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Hi - Request for Box Latch Products review

Hi, I have connected with you in the past about requesting an article to be written. I thought I disclosed everything and my affiliation. But someone messaged me saying note: did not submit an independent request in request for business articles. which I did and now Box Latch Products is not in the request page. Can you tell me what I did wrong or did someone select the company to write about and it disappears off the request board? Thanks for your help JanelleP7 (talk) 15:41, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi JanelleP7, I'm forwarding your request to the reverting editor. :) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:30, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

(they have not edited Wikipedia for a few weeks, and it might take some time for them to respond. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 05:25, 12 August 2020 (UTC))

why?

Wondering why you felt it was needed or helpful to modify a block I made over two years ago, where the user never edited again or appealed the block? [1] Seems very random and unnecessary. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:16, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Beeblebrox, I randomly found this via the unprotection request at WP:RFPP – I guess we both did? I was surprised about it being a soft block and didn't think much about adding the autoblock. Feel free to undo if this, for whatever reason, upsets you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:53, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Looking at all this again, the unnecessary change made your talk page message suddenly unexpectedly encourage block evasion, which was not my intention. I really didn't think much about this; the line of thought was a gnomish "Hm, this is pretty disruptive spam, I'd have hardblocked. Hm, I can still do so. Fixed." I'll restore your original block. It probably makes no difference at all; I now did a quick linksearch via XLinkBot's IRC interface and didn't even find a single occurrence of the URL ever having been added. I wanted to prevent further spam, but there was none, and there's probably none to be expected anymore. If the person behind the account ever intends to contribute constructively, or perhaps even already does so, a hardblock on that old spam account would technically make them a sockpuppeteer for no reason. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:03, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

All's well that ends well. For what it's worth, I don't recall what my reasoning was at the time but a hardblock certainly does not seem out of line as a response. Beeblebrox (talk) 15:13, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Response

Hi ToBeFree, I didn't notice a moderator intervene on the page, although the controversial statements are still on the page, added by another party, which I suspect is just a continuation of the edit wars. Can you confirm that an independent third party has passed judgment on the content we discussed earlier? Thank you. Data L!nk (talk) 19:03, 21 August 2020 (UTC)