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how do I request restoration of e-mail access? This is not an unblock request. That will come in July. I simply need to file a report. Thanks. Apteva (talk) 23:54, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks. I guess what I needed was {{Admin help}}. I have also pinged the blocking Admin. I was blocked simply because I was trying to explain myself ("Using email to send me a long manifesto of condescending tripe" - and for that I apologize - it will not happen again). I dream of horsesApteva (talk) 02:46, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Really, really not intersted in having this discussion. I don't even want to know why you think you need to "file a report" with anyone, but if it's something you can't post on-wiki you can email WP:FUNCT or WP:OS or WP:CU or WP:ARBCOM as appropriate. They all have publicly posted email addresses that do not require access to Wikipedia's email system. Beeblebrox (talk) 05:55, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Per Beeblebrox; any report that you wish to file will need to go to one of the four groups listed above, all of which can be emailed directly. There is no need for us to restore your email access. Closing adminhelp template. Yunshui雲水11:31, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Using email directly is not as convenient. How long do I have to wait to have it restored? Is over two years not long enough? Apteva (talk) 15:50, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Email is no less of a process than logging into the English Wikipedia and then going through the internal email process. Blocks and characteristics of them are inherently inconvenient for the recipient. Restoring status or a portion thereof is not based on the grounds of convenience, especially when there's a very suitable alternate process that would not prevent you from accomplishing the same thing. If it's important enough to you, you will email, otherwise, your block and all aspects of it, remain intact. Mkdwtalk18:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
It does not appear that emailed requests are handled the same as ones that come through the system. Normally when I report something through the system I get a speedy response. The one that I emailed was not responded to for ages. So it is not just convenience, it is so that the report can be acted on in a timely manner. Apteva (talk) 07:32, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Chiming in here. I can speak from experience here that normal emails are handled just as quickly normally. I had an oversight block placed on my account which involved me having to email the BASC mailing list to get unblocked. I got a response within 24 hours and was unblocked in 48 hours. Who did you email?—cyberpowerChat:Online14:56, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
In general it had been my impression that was the case, but that became dubious when I wrote to arbcom-audit-en@lists.wikimedia.org on April 30 and received no reply until May 16. One or two days I can understand, but over two weeks? Is there an enormous backlog at that address? Apteva (talk) 16:54, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
I just found this message on Commons. "The Oversight mailing list is experiencing very high levels of spam and the list of emails awaiting moderation is very high."[1]Apteva (talk) 07:28, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
It has been about two years since I have not been able to freely participate here, so I have found other ways to help the project, mostly creating and translating SVGs. I will continue spending almost all of my time doing that but would slowly like to re-enter editing Wikipedia, using the standard offer. I have been spending probably about 1000 hours a year helping make Wikipedia better. I have created over 100 articles and over 500 images and diagrams. Some of these diagrams need to be included here to replace the older diagrams that they replace, like the diagram at the top of Energy in the United States, which still shows 2007 data. It will be several years more before I do anything here other than a small number of simple edits, and will proceed cautiously, in a manner that does not upset anyone here. That is not why I am here. I am here only and solely to make Wikipedia better. There are about 200 simple edits that I know of that can be done, and I typically come across 3 or 4 new ones each week or month, and would like to be able to click "edit" when I find them, instead of adding them to the backlog. One of the items I noticed was in an article that was viewed 6 million times more before someone else noticed it and fixed it. There is a backlog of over 6,000 SVGs that need to be created, and another over 6,000 that need to be translated, both of which I am working through, but if you see one that you want done, give me a shout and I will take a look at it. Thanks.
I always thought an indef was an overreactive "solution" to your WP:AT / WP:MOS issues, and would rather have seen a topic-ban. I'm impressed that you kept doing so much work for the project (in a non-socky way, of course) under such an excessive and punitive burden. — SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 08:35, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. My long delay in returning was caused by getting involved in translations and creation of svgs. With a backlog of more than 6,000 of each I had no shortage of work to do. But I got started doing one file that required over 7,000 translations, and did not want to get distracted from finishing it, so have not even looked at this page since requesting the unblock. I just wanted to be unblocked when I was able to return, and now I have a list of maybe 200 edits that have been waiting, which having finished the 7,650 translations, I will be able to get started on. After I finish those, most of my time will still be spent on creation and translation of svgs, but if you have anything specific you would like to have me look at I am always willing to help. I will be requesting a standard offer so that all restrictions will be removed. For a number of years I have been spending about 1000 hours a year on Wikipedia and being blocked did not change that, it just meant helping in different ways that did not involve editing here. For the record there has not been one edit made to enwiki since the block (other than of course to my own talk page). Apteva (talk) 22:34, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks but I have no interest. I am sure that someone else will sort it out and like before those who disagree will just ignore the result. Sadly. Apteva (talk) 03:54, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
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