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If you are trying to appeal a CheckUser block, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing sockpuppetry blocks. Checkuser blocks are expected to be appealed on-wiki or via the Unblock Ticket Request System ; [ 2 ] however, the Arbitration Committee may hear appeals of such blocks, at arbcom-en wikimedia.org , if there are compelling reasons to ...
Please disconnect from the service before trying to edit Wikipedia again. You may need to reconfigure proxy settings on your computer or router. If you need to use an open proxy to access Wikipedia, request IP block exemption. If you are not using a proxy service, then follow the instructions below to send an appeal.
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.
Determine whether this appeal contains all needed information. If the block is an autoblock, the reviewing administrator may need to email the appellant to ask for their IP address. If the block is a checkuser block, send it to review by checkusers; If the block is an open proxy block, send it to review by WP:OPP
then you may submit an appeal to BASC. Please read Wikipedia:Appealing a block and the next section of this page before doing so. The status box above indicates how long your appeal is likely to take if submitted now. BASC does not hear appeals of topic bans, namespace or single-account restrictions, or appeals of block of short duration.
Wikipedia:Blocking policy. Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses and sensitive IP addresses – information relating to blocking IP addresses; Wikipedia:Appealing a block – information about contesting a block; Wikipedia:Autoblock; MediaWiki:Blockedtext – the message shown to blocked users when they attempt to edit; Wikipedia:Global blocking ...
See Wikipedia:Blocking policy#Requesting blocks. If I have been blocked, how can I get unblocked? See Wikipedia:Appealing a block and Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks.
Blocking is the method by which administrators technically prevent users from editing Wikipedia. Blocks may be applied to user accounts, to IP addresses, and to IP address ranges, for either a definite or an indefinite time, to all or a subset of pages.