Pierre Abbat wrote:
Brion earlier today deleted several junk entries whose content related to sexual perversion. Looking at the deletion log, I can't tell whether they are the same IP address (in which case it's a vandal and should be blocked) or different ones. If different people delete junks by the same person, no one knows that he should be blocked. Please, therefore, when deleting junk entries, list the IP address (or user name, if any) of whoever wrote the junk.
If you're referring to the junk edits to Sukarno, Suharto, Adolf Hitler, etc; those came from various IPs, mostly from what looks like a school or library in Ohio (probably public machines or a cache/proxy); banning wouldn't help much.
Suharto - 156.63.200.159 Sukarno - 156.63.200.159, 156.63.205.5 Image talk:Hitler.jpg - 156.63.205.5 Talk:Hafez al-Assad - 198.234.102.59 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - 156.63.205.5
156.63.205.5 and 198.234.102.59 also each vandalised Adolf Hitler once; both were quickly reverted.
You'll notice that after cleaning the first batch, I added the IP in the deletion notice for "Hitler: The Last Ten Days". You'll also notice no further activity from these IPs, though no ban is in place.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)