User talk:2600:100D:B021:4BBF:2435:96A9:2C8F:2033

August 2023[edit]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Wix.com. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 03:26, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Wix.com, you may be blocked from editing. The change to the URL calls into question whether any of the edits are good faith or are just to camoflage the mischief. —C.Fred (talk) 03:29, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Anonymous users from this IP address have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours to prevent further vandalism.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. —C.Fred (talk) 03:32, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If this is a shared IP address and you are an uninvolved editor with a registered account, you may continue to edit by logging in.

@C.Fred: I do not think the Houston-based IP editor's edits to Wix.com were vandalism. What he/she did was (1) change a URL, (2) rephrase lots of sentences, and (3) provide what are claimed to be 2023 data. His/her edit-warring was intolerable and started on 17 August,^[1] but was stopped on 18 August when Isabelle Belato protected the article. The edit warring resumed on 30 August when the IP editor realised that he/she was no longer prevented from editing the article.^[2]

The rephrasing of sentences was misdirected effort; almost none of his/her changes were an improvement; they were just a different way of writing some of it. As for it being a lot of work - dream on. I would imagine that other editors [e.g. ZimZalaBim, Apparition11, Annh07, PhilKnight, JalenFolf, Isabelle Belato, C.Fred, and others] have spent vastly more effort evaluating the IP editor's "word engineering" than the IP editor put in to making the changes.

As for the 2023 data, he/she did not provide a reliable source for the new data. Please could the IP editor have a look at referencing for beginners. If he/she wants to change the data in an article he/she needs to add citations for the changes he/she made. If he/she does not add citations, his/her edits will be reverted.

C.Fred, it is likely that the IP editor (whose IP may change) will resume edit warring over this article in September. Please could you protect the article for six months so that only confirmed/autoconfirmed editors can edit it. That way, if the IP editor wants to edit the article he/she will need to get an account and behave properly like the rest of us.-- Toddy1 (talk) 07:21, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Toddy1 The change in URL was so concerning because it was to a site with a different registrar when I did a whois lookup. The URL is—currently, at least—pointing to the main wix.com website, so the change is not actively malicious. That said, the infobox should contain the main URL, not a redirect to it, so it is certainly a violation of guidelines.

As I looked at the page history, I did note that the edit warring resumed almost immediately upon expiry of the article protection. If there is further edit warring without discussion of the changes at the talk page and gaining consensus for them, then yes, protection will be a necessary next step. —C.Fred (talk) 10:37, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@C.Fred: Please can you protect the page for six months:

-- Toddy1 (talk) 13:34, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Toddy1

Done —C.Fred (talk) 13:40, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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