User talk:Throwaway1994

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:12, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet investigation

An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Matt Franis, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

SK2242 (talk) 16:16, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I'm an administrator on Wikipedia. By your username and edits, I'm guessing that you have some kind of external relationship with Matt Franis. If you are Matt Franis, you should be aware that using multiple accounts to evade restrictions is disallowed and will only result in more restrictions (such as the article being locked down so that new users can't edit it). If you're a friend or colleague of Matt Franis, please be aware that you shouldn't be editing on his behalf to evade his restrictions. That's known as proxying, and it's also disallowed. I realize that this is a lot more rules than you were probably expecting, but we do have ways for Matt Franis (and you, if you also have a conflict of interest on this article) to have your complaints heard. It's called dispute resolution. If you can't make any progress via these channels, all is still not lost. You can take the issue to our noticeboard for biographical articles, where the content can be removed if it's found to violate our policy on biographical articles. If all this is too complicated, please ask for help at our forum for new users. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:21, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]