User talk:Applegeeks

August 2017

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20:04, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

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).

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

Request reason:

I believe an admin (User:Callanecc) thought that we were related to a previously banned account, User:BurritoSlayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/BurritoSlayer Originally, User:GSF 323, User:KindleReader, and User:Biker1932 and I (all friends in real life) decided that we'd edit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajat_Bhageria together after reading one of his Forbes articles. However, because we had all started editing articles at the same time, we were accused of being sockpuppets and part of the User:BurritoSlayer farm. Seems like an admin did a CU and found that we were related (we are friends...but not related to Bhageria) but couldn't find a connection to BurritoSlayer. Well that's because there isn't one....We are not in any way related to BurritoSlayer. But still we had our accounts banned and are !votes not counted on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rajat_Bhageria_(3rd_nomination). This really isn't fair. It's like convicting someone to jail without any true evidence. We know we're young to Wikipedia and haven't edited too many articles but that doesn't mean we're socks to BurritoSlayer!. We've been part of collateral damage of the BurritoSlayer sock farms and now it seems like User:TonyBallioni et. al. think that we're related to BurritoSlayer and want to delete Bhageria's article under G5 (which is again not true...and also the article it meets WP: GNG). We'd like to continue editing and adding to the community and would appreciate if you could unblock us :)

Decline reason:

A checkuser found that you were indeed socking, with the accounts you all have linked to each other. Even without the link to BurritoSlayer, this si still a checkuser block, with proof of multiple accounts being linked to one another. Also, the edits on the AfD are a good indication that there was socking going on as well. RickinBaltimore (talk) 17:50, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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