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As the practice of off-wiki "block-shopping" is strongly discouraged, and that except where there is an urgent situation and no reasonable administrator could disagree with an immediate block (e.g. ongoing vandalism or serious violations of the policy on biographies of living persons), the appropriate response for an administrator asked on IRC ...
A block is a measure used to protect Wikipedia from possible improper activity in breach of editorial policies.It prevents users from editing, renaming, creating, or otherwise contributing to pages on Wikipedia, either across Wikipedia or on certain pages.
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Block account creation stops the user from creating a new account for 24 hours after the block is made – this typically should be left ticked. Block user from sending e-mail prevents the user from sending email – this should be left un-ticked unless the blocked user abuses the email function.
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.
A block is the method by which administrators prevent users from editing Wikipedia. How do I request a block? See Wikipedia:Blocking policy#Requesting blocks.
Wikipedia administrators can choose to block a range of IP addresses rather than just a single one. This is done if a vandal, sockpuppeteer or otherwise disruptive user has taken advantage of dynamic IP or other situation (such as some LANs ) where it is possible to evade blocks by hopping from IP to IP or physically moving from one terminal to ...
On the Internet, a block or ban is a technical measure intended to restrict access to information or resources. Blocking and its inverse, unblocking, may be implemented by the owners of computers using software.