User talk:AnnElise

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:12, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
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The problem
More than one person can share an IP address as it says in the standard message:

"Some IP addresses change periodically, and may be shared by several users. If you are an anonymous user and feel that irrelevant comments have been directed at you, please create an account or log in to avoid future confusion with other anonymous users."

So it's likly that someone else was committing the vandalism and when you looked at Wikipedia you got the message because you were using the same IP. At this point nobody else knows what the IP is that you were using and there is no reason for anyone to check up on it. The vandal was from a set of numbers in that IP range and nearly always vandalised the same articles. This could mean that other times when you came to Wikipedia you had a slightly different IP so you didn't see the message until now. Also it seems that I blocked 12 different IP numbers in that range at different times so if you look at Wikipedia without logging in you may get the message from me (or someone else) again.

The main thing is that nobody will be blaming you for any vandalism. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:12, 29 March 2006 (UTC)