Thread:Waterwecna/@comment-3335785-20120920194321/@comment-3335785-20120923152608

Might I point out that your block of me also blocked my IP address? The account I usually use for AWB accounts has also been blocked, and I cannot edit as an IP. Ignoring Eladkse's point about block evasion, it is literally impossible for me to edit without requesting a new IP from my ISP.

Also, I would like to ask where I caused trouble? I submitted a checkuser request for a globally blocked account, which turned out to be justified. Block evasion, as I'm sure you can appreciate, is a serious issue and global blocks aren't given out on a whim either. My contributions have been positive as far as I can remember and blocking me for replacing deprecated html is laughable. Blocking a user that rarely comes to the wiki does not make blocking them acceptable. Seeing as I have yet to break any policy on merlin wiki that I am aware of, have not been warned in any way shape or form, and may as yet make positive contributions to the wiki I would like to be unblocked.

I was considering running some wiki-markup fixes, replacing url addresses with proper wiki-markup, ie. http://wikipedia.org/wiki/PAGENAME to PAGENAME, reducing pagesize and making the page easier to follow when editing. I was also willing to help out setting up some templates designed to warn vandals as well as a counter-vandalism page for reporting vandals. If you would rather not have either of these ideas, then by all means say so, but neither of them are exactly bad ideas and would improve the wiki.

Something I noticed being discussed on the wiki was a new page background. If I was unblocked I would have pointed out that the background does not take the new oasis page layout into account with the gap between the page and the global wikia navbar, instead leaving a black gap and presumably cutting into the background with the widening of the page.

So is unblocking me really that bad an idea? I understand your point about about someone starting an argument with me, but a registered user is easier to contact (as well as finding it easier to reply), does not suffer from adverts in the same way and is able to use the monobook skin, which I currently use. Forcing an editor to edit as an IP does not assume any good faith, which I would hope you would be willing to understand.