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

Wikipedia has this completely absurd and counterproductive policy called WP:G5 (en.wikipedia.org).

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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I have literally no way to figure out why. I can't communicate with them. So I can only guess. Static IP blues I guess.

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Usually, the reason an administrator has specified is mentioned here (en.wikipedia.org).

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I probably could go about asking why and doing all that but I have done nothing wrong. So I'm kind of pissed about it and don't want to deal with it.

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don't want to deal with it.

Wikipedia Administrators are indeed evidently a pain in the butt to deal with.

They tend to label legitimate criticism “trolling” instead of actually having a discussion.

The rules (en.wikipedia.org) officially allow users to criticize administrators, but sadly, it's a trap.

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Wikipedia Administrators are indeed evidently a pain in the butt to deal with.

Maybe not all of them, but a lot of them can only have poor conversations and neglect the good faith (en.wikipedia.org) of users.