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
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@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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
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
Yeah, I unblocked the IP and left a note on Bluemoose's talk page reminding him that indef. blocks on IP's are outside of policy unless the IP is an open proxy, especially since this is a college IP and may be a shared computer.
-Jtkiefer
Jtkiefer wrote:
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
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.
Yeah, I unblocked the IP and left a note on Bluemoose's talk page reminding him that indef. blocks on IP's are outside of policy unless the IP is an open proxy, especially since this is a college IP and may be a shared computer.
Always remember that if it is a shared IP, someone may have been running an open proxy on it in the past.