User talk:188.29.164.68

July 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to Teacher's Pet (TV series), did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. ''"Country" should list only the country of origin. Language is the language the show is produced in (not translations). '' Sum mer PhD  (talk) 11:30, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
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Please do not add or change content, as you did to Chicken Little (2005 film), without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.  McDoob AU93  16:34, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm SummerPhD. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Milly, Molly because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ''Please discuss the issues on the article talk pages. You seem to be confused as to what the parameters are for. '' Sum mer PhD  (talk) 14:49, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
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Daniel Case (talk) 19:23, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

April 2015
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Patras. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. —This lousy T-shirt— (talk) 13:51, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
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Public IP address
This is a dynamically-allocated IP address, used by Three, a major Internet and mobile phone provider in the UK. It is likely that each of the events mentioned, were committed by different people. Even switching your connecting device off and on again obtains a new IP.

This means that 1 - you're annoying a lot of people who are using the IP address later, and 2 - the vandal you are after has presumably worked his way through as many IP addresses as he likes since then. A SIM card costs 1 pound here. 3G Internet is available on Pay As You Go. So you can even change networks on a whim.

IP blocking is a stupid idea to start with, and would only have been anything like successful 20 years ago (and I was here), in the mostly fixed-IP days. When ISPs could allocate one address per customer if they wanted to. It's been largely obsolete since before Wikipedia started. There are good reasons why one might prefer not to register an account. Privacy and convenience being just two.

I realise one might feel impotent, in not being able to force people halfway across the world to accept one's rulings. But overkill is not the proper response to it. Perhaps IP bans of a day or so, or a few hours, would stop immediate shit-flooding. Anything more is a waste, and may even be considerable as a possible DOS attack, ie getting a whole network kicked off Wikipedia by shitposting from as many dynamic IPs as you can. It could be automated easily.

That, and the malfunctioning, clumsy robots some people take such pride in, are Wiki's two biggest problems. If you're too lazy to roll your sleeves up and edit manually, then let someone else do it, there's no shortage of volunteers. Something like the Wikipedia project is not well served, including ethically, by having faulty AI's and overgrown regexps run amok on the place.

December 2016
Hello, I'm Chrissymad. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Chris Pine, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Chrissymad ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  21:03, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
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January 2018
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Lonsdale College, Lancaster. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. مفكر1 (talk) 20:59, 17 January 2018 (UTC)