User talk:LaceyUF

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December 2017

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Owen Shroyer into another page. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Adam9007 (talk) 00:53, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll do this from now on. LaceyUF (talk) 00:57, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Email question

Hi LacyUF. I saw your email, but I'm not an administrator so there's not much I can do to help you. I'm also not on Discord (I don't even know what that is to be honest). You can try asking for administrator assistance by posting at WP:AN or by adding Template:Admin help to your user talk page and an administrator should be along eventually to help you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:03, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

I thought they were. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 08:53, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

IPBE (☑️ Resolved)

I think that's right. Yes, those behind the Great Firewall of China use them. Though that ticket did not reference your user name nor request IPBE that I saw. VPN's are anonymizing and a route for vandalism attacks, so I fail to see how turning it of would be a bad thing. The reason you gave for VPNing in the ticket had nothing to do with Wikipedia. Come to think of it, I wouldn't expect the ordinary range block would prevent logged in editors from editing. Though I see a m:global block might. What did the check user's say? Hopefully, you are now able to edit. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 08:41, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

PS I had to dig around for it, but there is also an instruction to contact the Stewards if affected. No idea why it was so hard to find. So if editing us still prevented, you should contact them-- m:Special:Contact/stewards. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 08:50, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

PPS I went through and reread Wikipedia:IP block exemption. "The conditions for granting this are that . . .the editor agrees never to misuse the exemption to edit through a blocked anonymizing proxy". So that explains the check user's response. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 09:19, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

I've given you IP block exemption for 3 months, after which you'll need to re-request it. From the above, it looks like you might have already had a request denied. That's a bit frustrating because we generally discourage this kind of shopping around for an administrator who's willing to give you what you want. I suggest that if you re-request IPBE that you be a bit more open about this sort of thing. But I probably should have read your entire talk page before jumping in, anyway. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:29, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

The reason my request was denied was because I didn't include my username in the IP:BE request (this may have been communicated to me via email) and he thought I was requesting for an IP address to be unblocked rather than an account unblocked. Also, I don't know what DeepFriedOkra meant when he said "that explains the check user's response" and I asked him via email if that meant a check user responded to me and I don't think he ever responded. To the best of my knowledge, no check user has ever declined my IP:BE request -- only 2 admins and only for reasons of making my request not clear enough to be decipherable (i.e. not including my username with the IP:BE request which led them to believe I wanted an IP address unblocked, which isn't what I wanted). LaceyUF (talk) 05:32, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

OK, well, it's not a huge deal even if it happened like I said. IPBE is often discussed outside of public view, which makes everything more complicated. And because it allows people to bypass blocks, there's more potential drama involved than simply asking for rollback. To make everything worse, the whole thing is obviously a large bureaucracy. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:11, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Good to know! I also reached out to DeepFriedOkra on his talk page asking him to confirm/clarify if a check user previously declined my IP:BE request. To the best of my knowledge, none ever have. LaceyUF (talk) 06:20, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate and Deepfriedokra: FWIW, the relevant UTRS threads are UTRS appeal #44756, and UTRS appeal #44454. 44454 was declined by JJMC89. The explanation at 44756 is nothing short of bizarre, and frankly doesn't sound based in reality, speaking as a former employee of that ISP, and a 20+ year customer of that ISP that's had many similarly set up devices. It also directly contradicts any story about editing from China.

There appears to be a ticket at OTRS (VRTS ticket # 2021061710001256) as well, which was never actioned (until I closed it just now), and consisted almost entirely of "I just signed up for a VPN, and I want to edit from it!" (paraphrased), and repeated reminders that they had sent an email a few days ago.

I'm assuming that you got an email about this as well? ^{!ɘM γɿɘυϘ}⅃ϘƧ 11:13, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

I don't know anything about editing from China? (I don't think I ever said that!) LaceyUF (talk) 05:59, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Attention Checkusers

Someone fixed my IP:BE a few minutes ago and I no longer need any help or assistance! LaceyUF (talk) 05:26, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Excellent. Happy editing! --Yamla (talk) 09:46, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

"Cargo film" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Cargo film. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 July 11#Cargo film until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 12:01, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

☑️ Seen and responded to on the relevant pages! LaceyUF (talk) 12:28, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

"Platform film" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Platform film. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 July 11#Platform film until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 12:09, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

☑️ Seen and responded to on the relevant pages! LaceyUF (talk) 12:28, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

Reply

I received your email, but I have no knowledge of the information you requested. 331dot (talk) 00:03, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Okay thanks, I found reference to the incident on Tamzin's talkpage (just so you know I'm not inventing the story). Cheers, LaceyUF (talk) 00:07, 12 July 2021 (UTC)