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Drmies (talk) 16:18, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I asked and pleaded to allow me to edit again, waited months. I'm not doing anything wrong nor am I edit warring. Look at my contributions - I created the Dwarf water cobra, Iranian krait, and have contributed to Wikipedia Commons with pictures. I abused several different accounts 6-12 years ago. Is that forever going to be held over my head? Drmies and Casliber - please look at my contributions under Oxus4. I've not done anything wrong. Yes, having multiple accounts is wrong, edit warring, vandalism, and not contributing to make Wikipedia better is not what you should be doing, but that is not what I'm trying to do here. I had plans on doing some really good work on various elapids, especially starting articles that have not yet been created. Nobody paid any attention to my pleads over 6 months ago. Casliber even created a spot to get the opinion of other admins, but nobody even gave a "yes" or "no". I'm not trying to vandalize or abuse Wikipedia, on the contrary, I'm trying to improve it in the areas I can. So I get blocked again. No discussion, no look at my work or my intentions - just blocked. I understand why I was blocked all those years ago and I stayed away. But I'm not doing anything wrong now. Yes, I created another account, but that's after I pleaded and waited for over 6 months with no response on whether I would be allowed back or not. But, you guys are the admins, so you can hold things from 6-12 years ago over my head till now I guess. My contributions with Oxus4 have not been bad, but that won't be taken into consideration. Only the fact that I had several different accounts over 5 years ago. When Pincotti got blocked, I finally decided to just ask to be allowed back. However, nobody seemed to care. So I created a new one, hoping I could use that and only that - but I get blocked again. My intentions were only good. Oxus4 (talk) 16:54, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is not about your intentions, it's about what you did, and I added a note to User:Casliber/for community discussion. You keep saying "I add good stuff", but first of all that's a matter for other to judge, and second, well, you started yet another account, and on top of that you edited as an IP, from a range that I just blocked--so no, you're not sticking to your part of the deal. Surely WP:OFFER has been pointed out to you. Drmies (talk) 17:10, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Oxus4, I could just leave it and you'd be indefblocked. I created a subpage at User:Casliber/for community discussion to think about how we go from here. I still find mistakes in trying to clean up and because of your past history everything has to be double checked. Given this is a hobby and sometimes other things take priority for an extended period, I could just leave you blocked. Still fixing things. But I am still looking at more recent edits as a whole. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:30, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Casliber, thank you and I appreciate that you are willing to continue with the the whole WP:OFFER, but I'm a bit discouraged. Honestly, I feel like some admins are opposed to me (some I don't even know or remember conversing with, so I'm not sure why they'd even oppose me). For example, two articles I recently created: Bungarus persicus (Persian krait/Iranian krait) and Dwarf water cobra (Naja nana) were both deleted by User:Materialscientist simply because I created them. I put work into those articles. I'm also a keeper of venomous snakes, so I was able to upload my own pics of a Naja mandalayensis. I created/started from scratch probably 25-30% of all the Naja articles, are they going to be deleted too? I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle and all I wanted to do was improve Wikipedia where I can. I cleaned up the mess in the venom section in the Coastal taipan article, only to be reverted back to the mess it was by Eostrix. He/she did because I was a "sock", not paying any attention to the improvements, which you can see the difference here. Some grammatical errors, but an improvement from what it was, no? Anyway, all I'm trying to say is I'm ready to give up. I tried to go the appropriate route after being gone for 5 or 6 years and I was patient for over 6 months, so I made a few edits without creating an account, then I finally did and I get in trouble again. I'm not sure this is worth it anymore. Oxus4 (talk) 04:28, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Banned means banned. The way back in to Wikipedia is a successful appeal, not socking.--Eostrix (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 10:08, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]