User blog comment:EmpyreanSmoke/Bureaucrat/@comment-97.84.77.235-20141122235658/@comment-778071-20141123033049

Do note that:

''Even if we grant that these are not your sockpuppet accounts but your cousins', getting them to vote for you without declaring any affiliation is gaming the system. If they had declared that they were your cousins or admitted of some relation, their votes would have been fine. The Wiki works on the good-faith assumption that it is one user, one account, and that we are all individually contributing to a discussion. Canvassing for votes secretly and getting these accounts to vote for you to create the illusion of popular support as though they were simply newbie users who unbiasedly saw your contributions and thought that you were trustworthy of bureaucrat tools is deceptive and an abuse of process even if the accounts do not belong to you. It is not the mark of a trustworthy administrator, and I will not be restoring your tools even if I believed your explanation (which I do not). If the rest of the community is willing to accept your explanation however, I will lower the block to 1-2 weeks but I will not remove it completely because what you have done is still an abuse of the good faith the Wiki is founded upon.''