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Temporarily disable your security application, such as your firewall or antivirus program, until you've successfully launched your game. Re-enable your security software immediately afterwards. Some antivirus or personal firewall applications incorrectly identify our games as viruses and disrupt or block the game.
This is done by bureaucrats or stewards, and only on the request of the Arbitration Committee or by request of the administrator. Query the Wikipedia database. Ask at Wikipedia:SQL query requests, or download the database and run them yourself. Reassign edits or make name changes. Ask a global renamer at Wikipedia:Changing username. Delete ...
A user’s reservation of a request may be forcefully broken when a request has been waiting without an indication of why, and if the user who reserved the request is not available. The user whose reservation was broken should be informed. An email CCed to the admin mailing list or a message on IRC is sufficient.
This is a guide to current practice at Wikipedia's requests for adminship (RfA) process, the mechanism by which editors are considered for administrator status. To become an administrator, there needs to be a clear consensus that you are committed to Wikipedia and can be trusted to know and uphold its policies and guidelines.
The blocking administrator will have tried to assume good faith on your part, as did any administrator who had reviewed previous requests, and the administrator who will review your current request. There is not much need to remind administrators to assume good faith, or to accuse administrators of failure to do so.
The ACC process will be unable to help in nearly all of these cases. ACC tool users cannot bypass or override username issues in order to create the account for you. There are a few very limited exceptions in which the account creation process can assist with (see details below).
Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request. To grant the permission: Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights.
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