User talk:Cwilsyn

Welcome!

Hello, Cwilsyn, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Khoi khoi 21:55, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} I would like to join Simple English too, but even after reading the directions cannot figure out how to carry my username over there. And when I use the tildes Quill instead of Cwilsyn comes up (I don't mind, I'd just like to understand).

BTW I have a Ph.D. and am retired from a university, so I do think I could contribute. I simply have a lot of trouble learning the technical aspects. Thank you. Quill (talk) 05:17, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy! To create a unified login, go to Special:MergeAccount, enter your password, and click Unify accounts. That should work; there aren't any other accounts on Wikimedia projects with your username right now. To change your signature, edit the contents of the Signature field on Special:Preferences. Hope this helps, and thank you for helping with the encyclopedia. :) WODUP 06:37, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

October 2025

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 02:30, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Talk:Camille and Kennerly Kitt. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively, you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, please seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 02:49, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing.

If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Talk:Camille and Kennerly Kitt, you may be blocked from editing. DMacks (talk) 02:55, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your original message on this page reads:

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 02:30, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this makes sense. The next two are rather overwhelming, particularly because I had no reason to be simultaneously monitoring my user talk messages. I didn't see your first comment until you posted your third paragraph, headed Please stop your disruptive editing.

You can see that there is no direct or implied dispute. I have emailed you directly. I really think that suggesting a block within 25 minutes of your first post for correcting what are clearly simple typographical errors made many years ago, not attempts at disruption, is unwarranted. Nothing like this has ever happened. I have stopped doing anything for now. Cwilsyn (talk) 03:46, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Cwilsyn,

The Wikipedia software tries to notify you every time a message is posted to your talkpage and every time an edit of yours is undone. I made sure to wait a few minutes each time, and tried to watch for more than one further change, in case for example you were in the middle of a few edits or you didn't see it right away. But given you persisted, it seems reasonable I would use our standard set of messages that start as a total assumpmtion of good-faith with a clear explanation of the concern (with link to where you were doing it and link to our site guideline about it), and then become increasingly sharp about the concern of going against our behavioral norms and letting you know where this could lead if you did not change course. These norms are well-established, and though you might not have known about them or even disagree with them, you still have to follow them. There are certainly ways to challenge them and possibly lead to a change of them, but simply ignoring them does not make them go away. DMacks (talk) 12:13, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I posted an explanation which did show here a few minutes ago, but it seems to have vanished. I will rewrite it in half an hour or so because I am quite distressed.

Note you added text at 4:09 (UTC) and the deleted it at 4:20. See the page "view history" (top right) to find old text. KylieTastic (talk) 10:21, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The original text was:

I certainly do not want to be blocked from editing, particularly under the guise of being disruptive for fixing simple typos from years ago. Apparently I should not have done so on a Talk page, and for that, I apologise.
I don't know how to resolve the problem with the person flagging me, and am now concerned about doing anything anywhere. I did email the person, who clearly is more technically experienced than I. That person is editing or reverting dozens of posts per 60-second minute, and I am afraid of antagonising someone who might block me automatically.
Please let me know how to repair the situation, Santa, and I promise to be very, very good until Christmas.
Thank you for helping me out.

Hi Cwilsyn, this looks like a case that you were not monitoring notifications, you should have seen your name highlighted on the top bar when you had a new user talk page message, and maybe emails. It is always good practice to at least look at these when editing just to check it is not about a current problem.

This looks like a case of you had no ill intent but this just escalated to a level 3 warning due to you not reviewing notifications and thus not realising there was a problem.

As you continued to do problematic edits with no communication DMacks had no choice but to escalate the warnings and if you had continued you would have been blocked from editing.

However, as you have now realised the problem there is no further issue. Just please do not correct other people's comments on talk pages for spelling and grammar. There are a few valid changes such as incorrect links to other pages, but changing someone's talk page comments is considered very rude by many.

Regards KylieTastic (talk) 10:57, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]