User talk:Bambifan111

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September 2025

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Bambifan111 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I'm confused about what happened here. I'm just trying to create a golf article, and then it got moved to the draft stage, and then when I tried undoing that action because I'm just following the style of other golf articles, that article got deleted and I get blocked for abusing multiple accounts.

Decline reason:

I am declining your unblock request because it does not address the reason for your block, or because it is inadequate for other reasons. To be unblocked, you must convince the reviewing administrator(s) that

  • the block is not necessary to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, or
  • the block is no longer necessary because you:
    1. understand what you have been blocked for,
    2. will not continue to cause damage or disruption, and
    3. will make useful contributions instead.

Please read the guide to appealing blocks for more information. Yamla (talk) 10:06, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Bambifan111 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

The reason stated for my block is that I was abusively using multiple accounts to violate Wikipedia policy. Both are completely untrue. I have not been using multiple accounts and I do not understand why I was violating Wikipedia policy. The actions I did the led up to my block are:

  • Create the golf article Constellation Furyk and Friends
  • Move the article from a Draft page without the Draft prefix after I saw it got moved to a Draft because I felt it was ready to be an article
  • Undid an edit from the blocking admin with a few formatting changes because I disagreed with their edits and cited another golf article with similar formatting changes as example

The block is not necessary because I have not been doing disruption in the first place as mentioned above. I would just continue doing what I've been doing, making useful contributions to my articles of interest, including but not including to golf articles such as creating articles for golf tournament pages that didn't exist like this one.

Accept reason:

Alright, you're clearly not the intended target of this block. asilvering (talk) 17:35, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Drmies: Would you like to explain who they are suspected to be a sock of? That doesn't seem immediately clear to me. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:54, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My guess would be the same as User talk:Bambifan103. PhilKnight (talk) 04:12, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And all the other ones. Bambifan wants to be caught and loves the attention. Drmies (talk) 13:14, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Pppery: See Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Bambifan101. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:10, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, but, @Drmies, what's the behavioural match here? "Bambifan111" isn't exactly an implausibly unique username. Alternatively, @PhilKnight, if you wanted to get out the goggles, looks like the LTA would be pretty easy to spot. -- asilvering (talk) 08:42, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I used CheckUser and found they geolocate to a different country than the one stated in Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Bambifan101. PhilKnight (talk) 09:41, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
PhilKnight, do what you think is right: the name, and the complete fluency that allowed them to produce a flawless draft including infobox and tables at their first attempt at article writing (including the correct little edits to get autoconfirmed) seemed suggestive enough to me. Drmies (talk) 21:58, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am not Bambifan101 nor Bambifan103 and have never been to Atlanta, Georgia, nor Mobile, Alabama as it says in the long term abuse page, and I hope PhilKnight's check confirmed this statement. Bambifan111 (talk) 15:30, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bambifan111, have you edited Wikipedia before as an IP editor or under another account name? -- asilvering (talk) 22:05, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Actually there's one other account I've edited under, it's Special:Contributions/PwilliamQ99. You can see it's in good standing but I haven't edited using it for almost 2 years. Eventually I realized I didn't like the username and didn't remember the password, so I decided I'd create a new account instead of recovering the password and going through the username change process. I may have made some one-off edits under IPs during the timespan from PwilliamQ99's inception to now but I don't remember the exact IPs during this super long timespan but can confidently say they were definitely not for vandalism. Bambifan111 (talk) 01:03, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, you're unblocked. Sorry about all this, you weren't doing anything wrong and none of this is your fault. You just happen to have chosen a name that matches a prolific LTA with literally hundreds of accounts and Drmies got jumpy (understandably, I think, not that it makes the experience any more fun from your perspective). -- asilvering (talk) 17:44, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your understanding. I hope this was a one-off issue but would reconsider my username if it causes more problems. Bambifan111 (talk) 10:59, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Given the above, I strongly encourage you to visit Special:GlobalRenameRequest and request a new username. I expect this will not be a one off issue. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:54, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the recommendation. I do like this username so I hope I can let my future contributions do all the talking and I hope my production as an editor will overshadow a mere username as it should be easy for someone to quickly see my contributions and let the account's standing speak for itself. But if I do see this continuing to be problematic, I would be happy to think of a new username and request to change it. Bambifan111 (talk) 00:23, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]