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Problem with your editing or Wikipedia behavior (under any account or IP address) - your account or a connected IP has been used in a problematic way or there is a concern about your editing. Problem with your username - your username was unsuitable and has been blocked; you need to choose another before continuing.
See WP:UNBAN for procedures of ban appeal. Users banned by the community (but not under ArbCom bans or blocks designated to be appealed to ArbCom only) are normally unbanned only after a community discussion at the administrators' noticeboard determines whether there is consensus to lift the ban.
A1: A block prevents a user account, an IP address, or a range of IP addresses from editing Wikipedia, either partially or entirely. Blocked users can still open, access, and read any article or page on Wikipedia; they just cannot modify or edit any pages that are restricted by the block.
ban and unban IP addresses, IP address ranges, and email addresses from being able to submit new account requests using the ACC tool interface; edit interface messages, such as internal messages and email templates that are sent to requestors
Users operating from dynamic IP addresses change IP addresses periodically. This can compound the autoblock problem , particularly when they are also shared, because a block targeted at a malicious user may shift to a legitimate user while the target shifts to an unblocked IP address.
When considering IP address block exemption, the editing history of the editor and the abusive range concerned should be carefully reviewed before making a decision. IP address block exemption is granted or removed via Special:UserRights. Editors having the IP block exempt right are visible as a user group under Special:ListUsers and can be ...
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Fail2Ban is typically set up to unban a blocked host within a certain period, so as to not "lock out" any genuine connections that may have been temporarily misconfigured. However, an unban time of several minutes is usually enough to stop a network connection being flooded by malicious connections, as well as reducing the likelihood of a ...