On Wednesday 30 October 2002 04:00 am, wikipedia-l-request@wikipedia.org wrote:

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)

Speaking of which, would it be possible to have the software run a traceroute to find out this type of information and have it available via a single click on the blocked IP page? I'm sure there are several blocked public computers on the list that should have only been blocked for a couple of days at most.

We should make it easy for Admins to review this stuff instead of relying on them to each periodically run traceroutes on their own. I for one am lazy and rarely bother. I would, however click on a link to computer generated traceroute report and read it.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)