Why I Was Blocked On Wikipedia - User : Gfigs

User talk:Gfigs - Wikipedia

February 2022

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. In addition, your ability to edit your talk page has also been revoked.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then submit a request to the Unblock Ticket Request System. Primefac (talk) 17:07, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting the above, in that you are welcome to use the UTRS system to request an unblock. Primefac (talk) 22:44, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Follow up on IRC

and UTRS questions. Posts like this are unrelated to improving the encyclopedia, are more appropriate on social media, and are actually disturbing. These sorts of posts are at least part of why you were blocked as clearly not being here to build an encyclopedia. So it was not just the last post you mentioned, but several. All I can say about, this post is, "oh my God". Creepy, scary.

Moving away from that, as I hope you get the picture, this edit was content building, but you did not provide a source. "All content must be cited from reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and have a reputation for fact checking."

I guess it's good you stopped edit warring here.When in a content dispute, stop reverting and discuss on article talk page.

I guess I should not criticize for asking questions at the reference desk, but you might want to spend more time making constructive edits. Almost half your edits were to Wikipedia space, one third to user space, and only 2.5% to article space. This conveys a sense that you are here to socialize instead of build the encyclopedia. You might want to address that.

Haven't time for more review, but I think this gives you some areas to work on.

Hope this helps. Please remember to wait at least two more months before seeking unblocking at UTRS. Best. --Deepfriedokra(talk)11:58, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock

Please stop emailing me. You are not eligible for unblock consideration until August at the earliest. I have explained the problems that I saw. Based on what you've posted here about your behavior on other platforms causing problems, I think you should have known better than to go on as you did here. --Deepfriedokra(talk)06:17, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

More follow-up

To be unblocked, you will need to concisely and clearly describe how your edits merited a block, what you would do differently, and what constructive edits you would make. A menu of things that need doing can be found at Wikipedia:Community portal/Open tasks . Please read Wikipedia's Guide to appealing blocks for more information. --Deepfriedokra(talk)17:35, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I wanted to respond to your email and will tack on to what Dfo has said. One of the great virtues of Wikipedia is that we're all volunteers, so if Wikipedia just isn't doing it for you anymore walking away is always an option - and that can include walking away because it doesn't feel worth it to get unblocked. So that's always an option. But it also doesn't seem to me that you are in the "never" category in terms of being unblocked so I don't think you need to abandon all hope in that regard, instead it's taking onboard the feedback offered to you. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:59, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

7 emails (6 basically in a burst) is a lot of emails. Ultimately you want to get your thoughts together and use WP:UTRS to compose a new appeal. Barkeep49 (talk) 19:50, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

3 emails in 11 minutes, including one accusing me of lying to you here, is too much. I have blocked you from emailing me further. If you start to email others your access to email will be revoked. As I said in my first message, I think there's a way for you to get unblocked here. That way is to read what makes a good appeal, think carefully, and send one email using WP:UTRS. Until that happens I wish you good luck. Barkeep49 (talk) 19:25, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2025

Gfigs, accounts can't be deleted. Even when editors invoke the right to "vanish", their contributions don't get deleted for that reason; their user names are just changed to a random string of letters and numbers, but the contributions are still listed under that label.

I don't know what you would like to do on Wikipedia. It's not a place for discussions, like, say, Reddit. The question you originally asked on your user page is partly answered at Charles Taze Russell; there's probably more to be found in the sources cited there, and if you'd asked at the Humanities Reference Desk, someone would probably have given you some specific information by looking it up in a book. You made only a few edits to articles, which is what the project exists for, and those I saw were based on your opinion, not on cited sources. The project is now more than 20 years old; a lot of emphasis is now placed on basing edits on cited sources (verifiability) so that it can be checked for accuracy and so that the reader can find out more ... like your curiosity about Charles Taze Russell's family.

If things have changed since 2022 and you now want to help us build the encyclopedia, then as three admins have told you above, don't e-mail any individual, e-mail the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS). You're blocked from editing this talk page, but you're not blocked from e-mailing because you need it to contact UTRS. If you want to get unblocked, do that, and be prepared to explain what kind of editing you would do. (That's a standard question for a blocked editor to be asked, but in your case it's central, since you were blocked for doing things that didn't contribute to building the encyclopedia.)

You still have access to read Wikipedia, of course. (And whether you support the Wikimedia Foundation with donations or recommendations doesn't matter at all to this project; almost none of the money given to the WMF helps English Wikipedia. Whether you contribute to the WMF, or indeed anywhere else except en.wiki, is a separate matter for you to decide.) If you don't want to be unblocked here on en.wiki, then don't bother. But if you do, e-mail UTRS. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:42, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

—Gfigs, I see from the UTRS page linked above that if you previously appealed there, you will have UTRS "key" that you need to find in your e-mail records (maybe hiding in a spam folder). But I don't see the response message on this page that people who have made a UTRS appeal usually get. If you haven't yet appealed, read the guide to appealing blocks page that's linked there, then click the arrow under "Submit an unblock request"—I find it takes you to this WMF page, where there's a row of 3 buttons, with "Appeal my block" on the left. (I don't think there's a direct e-mail address until you've gone through this process.) Yngvadottir (talk) 17:29, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've revoked your email access as well, as you continue to email admins after being warned not to. I'm sorry that you are going through a rough time, but Wikipedia is not a social networking site. OhNoitsJamie^Talk22:26, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed my mind and restored your email; please don't misuse it again. If you file another UTRS appeal and it's decined, please don't contact the person who declined it; instead, follow the feedback given by the declining admin and submit another appeal via UTRS. OhNoitsJamie^Talk14:05, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I got your e-mail about going offline. (Note to admins: it was neither abusive nor requesting anything.) Best of luck! Sad that I can't offer any advice. Yngvadottir (talk) 07:15, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]