Template:SchoolIP
Welcome to Wikipedia, school user! Please note the following:
This IP address, (IP address appears here), is registered to a school, and may be shared by many different people. If this school uses proxy servers, many people at different computers, or even at different schools in an area, can connect to the Internet through this same IP address. Because of this, a message meant for one person may be read by another, often someone who has not done anything wrong, and a block of this IP address will mean that everyone using this address will not be able to change Wikipedia.
If you are making changes from this address and are getting messages that are not for you, you can avoid this by creating your own account. If you cannot do this, it most likely means that doing so has been stopped so that other users cannot make any bad changes. You will then have to make an account at home and log in with it here.
Please think before blocking this IP. If a block is needed, admins should consider a soft block.
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Note: If this address is used for vandalism over and over again, making changes without an account may be disabled for up to 1 year at a time, and abuse reports may be sent to the people who run the school in cases of long-term disruption by people with accounts. |
School staff, to monitor this IP address for disruptive changes, can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.
 | If you plan to make breaking changes to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify Twinkle's users and maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle as a courtesy, as this template is used in the standard installation of Twinkle. Thank you! |
This template can be transcluded onto the user talk page of any IP address belonging to an educational institution such as a school or college. It provides a warning notice to editors and users from the IP, and categorises pages to Shared IP addresses from schools.
Usage
{{SchoolIP
| name of school or institution
| host = name of host in the format "proxy.example.edu"
}}
To prevent excessive clutter on the user talk page, and to make future changes easier, this template should NOT be subst:ed. The parameter for hostname is optional.
Other templates
- {{SharedIP}} is a general version for use with non-educational establishments
- {{SharedIPCORP}} is a version for use with corporations
- {{anonblock}}, where editing by unregistered users may be currently disabled
- {{schoolblock}}, where anonymous editing is disabled due to persistent vandalism