[Ann Drysdale]

I appear to have upset someone within Wikipedia. I use it fairly frequently and today I tried to look up details of a canal tunnel. At the top of the page there was a notice that said I had a new message. I assumed it was an automatically generated message from Jimmy Wales to thank me for a small (financial) contribution and clicked on it to find this:

"Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Croesyceiliog A.F.C., you may be blocked from editing. Fizz fam (talk) 07:36, 24 April 2021 (UTC)"

I've never edited anything on Wikipedia and although Croesyceiliog is a suburb not too far away, I have no interest whatsoever in its football team. I would hate to be in Wikipedia's bad books and would like to find out how I came to be accused of such malpractice.

I have looked up the mysterious Fizz fam and found
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fizz_fam

It looks as though there is some sort of vigilante group what I wotted not of. Probably no bad thing in principle, but how does one infiltrate it to find out one's been falsely accused? Or indeed, if one's identity has been misappropriated for purposes of mischief.

Or possibly my accuser's identity has been assumed by a malefactor -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_t..._Badge_for_You!

Any ideas?
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[Julie Steiner]

I don't know. My best guess is that the malefactor and you briefly shared an IP address or Wifi back in April, which seems to be when Fizz fam sent this "new" message. I wouldn't worry about it at this point.

[Ann Drysdale]

Thanks, Julie. It's just me, it appears. When I tried to read another of your posts just now I was told:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /erato/showthread.php on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at www.ablemuse.com Port 443

Interwebzwise, it seems, I am a Bad Person.

[Allen Tice]

I suppose you have tried to PM Alex Pepple regarding the problem with Julie’s post? He’s good in many ways.

As to the Wikipedia identity confusion (or theft), maybe you could try by some other or ouside route to reach Jimmy Wales or someone capable at Wikipedia. Maybe Alex could help even there.

Good luck!

[Ann Drysdale]

Thanks, Allen. I was more than half in jest about the Erato message; it's something that happens a lot and to many. A snapshot of who's looking at what on the "current activity" menu makes that clear.

I'll find a way to ask the Wikipedia community for clarification on the other thing. I posted here hoping others had had the same experience and could put my mind at rest. And partly because I was piqued by the tone of voice in which I was addressed by what appeared to be a sort of cartoon jack-in-office.

Incidentally, Croesyceiliog is also the location of our local police headquarters.