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| Request name | Motions | Case | Posted |
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| Amendment request: Crouch, Swale ban appeal | none | none | 11 December 2024 |
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| Arbitrator workflow motions | 1 December 2024 |
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Amendment request: Crouch, Swale ban appeal
[edit]| Consensus among arbitrators that they will not reinstate the site ban. Crouch, Swale is welcome to consider asking an admin to place a self-requested block, using the WikiBreak Enforcer, or requesting a courtesy vanish. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:07, 11 December 2024 (UTC) |
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Initiated by Crouch, Swale at 23:54, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Crouch, Swale[edit]A week from now could you please site ban me either permanently or temporarily. I don't think I should be on here anymore. Please note that this is not an appeal rather the opposeite to reinstate the site ban.
Statement by Kenneth Kho[edit]Thank you for over 100K edits to Wikipedia, thank you for your service. However it is best to provide reasons why your editing restrictions can be lifted in part or in full, if that is what you are looking for. Kenneth Kho (talk) 07:38, 6 December 2024 (UTC) Statement by Barkeep49[edit]User:Crouch, Swale why does it need to be a site ban? I respect someone who wants to go out on their own terms, but a site ban is still an ugly ugly way to do it. If you ask me next week I am willing to put an indefinite block on your account without talk page and email access, which is what would also happen with a site ban. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:15, 6 December 2024 (UTC) Statement by QoH[edit]+1 to what Barkeep said, I would also be willing to place a self-requested block. charlotte 👸♥ 23:24, 6 December 2024 (UTC) Statement by Just Step Sideways[edit]Crouch, it is highly unlikely that any admin would just randomly decide to undo a self-requested block. It would be logged as such and nobody would have any reason to unblock. Please, don't try and get banned by doing something foolish. If you did it would probably still be a single admin who blocked you anyway. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 23:31, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
Statement by Super Goku V[edit]Crouch, Swale, the best way to do this is to get a self-requested block, have talk page access revoked, and then scramble your password. If you are worried about scrambling your password, have Google or some other service create three passwords, mash them together, copy and paste into the change password field, and delete your clipboard history and saved passwords for Wikipedia. That would make it extremely difficult to regain access to the account, especially with email revoked. As my statement should make clear, amendment should be denied. --Super Goku V (talk) 11:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC) Statement by {other-editor}[edit]Other editors are free to make relevant comments on this request as necessary. Comments here should address why or why not the Committee should accept the amendment request or provide additional information. Crouch, Swale ban appeal: Clerk notes[edit]
Crouch, Swale ban appeal: Arbitrator views and discussion[edit]
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