Wikipedia:Abuse response/170.185.0.0/16

I generated a user talk page for the range @ User talk:170.185.0.0/16 with the IPs that have received warnings within the range. It appears that most of the abuse is coming from *.19, which are presumably proxy servers for individual campuses. I would like to simply block the whole range, because in all reality we'd just be blocking the equivalent of a class C (since it doesn't look like that other ips are being used). Avoid directly editing the page too much, though, as you'll end up killing server kittens. :P Cheers =) -- slakr  \ talk / 16:53, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Please Note: It appears that most of the abuse is coming from *.19, which are presumably proxy servers for individual campuses. 170.185.0.0/16 Contains Proxy Servers serving Schools from Pre-K to High School in 120 Counties in Kentucky, I would like to simply block the whole range, because in all reality we'd just be blocking the equivalent of a class C (since it doesn't look like that other ips are being used Most 170.185.*.19 IPs are Proxy Servers, Others will be Email, Domain, or File Servers You can probably expect the same from the 205.204.242.* range, Please consider those whom you affect aside from the vandals, before blatantly blocking users from using the wiki.

Final Note: If there is an ongoing problem, take complaints to the owner of the IP address "Kentucky Department of Education" You can find an abuse contact here: 

Discussion

Registry Information
Contact information: abuse@education.ky.gov
 * Registered to: Kentucky Department of Education (KDE)
 * WHOIS report

Initial Report
This IP range represents a variety of schools in Kentucky, and also represents nearly 250 editing blocks. The vandalism from this address is of the type typically seen from school districts.

Some examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aerospace_engineering&diff=prev&oldid=184504198 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feedback&diff=prev&oldid=182741055

There are hundreds of incidents similar to these.

There are, of course, also constructive edits coming from these IPs, but they are a pretty small minority.

Oddly, most edits seem to occur between 0500 and 1200 UTC, which is 0000 and 0700 in Kentucky.

Abuse Summary

 * Investigated by.

Following email sent 2008-09-06

To: abuse@education.ky.gov Subject: Abuse of Wikimedia Foundation services

Hello,

As a Wikipedia volunteer abuse report worker, I am contacting you in relation to the use of your networks to harass the Wikimedia Foundation and it's users, particularly through the vandalism of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org).

An IP range which is registered to the Kentucky Department of Education (170.185.0.0/16) has been the source of continuous vandalism. IP addresses in that range (particularly those ending in .19, which we assume to be web proxies) have been banned nearly 250 times over the past several years.

Most of the vandalism appears to be random and childish, though some is to pages related to geographical areas in Kansas. Some examples of the vandalism follow:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aerospace_engineering&diff=prev&oldid=184504198 Changing the text "According to the united states..." to "Accourding to your mom's tits and the united states..." on the page Aerospace Engineering

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feedback&diff=prev&oldid=182741055 Apparently random modification of "organism" to "orgasm" and addition of largely nonsensical innapropriate language to the page Feedback.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rubik%27s_Cube&diff=prev&oldid=158552323 Removal of an entire section of an article, replacing it with the word "gay."

There are thousands of other instances of vandalism. To see more, go to the case page for this abuse report at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abuse_reports/170.185.0.0/16 and scroll down to the large grid of IP addresses from which vandalism has been observed. Click on the 'contribs' link for any of those addresses to see the edits made by users at that address. Click the 'diff' link next to any of the listed edits to see exactly what was changed.

Thank you for your time. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me (simply reply to this email).

Jesse Crawford Wikipedia user 'Master runner'

email: jesse@ce-int.net Wikipedia talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Master_runner

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