Communications committee/Notifications/Archives/2011
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en:User talk:138.162.0.46 this time. I've blocked it for 55 hours for vandalism. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:26, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
- This time it's en:User talk:138.162.0.43, blocked for a month. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:11, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Government of Alberta
I just blocked en:User talk:199.216.103.21, registered to the Government of Alberta, for 18 months due to prolific vandalism coming from that IP (the IP's fifth block for the same). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:26, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Error in UK Daily Mail article regarding Christina Aguilera
The article is blaming Wikipedia for the error in Aguilera's lyrics at the Superbowl, implying that she read a vandalised version of the article before her rendition.
However, the vandalised version (as cited in the article) was actually this one, added *after* her performance and reverted eight minutes later, so Wikipedia had nothing to do with it. I think we should look into contacting the Daily Mail as this kind of press isn't very good for the encyclopedia. Thanks Amakuru 10:27, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
U.S. House IP blocked
I just blocked 143.231.249.138, an IP within the US House range, for 24 hours for disruptive editing: repeatedly removing negative yet sourced information from articles about Republican congressmen and refusing attempts to discuss. Daniel Case 14:16, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
I just blocked en:User talk:138.162.128.55 - Navy Network Information Center for 6 months - long term vandalism on the English Wikipedia. Toddst1 17:51, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
- And I just blocked en:user:138.162.0.43 for the same reason. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:02, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Range block of 209.85.128.0/17
Hi. We've put a block on the following IP range for a month due to persistent vandalism over at cy.wiki: 209.85.128.0/17. Is this OK or is it in breach of sensitivity due to public relations implications? Thanks. Xxglennxx 17:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Do what you have to do to protect your wiki. If you've got vandalism from that range, block the minimum amount possible and go from there. :) Thanks for notifying the WMF/Commcomm - I've made sure that Jay is aware. Philippe (WMF) 22:50, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Hi. Thanks for responding quickly and for your e-mail - I'll reply to both here. A user has been vandalising our wiki under a multitude of names, namely 'Get some sleep R.O. do you know what time it is in your country', 'Legal age for fucking in England and Wales?', 'Cyngor Swydd Efrog Newydd New Yorkshire County Council', 'Arail Monster', 'Dw i am i Cameron wneud yokoshihogatame arnaf i', 'Kjklhggfvihyc', 'Arealmonster', and a multitude of anon. IP addresses. This user sent me two e-mails to my e-mail account liked to my wiki account, and the e-mails came from 209.85.212.45 and 209.85.220.196. In the e-mails, the user described his plan of attack to annoy all the admins until we give up wikipedia, then he'll be free to use a bot to insert swear words into all articles, including racists jokes. I can supply the e-mail address if you need it. After looking up the former IP with ARIN whois, I checked the CIDR from ARIN against this query. I then used the CIDR to enforce the range block, but wasn't sure how "wide" it'd go. There are no checkusers on cy.wiki to check the IP addresses of users. Is there a way to get them? Xxglennxx 23:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- A /17 is generally a big network, maybe too much big, if you like you can write to me the various IPs which vandalized cy.wiki and I'll try to calculate the range you need to block. --Vituzzu 00:13, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- The blocks can be viewed here. Many of the recent anon. IPs on that list follow an edit-trend of currently blocked users. I can undo the current block on 209.85.128.0/17 and shorten it, though I'm not sure what to use after the backslash... Xxglennxx 01:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Is there a list of checkusers somewhere for cy.wiki so I can contact them to check the IP addresses of recently blocked users? Xxglennxx 01:10, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- The blocks can be viewed here. Many of the recent anon. IPs on that list follow an edit-trend of currently blocked users. I can undo the current block on 209.85.128.0/17 and shorten it, though I'm not sure what to use after the backslash... Xxglennxx 01:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- A /17 is generally a big network, maybe too much big, if you like you can write to me the various IPs which vandalized cy.wiki and I'll try to calculate the range you need to block. --Vituzzu 00:13, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Hi. Thanks for responding quickly and for your e-mail - I'll reply to both here. A user has been vandalising our wiki under a multitude of names, namely 'Get some sleep R.O. do you know what time it is in your country', 'Legal age for fucking in England and Wales?', 'Cyngor Swydd Efrog Newydd New Yorkshire County Council', 'Arail Monster', 'Dw i am i Cameron wneud yokoshihogatame arnaf i', 'Kjklhggfvihyc', 'Arealmonster', and a multitude of anon. IP addresses. This user sent me two e-mails to my e-mail account liked to my wiki account, and the e-mails came from 209.85.212.45 and 209.85.220.196. In the e-mails, the user described his plan of attack to annoy all the admins until we give up wikipedia, then he'll be free to use a bot to insert swear words into all articles, including racists jokes. I can supply the e-mail address if you need it. After looking up the former IP with ARIN whois, I checked the CIDR from ARIN against this query. I then used the CIDR to enforce the range block, but wasn't sure how "wide" it'd go. There are no checkusers on cy.wiki to check the IP addresses of users. Is there a way to get them? Xxglennxx 23:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Named user blocked on en.wiki likely from an Australian government office
I have blocked User Auditoffice on en.wiki (User's en.wiki talk page and user's deleted contributions on en.wiki). A look at the deleted contributions shows the user repeatedly posting material that seems to come from the "Auditor-General of New South Wales", which is both a copy of the info of their website and apparently to promote this new initiative. Given the user name, it seems likely to me that the editor is an employee of said office, and thus I thought I should report here. I wasn't sure if this was only for IP addresses in the given range, or also for named accounts, but I thought it would be better to be safe than sorry. Qwyrxian 03:33, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Contacting of Ohio senator
I contacted the Ohio Senator Joe Schiavoni because of Wikipedia abuse by his assistant. ~~EBE123~~ talkContribs 10:32, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
en:User:DSS-Ft. Meade spamusername blocked on en.wikipedia
This was a role account for a U.S. military agency (en:Defense Security Service), editing the article about the DSS. I gave it the standard spamusernameblock, same as I would for a corporate account under the same circumstances. --Orange Mike 19:07, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
CERN- European Organization for Nuclear Research / en block
I have recently blocked en:User talk:128.141.151.119 for making apparent legal threats at [1] Skier Dude 04:22, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- Postscript - this was only 6 months as I could not determine if the IP was permanently assigned or not.Skier Dude 04:24, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
UK House of Parliament accounts blocked: Chuka Umunna MP
Per en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bronti11, I have blocked two accounts that were based in the UK House of Parliament. Logging this notification, because autoblock will catch the underlying IP address. AGK 15:06, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. :) Philippe (WMF) 21:14, 12 December 2011 (UTC)