G'day Akash,
Hi Chris,
From time to time, IPs are blocked for serious
vandalism, and
depending on the severity this can be for long periods of time.
However, dynamic IP addresses are constantly reassigned, and as a
result blocks can be misdirected.
If you visit your talk page
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:82.37.50.138), click the
'Edit' link at the top and add {{unblock}} followed by a brief
explanation of the situation, one of our admins will unblock you.
This is not the solution. As you can see from his contribs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/82.37.50.138
And his block log:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&pa…
The problems encountered by Mr Andrews are, ISTM, the result of a
range-block. Clearing it up will be much easier if we know who the
original blocking admin is.
By-the-bye, is it now SOP to throw up the "{{unblock}}" solution
whenever someone experiences problems accessing Wikipedia's edit
facility? If so, would it be overly cynical of me to publicly wonder
how long it will be before people --- not necessarily Akash, of course
--- begin saying things like, "I'm sorry, you can't be unblocked because
you don't have that template there"?
--
Mark Gallagher, not regretting resigning his adminship one bit. Well,
maybe a little.