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For the five years I was editing the encyclopedia, and I have made large contributions in creating and improving many articles from a wide variety of subjects. I intend to generally make gnome edits to any article I come across for maintenance but have a particular interest in those of involving British Bangladeshis and Muslims. I've been blocked due to the result of SPI and AE against me. I acknowledge that the poor conduct leading up to my ban was unacceptable and I do not dispute to receiving the ban. Before this I had a good record of engaging and collaborating with other editors in good-fath. I understand that there are ways of resolving conflict resolution without resorting to behaviour which contravenes policy guidelines. During my block, I have made contributions on the Commons page. I feel I can make further constructive and productive contributions, therefore, should be give the opportunity to be allowed to return to the website.
Please provide a full history of your socking, including whether it continued after your block, and a deeper explanation of what led you to sockpuppetry/why I should believe you will not do it again. You were caught socking twice (one in 2014, a second time leading to your indefinite block), so I will need a thorough and candid explanation to have any chance of convincing me a continued block is not preventative. ~ Rob13Talk22:32, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
A full history is available on the SPIs here and it did not continue after by block as I haven't edited Wikipedia since other than the contributions on the Commons page. The first instance was just stupidity. The second instance was due the frustration and injustice I felt after an editor accused me of having an agenda and I retaliated.
I've gone over nine months without editing, I'm not sure if I would now have time to be as active as I was before but there are potential Wikipedia pages which I was working on that I'd like to publish and there are many pages which I previously regularly edited that I would like to continue to update. I have absolutely intention of socking, should I be allowed to return, my contributions are likely to be fairly minimal in the future, I'll probably steer clear of conflicting topics on the whole and concentrate more time on topic areas which take less effort and patience to come into fruition. Tanbircdq (talk) 23:20, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have any comments as the blocking admin, Coffee? I'm inclined to grant this request with a set of reasonable restrictions. I would specifically like clarification from you that this block was not an AE action, even though it originated from an AE thread. I assume this is the case because the duration exceeds that which can be applied via discretionary sanctions and I see no evidence it was logged. ~ Rob13Talk01:39, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Tanbircdq: Could you talk a bit more about what conflict led you to feel the need to sock? I'll offer you an unblock under a set of conditions, but I'd like to ensure the conditions help you return to regular and uncontroversial editing. ~ Rob13Talk03:29, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Rob, sorry for the late reply. The conflict was that I added sourced material on a page, to which I was accused of having an agenda, however, despite this continued constructively contributing on the talk page only for the matter to be preemptively taken to ANI where it was shown I had done nothing wrong. After this I felt it untenable, and too disheartened and despondent to contribute on the page but I then regrettably decided to lash out. Tanbircdq (talk) 21:42, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Per our policy on conditional unblocks, I'm willing to unblock you provided you agree to two restrictions. First, you are restricted to a single account indefinitely. This restriction may be lifted or modified by the community or by myself to allow another account to be used for some specific purpose. Note that this restriction bars you from even those use cases of alternate accounts that are typically considered legitimate (e.g. public-use accounts or bot accounts) unless the restriction is lifted or modified. Down the road, I'd be more than willing to entertain reasonable requests to lessen this restriction, if you have a compelling reason to use an alternate account. Second, for the next six months, any uninvolved administrator may re-block you at their discretion for any disruptive activities, up to and including an indefinite block. This more-or-less formalizes the reality for all standard offers; this is a last chance, and there are no warnings left to be had. If you find these restrictions acceptable, ping me and I'll unblock you. ~ Rob13Talk22:55, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]