User talk:GGG65

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Hamilton library

Note that I also added the following to the talk page:

The reason I did that is that there are at least four "Hamilton Libraries." The way I found it, "Hamilton Library", "Hamilton Public Library", "Hamilton City Library", "Hamilton City Libraries" (that's right, the plural), etc, all led to different libraries. Thus, I made "Hamilton Library" a disambiguation page, redirected all those generic alternates to that disambig page, and put the clarifier term on the individual library articles. I don't object to using public library, but I feel you should use "Hamilton Public Library (Ontario)" due to the number of libraries in cities named Hamilton. D O N D E  groovily Talk to me 23:54, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

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Block issue

This user is asking that their block be reviewed:

GGG65 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Seriously, what's up with the user block? Although both Chris Latour and I work together in the Canadian Games industry and local post-secondary education, we are also clearly two separate people and since we both have a long history in Canadian and Ontario press in both games industry and political action simple google searches would verify this. We've been interviewed in local mass media press, radio, and television on both game industry and political topics. The fact that we are both professors at the same institution (Mohawk College, Hamilton) and game developers for some of the same projects should not be a reasonable cause for any form of block. Common interests do not the same person make. In particular, I've been editing Wikipedia since 2006 (longer, I see, than any of my "blockers" - I mean, geez!) Maybe a direct message, question, or notification would be nice before the block action was taken? After Mr Latour created the Galactic Ruler page I edited it to try to improve the quality and add more references/information, which I went to continue to do today when I discovered the block. Why would two people editing the same article even be suspicious? One of us could easily have done all the edits ourselves, but shared the work. This really makes no sense to me, it is not as if we were trying to stuff any vote or discussion, we were just both adding to the quality of the article. Yes we both have COI on BattleGoat, but again there is no attempt to hide that, I endeavor to add external references as much as possible. BattleGoat is a major Canadian Software developer in business since 2000 and shipping over half a million units in that time, so there is clear notability.

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Also, what's with the insane Block page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/GGG65/Archive - it says "Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below.", but you can't, because of the block? Seriously what is up with this system? Wikipedia was a much nicer place back in 2006.

GGG65 (talk) 17:31, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

That space in the SPI is for accused parties to comment before they are blocked. Your block appeal(which I will leave for someone else to review) is your means of giving a statement on the matter. 331dot (talk) 17:56, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Since I was blocked without notice or advance opportunity that didn't work, plus the line "Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below" shows in all cases, even when this is not a possible action. That is not just misleading but highly confusing. It took me half an hour to find out how to post the unblock request, something that is not once mentioned on the relevant page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/SPI/Guidance#Defending_yourself_against_claims - there is no hit on "user talk" at all on that page. Why not? Why mislead people and create barriers to those trying to respond to this claim??? I would also note that nothing about the block appeared in the Notices/Notifications. Isn't this something worth including in Notices? Probably somewhat more important than "your article X has been connected to Y". As you can tell, this is very frustrating for a user that has supported Wikipedia for over almost 15 years, both with editing and financially. GGG65 (talk) 18:33, 22 October 2019 (UTC)