Padillah

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A last short needed look

Please see possible "closing arguments" here, [1], and consider a final persuasive comment. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk)

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Greetings and Salutations

To Padillah:

Hello!

Congratulations!

You have been included in my first, and possibly only, Very Early Christmas List!

As an earnest fellow believer in Santa Claus, and possibly in Our Redeemer Liveth as well, you may wonder how you got on this list.

I have no idea!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Unless I tracked down the connection in our user talk archives, in which case you know who you are!

Or not.

All the best for you and yours this Christmas 2018 and New Year 2019!

– Athaenara jingles all the way 02:42, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Unblock request

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is _(I have no earthly idea)_. This is a corporate IP, I can provide details privately if necessary. I have been an editor in good standing for years and would like to resume editing (as real life permits). Padillah (talk) 19:24, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only. You forgot to tell us your IP address so we can't investigate your claim. You can find this using WhatIsMyIP. If you don't wish to provide this publicly, you may use WP:UTRS to provide the IP address privately. Yamla (talk) 20:19, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

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While it's true I can provide the IP address I currently appear to be using, the ISP we use has a scheme that allows for the outside IP to change as needed. While I currently see 104.129.194.197 in Whatismyip.com that may not hold for too much longer. I believe we are allowed any IP in the following ranges (104.129.194.0/23, 165.225.34.0/23, 160.109.104.0/24, 148.9.24.0/24). This is what prompted the response _I have no earthly idea_, because whatever IP I give may be invalid by the time it's reviewed. Oh well, I tried. Padillah (talk) 12:15, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

104.129.194.197 is part of the zscaler "cloud security" company, and serves as an open proxy. You'll need to disable that if you wish to edit here. Note that doing so may have other consequences. --Yamla (talk) 12:19, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

There's no way a multi-billion dollar company is going to disable its IP forwarding rules so I can edit WP. It used to be that only anonymous IPs were blocked like this, not credentialed users. Thanks for trying though. Padillah (talk) 12:23, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

WP:IPBE may be available to you, if you can demonstrate exceptional need. --Yamla (talk) 12:36, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Maybe too late, but... you're a computer programmer, surely you can set up a SSH connection to your own modem (or router behind it) from your home ISP and edit through a SOCKS proxy from an IP from your home provider. tgeorgescu (talk) 07:37, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

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