Thanks Mark,
I'm now Brumnick
On 28 May 2006, at 11:41, Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Nick,
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"Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Createaccount". The reason given for Createaccount's block is: "Username block"." when requesting an unblock as an administrator can not help you without that information, they might also need your IP address (82.36.106.161), so give that too if possible."
Because my IP is blocked I cant create a new user name or request a user name change for createaccount - so for one dumb decision I'm permanently excluded from contributing.
I have undone the autoblock. Please let me know if you have any further trouble creating an account.
It may also help you to know that I had some edits reverted because one of the administrators was concerned that I including to many links to my own site - which is www.podnosh.com. In every case I was confident that I was adding links to relevant information. If you check you should be able to see that my IP has been used for constructive contributions and I would like a chance to keep doing that.
The block had nothing to do with the links you were adding, so that's no problem. If you'll mind a word ... external links on Wikipedia are added to make our articles more useful to readers. That's the essential test. We don't care the a website deserves to be on the list, or is sufficiently relevant, or is popular, or whatever: we care if the article it's placed on is improved as a result.
It may be that your website does this (having not looked closely at it, I'm certainly not about to argue otherwise). If so, well, that's great. Just please remember this metric: does it improve the *article* it's in?
Happy editing!
-- Mark Gallagher "What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse
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