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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Britain First. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Final warning, you are engaged in a slow edit ware against four other editors. That is more than enough to get you blocked if reported. Use the talk page to get agreement before making changes ----Snowded ^TALK 06:04, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Request reason:

I wish to appeal what is an unjust block by an Administrator. I have made a reasonable and sound edit to this article, the reasoning of which is given in its edit log, and have been met by several other users who have continually reverted it automatically whilst not been able to give encyclopedic reasoning for their actions. They have either not given any reason at all, or have come back with personal opinions, or citing material which is not encyclopedic in the form of media opinion columns (not news articles). I have asked a simple question each time to justify their desire to retain the article as is, and they have not answered it, if they had been able to I would have withdrawn my edit voluntarily. They have edit warred with me, not the other way around. A reading of the article's edit log where I detailed and reasoned the edit change, and what the replies and responses have been shows what has gone on here. There is no fair justification for this block in my direction (perhaps it was in theirs, but I did not seek it). Is Wiki an encyclopedia, or an internet political blog to be controlled by groups of users wielding personal opinions collectively in a capricious manner, with Administrators arbitrarily issuing unjust blocks to appease them vs individual?Bardrick (talk) 21:25, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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You are blocked for edit warring. "I am right" is no excuse for edit warring. You should use the time to familiarize yourself with dispute resolution. Huon (talk) 21:33, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Request reason:

I wish to appeal this block for a 2nd time, the first block was unjust and poor encyclopedic management, and the 1st appeal's response addressed barely any of the points made. I did not say solely "I'm right", nor did I make "excuses" (excuses for what & to whom exactly?), and why am I being accused of edit warring & not the other users who have automatically reverted the latest edit without good encyclopedic reasoning each time, and failed to provide one for their actions each time I requested it. This is poor encyclopedic management & merely encourages more of this behaviour by editors whose opinions are bigger than their encyclopedic logic & discipline. Admin. should have stayed out of this exchange when it was summoned by a user threatening another with it (which is in itself against Wiki's guidance for Admin. I vaguely recall?) on this article and allowed the edits to argue the issue through to a conclusionBardrick (talk) 22:33, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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This request is no better than your first. Apparently, you have no insight into collaboration, consensus-building, or edit-warring policy. The content issue should be worked out on the Talk page or some other dispute resolution forum, not persistently disrupting the article. Don't blame administrators. Don't blame other editors. Look to your ownconduct. If you can't figure this out, the possibility of another longer block in the future is unfortunately likely. Bbb23 (talk) 22:47, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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WP:LEAD

Bardrick, regarding your edit here, I reverted per what I stated in that edit summary: "The lead is meant to summarize the article, per WP:LEAD. One paragraph does not do the article justice." Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 06:20, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Lewis Collins

Please use the sandbox or the preview button if you want to make a large number of changes to an article.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 18:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Peter Walls

Hi Bardrick, I apologise for the harsh words before, I didn't mean that as a slur on you personally and I'm sorry to have offended you. Anyway: as you may be able to see I'm trying to edit from my phone and it's hard to do references - please see the articles I wrote on Ian Smith, Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, William Harper (Rhodesian politician), Hugh Beadle, Southern Rhodesian military involvement in the Malayan Emergency and more for lots of source material with reliable sources relevant to changes made to the Peter Walls article. Rhodesia wasn't a republic until 1970, country was Zimbabwe Rhodesia from June 1979 after Internal Settlement, that kind of thing. Hope this helps. Cheers and have a nice weekend —  Cliftonian (talk)  10:33, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

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Please don't be like Bob and read WP:DERRY. Reverting could lead to another block for you. Have a nice day 😀

I'm sure some Admin have this page on their watch list. He keeps reverting a edit that conforms with MOS and we the majority of people who actually live in Doire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.231.69 (talk) 19:34, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

This edit summary made me laugh https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War_Medal_1939%E2%80%931945&diff=prev&oldid=786769189 😀 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.231.69 (talk) 20:09, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Just looked at your edit history. I think you might be worse than Bob. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.86.0.157 (talk) 20:25, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

You have been blocked for edit warring, 3RR violation (which you know about) and continual violation of WP:DERRY despite being informed of the naming convention. Canterbury Tail talk 20:54, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

