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Now click Block. Leave {{subst:uw-uhblock-double}} on Keegagan's talk page to explain that he has been indefinitely blocked. User:Keegagan now says Keegagan is a family name and you wish to unblock him: Typical Admin Un-block form. Click on Keegagan's contributions.
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 blocked administrator can block the blocking administrator, but should only do so in exceptional circumstances where there is a clear and immediate need, such as in the case of a compromised account. Use of the block tool to further a dispute or retaliate against the original blocking administrator is not allowed.
When an application requests higher privileges or when a user selects a "Run as administrator" option, UAC will prompt standard users to enter the credentials of an Administrator account and prompt Administrators for confirmation and, if consent is given, continue or start the process using an unrestricted token. [7]
See Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Block someone who has violated the three-revert rule or edit warred? See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Block someone for a blatant username policy violation? See Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention. Block someone for abusing multiple accounts?
The metadata describes the APIs written using the WinRT ABI. It defines a programming model that makes it possible to write object-oriented code that can be shared across programming languages, and enables services like reflective programming (reflection).
Wikipedia's administrative tools are often likened to a janitor's mop, leading to adminship being described at times as being "given the mop".Just like a real-world janitor might have keys to offices that some other workers are excluded from, admins have some role-specific abilities, but – also like a real-world janitor – they're not more important than the other editors.
Brute-force attacks can be made less effective by obfuscating the data to be encoded making it more difficult for an attacker to recognize when the code has been cracked or by making the attacker do more work to test each guess. One of the measures of the strength of an encryption system is how long it would theoretically take an attacker to ...