please just think about what you re saying here Let s take this by the numbers Firstly quite frankly I am dissappointed that you saw no reason to act in the face of the diffs and information I posted at User talk Black Kite Your suggestion that HighKing should step back from this type of edit is quite frankly going to be ignored again as his edits on The Automobile Association showed His admission that he has a problem sounds depressingly familiar After 5 years of being unable to contain this problem himself and in the face of overwhelming evidence yet again in this case that it still exists then coming as it did off the back of yet more of the usual erroneous defences duplicitous denials and improper deflections is surely wholly unsatisfactory s close was both abusive and counter productive He closed a perfectly valid complaint based on completely irrelevant reasons namely my status further below and on his talk page If I had not pressed him about it on his talk page he wouldn t have even bothered to notify you about it and you would never have even heard about s actions at The Automobile Association Your charge of harassment is frankly ridiculous all I have done with this account is make factual statements about HighKing s current and past behaviour which you yourself have just repeated today is still problematic I am obviously not the IP user he was edit warring with I never engaged with HighKing I never reverted HighKing I never threatened or personally attacked HighKing All I did was comment on the situation in a factual manner in the hope other admins would take action in your absence If me making this sort of contribution spoils HighKing s enjoyment of Wikipedia who the hell cares quite frankly It s simply not harassment If HighKing was to turn into a model editor tomorrow then he d never hear me talking about him ever again That s not harassment it s practically the job description of a Wikipedia admin Your block for evading scrutiny it is entirely pointless Enforcement of WP SOCK long ago stopped being about what s good for Wikipedia in many instances as this block shows Whatever my history whether this is a legitimate or illegitimate alternate account whether I m blocked or banned whatever there isn t a single thing that I could possibly be hiding that would make the edits this account performed look any less valid to an outside observer Nothing that might be or could be revealed about me would change their meaning or relevance and it certainly wouldn t make them any more true The idea that only established can be implicitly trusted to tell the truth on Wikipedia strikes me as extremely dangerous a view no admin should be seen within a hundred miles of holding let alone repeating Taking 3 4 together there was absolutely no preventative purpose to this block and so it it is entirely without grounds in basic policy And on the issue of basic points of policy with regard both the socking and harassment charges you don t even know for sure if this is an illegitimate sock You don t know if I have a regular account or if I m blocked or banned You re just guessing For all you know I might be using an undeclared alternate account because I myself might have previously been the victim of harassment from HighKing and so I would have a perfectly legitimate reason to hide what my regular account is when commenting on him in future And given the fact that as this block shows being critical of HighKing is seemingly enough to get someone tarred with a charge of conducting a long term campaign of harassment without any actual evidence whatsoever then it would be entirely understanable if an editor in good standing would not want to expose their main account to that sort of smear as the price of simply commenting on HighKing To expand on the socking issue rather than being an inappropriate use of a sock when it comes to HighKing I think its self evident given his past using a sock when commenting on his behaviour at a venue like ANI is highly appropriate as it removes his ability to do what he has often done in those situations namely trying to deflect attention from his own behaviour by talking about what the people reporting him have done whether it is even relevant or not and indeed whether it is even true or not his habit for example of makin