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I have been blocked by an administrator unjustly. The edit log on the article shows what's taken place here. You have multiple revert edits by 1 or 2 anonymous parties, one who appears to have several anonymous accounts all from the same location, there's no reason being given by them for it other than gibberish comments on the article's log, mixed with threats of "going to admin" for canceling their reversions (which is not meant to be done on Wikipedia either), & another reference to a ridiculous "naming convention", where a town's legal governmental name has been re-titled, in what's meant to be encyclopedia, other than what it officially is actually named. This "naming convention" is based on political views not governmental legal facts, & I'm amazed that any authority in Wikipedia ever allowed it, & now it's been allowed there are obviously politically motivated people edit warring with sensible editors on the site over multiple pages using it as a weapon when any1 types that town actual legal name into an article, which they are watching & auto-reverting obsessively to control. This is an idiotic administrative practice for what's meant to be an encyclopedia sourced on evidence based material & reasoned logic, as is this stupid block - which criticizes someone for edit warring (no warning given first, no discussion of it, just an extended block slapped on at the first opportunity), making no such sanction to the other parties who have done exactly the same thing & started it, most of their reverts having been made from anonymous accounts without comment & little editing history, evidence, justification or with just gibberish comments in its log indicating who they are & their mentality & motivation, where as my edits in the log were reasoned & based on encyclopedic logic. I don't expect this block to be lifted, but I'm putting this on the record as to the mess Wikipedia is in currently on this issue of the name of the town of Londonderry in its article, where it has clearly been hi-jacked by politically motivated people, which should not have been allowed by the editorial authority of what's meant to be an encyclopedia, & the spill-over effects this bad decision is now having.

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Whatever you think about the consensus that has been reached regarding Derry/Londonderry, this is not the place to argue about it. Unless the consensus is changed, you must follow it - and you certainly must not edit war to impose your own preferred naming in defiance of it. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 22:04, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

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Hi

While I realise u might never read this, here goes anyway

Stop putting <br> everywhere to create a new line for a paragraph or some other weird indentation you have thought looks good.

You have messed up several articles using it, and made them look rubbish.
This is how one uses them, to make an indented line in chat or talk pages.
NOT in articles please!

I have spent fifteen minutes trying to restore some sense to one article, and am now going to have to spend more time looking at the rest of your edits to make sure you haven't cocked them up as well...

Once again, the <br> tag is for making a line break - try not to use them in articles unless there is no other way

Normally we simply hit enter twice, and start a new paragraph.

Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 16:50, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

So, after a few hours trawling through your edits, I can see that it appears to be a more recent form of your editing (in the last year or so) that is leaving these <br>s in blocks of text.

I did only do random samples of pages you have edited, so there may be ones left to be removed.

It would be great if you could do that.

Also, it seems that there were quite a few spaces removed between the closing > and the first letter of the next word at the end of references:

</ref>Blah blah blah - should be:

</ref> Blah blah blah

Chaosdruid (talk) 18:20, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

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You got block for you edits regarding Derry in the past but you seem to have not learnt the rules of WP, e.g. Nigel Dodds. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.28.89.159 (talk) 20:06, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

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October 2019

Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to Wally Nightingale while logged out. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting and doing so may result in your account being blocked from editing. Additionally, making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. This is obviously you [1] ♟♙ (talk) 16:24, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --♟♙ (talk) 16:33, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Reply: Sometimes I sign in, sometimes I forget to - particularly if it's an edit made quickly. I wasn't aware you weren't allowed to do this & there's some rule against it? You appear to be itching for an argument for some reason with other editors and reverting good edits without giving any justification - why are you behaving like this, have you no better way on Wikipedia of spending your time, like contributing positively to articles, rather than eagerly seeking confrontations with other editors who are?

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for abusing multiple accounts. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 20:49, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Reply: Please cite any edit I've made that's 'destructive', 'illegitimate', causing vandalism - or 'disruptive' (whatever that vague term means)? I haven't 'abused' anything, all I've done is to not sign in when editing sometimes, which - as you yourself state - is allowed, as I assumed it was. I presume you've read my edits & therefore will know full well that I've contributed positively to Wikipedia & have stayed well within its rules & spirit. This case is a heavy-handed abuse of authority by some people, who are strangely going around the site seemingly wanting to start arguments with contributors for no good reason. "En Passant"'s reverted edits on those 2 articles were petty & bad editing practise, they degraded the articles & reverted without giving any reason, and his/her complaining about me to Admin on a trumped up charge of "not signing in" was more of the same. I don't know why some Wiki editors behave like this, but Moderators should know better & not encourage it by aiding it with unjust accusations & punishments.

