User talk:Strala00

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16:05, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation

An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Strala00, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

Conifer (talk) 03:34, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Forgotten Password. Arriving back to a mess

I come back after days of travel and the holiday to find a mess. This is called forgetting your password and then forgetting about Wikipedia. I told one of your editors about this on their talk page. I also mentioned moving on to new pages. My intent was to start a separate page on the 2019-2020 RMV Scandal in Massachusetts after returning home. Instead, I come back to a mess of stuff. For a newbie I am lost.

There's a couple of different issues here, but the first one to address is your use of multiple accounts, which we call WP:SOCKPUPPETRY. That's not allowed. Your original account was Honestyinmass. That account has been blocked for 1 week (with about 5 days to run on that now). If you tell me that you'll go back to just using the one account, I'm willing to unblock that now. If you've lost your password to that account, you can reset it at Special:PasswordReset and then continue editing from there.

The other issue is the types of edits you've been making. Please read our policy on biographies of living people so you understand what you need to comply with to edit those types of articles. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:42, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the information. I kept inquiring about passwords but heard nothing back. I wanted to use the original account all along. I believe a standalone RMV scandal page will resolve most of the conflicts

What I need is for you to agree that you're not going to be creating any other accounts, just so that's clear and unambiguous. And if you do have any other accounts already that we haven't found, this would be the time to say what they are, so that's all out in the open and you can start with a clean slate. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:44, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Now that I have the reset password tool I have no intention of using other accounts.

OK, you're good to go. I've unblocked the account. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:58, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You. I tried your password reset link. I'm still blocked from changing the password. Is it possible to delete everything and start fresh?

The account I unblocked is your original one, Honestyinmass, so you need to put that into the reset password form. I just did that for you; you should have gotten an email delivered to whatever email address you registered with that account. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:19, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Alternatively, if the password recovery process isn't working, I could just re-block Honestyinmass and unblock this account (Strala00). The important thing is that you have one single account that you use. Let me know which you prefer. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:24, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Password recovery isn't working. And I'm finding a lot of junk on this machine since returning. I need to do a lot of cleanup. Unblocking this account makes the most sense. Thank you for these insights too.

OK, I've unblocked this account. Sorry about the mess, but we take people using multiple accounts as a serious violation. I accept your explanation that this was all just due to a lost password, so you're good to continue editing with this account. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:06, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You. No need to apologize. I apologize for my mess.