User talk:HJ Mitchell

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Block of 212.219.0.0/16

I work for Janet CSIRT, the security/abuse team for the UK's academic network. You appear to have blocked as a result of abusive edits from this range (which are almost certainly against our AUP). This range provides access to a large portion of the UK's academic community. Previously we have had good relationships with Wikipedia and when problems have escalated to this point someone has contacted us so that we can take up these issues with our customers and get them stopped at source rather than preventing the majority of users from editing Wikipedia.

Please could you reconsider this block and report specific issues to us at irt@csirt.ja.net so that we can prevent this abuse of Wikipedia. Jamesd (talk) 09:23, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Help with prose

Hello there,

I spotted your name in the list of editors willing to do copyediting. Bloody Thursday (2011) is not a biography, but it has a prose that needs fixing. Thanks in advance Mohamed CJ ^(talk) 09:56, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

AndresHerutJaim

Could you have a word with AndresHerutJaim when you get a chance please ? They seem to have forgotten that a topic ban started after their block ended. See User_talk:AndresHerutJaim#February_2012 and their contributions today. Thanks. Sean.hoyland - talk 14:15, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Topic ban

I'll be very careful to avoid an edit war, but practically all my editions are Israel-related (even Mohammed Deif is somehow related to the Arab-Israeli conflict), because I'm very interested about this issue. It means I can't edit in Wikipedia for three months? I just want to contribute to this encyclopedia, it's not my intention to upset anybody. Thanks for your explanation.--AndresHerutJaim (talk) 16:09, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My interpretation is that you can't edit any article that somebody could reasonably say is related to the conflict, so editing an article about Israel, for example, that doesn't relate to the conflict should be okay, but editing articles related to Hamas—given that organisation's role in the conflict—would certainly fall within the scope of the topic ban. That said, it's not my interpretation that matters. You would need to ask User:The Blade of the Northern Lights. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:27, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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misleading

Hi HJ_Mitchell, Sorry to bring an old convo up but I do find this a little uncivil [[1]]. Allow me to explain, I have come across Domer recently and traced some of his/her wild comments here. I do believe it to be uncivil to misrepresent a discussion. Domer here [[2]] seems to think that there was a consensus to remove a long standing edit, leaving many other users bemused. And despite there being no consensus and the discussion ongoing an edit was forced through by Domer and Bjmullan here [[3]]. Although it is probably too late to take any action, I just want to show you my findings as Domers argument on behalf of Bjmullan seems rather skewed.Hackneyhound (talk) 12:17, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi HJ, not sure if you wish to deal with this yourself or whether I should bring it to the WP:ANI, but I believe Domer48 is in breach of his probation. Here [4] which I believe falls under The Troubles sanctions. Under probation, Domer is only allowed to make 1 edit per page per week but under WP:Adam_Carroll, he has made 4 edits in 2 weeks regarding the persons nationality. This is surely in breach of their probation outlined here [5]Hackneyhound (talk) 15:53, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ian A Bourne

Hello, HJ Mitchell. You have new messages at Ottawahitech's talk page.
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