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71.99.102.134 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Abuse Response
Report Status
IP Address71.99.102.134
ContributionsContributions
Page MovesPage moves
Block LogBlock log
Contribution HistoryContribution history
StatusClosed
RequestorSomeguy1221 (talk)
Date17:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
InvestigatorBsmithme
ContactorPending


(the first IP to appear) no activity since Dec2006 no warnings no blocks

Certain

Ripe IPs

 Confirmed ripe IPs with recent abusive activity.

Stale IPs

 Stale IPs but which have been confirmed as committing abusive activity.

Possible

Relevant discussions

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive207#Dynamic_ip

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive357#IP:_71.99.126.188

Talk:Czech Republic#Česko

Talk:Czechs#Persistent abusive editor

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Czech Republic/Archive 1#Vandal targetting Czech related articles

Discussion

For about the last year, this editor has been a general nuisance on Wikipedia. While his modus operandi is very simply to remove from Czech Republic the short name of the country (he has revert warred over this on 36 out of 59 IP addresses), his vandalism is by no means confined there (making protection of that page inadequate, not to mention it would need to be perennial). He often edits apparently random Czech-related pages, and sometimes constructively (his constructive edits seem confined to mere typo fixing and minor rewording). Unfortunately, many of his edits to other articles are questionable or outright vandalism, and reverted as such. His typical response to seeing his edits reverted is to immediately revert war while using hostile and sometimes outright insulting edit summaries (so say some who have translated his edit summaries from Czech). He appears to have no interest in actually collaberating on the project, and often attacks those who revert him on their user and user talk pages (or sometimes his own). One of the best examples of his lack of desire to cooperate might be found here. In the course of his disruption, he has accumulated no less than 43 blocks, as well as one range block. The IP range subject to this report appears to be the unfortunately large 71.99.0.0/16 range. (Additionally, two IPs are outside this range). These IPs all resolve to Verizon - Tampa, Florida area. The WHOIS report identifies the full range as the much larger 71.96.0.0/11, which the two IPs outside of my given range are included in. It should be noted that several of these IPs are inexplicably labelled as socks of Czech vandal with a grudge (talk · contribs). I believe this labelling to be in error, as I see no similarities in edits, summaries, or target articles (they also edit from different continents). Someguy1221 (talk) 22:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Um, could we not block the entire 71.x.x.x range? My IP address happens to be in it (but it isn't any of those ones on the list! I'm no vandal!) MalwareSmarts (talk) 23:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think anyone advocates blocking that entire range, which would be a hugely disproportionate response. The most I've seen is a brief range block somewhere in the 71.99... range.--Kubigula (talk) 01:56, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I'd support going forward, according to the WHOIS, the IP is registered to Verizon Wireless, so I'd feel fairly confident in their taking action. --Pstanton (talk) 01:41, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Abuse History

Abuse Summary

The person that has been linked and found to be the user of the above IP addresses has been an habitual violator of Wikipedia policies by posting violating content on countless occasions. The user has been suitably warned of their violations, and the user has acknowledged either directly or indirectly of the warnings issued to them by responding to warnings posted on the talk page of their IP address (for example, see 1, 2, 3, 4) but has continued to violate Wikipedia policy despite those warnings.

Modus Operandi

The user targets articles related to the Czech Republic.

Analysis

Despite the many warnings which have been acknowledged by the user, it is my opinion that the user will continue to abuse Wikipedia and will not comply with Wikipedia policies. As a result, I will be contacting the ISP from which the user accesses Wikipedia.

Contact information

OrgName:    Verizon Internet Services Inc. 
OrgID:      VRIS
Address:    1880 Campus Commons Dr
City:       Reston
StateProv:  VA
PostalCode: 20191
Country:    US

NetRange:   71.96.0.0 - 71.127.255.255 
CIDR:       71.96.0.0/11 
NetName:    VIS-71-96
NetHandle:  NET-71-96-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-71-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.BELLATLANTIC.NET
NameServer: NS2.BELLATLANTIC.NET
NameServer: NS2.VERIZON.NET
NameServer: NS4.VERIZON.NET
Comment:    
RegDate:    2005-01-18
Updated:    2005-08-15

OrgAbuseHandle: VISAB-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   VIS Abuse 
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-214-513-6711
OrgAbuseEmail:  *****@verizon.net

Contact Summary

Communication sent: Dear Sir or Madam:

On behalf of Wikipedia's administrative team and abuse reports team, I am contacting you to inform you of an incident (or incidents) of abuse originating from your network.

Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia that can be used by anyone with Internet access free of charge. The English version may be viewed on the Web at http://en.wikipedia.org. A fundamental component of Wikipedia is that it may be edited by virtually anyone, as long as their edits benefit the goal of creating an encyclopedia. This approach has the downside that it exposes us to large scale vandalism, something that we are always trying to combat. We are able to achieve this by utilizing automated bots and tools to detect and revert unconstructive edits. If a user is identified as repeatedly abusing their privilege to edit Wikipedia, they are blocked, either temporarily or permanently.

I have completed an investigation and discovered that a series of IP address that appear to be registered to your organization, the most recent of which is 71.99.102.134, has been habitually abusing Wikipedia policies by vandalizing articles at http://en.wikipedia.org. His or her actions are probably preventing other users on your network from contributing, as this and many other IP addresses have been blocked from editing Wikipedia on many multiple occasions, many of which blocks are ongoing. Multiple warnings have been issued over a long duration of time, asking the user to refrain from abusive use of Wikipedia. However, the user has chosen to ignore the warnings, and as a result has incurred several blocks to IP address under your jurisdiction. I am contacting you because this user continues to abuse Wikipedia after his or her block expires and because this user has been blocked five times or more, justifying a need for a report.

Wikipedia's investigation is complete, and you may view the entire at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abuse_reports/71.99.x.x

Additional information regarding this users mos recent contributions to Wikipedia may be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.99.102.134

The block log for the most recent IP may be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User:71.99.102.134

In the future you may wish to monitor contributions made from this IP number at: (RSS & ATOM feeds)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:71.99.102.134


Please investigate and take action as deemed necessary immediately. Thank you for your cooperation.

BSmithME Wikipedia Abuse Report Team

(Abuse Report Team members use their Wikipedia screen names when sending abuse reports to protect their privacy. Please excuse this, but please be assured that it will not diminish the quality of the report.)

Reply received: Not yet received.


Case History

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