Help:Blocking

This document is mostly for admin because it shows how to block other users from editing.

Special note to administrators
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.

What to do if you're blocked
If you are a user who is experiencing a block, please take note of these two things:
 * You may be blocked because your IP is within a range of blocked addresses. In other words, an admin here might not have blocked you specifically; you're just unluckily trying to reach the wiki from a "bad" IP.  If the blocking reason you're seeing doesn't match your actions, and particularly if this is your first visit to Tardis, please go to Special:Contact and fill in a report to Wikia staff.  They'll be able to help determine what's going wrong for you.
 * If you've been blocked for something you've done here, and an admin tells you that your block has been lifted, but you still can't edit, try bypassing your browser's cache. Most browsers do not automatically update your banned status.  If that's not working, go to community:User talk:CzechOut or community:User talk:Tangerineduel and leave a message.