White and unnerdy42

First thing's first

Welcome! Hello, White and unnerdy42, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck or looking for help, please come to the Wikipedia Help Desk, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers: User pages The five pillars of Wikipedia Wikipedia in eight words How to edit a page (or, the quick cheatsheet version) Help pages Tutorial How to write a great article Manual of Style Glossary What Wikipedia is not Assume good faith Wikiquette Sandbox (this page is for testing) I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, or ask the people around you for help -- good Wikipedians don't bite the newcomers. Keep an open mind and listen for advice, but don't hesitate to be bold when editing! If you'd like to respond to this message, or ask any questions, feel free to leave a message at my talk page! Once you've become a more experienced Wikipedian, you may wish to take a moment to visit these pages: Wikipedia:Community portal Wikipedia:WikiProjects Best of luck to you, and happy editing! Luna Santin 10:40, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Moving on to your autoblock problem

If you haven't already, I encourage you to read up on autoblocks. Unfortunately, administrators have no control over autoblocks at this time; they're purely a server-side utility. The idea behind them is something like this: an administrator blocks User A, probably for abusing editing priviledges, or possibly for having some horrible username laced with profanities directed at another user. If User B then logs in, using the same IP address User A was just blocked on, then the server hits User B with an autoblock for about 24 hours. In the case of Joe Vandal with his five sleeper accounts, this can be great; in the case of AOL proxies or similar, widely shared addresses, this can be bad. In the event you ever find yourself autoblocked, you can either email the blocking administrator or place the {{unblock}} or {{unblock-auto}} templates on your user talk page (which you can edit while blocked). Especially in the case of autoblocks, it's very important to include the name of the blocking admin, and the original blockee in your request; your IP address is good, as well, but isn't strictly required in most cases. Hope that clears things up a bit. I'm one of the admins who patrols requests for unblock, so if you find yourself autoblocked, there's a good chance we'll meet again. :) Sorry for the trouble, and happy editing! Luna Santin 22:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)