A) Did I go too far when I did all the research I
described above? Do you
yourself often use the Range Contributions tool[4] for looking at vandals'
ISPs' contributions?
C) Why did no anti-vandalism software automatically revert either edit?
D) When I look at the history[9] of [[Patrick Stump]], I see that there were
fourteen edits between 06:51 and 07:03, most vandalism. Yet the vandalistic
edits come from a variety of IP addresses and usernames. The IP addresses
differ widely from each other. Why is this?
F) Which netblocks do the most vandalism and the least useful editing?
Which cities? Which entire countries? Should those netblocks, cities, and
countries be forced to log in before editing?
G) Wouldn't it be cool if some web browsers or ISPs would tell Wikipedia
what a contributor's PPPoE username was whenever the contributor made an
edit?
^ [1].
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fetus_in_fetu&diff=prev&o…
^ [2].
http://toolserver.org/~chm/whois.php?ip=174.105.248.31
^ [3].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Runner_High_Speed_Online
^ [4].
http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/rangecontribs/
^ [5].
^ [6].
A followup: Never mind B) and E). My original post on wikien-l was a repost
of a message I had already posted to wikitech-l. (Wikitech-l has told me to
repost it here.) But Aryeh Gregor on wikitech-l has answered[11] B) and E) to
my satisfaction now.
^ [11].