User talk:24.84.57.167

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Attention:

This IP address, 24.84.57.167, is registered to Shaw Communications Inc., and may be shared by multiple users. If the organization uses proxy servers or firewalls, this IP address may in fact represent many users at many physical computers.

For this reason, a message intended for one person may be received by another and a block may be shared by many. If you are editing from this address and are frustrated by irrelevant messages, you can avoid them by creating an account for yourself. In some cases, you may temporarily be unable to create an account due to efforts to fight vandalism; if so, please see here.

If you are autoblocked repeatedly, we encourage you to contact your Internet service provider or IT department and ask them to contact Wikimedia's XFF project about enabling X-Forwarded-For HTTP headers on their proxy servers so that our editing blocks will affect only the intended user. Alternatively, you can list the IP at Wikipedia:WikiProject on XFFs.

Caution should be used when blocking this IP or reverting its contributions without checking - if a block is needed, administrators should consider using a soft block with the template {{anonblock|optional comment}} as the block reason.

Note: In the event of vandalism from this address, abuse reports may be sent to your network administrator for further investigation.
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As you don't appear to be the real target of that last user's message (as your IP has never been blocked) I won't revert to the previous version of this page, but please allow the above {{sharedIP|Shaw Communications Inc.}} template to remain. This is to your advantage as it makes it clear your address is a shared IP and discourages people from leaving messages aimed at a particular person (like this one!). Please also remember that no user "owns" their Wikipedia talk page, even registered users. However I would strongly advise registering an account, then you will not receive messages that are irrelevant to you, as you otherwise sometimes will when on a shared IP. I know it's annoying but that's pretty much the only foolproof solution. Thanks, Miremare 17:46, 14 July 2007 (UTC)