Wikipedia talk:Appealing a block

IRC inclusion in Help:I have been blocked

See Help talk:I have been blocked § IRC. voorts (talk/contributions) 22:39, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Too many words

• Wikipedia:Appealing a block: ~3490 words
• Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks: ~6835 words

Over 10K words in total.

How can we reduce this figure? Maybe by combining the pages? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:27, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Edit request

Please add Wikipedia:Unblock wizard to the Appealing a block section ot the navbox, and please add mention of the wizard in both the appealing a block guideline and the guide to appealing blocks section.--~2025-39288-34 (talk) 21:38, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done: Change made on the Wikipedia Accounts template page. Elijah Wilder (talk) 18:05, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Two unrelated questions

A couple questions have come to mind. First, I take it it's fine helping a user putting submitting a malformed unblock request, but should that be done if the request would certainly be declined (e.g. the reason is simply "I want to edit the page")? Second, I thought I saw something a while back about partial unblocks? I comes to mind because I saw a couple discussions where there was consideration of unblocking a user solely so they could participate in a relevant ANI thread. TornadoLGS (talk) 02:52, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

There are specific circumstances that can wildly change the appropriate move, but generally I'd support efforts to fix malformed requests. My belief is that editors would prefer to have a poor appeal declined quickly than to have it ignored for weeks or months because no admins are aware of it. For the second part, are you maybe thinking about WP:BLOCK#Unblocks in temporary circumstances? Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 03:00, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. On the first bit, yeah. I kinda just wondered if it would waste admins time, but on second thought, sometimes it takes a declined unblock for someone to figure out how to submit a proper one. The temporary circumstances unblock is along the lines of what I was thinking of. But I thought I saw something about partial unblocks, or at least something along the lines of a partial block, but in reverse. i.e. while a partial block blocks a person from a specific page/namespace this would block someone from everything but a specific page/namespace. Did I misremember something? TornadoLGS (talk) 03:17, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

TornadoLGS, I haven't seen any guidance about the mass-partial-block method, and I haven't seen it in practice. The way our block buttons work, we'd have to manually select every namespace except Wikipedia. I think the temporary circumstances unblock is a neater solution. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 12:59, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Appeal for possible proxy block – User josephatmashehe

Hello, I am trying to edit Wikipedia but my account appears to be blocked, possibly due to a proxy or network issue. My username is josephatmashehe. I am editing from Tanzania and may have been affected by a network IP block. Could you please review this situation? Thank you very much. Josephat Mashehe ~2026-15479-72 (talk) 06:35, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

This is not the pace to appeal a block. It's not a proxy block, you are blocked directly- and globally locked- for sock puppetry and spamming. 331dot (talk) 07:46, 11 March 2026 (UTC)