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November 2012[edit]

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Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did with this edit to Prostate massage. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Jschnur (talk) 03:09, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply] 

I know lots about anal eroticism so want to help. Dave Eggersly (talk) 03:13, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Dave Eggersly (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

"please let me edit. i didnt realize I was acting against the rules and want to be able to help. i will read the rules before carrying on and makr sure my edits have good sourced. I didnt vandalize on purpose. thank you. Dave Dave Eggersly (talk) 16:21, 3 November 2012 (UTC)"[reply]

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I'd like to see an explanation for edits like this and this broke multiple references. --jpgordon::==( o ) 20:41, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Dave Eggersly (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I have read the policies and added some information about Colchester Castle. I am being careful that the references are good Dave Eggersly (talk) 11:49 am, Today (UTC+0)

Decline reason:

"Significant and well-researched improvements" does not mean "a slight change to a reference's refname tag and a couple of (unsourced) statements about minor aspects of architecture." Please demonstrate that you are aboe to contribute constructively by making some actual improvements to your copy of the article. We are not looking for minor fomatting changes - you might, for example, locate and add some new sources for unsourced statements, or research and write a couple of additional paragraphs on the castle's architure or history. This is not enough. Yunshui 雲‍水 13:23, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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You consider those to be significant edits? I also see that you have yet to respond to Jpgordon's question just above the unblock request (✉→BWilkins←✎) 12:18, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
i dont know how I did that. I must have pressed the wrong button or done some thing wrong but I didnt do it on purpose. thats why i said i'll be more careful. I tried added good content and will hope to do more. I am not an expert editor (yet!) but I am not trying to vandalize. Dave Eggersly (talk) 12:24, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

Yunshui, I made more edits than those in your link. Compare to the actual article, not to the change I made on my talk. Dave Eggersly (talk) 14:19, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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You have basically been given homework - but you're refusing to do it. Please do not submit an unblock request until you have performed SIGNIFICANT edits to the article, and have followed the instructions properly. The next unblock attempt will be your final try, so please spend a few days (and I do mean DAYS) actually improving a draft article - not minor cosmetic copyright violations (✉→BWilkins←✎) 15:02, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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You didn't follow the instructions and save the page without making any changes, as per the highlighted text in Beeblebrox's template above? You realise that makes it rather more difficult for us to check your edits, right? Having compared the section below with the corresponding section at Colchester Castle, I can see that you have indeed made some changes in the process of copying it across - primarily, these appear to be copyright violations (close paraphrases) of the source you've used, which, incidentally, you have also cited incorrectly (you need to list the full URL in a citation template). Yunshui 雲‍水 14:52, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Colchester castle - my edits[edit]

Later history[edit]

In 1215, English Barons, dissatisfied with King John's severe taxation regime, rebelled and aided by King Philippe II of France, captured the castle. It was later recaptured by King John in the the altercations with the nobles that eventually led to the Magna Carta. Since then, it remained Crown property until the 17th century. [1]

During the 13th century the castle was increasingly used as a jail, and in 1350 after the castle ceased to serve any milatary function, the dungeons were converted into prison cells.[1]

Colchester Castle, rear from NW

The castle has had various uses since it ceased to be a royal castle. It has been a county prison, where in 1645 the self-styled Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins interrogated and imprisoned suspected witches.

In 1648, during the Second English Civil War, the Royalist leaders Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle captured the town and the castle, designating it as a Royalist stronghold. It was seized by the Parliamentarians after a 12 week siege and Lucas and Lisle were executed behind the castle.[1] Local legend has it that grass will not grow on the spot on which they fell. A small obelisk now marks the point. In 1656 the Quaker James Parnell was martyred there.

In 1650 a Parliament Survey condemned the building and valued the stone at five pounds, the roof over the Great Hall having collapsed in 1837.[2][1] In 1683 an ironmonger, John Wheely, was licensed to pull it all down - presumably to use as building material in the town. After "great devastations" in which much of the upper structure was demolished using screws and gunpowder, and the foundations of the Roman Temple were discovered, he gave up when the operation became unprofitable.[3]

In 1727 the castle was bought by Mary Webster for her daughter Sarah, who was married to Charles Gray, the Member of Parliament for Colchester. To begin with, Gray leased out the keep to a local grain merchant and the east side was leased out to the county as a gaol. In the late 1740s Gray began a programme of restoration to the South facade and tower. He created a private park around the ruin and his summer house (perched on the old Norman castle earthworks, in the shape of a Roman temple) can still be seen. Charles Gray also added a red tiled roof, a library and a study.

Twentieth and twenty-first centuries[edit]

In 1860, the castle was opened to the public. In 1922, the castle and the surrounding park were given to the town and they have remained as the Upper and Lower Castle Parks ever since. A new roof was constructed for the keep during the 1930's.[1] The castle is now a Grade I listed building and a public museum.

  1. ^ a b c d e Eleptico, Philippa. [/index.php?pageId=ColchesterCastle_History "Colchester Castle"]. British Castle. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  2. ^ ERO T?P 64/25
  3. ^ Wheeler 1920, p. 87.
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