MediaWiki:Blockedtext

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You have attempted to edit a page, either by clicking the "edit this page" tab or by following a red link. Your user name or IP address has been blocked by $1.

The reason given is this:
$2

You may contact $1 or one of the other administrators to discuss the block. You can email $4 or one of the other administrators to discuss the block. If you believe that our blocking policy was violated, you may discuss the block publicly on the NSwiki IRC channel or by sending a public e-mail message to Goobergunch at admin@goobergunch.net (please note the public nature of the message in your e-mail). Note that you may not use the "email this user" feature unless you have a valid email address registered in your user preferences. Your IP address is $3. Please include this address in any queries you make. If you would like to know when the block will expire, please see the block list. If you need to see the wiki text of an article, you may wish to use the Export pages feature.

Innocent?

Sometimes IP ranges or shared proxies are blocked from editing NSwiki. This means that lots of innocent people can't edit. If this is the case, it should be explained in the reason given above. Also, some individual dynamic IP addresses may be blocked, usually for a 24 hour period. Occasionally, users with dynamic IPs will be blocked accidentally, due to that fact that their present IP was previously used by a blocked user. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If this problem affects you repeatedly, and you would like to help us resolve this issue, you will need to contact an administrator and your Internet service provider (ISP). The administrator should be able to obtain the time, date, and IP address used for the inappropriate behaviour in question, and describe what the problem was. (You may also be able to find this information at NSwiki:Why we blocked). You can then pass this information on to your ISP, explaining that you are unable to edit NSwiki due to the inappropriate actions of another person using this ISP, and ask them to remedy the problem.

Just reading?

You are not blocked from reading pages, only from editing them. If you were only intending to read a page and are seeing this message, you probably followed a red link. These are links to pages that do not exist, so they take users to an editing screen. You should have no problem if you follow only blue links.