Hi Ged and Elen I was pointed to the statement on Starcade s page yesterday and it appeared to me that Starcade s colleagues coworkers whatever told him to quit editing Wikipedia since his block prevented other people at his IP address from editing and they told him to post a statement on their behalf on his talk page announcing this If that s the case might autoblocking be counterproductive as no one from that IP will be able to edit I don t know that my theory is true it s entirely possible it s either a compromised account or he s just making the whole thing up