User talk:Dotx3

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Thought you might be interested in Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Wales — OwenBlacker 00:33, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, nice to see some other UWCians. Myself, I was at UWCAD 98-00. I did some changes to the UWC pages (like the template at the bottom). Hou Shuang 19:09, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

the IP address 134.83.1.225 was blocked, which as far as I know is a generic Brunel University IP address that I was assigned when browsing from within the university network (part of JANET) from a school computer lab. Is anyone accessing from the entire university network blocked from editing wikipedia? The uni computer centre is so paranoid about anything I doubt they have an open proxy - but who knows, its quite possible they are simply incompetent! Please unblock me if possible as I only wanted to contribute! "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist?action=search&limit=50&ip=134.83.1.225" - does this say the block should have expired already? "Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing.You were blocked by Jayjg for the following reason (see our blocking policy):"open proxy"Your IP address is 134.83.1.225"

[edit] Blocking of University IP addresses

re: Blocking of 134.83.1.225 due to open proxy

Open proxies are not allowed on Wikipedia. Please use a non-open proxy or direct connection. Stifle (talk) 21:28, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

that may be so, but I have no control over the behaviour of my university computer centre, nor do I have the required technical knowledge to do anything about it. Should every member of an academic instituion be penalised for this (Thats 15000+ potential users)?

If someone would help me get started I would be more than happy to contact my computer centre about this, but I dont know the technicalities involved about open proxies to really do so.

and sorry if this isnt the right place/way to reply - feel free to delete and leave me a note on my talk page.

(user: dotx3 30 apr 2006)

Hi there, please end your messages with ~~~~ in future, this signs them with your name and the date and time.

If you would have some one of your computer centre staff contact Hall Monitor explaining what measures are being taken to prevent users from vandalizing Wikipedia, or what sanctions are being applied to those who do vandalize, then this would probably go a long way towards getting the block lifted. Stifle (talk) 23:19, 29 April 2006 (UTC)