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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Excirial 05:12, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * That was a confusion. Never mind. utcursch | talk 05:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Nothing to worry over. I'm getting better at cleaning vandalism but that's caught me before. JohnHarris 05:24, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

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Explain
What " test edits " did I make. As far as I can see, I didn't vandalize anything, so you are making false claims. Please don't warn me about something that you're going to keep mysterious. --76.107.17.32 (talk) 16:20, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You've been juggling numbers on American Top 40 for Down (Jay Sean song), firstly up from 46 weeks to 47 and then from 47 weeks up to 48. Given the state of your Talk page I'd like to see a respectable reference for either figure. I left the 47 week entry for the time being, not having appropriate information, but your edits are inconsistent and unsupported. "Good Faith" doesn't extend to an edit history like yours.
 * Second edit: Also, one song spent 48 weeks in the chart: "Down" by Jay Sean
 * First edit: Also, one song spent 47 weeks in the chart: "Down" by Jay Sean featuring Lil' Wayne in 2009/2010. Two songs spent 46 weeks in the chart: "You and Me" by Lifehouse in 2005/2006 and "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson in 2004/2005. JohnHarris (talk) 19:18, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The reason why I " juggled " the numbers around is because the song is still on the chart, and each week it is on the chart, I have to add one number. Last week, it stayed on the chart for 47 weeks. This week, it stayed on the chart for another week, adding up to 48 weeks. The information can change as the weeks go by. If the song spends another week on the chart, it should be moved to 49 weeks, because it is not 48 weeks anymore. --76.107.17.32 (talk) 15:20, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * So, the entry says "one song has spent 48 weeks in the chart and has yet to be knocked off: "Down" by Jay Sean featuring Lil' Wayne in 2009/2010."
 * The chart's at http://www.at40.com/top-40/chart/6351
 * Down first entered at #37 on August 8th 2009 and stayed until February 27, 2010. It then re-entered the chart on May 29th 2010 and it's still there this week. That's one period of 29 weeks and another of 7 weeks, being "knocked off" once.
 * If you check the Talk page for your IP address you'll find it's been used for hoaxing and vandalism several times in the past. Registering and logging in would isolate you from that sort of history and I recommend it. Meanwhile perhaps you'd like to remove Jay Sean's Down from the section we've been discussing, where notable unbroken periods appear. JohnHarris (talk) 19:06, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The website of old charts are not actually charts from the original AT40 show. The website got revamped, and I can distinctly see that the charts are not the same as the original. You can find American Top 40 countdowns, compare it to the week, and are completely different from the website and the actual radio show. Look at Pulse Music Board's American Top 40 countdowns to see for yourself. Plus, it can't be any clearer in the most recent countdown when Ryan said " Here's the oldest song on the chart at 48 weeks, here's Jay Sean with Down at #40 ". " --76.107.17.32 (talk) 19:57, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * For further proof the charts on the website are wrong, look at the lists of number-one songs on the American Top 40 from 2004-2010, and notice that for some of the songs, the amount of weeks at #1 are different from the charts of the revamped website. Also look at the edit historyy showing that the information was there before the site was revamped. I'm just saying I've listened to every countdown since Down debuted in August of 2009 and it was never knocked off. The American Top 40 is based on the actual audio radio countdown, not on Mainstream Top 40, Mediabase, or the website charts that go back to 2001 that weren't there before. I hope you don't force me to actually find the audio from this week and every week's countdown since Down debuted, because that would be a hassle. --76.107.17.32 (talk) 01:44, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the explanation of your edit. Firstly, I now accept that your changes to American Top 40 are in good faith and intended to reflect accurate information. I pulled the changes initially because the page is semi-protected and, without checking your accuracy, I made a gut call on an incorrect assessment that you were fooling around on the basis of previous vandalizing from the IP address you're currently using. On balance, I think I was wrong to do that. I'd still have pulled the edits because they had no reliable reference for the information but that's not what I actually did.
 * What I'd like you to do is read and consider No original research. There is, as far as I can see from our discussion here, no hint on any external source that this chart appearance has been continuous for 48 weeks, which is what the edited paragraph relates to. I can well believe Ryan's comment that it's "the oldest song on the chart at 48 weeks" but, having checked the published charts, I'm equally sure that the eleven week gap from March to May is real. Either way what we're both doing at this stage is original research rather than feeding Wikipedia with substantiated fact from a reliable external source. The article's specifically about http://www.at40.com and the content of their website explicitly disagrees with your memory of events. You may, for all I know, be right, but getting at40.com's content corrected seems more reasonable than putting up an alternate reality on wikipedia. Believe me, if Jay Sean's Down stays in that paragraph for now it'll just be edited out a few months when the next contributor takes a close look at it.
 * Have a think where you want to go from here and let me know. My suggestion is that you take the reference to Jay Sean's Down out. You have, despite my misguided first impression, an interest in improving Wikipedia and goodness knows there's plenty else to focus on. JohnHarris (talk) 13:42, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * As for original research, almost none of the chart feats on that article are run on original research anymore. I seriously doubt now according to the website that Here Without You or Scars spent 50 on the chart as far as the website goes. There is no orignial research for the list of number-one songs on the American Top 40 from 2004-2010. So if we removed that one chart feat, we would have to remove everything else that has no links to sources. --76.107.17.32 (talk) 15:01, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

