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No, I am not kidding. Yes, it is indeed stupid.

Wikipedia has this completely absurd and counterproductive policy called ******.

If you are merely suspected to be evading a block, the rule G5 allows everything you created to be deleted, even if their content is legitimate.

Now imagine someone using your IP adddress or a close IP address happens to have a blocked Wikipedia account that is older than yours and spoofs their browser's user agent to match yours.

Then they could fool a so-called CheckUser into not just blocking you, but deleting all your correct redirects, legitimate articles you started and templates you created.

This is how ridiculous their rule G5 is.

If Wikipedia was serious about their purpose, rule G5 would not exist.

No, I am not kidding. Yes, it is indeed stupid. Wikipedia has this completely absurd and counterproductive policy called ***[WP:G5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:G5)***. If you are merely suspected to be evading a block, the rule *G5* allows everything you created to be deleted, even if their content is legitimate. ---- Now imagine someone using your IP adddress or a close IP address happens to have a blocked Wikipedia account that is older than yours and spoofs their browser's user agent to match yours. Then they could fool a so-called *CheckUser* into not just blocking you, but **deleting all your correct redirects, legitimate articles you started and templates you created.** This is how ridiculous their *rule G5* is. If Wikipedia was serious about their purpose, rule *G5* would not exist.

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Maybe they don't like free speech or something like that. I wonder whether they are even aware or just synchronised some secret IP blacklist. (And maybe Amazon banned you too because of your IP address instead of email.)

I wonder whether the Voat administrators ever had a similar experience. Voat has 100000+ users!

But the closest explanation I can think of is that they have some kind of hidden shared blacklist.

But the websites who blacklisted you should not actually be caring about the operator of a free-speech site read-accessing their public website. They should know that IP bans aren't hard to circumvent for people with a bit of technical knowledge, which the operator of a website obviously has.