalValtos: a reply from User:Mackycoff would be helpful.

User:Mackycoff: although you can't edit any other pages while you are blocked, you should still be able to edit this one if there is anything you want to say or ask... BushelCandle (talk) 04:04, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Looks like User:Mackycoff might be guilty of socking. See [here]. Regards,   Aloha27  talk  07:05, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

It's disappointing that Mackycoff has not replied here. I have reported his recent bad behaviour to the original blocking admin. BushelCandle (talk) 08:53, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

I guess it's true. No good deed goes unpunished. Sorry Bushel. Regards,   Aloha27  talk  15:37, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Indefinite block of 28 January 2016

This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Crowthorne, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Jeni ^(talk) 09:56, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Katie^talk 11:02, 28 January 2016 (UTC)