User talk:169.244.143.115

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School IP address Attention:

This host, CE2-P-UNET.unet.maine.edu, is registered to University of Maine System Network (US) 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.
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This IP address has been repeatedly blocked from editing Wikipedia in response to abuse of editing privileges.
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[edit] About this IP

A bit of clarity for the entire wikipedia world, its users, and admins. This IP address is the cache/filter/silent proxy server for all public schools and libraries in the entire state of Maine. This, you may not realize, means that all teachers, and worse, all students connecting to Wikipedia are identified as using this particular IP address. Remembering that we have the Maine Learning Technology Initiative [1] which provided a fully functional, Internet capable iBook to all 7th and 8th graders in the entire state, and most of the vandalism is explained pretty quickly (things like 'my name is great') altho certainly not excuseable. There are alternate means of identifying the user's IP address, as other websites have correctly identified mine. Perhaps switching to an alternate method of IP identification would solve most of the issues? 169.244.143.115 21:20, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

This is indeed the case with this IP and many IP's like it. However, the system of blocking only prevents editing of wikipedia and not the reading of it. The means of tracking down ip addresses could be implemented (using x-cache-forward et al.) However, the current version of MediaWiki that runs does not appear to do this. So, it would be advisable for more stringent controls by the mlte to prevent such vandalism, as the IP will continue to be blocked. -Localzuk (talk) 18:21, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Oh, I definitely agree that this IP needs to remain blocked until MediaWiki can properly ID the IP one way or another. I just wanted to make it clear what was going on since a number of people had blocked the IP with comments sounding as if they thought this was just one person repeatedly vandalizing the pages. Oh no... 17,000+ students were available, and only a few needed to decide editing Wikipedia would be 'fun'. But there is not much to be done by MSLN [2] (Maine School and Libraries Network, the ISP for almost all Maine public schools and libraries) to fix the problem short of disabling the cache/filter for only Wikipedia. Actually, come to think of it, they might be able to do just that. I'll have to ask them. Thank you for the quick reply here, and yes, this is the same 169.244.143.115 user that made the first comment. 169.244.143.115 20:05, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

A possible solution to this mess would be to get MSLN to enable X-Forward-For so they can be added to the trusted XFF list. User:Tim Starling might be looking into it right now [3], but I can't be sure if progress is being made or not. 169.244.143.115 13:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Tim informed me via email that they will be making the change on their end; this IP has been added to the list now, so it should work as soon as they enable XFF headers. Then the actual, juvenile perpetrators can be targeted better, and we could contact the school administrators. Phoenix-forgotten 04:18, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] April 2007

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If editing is required for class projects, please have your teacher or network administrator contact us (with reference to this IP address) at unblock-en-l from an email address listed on your school's website. Alternatively, if you have no Internet access at home, you may email us using your school-issued email address, telling us your preferred username. An account will be created for you. Please check on this list that the username you choose has not already been taken.

Thank you. —  Netsnipe  ►  18:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] October 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Battle of the Little Bighorn, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Whale plane 12:18, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Shane. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Thank you. NawlinWiki 12:35, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to WWE Armageddon, you will be blocked from editing. • Lawrence Cohen 13:57, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make any unconstructive edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant warnings.

[edit] Regarding your edits to Visigoths:

Your recent edit to Visigoths (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either test edits, vandalism, or link spam to the page or having an inappropriate edit summary. If you want to experiment, please use the preview button while editing or consider using the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. If you made an edit that removed a large amount of content, try doing smaller edits instead. Thanks! // VoABot II 16:16, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Firsfron of Ronchester 20:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

You have been temporarily blocked from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for repeated abuse of editing privileges. Please stop. You're welcome to make useful contributions after the block expires. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. --Ed (Edgar181) 17:19, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

--Ed (Edgar181) 17:19, 7 November 2007 (UTC)