Please see this section, #4, first bullet point. For me to discuss your block, you will need to give me permission to disclose your IP addresses. Also, please sign your posts with four tildes. ~~~~
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 00:58, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Reply: Thank you for the reply with the directions. You have my permission to disclose the IP addresses in order to explain why I've been stopped by Administration from contributing to Wikipedia. Bardrick (talk) 13:07, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. You are blocked for avoiding scrutiny by IP socking. Two different ranges are blocked to prevent you from doing this:

• Special:Contributions/84.13.176.0/21
• Special:Contributions/89.243.96.0/21 (hardblocked, you are the only editor on that range)

You were previously blocked by Canterbury Tail in the above section which included violations of WP:DERRY. The block was upheld by Boing! said Zebedee. Subsequently, you continued violating that and have done this more recently using IP addresses (also this and this). Replacing Northern Ireland with Ulster is also problematic since three counties of Ulster are in the Republic and not in Northern Ireland, right?. Replacing The Troubles with Ulster as you have done here, here and here. And you have removed The Troubles by name before and obfuscated a military operation name with Ulster (also this and this and this).

Here you add a student which was removed as uncited. You used an IP to add it back still uncited. That is edit-warring.

This IP edit was reverted but you used your account to add it back.

Long term edit warring at Wally Nightingale as described at ANI.

You used an IP to revert at Gerry Adams but this is an article that you have edited with your account. You did not engage on the talk page.

These are some examples but not an exhaustive list. You need to stick to editing with your account and you need to uphold community policies, guidelines and norms such as WP:DERRY. If you cannot abide by that then perhaps you shouldn't be editing anything to do with The Troubles. I'm perceiving this as nationalistic edit warring and NPOV issues but as I have pinged a couple of other admins, I'll let them investigate and help determine whether a topic ban or discretionary sanctions should also apply.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 15:13, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. With respect - & I am presuming with this reply that you are an experienced Administrator on Wikipedia and not new to it - you've clearly gone looking carefully through my edit lists in detail to assemble this obscure material, & given the scale of editing which it must be obvious to you that I have engaged in on Wikipedia, this is a very thin list of minor issues out of a mass of work from me that has benefited the site, blowing out of proportion & concentrating in time individual obscure minor disagreements that have occurred over some time period. The terminology used in Ulster/Northern Ireland can be contentious, but you have no case here that I have been overly active upon it, because I haven't been. The student at the college issue I didn't even know was a problem in any way, and it was linked by me to another Wiki article with the sources. If there was a problem with that someone should have requested a citation via request, not merely reverted the edit, which is ill-mannered & bad editing practise on Wiki. The Nightingale article is not 'long term edit warring' on my part, I occasionally revisit articles I've worked upon on the past & re-edit them sometimes, usually prompted by me seeing the subject of the article in another media & wondering how the Wiki article on it is getting on in its development, & I'll take the opportunity to do an improvement edit occasionally when reading it. You are accusing me there of doing something that I didn't do, I don't watch & try to control articles. The other editor is more liable to the charge of doing this, reverting edits blindly, not requesting citations, & being vexatious & complaining to Administration seemingly about very little. With regard to the article of Gerry Adams, looking back at that edit to remind myself of it, I see that I didn't revert the edit as you suggest, I restored a small part of a substantial block of deleted text, giving a reason for it in the edit sheet which was quite logical, & then I moved on letting others decide the matter. The suggestion of political motivation on my part is quite wrong & unfounded.

With respect I consider that this is unjust & very heavy-handed Administration, and the further suggestion that has been made to seek out others join in with it is bordering on the censoriousness and even bullying. You should not be addressing other Wikipedia editors like this other than in the most extreme situations, which this in no way meets. You've seen my edit sheet and will therefore know full well that I am not a problem editor of Wikipedia, any responsible, reasonable & proportionate reading of it could not construe it as such. Is it any wonder that Wikipedia is losing editors & public engagement when its Administrators execute their authority like this. Beyond the issue of the unjust ban on editing that you've imposed, I'd be grateful for notification as to whether a procedure exists in Wikipedia that I can appeal to an authority within it - beyond the Administration level - to have the handling of this matter reviewed, and if there is one how that procedure is accessed by the public. Bardrick (talk) 17:42, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

