I tried to edit an article on Wikipedia today, but I found
that my IP had been blocked due to the actions of an
anonymous user:
The reason given is this: 24-hour block for blanking
user page of user who submitted page to VfD, and then
repeating this behavior from multiple IP addresses
You can email The Anome
</wiki/Special:Emailuser/The_Anome>
or one of the other administrators to discuss the
block.
Ok. Someone was bad, and they got blocked. Here's the
problem. The Anome aparently has no e-mail address set up!
When I go to The Anome's User page to e-mail him, I get
this response:
"This user has not specified a valid e-mail
address,
or has chosen not to receive e-mail from other users"
Kind of ironic, since the message says that e-mail should
be sent to him! :)
If you believe that our blocking policy was violated,
you may discuss the block publicly on the WikiEN-L
mailing list
I don't have a problem with the blocking of this IP; if
that kind of problem appeared, then a 24 block is fine. The
policy is good; The problem is that some other contributors
(like me) can't edit, and we can't e-mail the Anome as we
are told to. So this is a situation that someone should
know about. (And many people in my city use my ISP, so many
people are potentially blocked.)
Your IP address is 209.247.222.84. Please include
this
address in any queries you make.
Done. Any suggestions?
Could we come up with a way of people with known Wikipedia
accounts getting around such blocks? Or is such a solution
already extant?
Thanks for your time,
Robert (RK)
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