On Wikipedia, we tend to not use indefinite IP blocks (there are some, but not many).

For business and organisation IPs, if we get vandalism from that IP, we'll stick it on a long-term block (usually a year) and renew that block if there's recurring vandalism when the block expires.

> People often have multiple email addresses.

That doesn't affect the fact that the email address exists to identify the person. You'd need to say "people often share email addresses in common", which they don't.

yes, they do.

we have a shared email address between us that the kids use, and I use to sign up for some stuff.

My parents have 3 emails addresses between themselves, and use them pretty much interchangeably.

I worked at a distance education provider for a couple of years, and we commonly had entire families using the same email address.

It turns out that when you sign up with an ISP, they give you a single email address by default, and you can - if you wish to, and know how, add more of your own.

Outside of the tech industry, nobody knows how.

I've found it very difficult to convince some people that my wife and I have separate email accounts -- sufficiently so that I set up a shared alias that forwards to both of us so I can give it to those people. I know plenty of couples who share an email account.

info@, accounts@, abuse@, webmaster@, support@, mail@ domains@ - those are just a few shared email addresses that I read.