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Accounts that appear, based on their edit history, to exist for the sole or primary purpose of promoting a person, company, product, service, or organization. See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Spam. Accounts with inappropriate usernames. Public accounts (where the password is publicly available or shared with a large group).
To allow the user to continue to edit pages normally while blocking other actions: Uncheck the Editing checkbox. Check the other actions to block where appropriate. To prevent the user from editing specific pages or within a namespace: Select the Partial radio button below the Editing checkbox. Enter the specific pages in the Pages box.
Wikipedia policy on open proxies is clear: editing through them is blocked without exception once identified. While some users can use them to circumvent censorship or filters, they have been used far too many times by far too many blocked vandals for Wikipedians to assume good faith on their part.
However, you still need to remove the protection template from the page. Remove the {{pp-protected}} template from the top of the Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Protecting/Protect page. Enter an edit summary, such as "Removed {{pp-protected}} template" Press the "Save page" button; At this point, you have completed the unprotecting a page ...
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.
An autoblock is an automatic block of an IP address.Autoblocks are the result of an attempt to edit Wikipedia from an IP address recently used by a blocked user. Each time a user edits Wikipedia, the IP address from which the edit was made is logged (this log is accessible only by a very small number of trusted users, called checkusers).
In addition, the editor has accepted voluntary ban from all topics relating to American politics. The editor is warned that any similar disruptive editing or violations on BLP would result in indefinite blocks without warning. original restriction by Alex Shih, modified by Black Kite here: 2018-01-09, revised 2018-10-26 Indefinite Eric: WP:HOUNDING
Some kinds of blocks restrict editing from specific service providers or telecom companies in response to recent abuse or vandalism, and affect other users who are unrelated to that abuse. See below if you do not believe you have done anything wrong. The account $7 has been automatically blocked by $1 for the following reason(s):