The edits at the Nightingale article have been reverted a multitude of times going back years since you originally made them and it was explained to you then why they weren't appropriate. Your edits degraded the article considerably by adding original research and unsourced POV. You've persisted in reintroducing them in the meantime, while attempting to conceal your identity by editing logged out. This seems to be an ongoing problem for you. Pretending you didn't understand this is a problem and playing victim is preposterous. ♟♙ (talk) 19:45, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Reply to "EnPassant": I seem to recall (I'm not sure because I have edited Wikipedia fairly heavily and can't remember in detail many of the edits that I've made) that I was the contributor who wrote most of the current Nightingale article as it currently stands, along with providing most of its source material. There have not been 'a multitude of revert edits by me going back years whilst attempting to conceal my identity'. Your reversion was against Wikipedia editing practise guidelines as detailed above, and that edit you reverted the other day without a given reason did not degrade the article it mostly corrected poor grammar & syntax in the text, and your hyped-up offensive personalized commentary here indicates where the problem lies, & isn't with me. Bardrick (talk) 20:22, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

You may appeal to the Arbitration Committee since this is a Checkuser block. See Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Ban appeals. Your previous block was for two weeks for these issues which factored into my decision to block you for one month. If you do not recognize that you have been avoiding scrutiny and IP socking then you will likely be blocked for longer in the future. I've given you the links for you to see the expectations of the community.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 20:05, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Reply: Thank you for the information regarding the length of the ban and for the information requested beyond that with regard to the Committee, I shall consider whether I will pursue the relevant issue with it. Possibly you are administering the site with good intentions but something has gone quite badly wrong with this incident and I am uneasy as to the way it has been handled, where I have been accused of doing illicit things and "investigated" in an accusatory hostile manner initially for what I feel was no justified reason. If there were concerns about my editing record, it would have been better for Administration to have contacted me beforehand in a non-accusatory manner, requesting clarification before engaging in presumptive accusations and prohibitive actions like this. Regarding the repeated accusation that I have been trying to avoid scrutiny by not always signing in when making edits on Wikipedia, and "IP socking" (whatever that is - I presume a technical term for the same thing?), I recognize the accusation as being made but do refute it, and feel that the evidence provided to justify it being made - contested by the content of my reply above - fails to support it to any reasonable consideration, and does not justify the actions taken by Administration in this case. Bardrick (talk) 21:41, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

There were many other edits to Troubles related articles not mentioned in the problems above, such as your repeated, and incorrect, attempts to add "sic" to the Airey Neave article that have been reverted by several editors. You originally added it on 14:27, 9 July 2018, then again on 06:23, 29 July 2018, 09:29, 10 March 2019, 15:02, 10 March 2019, 15:21, 10 March 2019 and 01:10, 28 April 2019. This is despite there being a talk page discussion at Talk:Airey Neave#Use of "sic" on this and related articles since 13:56, 30 July 2018. The IP range you were previously using shows 0 zero article talk page posts during the time you were using it. Using your account you have made a total of 16 article talk page edits in the 7.5 years you have been editing. Ignoring you removing a Wikiproject banner last year, you have not edited a talk page since April 2016. Similarly your posts to user talk pages (last IP range shows one user talk page post in the relevant time period) are virtually non-existent, there is never any attempt to discuss your disputed edits. FDW777 (talk) 20:55, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Reply to FDW777: So you have gone off eagerly to investigate the issue to join in with an attempted witch-hunt against another Wikipedia contributor, and what you come back with with, from years of edits, is an obscure minor editing clash that I'd forgotten about on the use/miss-use of the word 'sic' in an article, & not me referring it to a debate on a talk page? Good grief. Bardrick (talk) 22:01, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

You have the option of filing a standard appeal or two via the guide and getting feedback from other admins about your behavior and whether this is acceptable. Even if the appeals are declined, you still have the option of appealing to Arbcom. I had linked WP:IPSOCK for you above so you should be able to familiarize yourself with it.

There is a third option of appeal. You may write an appeal to the community requesting an unblock here and either I or another admin will copy it over to the Admin noticeboard for their consideration. Both admins and non-admins will review your case and they may decide to unblock, endorse the block and/or issue a topic ban or make the block longer including a possible indefinite block. Although I only blocked for a month, once it goes to the community, you take your chances on everything including being banned. Please read CBAN and weigh your options carefully. Note that if you choose the community appeal option then your only avenue of appealing their decision would be to them at the Admin noticeboard again. Appealing per the guide or Arbcom would no longer be options in the future as neither admins nor Arbcom would contravene against the community's consensus.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 00:54, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

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Continued sockpuppetry

You are suspected of sock puppetry, which means that someone suspects you of using multiple Wikipedia accounts for prohibited purposes. Please make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, then, if you wish to do so, respond to the evidence at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bardrick. Thank you. FDW777 (talk) 21:23, 20 March 2020 (UTC)