User talk:GustavaKomurov

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

Request reason:

Clearly not the same person as Ljfrench. I live in fricking Virginia and this blatant abuse is hilarious in the extreme. I've already tried privately emailing the editor in question (JBW) and they have not replied after nearly a month. I cannot contribute in any meaningful way because this editor refuses to respond to anything. I will provide any evidence needed to confirm I am not some guy in Luxembourg, though that'd be pretty obvious had JBW bothered to do a basic IP lookup, let alone maybe asked. GustavaKomurov (talk) 12:17, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Accept reason:

OK, I'm willing to believe that you are a different person from the one whose reverted editing you restored. I also apologise for not responding to your first email; it would have been more helpful if I had posted to you saying that you should put an unblock request here. I will unblock your account, and I hope you will now be able to return to editing without further problems. However, please bear in mind that the edit which you restored was unacceptable, because it repeated accusations against living persons without a reliable or independent source. (Also including one incident such as that out of the whole history of the school is disproportionate, but that is a matter of editorial judgement of content suitability.) JBW (talk) 21:08, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have placed your unblock request on hold. You indicate Ljfrench lives in Luxembourg. This may be true, but it's not immediately obvious to me. Please provide your specific evidence of this. If this information is not already on en.wikipedia.org, please review WP:OUTING before. You are welcome to email the evidence to me if providing it would violate WP:OUTING (but note that I don't respond to email). Please also verify that you have not and do not use proxies or VPNs when editing. Finally, please indicate if you have any connection whatsoever with Ljfrench. For example, perhaps you know this person outside of Wikipedia, or perhaps you both attended 42. If you are claiming no connection whatsoever, please indicate how you came to know about 42 (school) and why you made this specific edit. --Yamla (talk) 13:03, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm assuming Ljfrench lives in Luxembourg because 42 Luxembourg is based out of Luxembourg. It's in the name. All of the 42 campuses have the name of the campus location after the 42. By the way, that campus is not in the Wiki article, so it might need to be updated with that location. Anyways, the article by Ljfrench on 42 Luxembourg specifies he went to that school, so it's already information publicly disclosed by him. It should not fall afoul of WP:OUTING.

I do not have any connection Ljfrench whatsoever, other than happening to read an article by him on Medium.com. No relations, no conversations. Had I not become involved in this, I likely would have joined some science fiction projects for editing on Wikipedia.

I reverted the removal of the relevant controversy because it involved the school in question and was worded in a NPOV manner, only stating that there was an accusation, not that the accusation was actually true. Given the other controversies that the school has listed in the actual article (actual crimes), this would at best be considered a minor ethical lapse if it were even true.

I came to know about 42 because I was looking up coding schools in continental Europe because I am thinking of moving there, and it showed up a number of times in my searches. I'm guessing you want to know the one that led to the edit. [1]https://medium.com/@ljfrench/42-luxembourg-failed-me-my-open-letter-on-discrimination-and-injustice-39de62cdafc5

I have not and do not use proxies or VPNs when editing. I'm currently using Starlink internet from within the US, specifically Southwest Virginia. I'm not sure how that will show up for my IP, but you can likely check that with the known IP range for Starlink internet. GustavaKomurov (talk) 14:28, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:RS. After you have done so, please explain what was wrong with the edit you incorrectly reverted. --Yamla (talk) 14:31, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, I have

Confirmed some sockpuppetry. Please speak to that. Now is your time to be fully open and honest about multiple accounts. --Yamla (talk) 14:33, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I guess if by sockpuppetry you mean an old, OLD account from 2009. I am GundamMerc. I will argue that it is not sockpuppetry, because I only recently got that account working again and haven't made any recent contributions with it(the last was in 2009). You'll have to let me know if there are any others you think are mine, because that is the only one I can remember, as it was probably the only one I made a serious attempt at editing on. I know the usual usernames I use on other sites (usually a variation of Gustav Kuriga, GundamMerc, or Komurov), so if you have a list I'll confirm which ones are mine.

As for the WP:RS, I believe the issue was the reliability of the Medium article because it was inherently biased and not written by a noteworthy/reliable source. That is my fault entirely, and I will try to do better. GustavaKomurov (talk) 14:45, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore this, it's been over a decade since I edited so testing features

You can add topics on talk pages now at the press of a button? Neat. Back in mah day you had to do that manually, both ways! GustavaKomurov (talk) 15:17, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your email

I have received and read your email, in which you say that you gave me a chance "to handle this quietly", but that I "never bothered" to respond to your "private appeal", so that now we will both have to "go through the hassle of a formal appeal". After some searching I managed to find a previous email from you. (For some reason it didn't come up when I searched my email account for "GustavaKomurov"; I have no idea why.) The text of the email was "Now do tell me, does that look anything like LjFrench?" together with a link to the page User talk:GundamMerc. JBW (talk) 17:37, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You got two. I will admit I was a bit heated in the moment when I sent those. I apologize for that. I just find it annoying in the extreme when I'm halfway across the world from the person I'm being accused of being a sockpuppet for, and there wasn't even an attempt to contact me before just smacking the block button. It'd be one thing if I vandalized the page or spammed your talk, but all I did was one revision, singular, and there goes my account, assumed of being a sockpuppet. GustavaKomurov (talk) 03:15, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Anyways, thank you for reversing it. I'll be sticking to science fiction pages if I can from now on. GustavaKomurov (talk) 03:38, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I understand how annoying and frustrating it must have been to be blocked for something you hadn't done, and I apologise for the inconvenience. Unfortunately it is often necessary to take action on the basis of balance of probabilities, rather than proof beyond all doubt, which does sometimes result in wrong decisions. JBW (talk) 20:29, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understandable. I'll be doing some suggested page edits for now to better understand how much things have changed in the 15 years since I last tried my hand at editing. GustavaKomurov (talk) 20:35, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]