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• This page is currently protected so that only extended confirmed users can edit it. Why is the page protected? Adding a request for administrative privileges to this page requires a minimum amount of experience editing the English Wikipedia. What can I do? If you have read Wikipedia:Administrators, the Guide to requests for adminship, and Advice for RfA candidates and still wish to proceed while your account is new, you can request that an extended confirmed editor or administrator initiate your candidacy. If you have any other questions, you can leave a message at the Teahouse or the Help desk.

  
  

  Wait! Read this before continuing any further! Hi, and thanks for offering your services as an administrator or nominator. Please read the Wikipedia page on Administrators, as well as Wikipedia's Guide to requests for adminship and Advice for RfA candidates pages before proceeding with a nomination. The administrator toolset is a senior-level user right that is not for new, moderate, proficient, or even somewhat-experienced users. Candidates who are successful have usually made thousands of edits to articles and housekeeping tasks. Administrators need to know and understand how Wikipedia handles deletion and copyright concerns, and other policies, and they must be able to show that they can exercise sound judgment in complex situations. Applications from editors without considerable experience are usually quickly declined as premature. If you are unsure if an RfA nomination is reasonable, please ask an admin or an established user for advice. There is also a list of experienced editors willing to consider nominating candidates.

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  If you are confident that you are not using a web host, you may appeal this block by adding the following text on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Caught by a web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is _______. Place any further information here. ~~~~}}. You must fill in the blank with your IP address for this block to be investigated. Your IP address can be determined here. Alternatively, if you wish to keep your IP address private you can use the unblock ticket request system. There are several reasons you might be editing using the IP address of a web host (such as if you are using VPN software or a business network); please use this method of appeal only if you think your IP address is in fact not a web host.

  Administrators: The IP block exemption user right should only be applied to allow users to edit using web host in exceptional circumstances, and they should usually be directed to the functionaries team via email. If you intend to give the IPBE user right, a CheckUser needs to take a look at the account. This can be requested most easily at SPI Quick Checkuser Requests. Unblocking an IP or IP range with this template is highly discouraged without at least contacting the blocking administrator.

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• One or more proxy servers used by your request is globally blocked.

  The block was made by ‪Jon Kolbert‬. The reason given is Open proxy/Webhost: Visit the FAQ if you are affected .

  • Start of block: 14:03, 22 December 2023
  • Expiry of block: 14:03, 22 December 2025

  The blocked proxy address was 3.145.0.0/16. Please include all above details in any queries you make.

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