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The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding , a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

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Doug Weller talk 07:33, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement topic ban

The following topic ban now applies to you:

You are banned for one week from making any edit about, and any edit to all pages relating to, the governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues

You have been sanctioned per your edit warring at David Hogg (activist).

This topic ban is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun control#Final decision and, if applicable, the procedure described at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. Please go to WP:TBAN and read the information there to see what a topic ban is. If you do not comply with the topic ban, you may be blocked for an extended period, to enforce the ban.

If you wish to appeal against the ban, please say so below or on my talk page and I will explain how to do it. GorillaWarfare (talk) 04:55, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

See? I told you this cloud would ruin any one of us. And yeah, they had smoking areas in school. They even had smoking rooms in hospitals. They called them "operating rooms". It was a wonderful world! InedibleHulk (talk) 05:14, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

I remember when you could find the nurse's lounge by following the smoke trail.--Dlohcierekim (talk) 02:02, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

March 2018

Please stop your disruptive editing.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Talk:Dabbs Greer, you may be blocked from editing. Please don't troll the talk pages. Binksternet (talk) 23:22, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

To enforce an arbitration decision and for continuing to edit a topic from which you are banned on the page Talk:David Hogg (activist), you have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours. You are welcome to edit once the block expires; however, please note that the repetition of similar behavior may result in a longer block or other sanctions.

If you believe this block is unjustified, please read the guide to appealing blocks (specifically this section) before appealing. Place the following on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Please copy my appeal to the [[WP:AE|arbitration enforcement noticeboard]] or [[WP:AN|administrators' noticeboard]]. Your reason here OR place the reason below this template. ~~~~}}. If you intend to appeal on the arbitration enforcement noticeboard I suggest you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template on your talk page so it can be copied over easily. You may also appeal directly to me (by email), before or instead of appealing on your talk page. GorillaWarfare (talk) 23:43, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

PatLaffan (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Please copy my appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard or administrators' noticeboard. I was not actually commenting on anything gun-related, I just wrote most people today wouldn't know what "Boss Hogg" meant. Also the late actor Dabbs Greer was actually gay, I don't know why that would be considered "trolling". PatLaffan (talk) 00:31, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Your block has been upgraded to indefinite with reason "Ban evasion: HarveyCarter", so this request is now moot. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 04:25, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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