User talk:Prof. Michael Bank

Hello, Prof. Michael Bank! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 07:11, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply] Getting Started Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community (The Signpost) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

I have reverted your addition to Single-wire earth return. That is not the proper way to add references (see Help:Referencing for beginners), and more importantly, it is clearly not the original source of the information in the article. It is poor etiquette to add "your own stuff" to Wikipedia articles. This might be acceptable if it was being used to cite some previously unreferenced text in the article, but it is definitely not acceptable to use Wikipedia to promote your newly discovered ideas. Once those ideas have been discussed by others in the literature, then they can be included in Wikipedia in their proper context. Before that happens, we do not know how the mainstream is going to assess those ideas and how they should be presented on Wikipedia. Regards, SpinningSpark 10:08, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please take this issue to a talk page for discussion. Repeatedly inserting the same material is edit warring and could result in your account being blocked. You also deleted the existing referencing formatting in your last edit. I think you need to read our Conflict of interest guideline before you go any further. SpinningSpark 10:23, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above comment goes for the Single-wire transmission line article as well where you are also exhibiting the same behaviour. COI editors (like yourself) should discuss the changes you want to make on the article talk page first, and preferably leave the editing of the actual article to other, neutral, editors. SpinningSpark 14:19, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for edit warring, as you did at Single-wire transmission line:. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.  SpinningSpark 11:21, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have made this an indefinite block because of the existence of the account User:Prof. Bank which exhibited almost identical COI and edit warring behaviour. This editor thus has a long term behavioural problem and appears to have created the current account to avoid scrutiny of past actions. SpinningSpark 11:25, 8 November 2014 (UTC) [reply]

This blocked user is asking that their block be reviewed on the Unblock Ticket Request System:

Prof. Michael Bank (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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UTRS appeal #16186 was submitted on Jul 20, 2016 10:55:35. This review is now closed.

--UTRSBot (talk) 10:55, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]