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If you block someone for less than 3 days, and then decide to reduce the block even further, you're going to have to perform ''two'' unblocking actions — one for the registered user name, and one for the IP address ''of'' the registered editor. Removing the block on the registered editor ''does not'' remove the autoblock on their IP — provided you accepted the default blocking scenario in the first place. | If you block someone for less than 3 days, and then decide to reduce the block even further, you're going to have to perform ''two'' unblocking actions — one for the registered user name, and one for the IP address ''of'' the registered editor. Removing the block on the registered editor ''does not'' remove the autoblock on their IP — provided you accepted the default blocking scenario in the first place. | ||
Therefore, if a user says that they're still blocked, but it seems to you that they are not, the most likely cause is that you've forgotten to remove the automatic IP block on them. | Also, if you block someone for ''longer'' than 3 days, but they try to edit the page ''after'' 3 days, autoblocking kicks in for an additional 3 days '''''every'' time they try to edit from the autoblocked IP'''. | ||
Therefore, if a user says that they're still blocked, but it seems to you that they are not, the most likely cause is that you've forgotten to remove the automatic IP block on them. | |||
If worse comes to worse, and you can't figure out how to undo their IP block, then you'll need to talk to the person by email or via another wiki, like [[w:c:community]], so as to get their "block error code" — a four digit code that appears on a little message that pops up when they try to edit. You would then add that code to the end of this url, where the {{tt|3630}} now appears: | |||
::<code>http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Special:BlockList?action=unblock&id=3630</code> | |||
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==What to do if you're blocked == | ==What to do if you're blocked == | ||
