User talk:PKT/Archive 2021

from C23J
PKT thanks for the quick comments on my edits on the Soccer Stadiums in Canada site. I agree with your comments; however, you might want to go back to the sight and remove all the non-soccer references. Cheers C23J C23J (talk) 19:29, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * - thanks, I will have a look!....regards,  PK T (alk)  20:00, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Your revert on Chester A. Arthur
You said that User:CountryCoolGuy12345 was vandalizing the article when he wrote that Arthur was accused of being born in Canada. However, this was not vandalism, it's described on a Smithsonian article and some other articles ; in fact, it's already mentioned on the article, just in a different place. So just be cautious before you accuse editors of vandalism. — Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 08:34, 3 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Considering that the user in question had added Chester A. Arthur to List of people from Richmond Hill, Ontario prior to the edit you refer to, and that he has done it again since that time, I have no qualms about calling the user's edits vandalism regardless.  PK  T (alk)  17:39, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Just because one edit is bad doesn't mean the other edits are vandalism. That's not how it works. Furthermore, Arthur was only added to the list of people once, before this edit was reverted. — Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 18:32, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * As I wrote earlier, "no qualms". You may write me again when you have more experience around here.  Have a nice day,  PK  T (alk)  18:45, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * User CountryCoolGuy12345 got himself blocked for two weeks on February 16th.  PK  T (alk)  20:00, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * And now, he has got himself blocked indefinitely. Quelle dommage.....  PK  T (alk)  20:49, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

You've got mail
Apparently I'm supposed to do this in case you have your email turned off KenDavison3 (talk) 16:32, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Responded on KenDavison3's talk page............  PK T (alk)  19:39, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thanks for trying to help this user. The reason I gave him a time limit for improving Draft:Arielle Kayabaga is that, as far as I'm concerned, there's promotional material now sitting in draft. I normally wouldn't have restored it, but I mistook his persistence for a willingness to improve. If he refuses to work with the pointers you've given him, I will be deleting the draft again tomorrow as promised. Deb (talk) 09:06, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

""Frank Merle"" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect &. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 May 26 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:45, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

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My block / unblock saga

 * After a few hours away from the PC, my editing rights have been restored. Thanks to whoever took care of this for me.  Regards,  PK  T (alk)  19:24, 6 November 2021 (UTC)


 * The next morning, it happened again, but later the situation apparently resolved itself. I had put in another unblock request, stating "Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is 2607:fea8:91a4:1000:713a:62d3:da2f:b00b (I think). I am a long-time editor, using the same PC I have used for years. The internet service in our house was upgraded and now I'm having these difficulties. It is my understanding that I was added to the 'ipblock-exempt' group back in February 2020. Please unblock me.....Thanks, PKT(alk) 12:16, 7 November 2021 (UTC)"  Since I now have editing privileges again, I have removed this morning's unblock request.  Regards,  PK  T (alk)  13:44, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Nov 13th: Blocked again for a few hours, posted an unblock request here, but the block has been lifted as of now. Unblock request was, "Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is 2607:fea8:91a4:1000:713a:62d3:da2f:b00b. I am a long-time editor, using the same PC I have used for years. The internet service in our house was upgraded and now I'm having these difficulties. It is my understanding that I was added to the 'ipblock-exempt' group back in February 2020."  PK T (alk)  15:23, 13 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Nov 16th: Blocked again, but it seemed to get resolved somehow after some hours. Unblock request withdrawn, which was, "Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is 2607:fea8:91a4:1000:713a:62d3:da2f:b00b. I am a long-time editor, using the same PC I have used for years (this is my personal PC - earlier today, I used my work PC to edit). The internet service in our house was upgraded and now I'm having these difficulties. It is my understanding that I was added to the 'ipblock-exempt' group back in February 2020."  PK  T (alk)  23:58, 16 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Nov 17th: Again. Tried the unblock routine yet another time, and the block is now gone again, for the time being.  Go figure,  PK  T (alk)  22:09, 17 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Nov 18th: Same routine. The gate is now open, so the unblock request is withdrawn....... PK  T (alk)  23:02, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Nov 26th: Last week, I was usually blocked when I started on this PC, but the blocks eventually vanished within an hour, similar to what I wrote above. Today, the story is different: the message is "Editing from 104.245.144.181 has been blocked (disabled) for the following reason(s):  There are multiple blocks against your account and/or IP address.  The longest block has been set to expire: 15:56, August 5, 2023. Your current IP address is 104.245.144.181. Relevant block IDs: #8790008, #9996173."

