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Help

I'm calling on you because you're a sysop in en.wikipedia. I've been trying for over a week to report to en.wikipedia sysops new information about an old LTA using proxies and socks cross-wiki who's recently restarted disrupting. I've provided differences between revisions proving the identicalness of his old and new edits, I've quoted the admins who'd dealt with him in the past and blocked his proxies and socks, so I'm not inventing anything. But every time I try reporting this issue to en.wikipedia sysops, they block me. Can yu guess why? Because the first account I'd created to report this vandal was blocked because "not here to contribute to the encyclopedia" (?!), while the others I've tried creating were all immediately blocked for "sockpuppetry"! Do you understand? Me, the one who wanted to report a vandalic sockpuppetteer to sysops, continuously blocked for vandalism! That's absurd... No, better: kafkian, literally. I've never ever disrupted nor made vandalisms anywhere, but I'm being continously prevented from reporting this issue, both to single sysops in their talk page and publicly by using the special pages existing for this purpose. I'm wordless. And the sysops who keep blocking me are always the same, as if their aim was to prevent anyone from reporting this particular vandal, but I can't believe this, not at all, not in Wikipedia. That's why I'm asking for your help. What can I do? I have no bad intentions, the only thing I want is to report the new identities of this well know vandal, nothing else, and I've never done anything else with my blocked accounts. May I tell you the information I know about this vandal, including differences? You'll be able to see for yourself and judge whether what I'm saying is true or false. Then you might either take care of this vandal yourself or report him to another sysop or a higher level user. Please, give me a hand, and a chance to prove I'm well-meaning! Let me know in case you can and want to help me out with this issue, once solved it I won't disturb you nor any other sysop, try me and let me show you I'm saying the truth. Thanks in advance if you will! 80.82.115.130 (talk) 11:44, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

I sympathize with your difficulty in reporting abuse, but I have very little time this week to work on a project like this that needs quick action. I am a professional photographer and right now is my busy season. Slambo (talk) 12:03, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your kind answer! Well, if you don't have time at the moment because you're busy I'm leaving you alone. Do you think that, maybe after another week, when you'll be more free you'll be able to help me with my request? 80.82.115.130 (talk) 13:16, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

I will be busy for a while. I'm booking work out through October right now. Weddings are a growing part of my business, and the majority of them occur in the summer. Slambo (talk) 12:50, 9 July 2018 (UTC)