User talk:Hikingboii

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Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 07:03, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please use the correct template

Please revise your entry at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Increase § San Francisco. Please use * {{pagelinks|1=San Francisco}}, which will produce:

San Francisco (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Peaceray (talk) 07:06, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed it. Now try it again. Hikingboii (talk) 19:08, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple accounts

Note that the hard policy of WP:MULTIPLE says a person may be blocked if they use multiple accounts to make the same edits at the same article. You have used Corona IPs Special:Contributions/104.33.147.194 and Special:Contributions/167.88.224.163 with some problematic editing overlap.

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Just today you revisited the page The Forest Is the Path to insist once again on a style statement at the top.[1][2] That is exactly the kind of edit the policy concerns. Please refrain from using two or more accounts to perform the same edits. Binksternet (talk) 21:45, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so why I was doing this is because of the following:

• I started editing Wikipedia some time in July 2024 while I did not have an account

• I created an account because editing with an IP address would make it "boring" for me

• While having an account, I went back to the same pages I edited from an IP address and have to make an edit to that page again with my account because I don't want to log out and edit with IP addresses anymore

These are the reasons why I was editing with multiple accounts. I hope you understand why I was doing this and I apologize for anything this might have caused. Hikingboii (talk) 06:16, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another reason why I created a Wikipedia account is because it highly recommended me to do so. Hikingboii (talk) 20:14, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not trying to stop you from editing. I just want you to be aware of the policy. It's much better that you are editing now with a username. Binksternet (talk) 22:53, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]