When I checked at https://nordvpn.com/what-is-my-ip/, it confirmed that my IP today is 104.245.144.181, in fact. Note that this is different from the IP addresses I saw last weekend - I have no idea why this would change, but there you go.

So, I followed the directions provided, filed an unblock request via UTRS, and that was denied by administrator, who also advised me to send an email to checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org and plead my case there, which I did three hours ago. Fingers are crossed.

I understand the need to set blocks on IP addresses from time to time to fight vandalism, but something's wrong when an experienced editor like myself (I'm now over 200K total edits) can't get exempted from whatever's going on here.  PK T (alk)  01:33, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Nov 27th: I decided to shut this PC off last night and re-start it this morning, to see if a different IP address would be assigned, and it did change. It's now 99.254.21.146 according to https://nordvpn.com/what-is-my-ip/, and apparently that's enough to restore my editing privileges. There's been no response from checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org yet, so I'll send them an update via email. Regards,  PK T (alk)  13:32, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Nov 28th: Blocked again. This time, https://nordvpn.com/what-is-my-ip/ says my IP is 139.28.218.246 (again, I have no idea why it changed), and there is apparently a block placed on 139.28.216.0/22. That IP "is believed to be a web host provider or colocation provider." I may have to reboot my PC later this morning to get a different IP address, unless the block expires soon.  PK T (alk)  13:51, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
 * About 1 hour later, I posted an unblock request here. About 5 hours after that, I returned and found that I can edit again.  Text of the unblock request was, "Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is 139.28.218.246. PLEASE SEE THE ABOVE COMMENTS. I am a long-time editor, using the same PC I have used for years. The internet service in our house was upgraded and now I'm having these difficulties. It is my understanding that I was added to the 'ipblock-exempt' group back in February 2020. Please unblock me.... etc..  Here's the weird thing:  nordvpn.com now tells me that my IP address is "99,254.21,146" - with commas (?????).  Nordvpn also seems to think I understand Finnish!  PK  T (alk)  19:31, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Hey PKT, I just noticed this thread on your talk page. The most likely cause of your problems is your use of a VPN (this is an assumption, given your messages above). It appears that you're being rotated through a constantly changing stream of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and you're likely experiencing a block during one of these changes. Try checking your IP address every half hour or so for a day or two to see how often it changes, checking your access to WP as well. If WP is only checking IP addresses, then every time it changes you'll be caught in that net if that particular IP has malicious activity associated with it (MediaWiki ought to be changed to allow established users in good standing to bypass it). Also keep in mind that a VPN may maintain the same IP for you while changing what other hosts see as the origin of your request, possibly changing IP address with every HTTP request. Mind matrix  22:23, 28 November 2021 (UTC)


 * - Hello! Based on what I've learned this weekend, I agree with you.  There have also been some "network reset detected" messages when I open this PC on occasion.  My wife and I switched from Rogers Cable to Rogers Ignite, which was coincidental with these IP block issues.  I'm going to call Rogers tomorrow to see if I can find out anything more from them.  However, I thought that the 'ipblock-exempt' group would get around this sort of thing (?).  Cheers!,  PK  T (alk)  23:17, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Dec. 4: Well, this week I found that I was back in the cycle where I've been blocked for a while, but unblocked after an hour or so because something caused my IP address to change. It's currently 172.86.187.213. I didn't call Rogers about the issue this week, because work was busy.  PK T (alk)  13:28, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's something to do with Rogers now - I think it's Kaspersky. I can edit again, and my IP address is now 99.254.21.146, which changed just after I got a notice from my Kaspersky software that I had reached a data limit.   PK  T (alk)  14:08, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

December 2021 GOCE Newsletter
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