User talk:128.220.212.140

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School IP address Attention:

This IP address, 128.220.212.140, is registered to Johns Hopkins University and may be shared by multiple users of an educational institution. If the institution uses proxy servers, this IP address may in fact represent many users at many physical computers.

For this reason a message intended for one person may be received by another. Similarly an innocent user may be blocked for another user's vandalism. If you are editing from this address and are frustrated by irrelevant messages, you can avoid them by creating an account for yourself. In some cases you may temporarily be unable to create an account due to efforts to fight vandalism; if so, please read our advice on this situation.

Caution should be used when blocking this IP or reverting its contributions without checking - if a block is needed, administrators should consider a soft block with the template {{schoolblock|optional comment}} as the block reason.

Note: In the event of persistent vandalism from this IP address, anonymous editing may be disabled for up to 1 year at a time. Abuse reports may also be forwarded to your school administration for investigation.
School staff who want to monitor vandalism from this IP address can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

School IP address Attention:

This IP address, 128.220.212.140, is registered to Johns Hopkins University and may be shared by multiple users of an educational institution. If the institution uses proxy servers, this IP address may in fact represent many users at many physical computers.

For this reason a message intended for one person may be received by another. Similarly an innocent user may be blocked for another user's vandalism. If you are editing from this address and are frustrated by irrelevant messages, you can avoid them by creating an account for yourself. In some cases you may temporarily be unable to create an account due to efforts to fight vandalism; if so, please read our advice on this situation.

Caution should be used when blocking this IP or reverting its contributions without checking - if a block is needed, administrators should consider a soft block with the template {{schoolblock|optional comment}} as the block reason.

Note: In the event of persistent vandalism from this IP address, anonymous editing may be disabled for up to 1 year at a time. Abuse reports may also be forwarded to your school administration for investigation.
School staff who want to monitor vandalism from this IP address can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

Thanks for the heads up about that, it does indeed look like there's one user making problems with that IP. Unfortunately, it looks like it's a shared IP and others are using it too. My advice to you would be to first make sure all your edits are backed up by reliable sources such as textbooks or journal articles. It's generally agreed that you shouldn't remove well-sourced info without discussion, whereas anyone can remove unsourced material at any time. So that would be your first step. If they keep doing it, you should take it to the talk page or through dispute resolution, which I can help you with. It would be great if you could create yourself a username so I can figure out who you are when you leave me a note (I'm not going to be able to remember the string of numbers in your IP address), it's free and very quick. Thanks again for looking out for the encyclopedia! delldot talk 19:12, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sock-puppet

Sock-puppet of Rawlins.