Re your AE topic ban appeal Sorry but it strains credulity mine anyway to believe that you didn t realize that the Adam Mickiewicz article was the subject of a dispute among Lithuanian and Polish editors with whom you are well acquainted until the moment before you were going to hit save as you state here Recent article talk page history You haven t edited the article since 2007 and you must have thousands of other articles that need improvement on your watchlist You could have posted an article edit request to the PL noticeboard re this as you have for many articles during the past few months In my view the A M part of your appeal demonstrates what to call it a lack of forthcoming ness The remainder of the appeal in which you speak of WP s losses from your lack of participation that s a different story that others can think over If you remove the A M section I shan t contest your appeal since lifting your topic ban now or in March doesn t make much difference in the long run But I am concerned about that part possibly the readers will take your assertion at face value without checking the article talk page histories You could either remove that section since it hasn t been commented on there yet or strike it If you choose not to do either I may bring it up at the AE appeal I d prefer that we keep the conversation here but if you d rather have it on my talk page that s OK by me if so I ll post talkbacks