Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Edwin H. Land Medal

Hello I cast only one vote. Why did you write that? And it took me 30 minutes to figure out how. What does hard code an IP address mean? I’m lost. I don’t want an account. I read Wikipedia like 10 times a day but don’t want to learn it’s programming language. Anyway, the only science awards that get in the mainstream news are called Nobel, Fields, Turing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100C:B028:135E:78B6:F7D8:ED19:B479 (talk) 16:03, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The first IP keep !vote was cast here [1] from an IPv4 address 128.62.213.119 that GeoLocate says belongs to the University of Texas at Austin network. The second IP keep !vote was cast 5 hours later here [2]], from 128.62.83.190, an IPv4 address on the same UT Austin network. When the IP addresses are that close, that usually indicates the same person getting a dynamic IP address from the same wireless network (such as a university wifi network), or perhaps two static IP addresses in the same building. The second keep comment was followed by an extra "follow-on" comment here[3] , this time from an IPv6 address Special:Contributions/2600:100c:b028:135e:78b6:f7d8:ed19:b479, the same one as you are posting from in this last thread, also geo-located in Austin and belonging to the Verizon network. All of these comments were unsigned but the IP numbers used plus the "follow-on" header indicate that most likely all comments were done by the same person. Regarding hard-coding the IP number as a signature: When somebody (a registered user or an IP) signs their comment using four tildes, the signature is displayed in the 'user name(talk)' format, like most signatures in this thread. For an IP user, the 'user name' part in this case is their IP address as recorded in the page history log. For the first IP keep !vote [4], the page history log shows this comment as being unsigned (as the SineBot added the missing signature in the next edit[5]) and coming from 128.62.213.119 at 15:06UTC on Sept 12. However, the comment itself ends in "Thanks! 136.49.47.230 (talk) 21:23, 11 September 2019 (UTC)". That indicates that when the comment was made, the user manually typed in the (incorrect) IP address 136.49.47.230 with the (also incorrect) time stamp of 21:23, 11 September 2019 (UTC). That's what I meant by hard-coding one's IP address. Nsk92 (talk) 22:57, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]