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Privacy policy violation

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This page leaks user-IP relationships, contrary to WMF policy. Please change it to.

[[Wikipedia:Autoblock|Autoblocked]] because your IP address was recently used by a blocked user.

All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 00:50, 16 April 2014 (UTC).[reply]

Please see discussion at MediaWiki talk:Autoblockedtext#Privacy violation before making this change. Jackmcbarn (talk) 11:35, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Not done for now: This is one of those things that legal can fix itself or request a change, and as such I am closing this request as there is no need to announce to everyone that there is a potential issue here and honestly I think that Rich Farmbrough should have followed the procedure and emailed the issue to the legal team or at very least followed the Bugzilla reporting procedure for submitting a security bug. — {{U|Technical 13}} (tec) 14:43, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Legal have been aware since 20 August 2013, Bugzilla since 18th August2013, the Foundation in general since 9 August 2013.
Standard procedure for security issues not fixed by vendors in a reasonable amount of time is to issue a CVE, or otherwise widely publicise the bug. I have chosen to follow a middle path, where the community can at least fix the obvious manifestation of this bug on the website we collectively manage, the flagship of the movement and arguably a very important website both in its own right and as an advocate for open source and open knowledge.
I have also, prior to my post above, reminded the developer community, WMF legal, the meta community and the chief executive. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 20:55, 16 April 2014 (UTC).[reply]

Update request

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I am intending to update the text due to technical formatting. A log will be used to direct the blocked user for additional blocks to the suspected account. This is the code that must be provided for the update:

[[Wikipedia:Autoblock|Autoblocked]] because your IP address was recently used by $1. The reason given for $1's block was "$2". See [[{{fullurl:Special:Log/block|page=User:$1}} the block log] for more information.

2600:1700:A940:80F0:1979:900A:8F12:76A9 (talk) 16:12, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done there are syntax errors in your code above. Also, the reason from the block log is already provided with parameter $2. — xaosflux Talk 03:55, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]