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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Again: Media, and [b]Wikipedia, Blackout on Kidnapping of 'NYT ...[/b]
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Last November, David Rohde was kidnapped in Afghanistan and held for several months, before managing to escape with his interpreter. Media around the world, ...

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Worth reading. Very (very) similar to the David Rohde incident. Discussion underway on the talk page.

How does User:72.186.98.163 not get blocked, even while inserting and re-inserting the "cover up" information, and even telling a barnstar-encrusted old-timer to "Mind your own business idiot"?

But, I was banned for writing non-paid articles like Arch Coal?

I just don't get it.

Looks like maybe he got rangeblocked, and it didn't appear in the log because it's an IP address? So maybe there was no need...?

That's an autoblock (block automagically placed on IP because it was used by a blocked user) rather than a rangeblock.

The user that triggered the autoblock was seemingly blocked for trying to game autoconfirmed...