User talk:JBW

This account was previously known as JamesBWatson, but was renamed to JBW on 19 September 2019. James B. Watson is not my real name.

Please post new sections at the bottom of the page. If you don't, there is a risk that your message may never be noticed, if other edits follow it before I get here.

Could you consider unprotecting 977?

I was browsing Wikipedia recently and I saw that you protected this page back in 2016 due to persistent spamming of the site "977 News". I don't believe this semi-protection is appropriate anymore, as when I tried to visit the URL of the site that was being spammed it 404'd. Chess (talk) (please WP:PING when replying) 04:17, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

@Chess:  Done Thanks for drawing this to my attention. JBW (talk) 11:06, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Unblock request

Hi there. Regarding your block at User_talk:Yosemiter#Block_for_edit-warring, would you be amendable to a reduction of the 48-hr block to say 24–31? It was a 1st-time offense and involved a long-time disruptive editor. Are there other factors? Regards?—Bagumba (talk) 12:26, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

@Bagumba: Unfortunately I had already posted a message on the editor's talk page before seeing this message from you. I say "unfortunately" because if I had seen your message first I would have considered it before writing to the blocked editor, and what I wrote might have been significantly different. However, going forward from where we are, here are my thoughts.

• I certainly agree with you that the edit-war was asymmetrical, with the other participant being a long-time disruptive editor, which is why I blocked Yosemiter for two days and the other editor for a month.
• This is a first time block for Yosemiter, but not a first time offense. She or he has edit-warred before, been warned about it, and even used the "yes I know I edit-warred, but I was right and the other editor was wrong" line of defence. That is what led me to a 48 hour block rather than (say) 24 hours. My experience over the years is that an editor who has repeatedly got away with doing something which they know is against policy but which they think is "right" will continue to do the same, and a short token block is all too likely to convey a message closer to "see: even in the unlikely event that you get sanctioned for infringing policy, it will only be a minor sanction which doesn't hurt much" than "see: even though you have been allowed to get away with it for years, you can't assume you will continue to be allowed to". Of course that is a gross simplification, but it is intended to convey the general spirit of the matter, rather than to define it accurately.
• Despite that, I will meet you part way by reducing the block to 36 hours, and if Yosemiter is willing to agree not to edit-war again even if they believe they are in the right, I will have no objection whatever to an immediate unblock, let alone a reduction to 24 or 31 hours. I will post a message to that effect to the talk page, and give credit to you for encouraging me to reconsider. JBW (talk) 20:57, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

You've got mail

I don't know what that stuff was. I just responded to an email from you and said yes I am affiliated. Delete my content. Delete my account. Sorry

Dawn