User talk:193.195.3.41

Notice to administrators This IP address is a contentfilter registered to Demon Internet and used by a number of people in the UK, including established users. Use extreme caution when blocking this IP. If a user is requesting that you release an autoblock of this IP address, remove the autoblock as soon as possible, as it will affect scores of legitimate users.

Notice to users unable to create an account This IP address is registered to Demon Internet and used by a very large number of people in the UK. Because of the large number of users, you may not be able to create an account. If you are unable to create an account, please request an account from the account creation team either by: Filling in the form on http://accounts.wmflabs.org, or Emailing accounts-enwiki-l@wikimedia.org with a preferred username.

This is a shared IP address, provided by Demon Internet UK and originally leased from BT. Some of Demon's home internet packages, including mine, use a dynamically allocated IP address.

I'm not mentioning this in order to complain (none of the edits referred to above were made by me, however I realise that there is no way that Wikipedia admins would know that this was a shared IP - I understand that the comments above are not directed at me personally) but rather so that if any Wikipedia editors are considering a permanently IP banning someone because of their behaviour, they will be aware that banning this IP would affect innocent parties.

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I'm also an innocent Demon user who has received this message - and I have sometimes edited WP (properly) with a real account. I think it is fair to complain, because 1) WP will simply end up blocking a whole set of Demon dynamic IPs at this rate, blocking out innocent editors. 2) An unfair association could easily be made with my real account. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.195.3.40 (talk) 20:00, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

193.195.3.41 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Shared address, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:193.195.3.40 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Major_UK_ISPs_reduced_to_using_2_IP_addresses

Decline reason:

Thanks for the notice, I have blocked now it in order to prevent registered users from getting blocked as collateral damage. Thanks again! -- lucasbfr ^talk 21:29, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

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