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It is ok for us to report the name, as Wikipedia is based in the US and does not need to comply with any gag order - see here where Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales commented in an interview with The Independent. VER Tott  10:39, 23 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the link. I should have bought a paper this morning. You're quite right. I was concerned more with violating the discreditable disputed material on living persons policy than a UK anonymised injunction and I thought that paragraph was a sneaky back-door attempt to plant some. I was wrong to think so.

Blocked using VPN
Thank you Yamla. I'd be grateful for a more detailed explanation: how can a logged-in user be more abusive with a VPN than with a direct connection? In either case the user is self-identified and it's the user account which would be disciplined for abuse, not an IP address. Obviously an editor not logged in should be unable to use a proxy or VPN, I can see a blatantly good reason for that, but I can see none at all for what just happened to me. If your rule isn't "block by IP for edits with no login", why isn't it? The VPN IP address in question is 141.255.164.67, my public IP address is 79.78.171.130, I'm not suggesting you lift an IP block on the VPN IP address for would-be editors who aren't logged in.

You seem to be telling me that as of now I'm never to perform another edit on any Wikipedia article. My ISP, BT, is notorious for editing web traffic and for playing man-in-the-middle to https connections, and a VPN is the only avoidance tool I'm aware of to circumvent the system they have in place. Where I live BT are effectively a monopoly supplier on fibre to the premises.

What have I misunderstood? JohnHarris (talk) 14:35, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
 * CB6, what you have misunderstood is that I meant, but absolutely did not say, that we normally will leave VPN's blocked from anonymous edits. I was under the impression that we would normally place a block in such cases and mark it 'anon only', allowing signed-in users such as yourself to continue editing. This is not always possible; sometimes the IP addresses are so badly abused that we have to make a stronger block, but it's rare. I'm sorry I did not make that clear. There's no way you could have been expected to know this is what I meant. ; as the blocking admin, do you think it's reasonable to change the range block in this case to anon-only? --Yamla (talk) 18:28, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * This IP range has been abused for years and there were certain groups that were causing a major drain on our resources. There's been some CU issues there too. I don't feel comfortable lifting the range at this time. The only other way to edit while the block is active is give your account IP Block Exemption. Current policy doesn't allow me to add the right but it looks like there is a discussion, so that might change. At this time, I don't think it would be fair to give you the right especially since there are many other users who are editing through BT IPs. Elockid  Message me 13:16, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

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