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Welcome back

By a vote of 5-0, your editing rights have been provisionally returned to you. The provisions are these:

• You may not request reactivation of user:Patrick Watt, nor may you create other alternate accounts on the Wikia network without creating clear links in your profile page to your secondary accounts. You were banned because you attempted to "get around" a block on your primary account. This must never happen again. We have no choice but to support — even if we do not recommend — the Wikia wide ability to create multiple accounts, but we insist that you make it incredibly clear what your alts are.
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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:39: Tue 21 Aug 2012 
summarizing the opinions of Tangerineduel, Azes13, and Revanvolatrelundar, and passed without objection by Mini-mitch, Skittles the hog and Josiah Rowe

Agreement

I agree to follow all of the above provisions, and I thank you for listening to my case. I assure you that the incident that caused all this will NOT be duplicated in the future, and if it does, I request that you take the harshest actions possible. My days of rule-breaking are over.

Thank you, User: Dr. Anonymous1 21:38, August 21, 2012 (UTC)

Messaging system

Hey, ask CzechOut about that, he's our tech admin here. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:28, August 22, 2012 (UTC)

Any information of that nature would need to go in the Behind the scenes section of pages.

But as the new series is barely more than a week away from debuting perhaps wait until then and see what it reveals. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:56, August 22, 2012 (UTC)

See our Tardis:Spoiler policy. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:09, August 22, 2012 (UTC)

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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:34: Wed 22 Aug 2012 

I'm sorry. I really don't know how to simplify my language any further. I've been asked the question a lot, so I wanted to keep my language clear. Perhaps you're not noticing that there are clickable links in the text of Forum:Hypercube message? I suggest returning to the thread, re-reading it, and clicking the links.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:20: Wed 22 Aug 2012 

Signature and user page ettiquette

Please alter your signature such that it complies with the signature policy. It must contain a link to your user talk page, not just your user page. Since you've not done anything fancy to your signature, I suggest just returning to the default.

Furthermore, you cannot remove a message placed on a talk page, user talk page or forum page, even if you're the one who put it there. I know that you removed something you added to my talk page recently. Please see T:UVAN.

Note that T:UVAN was one of those pages that you just agreed to follow or you'd be kicked off the wiki for good. I'm lettin' this one slide, mainly cause I don't want to immediately trash the work that was put into your ban reversal over the last week.

I urge you to carefully read everything that was linked above.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:34: Wed 22 Aug 2012 

What's up with the duplicate categories?

Please don't add duplicate categories to pages, as you did at Bessie. Please come to chat so I can try to set you right. You're blocked for 10 minutes (less now) just to put the brakes on your current editing pattern.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:08: Fri 24 Aug 2012 

Test

Testing your talk page, as per your request at Special:Chat.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:26: Fri 24 Aug 2012 

Space before categories

Please do not remove the single carriage return which appears at the end of an article. This space may look extraneous in Wikia, but in Monobook (and in Wikia, if you choose to disable the category module), it acts as a buffer between the article and the category list.

T:MOS BOT will reinsert this space, so it's really a waste of time to remove it. Look at Maria Jackson, for instance, in Monobook as well as Wikia to see the utility of this final carriage return.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍   19:13: Thu 30 Aug 2012

Reformed individuals

There's a deletion rationale at Category:Reformed individuals. I delete very little without leaving a message behind — unless it's a very technical page that no one aside from me will likely care about.

Don't recreate this category, or anything like it, please.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍   19:43: Thu 30 Aug 2012

Sorry, this matter was decided in your absence, through several forum discussions. We're not having any categories that attempt to characterise "alignment".
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍   22:39: Thu 30 Aug 2012

You can use the search function at the forums to easily look up past discussions. If you know that the discussion changed policy, you can just go to category:policy changers and scan through the alphabetised list. To save you time, though, I'll point you toward Forum:Enemies, intention and association, Forum:What makes an ally and an enemy?.

As an aside, when leaving a message on someone's page, please don't post it in the middle of another discussion. Please remember to start a new section. I seem to recall this was something we talked about prior to your blocking.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍   00:54: Fri 31 Aug 2012

Disagreement

I'm sorry you feel that I've been reminding people of your earlier blocking. I've taken great care to allow you to turn over a new leaf as much as is practically possible. I suppose I did slip up in the most recent message #Reformed individuals and use the word "blocking". I had been consciously trying to avoid that, which is why in the earlier message in the same section I had used the more neutral word, "absence". Certainly, the required message at User:Dr. Anonymous1 was carefully worded to be perfectly neutral. All it says is that you were once Patrick Watt; it says nothing about that account being blocked.

You are at complete liberty to properly archive this page as it currently stands so as to partially hide the references to your past blocking. You were even encouraged to do so at #Welcome back.

That said, I'm not sure what sort of linguistic legerdemain you expected out of me when talking about a decision reached when you weren't here. I had to make some sort of reference to your past just to answer your question. The reason that these categories have been removed is because — while you were away — we decided to axe them.

Also, the terms of your return — to which you agreed at #Agreement, were that you were very definitely on probation. That's just the deal. So, yes, we want you turn over a new leaf. But realistically you are very much on a kind of parole. Expect for admin to say things like, "Hey, remember a year ago when I told you about x? That still applies." In particular, note the final bulleted point of the agreement:

If at any point, over any issue, you directly defy an admin, you will be permanently banned without chance of reprieve.

That obviously includes anything you've already been told by admin at user talk:Patrick Watt. So, yeah, you've realistically got to expect that I and the rest of the admin staff might make mention of things from your past.

Course, if you just re-read that page and abide by the things you've been told there, we'd have no need to reference them again.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍   17:43: Fri 31 Aug 2012

Sorry, there's no way to downsize that message. It's a standard size and will, of technical necessity, remain.

You mentioned that you "accept[ed] my apology". It's important that you understand that I wasn't asking your forgiveness. I was explaining how things are. If I were you, I'd be happy that you escaped permanent exile, instead of trying to nitpick the terms of your return. Yes, we'll try not to stress your past mistakes. But you honestly have no cause to complain if an admin uses the word "blocked" in connection with you. You were blocked. It's not a slur or a personal attack to say that. What you did was frankly inexcusable. It's some what miraculous that you've been allowed to return. So you're being a little more than cheeky to complain about us simply mentioning your previous exile. As Tangerineduel stressed in your reinstatement discussion, you do not have a clean slate. We want you to turn over a new leaf — but we can't help but remember the diseased tree from which you fell.

My advice is that you just chill. Have fun editing, but don't be so sensitive. You're going to have to accept the fact that you were blocked. The less emphasis you place on having been blocked, the more likely we are to forget about it. Complaining about my use of the word "blocked" has only served to make the issue bigger.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍   20:50: Fri 31 Aug 2012