User talk:Greg Barry

Hello Greg Barry, I hope you continue a watch on the Peter Holmes a Court entry. It is often vandalised by people removing valid links and references to published and verifiable material. Well done so far. Everton Dasent (talk) 13:02, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Everton. I actually know quite a bit about the Holmes a Court family. When I read the entry for Peter Holmes a Court and found that Slanter Remover had posted a lot of unreferenced fantasy and had removed previously verified and referenced material I made the changes. I will keep an eye on this entry from now on. Greg Barry (talk) 05:23, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

You are blocked for persistent addition of controversial material to a biography of a living person. This appears to e your sole purpose on Wikipedia. Guy (Help!) 22:25, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

{{Unblock on hold|1=JzG|2=I have not persistently added controversial material. I have added referenced material and used neutral language in accordance with wikipedia policy. My last edits were reverted back to a version which is incorrect. In my last set of edits the most recent available information was added to this page and neutral language was used. After reading the edit history of this page and checking on some of the users involved it has become obvious that this page has been the target of sockpuppetry and edit warring. I have not been involved in this and I will not become involved in this activity. I do not think I deserved to be blocked and I think I was hastily blocked because I happened to make some edits when other editors were warring over the page. Some have turned out to be sockpuppets and others appear to have had vexatious complaints made against them. I think I have just been caught up in this and my blocking was a mistake.|3=Beeblebrox (talk) 16:20, 23 June 2010 (UTC)}}[reply]

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

I do this with great hesitation, as the administrator who blocked you does not agree with me on this issue. There have apparently been numerous problems with edit warring, point of view pushing and sockpuppetry in the "a Court" related articles. We have to be very careful as to what material is allowed into a biography of a living or recently deceased person, as there is a potential to cause real world problems for both the individual described and the Wikimedia Foundation. As such I caution you to be very careful in your future editing in this area, and discuss any substantive changes on the article's talk page first. As you have already seen, these articles are under intense scrutiny.

Request handled by: Beeblebrox (talk)

Unblocking administrator: Please check for active autoblocks on this user after accepting the unblock request.

You too?

You've been banned for removing dead links tags which were incorrect? I looked at the link you changed for the CEO resignation article in the Sydney Morning Herald and it worked. Now someone has changed the link to something else. I think the Peter Holmes a Court page needs more eyes on it. There was a sockpuppet investigation that found a whole lot of editors were the same person. Now there are admins who are banning people for providing referenced material.

If you get yourself 'un-banned' let me know on my talk page and we can work out how to proceed. Or you can email me. I am cautious about even editing the page in question at the moment because of these rogue admins banning people.Edasent (talk) 15:48, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edasent ... you should read the difference between WP:BLOCK and WP:BAN...they're very different. Not understanding the difference can mean the difference between a successful unblock request, and an unsuccessful one, so don't confuse the guy (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:47, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Bwilkins I see the difference now. I didn't mean to hamper his request, I was trying to help. Looks like his unblock request is on hold. I don't really know what that means but hopefully he will be successful in being unblocked. Edasent (talk) 15:31, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the support Edasent.