[WikiEN-l] caught in a floating ip ban, no way to contact an admin

[Mike]

Hello,
I am a student at the University of Miami, and it seems that the entire university has been IP banned from wikipedia.

I noticed this yesterday when I was looking at your entry for Led Zeppelin on wiki. I noticed that for no reason at all, the picture of the band had one of the members listed as "Leigh Limbrick" when it should have been John Paul Jones. "Gadzooks!" I exclaimed to myself. In an outrage, I clicked the edit button, only to be greeted with a page stating that I was a warned vandal and that bluemoose had given me the boot.

I haven't really ever vandalized everything, but I can take this to mean that someone at the university here has spoiled it for all of us and gotten the entire college blocked. I can see how this might happen, having adminned several sites, forums, the like, myself.

The catch 22 here is that the only way to resolve the issue is to contact Bluemoose, which I can't do, because I don't have a username. I also can't create a new account, edit Bluemoose's talk page, or edit my ip's talk page, because of this IP ban. You may want to modify your blocking policy, as this catch-22 makes it very difficult to report when such occurances arise.

I would appreciate it if the IP ban could be lifted, or if perhaps I could make an account which would be an exception to the IP ban. I have on occasion contributed anonymously to wiki (under different IP's), and have always enjoyed contributing to such an effort.

The IP in question is 192.88.124.202.

Thank you,
Mike Battaglia