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all articles related to the Russo Ukrainian war extended protected

I have several problems related to this article : The first of them is : there is an extended protection . Second: the article about the invasion itself is not updated. please remove the protection . And why is the article about the invasion not updated ? Kiriuxa2002 (talk) 10:42, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kiriuxa2002, welcome to a community where your individual wishes are not always fulfilled by others, and where consensus is sometimes against your favor. Please find something else to edit about; the Task Center and the community portal contain ideas. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 11:41, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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So confused

Hello, thanks for your reply on my talk page. It seems I just don't understand the rules. Some people say you shouldn't be called a sockpuppet without a WP:SPI I think and then I read this Bishonen talk contribs‎ m 15,211 bytes 0‎ Changed protection settings for "Adam Leitman Bailey": Persistent sockpuppetry: the semiprotection isn't working very well against some obvious sock puppetry. ([Edit=Require extended confirmed access] (indefinite) [Move=Require extended confirmed access] (indefinite))

I do want to drop the matter but as you are the only person that has been kind then I thought I'd show you in the hope you could clarify things.

Bijou1995 (talk) 20:00, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Bijou1995,

I understand your concern and agree that Bishonen's protection reason does seem to imply that you are a sockpuppet. The last blocked sockpuppet to have edited the page was blocked 4 months ago, so it would be hard to see this as anything else than a sockpuppetry accusation against you.

That said, concerns about violations of the policy against sockpuppetry, specifically its section about "meatpuppetry", can reasonably be voiced if a new user starts doing things sockpuppets have done before.

I thus, even if the accusation is completely incorrect, uncivil and upsetting, recommend to disengage from this situation as there is currently nothing you, me or other users could do to change it. You have chosen to make a potentially controversial contribution and have received a rather direct form of negative feedback; it clearly won't be taken back and it will have to be accepted as is.

I have provided further advice on your talk page (permanent link) in response to your other message.

Best regards,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:07, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My protection reason for Adam Leitman Bailey was not meant to imply I was calling Bijou1995 a sock. If I thought I had good reason to do that, I would have done it openly rather than by implication. While the last clear sock edit to the article was indeed several months ago, I was viewing that in relation to how sparsely the article is edited altogether. Three different sockpuppets can be seen in the first fifty edits, while the article was indeed semiprotected, and that's what I was thinking of. Bishonen | tålk 21:27, 30 May 2023 (UTC).[reply]

Thank you so much for clearing things up like a gentleman, I shall check out my talk page.

Bijou1995 (talk) 14:31, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]