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Disclosure about my Wikipedia identity
I first began editing sometime back in 2005 as an IP, mainly wikignoming back then. I first registered an account on September 25, 2006: Tit for tat (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log). Due to highly inappropriate actions of mine (partly, but only partly, due to the fact that I was a process newbie), the account was indef blocked rather quickly. Details can be derived from the account's contrib history and the block log, but I will gladly provide further clarification on email request.
Shortly after TfT was blocked, I created another account, Subversive element (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log), with the basically good intention (although I utterly failed) to improve the behaviour that had led to my block and rather spend time "learning the ropes". But, partly owing to the fact that I can be a stubborn and impatient person, I wound up with yet another indef block. Again, details can be derived from the account's contrib history and block log, but I will gladly provide further clarification on email request. In hindsight, that account name should have warned me about myself, but somehow it just didn't.
After that, I spent a short time as an ordinary IP troll, angrily vandalising talk pages, trying to disrupt the workflow of established users etcpp. I don't remember many details, but the pages I edited were all related to the two prior accounts' actions and blocks.
Obviously, up until that moment, I had no reason to be proud of any accomplishments at Wikipedia. That's why I then decided to create another account, by then knowing that I would effectively be evading an indef block, but I saw it as the only chance of really starting over.
So, on December 1, 2006, I created User:Kncyu38. Initially, I had intended to disclose my prior identity once I had gotten to some useful contribs "to show for". But my occasional total lack of civility and patience with fellow humans (admins only: please mail me for details) led to a checkuser determining my identity before it came to that. Speaking in hindsight, I'm not sure I would ever have been satisfied enough with my contribs to make the step of "outing" myself, so I'm actually thankful about that incident, considering I got lucky and the checkuser in question decided to trust me with my current account and let it go.
Since then, I had two renamings of my account, first to User:AldeBaer, then to the current User:Dorftrottel.
As mentioned above, I did occasionally edit while logged-out. Although I started trying to avoid that completely some time ago, it every so often happens that my log-in expires while I'm reading. In such instances, I've irregularly made (minor and uncontroversial) edits from IP, which will probably continue to happen. Addendum: I believe I may go back to logged-out reading/minor editing mode occasionally. The primary reason is that my monobook mods, while they do often come in handy, seriously clog Firefox and increase (read: multiply!) loading times. Another reason is that I like to force trigger-happy reverters to actually think before just reverting any edit made by an IP. It's astounding how often perfectly fine IP edits are reverted. However, when I tell someone off for stupid edits/reverts, I always reveal the IP/account connection if applicable.
Summary
- My IP
- starts either with 87.78.---
- or with 84.44.---
- most of the time anyway
- My prior, fully inactive accounts
- My current and only active account
- created as User:Kncyu38 on December 1, 2006
- renamed on request to User:AldeBaer on April 12, 2007
- renamed on request to User:Dorftrottel on October 3, 2007
