User talk:172.195.96.244

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Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 00:42, 3 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I have been editing from this IP on and off. My contributions show that these edits have been helpful / appropriate, as noted by .  I went to make an edit today and cannot because of a month-long block of the range 2001:8004::/32 by .  The block log says this was imposed on 26 December, yet I continued to edit for more than a week, and now can't... what's happened?  172.195.96.244 (talk) 09:59, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Caught in a Range Block
I was posting successfully as an IP up until 3 January. Now, when I try to edit, I get a notice that states that
 * Editing from 2001:8004:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 has been blocked (disabled) by ‬ for the following reason(s):

Instead of reasons, there follows a box that says to log in. Yesterday, I posted a message above to the editor who welcomed me ( and to the blocking admin, with no response yet provided. I think that this is the relevant block log entry, showing a month-long block imposed on 26 December.  So, I don't know I could edit on this IP and make over 50 edits after the block was imposed.  I don't know why it is stating an IPv6 range that I have been caught in despite being on a IPv4 address.  I don't understand how it has happened that I've gone from able to edit to unable to edit ages after the block was placed, nor how v4 and v6 IP addresses interact to catch a v4 address in a v6 range.  I do know its frustrating as I wanted to address what I consider as a BLP issue - listing a non-notable person in an article on a prison simply because his father was a notable criminal (multiple murderer). I get that I can make an account but don't really want to go down that route. Can an admin please help me, either with some answers, or an unblock, or ideally both? Thanks, 172.195.96.244 (talk) 02:34, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not an admin, so can't unblock you, but it's possible you aren't the target of the block. Try to create an account and see what happens. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 02:55, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * You're not blocked, so you can't be unblocked. If you're trying to edit, but it says you're blocked, your IP address is probably being routed to another one.  You'd have to ask your ISP why that's happening.  The easy solution, of course, is to just create an account.  It seems likely to me that you've already got an account, anyway, given the amount of insider jargon in your edit summaries. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 08:49, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

New message from Tamzin
Glad to see you're still on this IP! Was afraid I'd missed you. -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 21:49, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

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I'm honestly not totally sure of purpose of WT:ACN so I could be off base here but, if you had a lengthy critique of me as an editor, I'm more likely to consider that feedback if it's on my own talk page. If I were an editor who had just been warned by ArbComm about bludgeoning, I'd feel totally unable to respond at all to your 613 word post in that forum without again being too wordy. While the talk page doesn't make it private, it does give it more of a 1-on-1 focus. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:32, 3 September 2023 (UTC)