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Happy editing! Patient Zero^talk 05:59, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Jutos222 (talk) 22:38, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What is it? SkibidiToilet303 (talk) 23:07, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at New Zealand. You also did this on Austria, Suriname, Colorado, and more. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 18:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Vandalism in country/state/geographical area. Thank you. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 18:23, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I just want to become an administrator. I tell people multiple times that i'm not perfect, but nobody seems to care. Also, i will try to make accurate and unsourced edits the next time. If you're an admin, can you unblock my account and IP? I'm already blocked but i want to continue editing (positive)

SkibidiToilet303 (talk) 14:13, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also i made the total area of the Upper Peninsula 93,600 km2. The way i do that is by calculating the total area of all its counties, so its total area would've been 93,600 km2. SkibidiToilet303 (talk) 14:27, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's technical logs indicate that this user account has been or may be used abusively. It has been blocked indefinitely from editing to prevent abuse.

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Drmies (talk) 18:53, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can't put my unblock message to your reason, so i'm just going to reply:

I just want to become an administrator. I tell people multiple times that i'm not perfect, but nobody seems to care. Also, i will try to make accurate and unsourced edits the next time. Unblock my account and IP, or decline? SkibidiToilet303 (talk) 14:10, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Becoming an administrator shouldn't be your ultimate goal as a Wikipedian; rather, your reasoning for being here should be that of wanting to help improve the project, whether that's by writing articles or cleaning up issues that may arise, such as vandalism or inserting factual errors. Unfortunately, your conduct has not been acceptable so far. I would take The ed17's advice and come back in six months to a year (I am guessing by your username that you are quite young, and would therefore advise that you take some time to mature before appealing your block; I'd also recommend that, when you do return, you consider a change of username, as many in the community see "meme" usernames as indicative of an intent to cause disruption). Best wishes, Patient Zero^talk 15:56, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Patient Zero: sorry, I had to remove my earlier post because I added up the figures wrong! That said, RussianFanboy2010, I can give a hearty +1 to the above. If you'd like to productively edit, I would step away from Wikipedia entirely, stop creating sockpuppets/disrupting the site, and take the standard offer.

Re: the Upper Peninsula, thank you for explaining the figures. I've re-added them up and put them in the article. In the future, we do want sources for all edits of this nature—but the citations have to support the info you're adding. Something like this... doesn't do that. cc Drmies Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 16:05, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Patient Zero, @Drmies and @The ed17 by the way i am quite young. And i'm not actually 19. I'm 13. And Skibidi Toilet is not really my interest, i just decided to name my username that for...no real reason. I started editing on Wikipedia when i was 9 (2019) and i was anonymous at the time. I was interested in cars, but my edits were rather disrupted. I didn't really understand Wikipedia's purpose. I created my original account (@RussianFanboy2010) when i was 11 (April 2022, i was turning 12 later that year). I was only a kid, and i didn't really know i was ruining Wikipedia. After being blocked, i created so many accounts. I didn't want anybody to know that i'm responsible for all the edits.

For Philippines, i made an efn saying that the Philippines could've been 301,129 km2, 310,798 km2, 321,918 km2 or 343,448 km2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philippines&oldid=1145866226, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philippines&action=history&offset=20230327214057%7C1146938833, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philippines&action=history&offset=20240101193717%7C1193045351, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philippines&oldid=1194713023

For Austria, i swear it's area used to say "83,879 km2" (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Austria&oldid=1114974904)

For Colorado, it used to say that the state is 269,837 km2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colorado&oldid=1172239392). So many sources, even Google say that it's 269,837 km2

I will try to improve my edits and try to make correct area info based on reliable sources SkibidiToilet303 (talk) 23:26, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not even about the edits. It's about explaining what you are doing to other editors, and about being a team player. Like it or not, we are a team here. And lying and creating alternate accounts--well that just totally undermines the whole collaborative thing, doesn't it. Drmies (talk) 00:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

+1 to everything Drmies said above. Also, plenty of editors have started young, including myself—and I believe I know at least one that started at the same age you did. Many others been blocked early in their editing time, including myself. Fun fact: the admin who blocked me summarized their reasoning as "Disruption, trolling, vandalism, no useful edits". And yet, here I am. :-)

If you take the standard offer by refraining from editing or creating new accounts for at least six months, and commit to making accurate + well-cited edits from there on out, I will work through that process myself to get you unblocked. If that appeals to you, ping me like you did above when the time period is up.

