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Unreferenced BLPs

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Christian Moeller - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Proposed deletion of Rod Dyer

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Blocked for sockpuppetry

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Request reason:

This block is in error as it claims sock puppetry/use of multiple accounts. This is erroneous, I have only ever had one Wikipedia account used for making productive contributions only. I am not a wikipedia expert but make all edits in good faith and with my best understanding of and respect for the edit process and format. I think this may be an IP conflict as I have not now or have I ever engaged in sockpuppetry or account manipulation. Please review this case as I believe you will find this block was made in error. If believed otherwise please inform me which other accounts I am supposed to control as I am not aware of any. Boomslang (talk) 08:14, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Boomslang/Archive. You and several other accounts were all adding the exact same content to Christian Moeller. You need to explain why. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 09:01, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Christian Moeller

Hey Boomslang, welcome back from your block. I am just wondering if there is there a reason you keep re-adding the same (unsourced) content to Christian Moeller? Are you being paid to do so? HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 07:06, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey HickoryOughtShirt, I am editing the page so it is is accurate, which it has not been. I have sourced the reason for the update in the external links section. Please let me know if this suffices or if this should be formatted differently/elsewhere.

I am absolutely NOT paid to do this and am absolutely NOT a sockpuppet. I think the issue arose internally as two individuals got wires crossed about who was doing the update. That element of the post is now accurate and I'd appreciate it if it stayed that way. If any other protocol has been violated that might nullify this edit, please let me know so it can be remedied.

February 2019

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Christian Moeller; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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28-MAY-2019

Hello! The issues which I raised in my response to your edit request at Talk:Christian Moeller need to be resolved before the request can be properly reviewed. This covers the placing of ref tags within your requested prose. These ref tags help the reviewer to determine which reference applies to which portion of the text. Without them, the request cannot be reviewed. Kindly address these concerns before re-adding your request to the talk page. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to contact me on my talk page. Thank you! Spintendo 20:46, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Spintendo,

I appreciate your prompt attention to this. Unfortunately, I do not know how I can better format the sourcing for the article, it is clear from the reference links that details about the article subject have changed.

As to birthplace and Nationality, how can that be sourced without violating the individual's privacy?

The remaining changes come directly from UCLA faculty staff and how is one to source that? Please, I would like advice on this as this has become far too onerous a task to correct a simple article created years ago.

Lastly, these accusations of Sock Puppetry are annoying and inaccurate and believed to be resolved months ago as evidenced in the Talk Page. I think these continue to cause a problem with this article.

Boomslang (talk) 22:59, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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