Wikipedia:Abuse response/66.158.73.2

- This IP has been vandalizing Wikipedia from as long ago as May 2006, occaisionally using deceptive edit summaries such as in this diff. None of its 100+ edits appear to be anything other than vandalism.-- Urban  Rose  19:41, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The unix command 'whois -h whois.illinois.net -p 4321 66.158.73.2' reveals that this IP address belongs to Wilson Creek Elementary School in Manhattan, Illinois. I have added a SharedIPEDU tag to the user talk page.


 * It certainly seems like a vandal-only IP, which is not surprising for an elementary school. I believe a very long term schoolblock is in order. I'm no admin, else I'd do it. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:20, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * IP was blocked for a month today.-- Urban  Rose  20:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * By the way, it hear that the IP actually belongs to Union Ridge School District, not Wilson Creek. It still looks like elementary school students to me, but not at that particular school. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 20:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Accept for investigation. The investigator and contactor shall be GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 20:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC).

Wilson Creek
Wilson Creek Elementary School was called at 815-478-4527 on 04/03/2008. The contact was polite, cooperative, and helpful. I was instructed to send a link for the vandalism log to mcooper AT manhattan114 DOT org.

Their response
Their response over the phone was polite, cooperative, and helpful. I don't know if I will get a response via email or not, but I strongly feel this mission is going to be successful.

Email response
Fri, Apr 04, 2008 02:51 PM:

I spoke with you yesterday. I also spoke with ICN (Illinois Century Network) who administers our router and lines. After checking they said, "This is a problem with our rwhois server giving wrong information."

It is an address from an ICN school but not Wilson Creek. ICN has Union Ridge School in the Chicago area as the ip location,

Illinois Century Network
The following report was sent to abuse AT illinois DOT net on 04/04/2008 with the subject "Wikipedia Vandalism":

At least one of your students/staff has been vandalizing articles at http://en.wikipedia.org. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:66.158.73.2, you will find that various warnings have already been issued regarding these incidents. A log of the vandalism, which can also be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/66.158.73.2, is pasted below:

Log of src=66.158.73.2 dst=208.80.152.2 GMT -04:00 (limited to 2008 only) 2008-04-03T15:32:48 (hist) (diff) Ford Model T‎ 2008-04-03T15:30:35 (hist) (diff) Harlem Renaissance‎ 2008-04-03T15:29:58 (hist) (diff) Harlem Renaissance‎ 2008-04-03T15:29:56 (hist) (diff) Cotton Club (New York City)‎ 2008-04-03T15:29:44 (hist) (diff) National Football League‎ 2008-04-03T15:29:37 (hist) (diff) Ford Model T‎ 2008-04-03T15:27:57 (hist) (diff) Cotton Club (New York City)‎ 2008-04-03T15:27:14 (hist) (diff) User talk:66.158.73.2‎ 2008-04-03T15:26:36 (hist) (diff) User talk:66.158.73.2‎ 2008-04-03T15:25:35 (hist) (diff) User talk:66.158.73.2‎ 2008-04-03T15:24:24 (hist) (diff) Cotton Club (New York City)‎ (←Replaced content with 'By: Ina Bocova i love Maggie with all my heart shes my bffl =]') 2008-04-03T15:24:04 (hist) (diff) National Football League‎ 2008-04-03T15:22:40 (hist) (diff) Harlem Renaissance‎ 2008-04-03T15:22:40 (hist) (diff) Cotton Club (New York City)‎ 2008-04-03T15:21:43 (hist) (diff) National Football League‎ 2008-04-03T15:20:56 (hist) (diff) National Football League‎ 2008-04-03T15:20:37 (hist) (diff) National Football League‎ 2008-04-03T15:20:17 (hist) (diff) National Football League‎ 2008-04-03T15:20:14 (hist) (diff) Teapot Dome scandal‎ 2008-04-03T15:19:03 (hist) (diff) National Football League‎ 2008-04-03T15:18:24 (hist) (diff) National Football League‎ 2008-04-03T15:17:57 (hist) (diff) National Football League‎ 2008-03-20T15:21:14 (hist) (diff) M. C. Escher‎ (→Later life) 2008-03-20T15:20:04 (hist) (diff) M. C. Escher‎ (→Later life) 2008-02-11T16:56:20 (hist) (diff) Ramifications of the Buddha concept‎ (→In films) 2008-02-11T15:56:53 (hist) (diff) Ramifications of the Buddha concept‎ 2008-02-11T15:55:44 (hist) (diff) Ramifications of the Buddha concept‎ 2008-02-11T15:45:43 (hist) (diff) Ramifications of the Buddha concept‎ (→In films) 2008-02-11T15:45:20 (hist) (diff) BMW 3 Series‎ 2008-02-11T15:43:58 (hist) (diff) BMW 3 Series‎ 2008-02-01T16:58:36 (hist) (diff) Robert Pattinson‎ (Formatting) 2008-01-18T17:12:59 (hist) (diff) Conservatism in the United States‎ (→Founding Fathers) 2008-01-18T17:05:19 (hist) (diff) Conservatism in the United States‎ (→Founding Fathers) 2008-01-18T16:59:04 (hist) (diff) August 29‎ (→Events) 2008-01-14T13:02:02 (hist) (diff) Image:SalemWitchcraftTrial.jpg‎ 2008-01-10T15:41:29 (hist) (diff) James A. Garfield‎

Their response
We'll see, I might not get a human reply, but that's not to say I won't.

-- GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 21:16, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Moving to archive because no response was received despite efforts by Abuse Reports to contact the actual responsible organizations. Netalarm  22:06, 5 August 2009 (UTC)