Note that accurate/well-cited includes citing specific reliable sources. For instance, for Colorado the figure you found conflicts with the estimate given by the US Census. Austria's conflicts with the reliable sources out there as well. For something like the Philippines, the figure given by a source like the CIA Factbook is going to be far more reliable than one given by an article on a small topic (it was titled "Land Use Efficiency in Southern Philippines Provinces") that was published on a medium-sized university's website (and therefore likely never went through a peer review process). Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 00:57, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also agree with everything Drmies and Ed said above. I also started editing Wikipedia young - I was 14 myself - and I'm a big believer in the idea that our young editors who do contribute constructively should be treated with the same respect as any other editor here, even if they had a rocky start to begin with. I'd be more than happy to mentor you should you wish to take the standard offer, as I remember the feeling of trying to get my head around all the policies and guidelines all those years ago! PS I have young family members (around your age) who are fans of the Skibidi Toilet thing, never really understood it myself but our interests change over time and so we might decide to change the usernames we use across certain websites to reflect that. I speak from experience here, as my former Wikipedia username was my favourite Pokemon! All the best, and hope to hear from you when you are ready. Patient Zero^talk 12:53, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Patient Zero I agree with both Ed and Drmies. And for the last time, i'm not perfect, and i didn't know Wikipedia's purpose when i was 9. Sometimes, i feel weird editing

@The ed17 I also agree to not edit or create new accounts for at least 6 months, and i will commit to making accurate and well-cited edits from there on out. And i understand that some sources say that Austria is 83,879 km2 but many argue that it is 83,871 km2. And i know that very many sources of where i live (Colorado) say that it is 269,601 km2 rather than 269,837 km2 so i'll just leave it like that. And i'll admit, User:Just a random geography fan is my alt. I did edit the area of Morocco to be 712,550 km2 and 446,550 km2, because many sources say that Morocco is 446,550 km2, and almost all sources say that Western Sahara (which Morocco claims) is 266,000 km2. 446,550+266,000=712,550 km2. The World Factbook has some outdated information that has been updated over time, but it can still be right today. And i've messed up the area of Togo by rounding it. You can revert that to what it was (it used to say 56,785 km2)

@Drmies You know what? You're right. I should start being more sensitive on what i'm doing with my alts and stop lying about my personal identity. SkibidiToilet303 (talk) 00:04, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And @The ed17, I just read a revision of this article Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#c-The ed17-20240123182100-Vandalism in country/state/geographical area about exposing me recently. You were actually doing the wrong thing and calling my edits "deliberately falsified" when this is usually not on purpose. I don't have access to calculating true sizes on my own so of course I wouldn't know how big these places are. Geography is complicated. Imagine, if you will, calculating a country that isn't easy to calculate, and taking practically a week to figure it out. I can be certain you would give up. Just saying. I am trying to get better at editing even though i'm blocked. I can find a reliable source. If I find it, and if it seems completely different to what it says to the Wikipedia infobox, and is government-sponsored, then I can cite it there. Sorry if I'm sounding mean. I do apologize for sometimes fooling around with Wikipedia. Do you have a response to that? SkibidiToilet303 (talk) 01:12, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I do—it appears as though my assumptions there were inaccurate. We can't calculate "true sizes" on our own unless it's routine math (see WP:CALC) using statistics from reliable sources. The sources we cite don't need to be government-sponsored, though I would guess that those would be the most reliable stats available in many (not all) cases. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 16:34, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's progress. The whole thing with socking is that it creates doubt between editors; we lose trust. Wikipedia can use editors who are particular about details: we want to get things right. Please do NOT give out your actual identity, by the way--there are safety issues here. Drmies (talk) 00:10, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]