[WikiEN-l] Why am I being blocked?

Wed Sep 28 17:15:54 UTC 2005

Does our software automatically block users by IP - when their only
crime is to share an IP address with a vandal?

It should be possible for a trusted user (like me for example! ;-) to
log in from a banned IP range - as long as I can prove it's really me by
typing in my secret password. 

Should we talk to the development team about this?

Ed Poor
Developer Emeritus

> >Jayjg set an IP block on this range for one month, which I 
> think was a 
> >huge mistake since it appears to be a dialup pool and a lot 
> of people 
> >were affected. I didn't find out about it until a few hours 
> before the 
> >block expired though, or I would have reversed it. Sorry about the 
> >throuble.
> >
> >- Ryan
> 
> Ryan, how would you suggest dealing with a banned user who 
> has, in the 6 
> months since his ban, been continually coming back to Wikipedia and 
> disruptively editing using almost 50 different sockpuppets 
> (some extremely 
> sophisticated) and almost 20 different IP addresses?  I refer you to 
> [[User:Jayjg/Alberuni]] for more detail.
> 
> Jay.