User talk:Dual Use

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Hello, Dual Use, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Other accounts

Do you have other accounts? If you do, have those other accounts edited Cold Fusion or it's talk page recently? If they have, please be aware that this account might be in violation of WP:SOCK - "Contributing to the same page with multiple accounts: Editors may not use more than one account to contribute to the same page or discussion in a way to suggest that they are multiple people." Hipocrite (talk) 17:31, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have recently edited cold fusion with an account associated with my real name. However, my privacy is very important to me, and I wish to maintain it. Do you have any objections to my continuing, or would you prefer that I revert my contributions? Dual Use (talk) 17:33, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You should hew very closely to WP:SOCK. I suggest you mark your old account inactive, and note the conflict of interest you have on your new account. I note that if you are going to make the same edits on this new account you made on the old account, you, or someone else, will let your identity slip. If you are truly concerned about your anonimity, it's probably best you avoid subjects you are closely associated with in real life. Hipocrite (talk)

In real life I am not associated with cold fusion. I have never worked in any part of the field of physics or chemistry. I will indicate that I have previously edited the article on my user page. However, my privacy is indeed very important to me, and I wonder why you would ask me to mark my original account as inactive. Someone with enough time or programming acumen could easily make a list of everyone who has ever edited the article, paste those user pages into a watch-list, and instantly identify me. Dual Use (talk) 17:43, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Or don't mark the account inactive. I could care less. Hipocrite (talk) 17:55, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cold Fusion Warning

Cold Fusion, and parts of any other articles that are substantially about cold fusion, are subject to discretionary sanctions. Any uninvolved administrator may, on his or her own discretion, impose sanctions on any editor working on an affected article if, despite being warned, that editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process. The sanctions imposed may include blocks of up to one year in length; bans from editing any page or set of pages within the area of conflict; bans on any editing related to the topic or its closely related topics; restrictions on reverts or other specified behaviors; or any other measures which the imposing administrator believes are reasonably necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.

Prior to any sanctions being imposed, the editor in question shall be given a warning with a link to this decision; and, where appropriate, should be counseled on specific steps that he or she can take to improve his or her editing in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines.

The link to this decision is Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William_M._Connolley#Discretionary_sanctions. This is the required warning. If you need counciling on specific steps you can take to improve your editing, please feel free to ask me to a referal to a neutral respected editor who can help you out. Have a nice day! Hipocrite (talk) 20:19, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What do you think I did wrong to deserve this warning? I'm not PCarbon, if that's what you're thinking; nor am I in Belgium. Dual Use (talk) 01:40, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

maintream definition

I gave you the definition of "mainstream" in Talk:Cold_fusion#2008_Oxford_Sourcebook, and then I noticed that you had asked for the same thing in two other places.... I'lltry to reply to stuff only in one place, so the discussion doesn't get too spread out. --Enric Naval (talk) 01:20, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Let me know if I can help

I have now been banned from fringe topics. You can contact me here. I'll be happy to send you more information if you give me your e-mail address. Pcarbonn (talk) 13:41, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dual Use, please be aware that if you make changes suggested by Pcarbonn then you may be blocked or banned. We do not allow banned or topic-banned editors to edit by proxy. Editing for banned users by proxy has led to users being banned in turn before now. Guy (Help!) 15:58, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Topic-banned

I have reviewed some of your editing on Talk:Cold fusion, which, as you have been warned, is under a special article probation regime against tendentious editing. I find that your editing, with or without actual "proxying" for the banned user Pcarbonn, is essentially indistinguishable from his. You are editing with exactly the same agenda, the same argumentative style of stonewalling, and the same hardly disguised tendentiousness. Just as one example, an edit like this displays a reckless disregard for NPOV and is therefore disruptive.

Since your pattern of editing is essentially the same as what Pcarbonn was banned for, you are therefore now also topic banned, for 2 months as a start. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:26, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

... and blocked

Don't bother. I've only now become aware of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nrcprm2026, which shows you have been brought into connection with several abusive IPs, which in turn were recognised by people more familiar with the case as near-certain socks of another banned user. You've also already broken your topic ban. So, well, indef-blocked. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:36, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, per an off wiki request I have made the following inquiry: [1]. --GoRight (talk) 05:54, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]