According to the block log your IP has been unblocked.
23:36, 10 November 2005 Jtkiefer unblocked User:192.88.124.202
(improper indef. block of an IP)
Usually IPs shouldn't be blocked indefinitely and I'm pretty sure
Bluemoose will be reminded of that.
--Mgm
On 11/10/05, Mike <cautioniamboozer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
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