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Blocking & banning
Wikipedia can block or ban a user for misbehaviour. Blocking means that a user is blocked from editing the site for a specified period of time, whether hours, days, weeks or months. They may however continue to edit their talk page. Banning is more severe. It means that a user is literally banned from the entire site. They are not allowed to contribute anything to the site. They are not even allowed to edit their talk page.
Where a user is banned (or hardbanned) the prohibition from editing the site is absolute. They cannot contribute anything, anywhere, including on their talk page. Admins regularly revert every single edit made by a hardbanned user, irrespective of content, accuracy or whatever, if they re-appear as a sockpuppet. While some users find this controversial, the reason is simple — allowing a hardbanned user to contribute anything is a breach of the ban. In the past, when hardbanned users were allowed, controversially, to edit occasionally they invariably soon slipped back to the very behaviour that had them hardbanned in the first place. Once someone is banned from this site they are no longer allowed to contribute anything to it.
This evidence overwhelmingly suggests that this user is a sockpuppet of a hardbanned user . As such all their edits have been reverted. Any articles created by them which did not have another editor to revert to have been deleted.
If you find an edit by this user which was reverted, but on examination you believe it accurate, you are free to add it back into the article. However this must be done in your own name, not by reverting to a version of the banned user. Similarly you can always recreate an article which has been deleted because the only editor was the hardbanned user. Again, however, you must do it in your own name.
To the user of this page: Wikipedia has blocked you from editing this site. You are not entitled to contribute anything. Anything you contribute will be reverted/deleted on sight. If you want to be allowed to return to this site, you will need the permission of Jimbo Wales or the ArbCom to do so. Unless less they rule otherwise, you cannot contribute. Any contributions you make will be a waste of your time because they will simply be deleted from the site automatically, unread.
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