Your email
...seems to have slipped through the cracks: your case was looked into, but we never responded to you. I'm no longer on ArbCom so I can't deal with it, but I bumped up the thread and have asked the new member of ArbCom to look into it. Please accept ArbCom's apology: we should not have let this slip by. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 18:32, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Unblock appeal
Response to unblock appeal #20391 from the "Unblock Review Team":
I have unprotected your talk page to enable you to start the unban process there. You should include text that you would like to be put to the Community with a request that an Admin post at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AN. You should follow these instructions.
Thank you,
Just Chilling English Wikipedia Administrator
Per the above I would like to include the following text to be put to the Community with this request that an Admin post it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AN.
Marshallsumter (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log) • SI)
Request reason:
Reasons for unblock are
- the block is no longer necessary because I understand what I am blocked for, I will not do any of the "intent not aligned with Wikipedia's mission" per User:lifebaka again, and I will make productive contributions instead,
- Wikiversity provides a more than ample environment to write lectures and laboratories using original research and/or synthesis. I have no need nor desire to contribute to Wikipedia in this regard.
- Per User:lifebaka: "you will need to either stop or finish your research before you can be unblocked". I have finished my v:Dominant group original research with respect to such articles I created on Wikipedia. See v:Dominant group/Proof of concept.
- The block is no longer necessary because I understand what I am blocked for: I will not commit any "copyright violations" per local en:Wikipedia policy again, and I will make productive contributions instead.
- Per Wikipedia:Guide_to_appealing_blocks: "Earn back our trust by proposing improvements to articles or proposing firm steps you will take so the [issues] cannot happen again." Each of the fields that I have contributed to in the past have project pages such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy, Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics, Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology, Wikipedia:WikiProject Volcanoes, Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology, Wikipedia:WikiProject Genetics, Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry, Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups, Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology, Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthropology, Wikipedia:WikiProject History, and many others. Perhaps the easiest and best way for firm steps I will take so the issues cannot happen again is to suggest any changes, improvements or new articles first on these project talk pages to get consensus, review and/or guidance.
- I would like to import many of my currently deleted articles to Wikiversity. This can be accomplished in two ways: (1) I can request a short term undelete by a sysop as I do now on commons of the sysop who deleted a file to import the article, or (2) I can request a short term undeletion of an article by email so that I can import it with its edit history to Wikiversity.
Accept reason:
I have unblocked you per the AN discussion.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:06, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
--Marshallsumter (talk) 15:53, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- Copied to WP:AN. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:35, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Welcome back!
Welcome back to Wikipedia. Please take it slow and hold to what you promised in your unban request.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:07, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you! And, I will be doing both! --Marshallsumter (talk) 20:33, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
- Congrats! Green Giant (talk) 16:07, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks! --Marshallsumter (talk) 22:48, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
- Congrats! Green Giant (talk) 16:07, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Time check local vs. Wikipedia
Current time in Arizona is 2:28 AM Friday February 6th. --Marshallsumter (talk) 09:28, 6 February 2026 (UTC)
No recognition of misconduct in Wikiversity on your part
As for Sep 2025, you wrote this in the English Wikipedia, in relation to the English Wikiversity:
- 'I read your comments on the Wikiversity:Colloquium. Regarding "Anyone has any input on this?" What sort of input would you like? Also, what's your opinion on why I have been blocked from Wikiversity by Dave Braunschweig? Braunscheig was [...censored...]. Each of my contributions to Wikiversity are educational resources. I did not authorize or approve of my contributions being moved to Draft space or deleted. --Marshallsumter (talk) 07:39, 20 September 2025 (UTC)'
I think you should ideally be blocked from the English Wikipedia as well, to prevent likely further disruption. The effort of the English Wikiversity to clear the mainspace of your bad content was considerable, the last part of which was done in 2025 by me.
For anyone's convenience, here is the last revision of your user talk page in Wikipedia before your cleared it without archiving. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:57, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
You may be eligible to vote in the U4C election
I am contacting you because you previously voted in elections related to the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). You may be eligible to vote in the current U4C election, which is open now and closes on 2 June 2026. You can find out more about the candidates and the election on the election page on Meta, and from there you can access the vote itself. Your participation in these elections is important to the governance of Wikimedia communities, and your time spent learning about the candidates and voting is appreciated.
-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk)
Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:19, 20 May 2026 (UTC)