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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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Does that mean you can't create an account or that you can't even read-access their website?

(Probably your IP is on some kind of blacklist.)

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I've checked blacklists and I can't find my IP on any of them.

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Maybe you could ask at least one of the many sites who blacklisted you to elaborate why they did so.

They should at least be able to answer that question.

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I might be able to do that if I ever had the time, but maybe someday I'll get some time to do it. Also they use email. I hate email.

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That is very strange.

But can you still read-access the archive sites? (https://Archive.Today/ who uses CloudFlare, which also has some IP block lists, and https://Archive.org/)

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Nope cant access them unless I use cellular.