Wikipedia:Abuse response/217.23.232.194

Summary of Abuse
Report Prepared By Knowing Is Half The Battle 08:04, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Initial Report
Vandalized too many articles to list here, some of the most recent include:


 * Ebay
 * Cannibis
 * Bin Laden family
 * Intensive Farming
 * Pie
 * Global Warming
 * Quiz Call
 * Greenhouse Gasses
 * Systems design

See his contributions for the complete list

Findings
I've identified two main types of vandalism from this IP:


 * 1) - Inserting random obsceneities into artices, usually to the tune of "This is a load of shit"
 * 2) - Adding sometimes subtle, but always annoying and innapropriate, changes to articles. These include adding random words, phrases, letters, spaces, line breaks, and confusing/ innapropriate subheadings, etc..., all clearly bad-faith edits

Perhaps an isolated incident, I discovered at least one occurrence of page blank vandalism, to Aztec Mythology

'''Amounts to repeated schoolboy vandalism, does not appear that blocks are having any affect and vandalism continues soon after blocks expire. This needs to be taken up with the school system'''

Block Log
In a nutshell, this IP has been blocked 22 times by 18 different admins. As was stated in the original alert, most of these blocks have been short since the IP belongs to a school.


 * 01:41, 16 October 2006 Ben W Bell (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 1 month (continual vandalism)
 * 06:06, 13 September 2006 Vsmith (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 1 month (blatant continuing school vandalism)
 * 03:53, 11 September 2006 Winhunter (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (vandalism)
 * 07:33, 22 June 2006 Can't sleep, clown will eat me (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 744 hours (repeated vandalism for several days)
 * 09:24, 20 June 2006 AmiDaniel (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (Repeated vandalism despite final warning. User was blocked using VP.)
 * 08:15, 16 June 2006 Tawker (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (vandal bye bye)
 * 09:22, 15 June 2006 AmiDaniel (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (vandalism)
 * 09:21, 15 June 2006 Bobet (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 6 hours (vandalism, shared IP)
 * 09:21, 15 June 2006 Gurubrahma (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (repeat vandalism, shared IP)
 * 11:28, 12 June 2006 Vsmith (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (vandalism)
 * 14:17, 9 June 2006 Conscious (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 12 hours (vandalism by school IP continued after block)
 * 10:58, 9 June 2006 Conscious (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (vandalism, school IP)
 * 08:41, 22 May 2006 Wiki alf (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 31 hours (retruning school vandals - ignoring warnings)
 * 14:11, 19 May 2006 Kaisershatner (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (serial vandal)
 * 10:53, 19 May 2006 Sjakkalle (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (School IP vandalism)
 * 10:09, 17 May 2006 Bishonen (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 8 hours (Edit warring to reinsert vandalism, I see. Blocked.)
 * 12:41, 9 May 2006 Bishonen (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (On second thoughts, shortening original block.)
 * 12:36, 9 May 2006 Bishonen (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 8 hours (school IP, fast vandalism)
 * 08:46, 3 May 2006 Can't sleep, clown will eat me (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 99 hours (repeated vandalism for several days)
 * 13:59, 27 April 2006 Lectonar (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 15 minutes (school ip, userpage vandalism)
 * 13:49, 31 March 2006 Bishonen (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 8 hours (Blocked till school's out. Sigh.)
 * 13:14, 27 March 2006 Bishonen (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (fast vandal, needs a fast block.)
 * 11:05, 17 March 2006 Nlu (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 48 hours (Persistent vandalism, shared IP, but no prior collateral damage)
 * 15:16, 28 February 2006 Wayward (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (vandalism)
 * 12:54, 25 January 2006 Mushroom (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (Repeated vandalism)
 * 08:50, 30 September 2005 Stormie (Talk | contribs) blocked "217.23.232.194 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (obscene vandalism)

IP Registry Information
(from WHOIS)
 * Information related to '217.23.232.0 - 217.23.232.255'
 * inetnum:        217.23.232.0 - 217.23.232.255
 * netname:        SLAND-NAP
 * descr:          Doxford Park Teleport House
 * country:        GB
 * admin-c:        ASM298
 * tech-c:         GBT211
 * status:         ASSIGNED PA
 * mnt-by:         DERWENTSIDE-MNT
 * source:         RIPE # Filtered
 * person:         Alison Stokoe
 * address:        Derwentside District Council
 * address:        Civic Centre
 * address:        Medomsley Road
 * address:        Consett
 * address:        County Durham
 * address:        DH8 5JA
 * address:        United Kingdom
 * phone:          +44 1207 218015
 * fax-no:         +44 1207 218200
 * e-mail:         a.stokoe@derwentside.org.uk
 * nic-hdl:        ASM298
 * source:         RIPE # Filtered
 * mnt-by:         TTM-MNT
 * mnt-by:         ttm2-mnt
 * person:         Graham Barnes
 * address:        Derwentside District Council
 * address:        Civic Centre
 * address:        Medomsley Road
 * address:        Consett
 * address:        County Durham
 * address:        DH8 5JA
 * address:        United Kingdom
 * phone:          +44 1207 218331
 * fax-no:         +44 1207 218200
 * e-mail:         g_barnes@derwentside.org.uk
 * nic-hdl:        GBT211
 * source:         RIPE # Filtered
 * mnt-by:         TTM-MNT
 * mnt-by:         ttm2-mnt

Contact Information
These appear to be the two technical contacts listed on the IP address:

Alison Stokoe Derwentside District Council Civic Centre Medomsley Road Consett County Durham DH8 5JA United Kingdom (t)+44 1207 218015 (f)+44 1207 218200 a.stokoe@derwentside.org.uk Graham Barnes Derwentside District Council Civic Centre Medomsley Road Consett County Durham DH8 5JA United Kingdom (t)+44 1207 218331 (f)+44 1207 218200 g_barnes@derwentside.org.uk If that fails, you may need to take it up with the county, and here's why:

The Derwentside District Website http://www.derwentside.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=518 states that education is the responsibility of the Durham county and any complaints concerning schools should be directed to them. I searched the Derwentside website and couldn't find anything relating to schools, except the above. Here's the contact info for Durham County.

Durham County Council County Hall Durham DH1 5UB UK

In Durham city there are groups of teenagers that are increasingly getting involved in gang tagging with initials such as 'RCS'. Which is a major contributor to the vandalism problems in Durham and is believed to be a violent street gang in the Crossgate Moor area and the area near the old organ factory, believed to have up to 50 members. Tagging and breaking into buildings is believed to be the initiation for the people wanting to get involved with the group many crimes have been linked to this group.

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