I found this in my inbox today:
I'm a user who has the number 66.185.84.208. I've found myself blocked on the accusation of vandalism and plagarism. Can you please unblock me? Please note that this is the 4th time in 5 months and I hope this is the last time.
I quickly scanned through his contributions, and there are quite a few. Some of his new articles had a leftist bias, and he seems to be pro-Palestine, but I didn't see real vandalism. Some of his edits might be a little weird, though.
But, if he was really banned 4 times already, I probably missed something.
Magnus
Being relatively new here (started in November), this may be a dumb question:
Could it be that most folks in North America with cable or DSL internet do not have a fixed IP address?
Unless I'm mistaken, customers with Rogers Communications cable broadband in Toronto are randomly assigned IP addresses in the range from 66.185.80.0 to 66.185.95.255 every time they log off and re-log in to the system.
Could it be possible that this is the case here? The person may be using a temporary IP address that once belonged to a vandal or troll. And the new IP address for each power-up and reconnect to the NET could account for this user's seemingly sporadic nature of the ban.
Or am I totally off base?
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I found this in my inbox today:
I'm a user who has the number 66.185.84.208. I've found myself blocked on the accusation of vandalism and plagarism. Can you please unblock me? Please note that this is the 4th time in 5 months and I hope this is the last time.
I quickly scanned through his contributions, and there are quite a few. Some of his new articles had a leftist bias, and he seems to be pro-Palestine, but I didn't see real vandalism. Some of his edits might be a little weird, though.
But, if he was really banned 4 times already, I probably missed something.
Magnus
Timwi wrote:
David Speakman wrote:
The person may be using a temporary IP address that once belonged to a vandal or troll.
Magnus specifically mentioned that he did have a look at the contributions list for the IP address and did not find any real vandalism or trollage.
IIRC vandalism on pages that are later deleted doesn't show up on contributions list. Maybe this needs changing so that events are more easily tracked.
(I don't know whether this is relevant in this particular case or not)
--sannse
Check the Vandalism in Progress page for a brief discussion of the problems with this address.
RickK
Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote: David Speakman wrote:
The person may be using a temporary IP address that once belonged to a vandal or troll.
Magnus specifically mentioned that he did have a look at the contributions list for the IP address and did not find any real vandalism or trollage.
Timwi
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A User who went by the name of Bird has gone on a vandalism rampage, blanking several articles he/she worked on, claiming that everything he included in Wikipedia was either made up or plaigarized. I'm wondering if someone got ahold of the user's account and is causing problems, or if this person has had this in mind from the time he/she first logged in. Regardless, it seems that the user claims that he will be issuing a "press release" pointing out how flawed Wikipedia is.
See [[User:David Newton/Bird Dispute]] for more detail.
RickK
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Also check [[User talk:66.185.84.208]] for several other users' comments on problems this address has caused.
RickK
Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote: David Speakman wrote:
The person may be using a temporary IP address that once belonged to a vandal or troll.
Magnus specifically mentioned that he did have a look at the contributions list for the IP address and did not find any real vandalism or trollage.
Timwi
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