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What is global blocks

If you have a blocking evasion this message will appear under the MediaWiki:Wikimedia-globalblocking-ipblocked Formerly known as MediaWiki:Globalblocking-blocked are shown as an error message (analogous to MediaWiki:Blockedtext for locally blocked users). Registered users cannot be globally blocked. The analogous action is global locking, which prevents anyone from logging into the account. 171.250.162.76 13:09, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. That is somewhat right, but let me add that global blocks are like local blocks in that they both can disallow editing for an IP Address or a netblock of them, but they are different in that global blocks are made by Stewards, not Admins, generally after a report at m:srg.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 15:25, 19 August 2022 (UTC)