User talk:Amalthea

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Request for reinstatement

April 13, 2017

Amalthea, I was blocked by Wikipedia in 2011 for alleged copyright violations: following copyrighted text too closely though with attribution of the source in the reference link. You unblocked me on April 27, 2013.

Then I was banned on November 16, 2015 for the same reasons based on two articles, Timothy Dwight Hobart and Susan Pamerleau.

In the former, my article was gutted to a single introductory paragraph on the claim that I had followed text too closely from a copyrighted source, The Handbook of Texas On-line, though I had scrambled the material. The WP article was expanded and recently published by West Texas Historical Review." The Hobart article is titled: 

Land, Cattle, and Settlement: Timothy Dwight Hobart and the Shaping of the Texas Panhandle, 1855-1935 Authors Billy Hathorn Publication date 2016 Journal The West Texas Historical Review Volume 92 Issue 2016 Pages 78-93 Publisher West Texas Historical Association in Lubbock

The Sheriff Pamerleau article had some information on her background that I was given permission by email to use. But WP found that I did not have the proper permission verified. I sent in a copy of the permission. That article is still on the board but altered somewhat from the way I submitted it.

The people on WP pushing for my ban would not consider the view that following copyrighted material too closely but with attribution is NOT plagiarism.

Would you consider reinstating me as you did four years ago? I have been banned for nearly seventeen months, long enough for violations of this kind, it seems to me. I understand that I shouldn't "follow too closely" and will never do so again.

Thanks, Billy Hathorn 75.35.181.75 (talk) 02:33, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Re @Billy Hathorn: I cannot undo a community ban, you will need to submit an appeal as explained at WP:UNBAN.
I haven't kept up with your edits regarding copyright problems, so I'm in no position to comment on that. What I can say is that as long as you keep evading your ban (not least with the anonymous IP account above) you show that you are still not caring about the policies of the Wikipedia community, so I'd expect you have no change of getting your ban lifted at the moment. If you are serious about this, my recommendation is: take a break of at least a year, without any edits, and appeal your ban then. Considering your history, this will probably not be enough, but its a first step.
Amalthea 10:23, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Might want to see this, it concerns one of your scripts

Amalthea, Wikipedia made a change on the underlying script loading proceedure and it's affecting your userhighlighter.js script. You may want to pop over to The village pump for a report on that particular script  Ҝ Ø Ƽ Ħ  13:21, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

more scriptpocalypse

I blanked User:Amalthea/MakeAutopatroller.js for now. It's not up to date with the coding standards, and still relied on sajax even.. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:32, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

RfA watchlist notice

Just a quick head's up, the bot seems to have tripped up this afternoon] (Anarchyte's RfA is still live) and consequently the RfA notice has disappeared from the watchlist. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:07, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Ritchie333, fixed! Amalthea 18:23, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Billy Hathorn is still editing through a wide variety of IP addresses

Greetings. I've been tracking Billy Hathorn's IP addresses for a few months. The most recent one is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/67.45.96.9 -- could you block it and also do some kind of a range block? Sorry if I am being rude. 92.30.178.11 (talk) 11:06, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

The proper venue for suspected block/ban evasion in this case will be Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Billy Hathorn, please consider reporting your findings there. Amalthea 11:19, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

i have reported my findings at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Billy Hathorn -- is my evidence persuasive in your view? 92.30.178.11 (talk) 12:14, 3 July 2017 (UTC)