[WikiEN-l] A2: Blocking of school IPs

[Thomas Dalton]

On 12/10/2007, Flameviper Velifang <theflameysnake at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  [[User_talk:216.11.222.21]]
>
>   This is absurd.
>   I recently looked at Wikipedia and saw an unusual amount of IP blocks, all with the same reason (vandalism). A large amount of these blocks were one year, and had the same cookie-cutter message. They also blocked accounts editing from that address and/or blocked account creation.
>   Ironic, since the usual response to an IP ban is to create an account.

You are simply incorrect. That IP address is "soft-blocked". All you
need to do to edit using it is create an account somewhere else, or
email unblock-en-l and request someone there create an account for
you.