CanDo

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Vandalism

Good work on reverting vandalism! Make sure you keep obesity on your watchlist. It is very prone to vandalism during weekends. JFW | T@lk 00:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

User who vandalized Hindu

Hi. The user you noted that vandalized the Hindu article is using a school IP shared by many students. This doesn't give us any long term solution to the vandalism. We can block them for a short period but any long term block would cut off many others who are not vandals. If you discover repeated vandalism please try Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (Please read the rules at the top) - Tεxτurε 20:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

University of Oxford

Hi. The paragraph you replaced broke the NPOV guidelines, so I have removed it again. If it's going to be put back, it needs severe editing. Deb 22:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

No problems, you're doing a great job. Deb 18:14, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

for fixing my talk page! Looks like I've made a new friend... Dan100 (Talk) 00:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thing is, the vandal is on a dynamic IP, ie he has a new IP each time he edits. Impossible to block... Dan100 (Talk) 00:18, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

A reply

First of all, thanks for reverting that vandalism to my user page. In reply to your questions: I am aware that some services track dynamic IPs, but I don't know much about the technology behind this, or whether it could be implemented on Wikipedia. My guess is that it is very complex and would put a serious drain on the servers, and we would still have to block IPs individually. It's possible under our current system to block an IP range, thereby preventing users with dynamic IPs from vandalizing, but due to the heavy collateral damage this is generally avoided. As for telling on sight whether an IP is static or dynamic, I don’t think that there is a reliable method. Rather, one learns with time which ranges are dynamic and which aren’t. Looking at the contributions of an IP often gives a clue. You can also use ARIN to identify the ISP, and that might give you a good idea. Even if a vandal is using a dynamic IP, leaving a warning is still a good idea, as there is a chance that the vandal will be the one to receive it.

I hope I've helped answer your good questions. You can always seek out more opinions at a page like Wikipedia:Help Desk or Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). If you have any more questions for me, please don't hesitate to ask. Keep up the great work! Canderson7 ^(talk) 01:37, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome! Canderson7 ^(talk) 01:41, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Phorpus

Regarding the speedy delete notice I put on this page, it wasn't intended as vandalism: I was simply so tired that I just didn't notice that it was a user page, not an article (Phorpus redirects here). I am extremely sorry - I will not edit so late at night in future.Staffelde 12:29, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Matthewpang

No, in order to track dynamic ip addresses you would either have to collaborate with the internet service provider or have all site visitors install a program that associates a given id (some form of reliable cryptographically secure identification tag) with the ip addresses of the users.You would also have to ensure that users had the program running when accessing Wikipedia in order to be certain that the ip - id information on the server was correct and up to date.You would also have to ensure that the id information was verified (as up to date and correct) by a randomly selected independent third party.

War on Vandalism

Can you pass it along to right people to see it done? It be about Wikipedia's history against Vandals listing battles, groups, events, types, Generals, Heros, Villians etc . and have it in somewhat EPIC format

Spam links

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. -- Donald Albury 23:45, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

To Dalbury

Hello, I see that you wish replies to be made on this page. I am in the process of editing the talk pages, as recommended. If there are no further obstacles, or a consensus is arrived upon, how long of a buffer would you like before links are included on the page?

See OhNoitsJamie's message below. -- Donald Albury 22:16, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Canvassing talk pages with link

A link to a site you're affiliated with containing Google ads is not appropriate for Wikipedia per WP:EL and WP:COI. Please stop canvassing talk pages petitioning it's addition. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 18:06, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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