Hello, So trying to make a contribution - while logged - English Wikipedia instance of Mediawiki returned a ban statut for the current IP. The reason : The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be a web host provider. To prevent abuse, web hosts may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. While do occasionally launch a web service, this is my home IP where I currently don't run permanently such a service. So a first technical concern is, does this filter does have a good pattern recognition matching the goal which is aimed? Now a more policy concern is, why would you ban an IP when it do indeed make webhosting? It sounds like a "shoot first at anything that would remotely look like a dirty face criminal, and then if it survive let it try to bring proofs that it's not guilty" policy. Banning IP which are known for vandalism is understandable. Banning IP on loose pattern recognition is an other topic. It's all the more regrettable when being logged with an account that in ten years as never been used to practice any vandalism. Please respond to this message with all relevant links to previous material that you know as related to this topic. Also, please feel free to give your opinions, advises and so on on this topic. Banned-ly[1], mathieu [1] Please let me know if you are aware of any already accepted adverb derived from "ban".