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What's wrong with the tone/style? Was that an old version? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.207.2.31 ( talk) 02:30, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Emmdawgg, Gwilly2, Jessicarahman1993.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 15:57, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
This place needs information about the practice of soft banning people. eg. Showing errors to undesirable users. Gamerman2360 ( talk) 00:19, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
I've replaced the unsourced content, in violation of WP:SELF, with sourced content about "blocking" as used outside of Wikipedia. If editor(s) wish to add discussion of Wikipedia practices they should add references. Nobody Ent 13:40, 17 June 2012 (UTC) Note the disambig page contains the appropriate link to Wikipedia blocking, so editors looking for Wikipedia, as opposed to rest of the world, blocking, can easily find it. Nobody Ent 14:02, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
"Blocking and its inverse, unblocking, may be implemented by the owners of computers using software." That sentence might lead a reader to think that software could be available to them that unblocks their access to sites that are censored in the country where they are located. The previous version ""Blocking may be implemented by the owners of computers using software." is not only correct, but corresponds to the topic of the page. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 16:31, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
The current page describes computer security blocks placed on IPs by servers. It doesn't describe the use of bans in the governance of discussion spaces at all - something that it should really do. I added a paragraph, but if anyone else has sources and material, please add more?
24.127.32.112 ( talk) 09:06, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Ban evasion could be made into a section of Block (internet) as Ban evasion is just a subtopic of Block (internet) and Ban evasion is not notable on its own. - KAP03( Talk • Contributions • Email) 20:26, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
I have merged the Ban evasion page with this one and nominated the Ban evasion page for deletion. 164.106.75.241 ( talk) 18:28, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) – Material Works 17:50, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Block (Internet) → Ban (Internet) – The term "block" to refer to the subject of this article is only used on wikis. Everywhere else on the internet, "ban" is used for the subject of this article, while "block", if it exists, is the ignore feature. That means that the current title of this article is also ambiguous between two different topics. HotdogPi 14:03, 16 June 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. ModernDayTrilobite ( talk • contribs) 15:02, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
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On 16 June 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to Ban (Internet). The result of the discussion was not moved. |
What's wrong with the tone/style? Was that an old version? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.207.2.31 ( talk) 02:30, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Emmdawgg, Gwilly2, Jessicarahman1993.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 15:57, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
This place needs information about the practice of soft banning people. eg. Showing errors to undesirable users. Gamerman2360 ( talk) 00:19, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
I've replaced the unsourced content, in violation of WP:SELF, with sourced content about "blocking" as used outside of Wikipedia. If editor(s) wish to add discussion of Wikipedia practices they should add references. Nobody Ent 13:40, 17 June 2012 (UTC) Note the disambig page contains the appropriate link to Wikipedia blocking, so editors looking for Wikipedia, as opposed to rest of the world, blocking, can easily find it. Nobody Ent 14:02, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
"Blocking and its inverse, unblocking, may be implemented by the owners of computers using software." That sentence might lead a reader to think that software could be available to them that unblocks their access to sites that are censored in the country where they are located. The previous version ""Blocking may be implemented by the owners of computers using software." is not only correct, but corresponds to the topic of the page. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 16:31, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
The current page describes computer security blocks placed on IPs by servers. It doesn't describe the use of bans in the governance of discussion spaces at all - something that it should really do. I added a paragraph, but if anyone else has sources and material, please add more?
24.127.32.112 ( talk) 09:06, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Ban evasion could be made into a section of Block (internet) as Ban evasion is just a subtopic of Block (internet) and Ban evasion is not notable on its own. - KAP03( Talk • Contributions • Email) 20:26, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
I have merged the Ban evasion page with this one and nominated the Ban evasion page for deletion. 164.106.75.241 ( talk) 18:28, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) – Material Works 17:50, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Block (Internet) → Ban (Internet) – The term "block" to refer to the subject of this article is only used on wikis. Everywhere else on the internet, "ban" is used for the subject of this article, while "block", if it exists, is the ignore feature. That means that the current title of this article is also ambiguous between two different topics. HotdogPi 14:03, 16 June 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. ModernDayTrilobite ( talk • contribs) 15:02, 23 June 2023 (UTC)