Wikipedia:Abuse response/71.99.x.x

(the first IP to appear) no activity since Dec2006 no warnings no blocks

Ripe IPs
✅ ripe IPs with recent abusive activity.
 * as of Jun2009 with warnings

Stale IPs
IPs but which have been confirmed as committing abusive activity.
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Relevant discussions
Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive207

Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive357

Talk:Czech Republic

Talk:Czechs

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Czech Republic/Archive 1

Discussion
For about the last year, this editor has been a general nuisance on Wikipedia. While his modus operandi is very simply to remove from Czech Republic the short name of the country (he has revert warred over this on 36 out of 59 IP addresses), his vandalism is by no means confined there (making protection of that page inadequate, not to mention it would need to be perennial). He often edits apparently random Czech-related pages, and sometimes constructively (his constructive edits seem confined to mere typo fixing and minor rewording). Unfortunately, many of his edits to other articles are questionable or outright vandalism, and reverted as such. His typical response to seeing his edits reverted is to immediately revert war while using hostile and sometimes outright insulting edit summaries (so say some who have translated his edit summaries from Czech). He appears to have no interest in actually collaberating on the project, and often attacks those who revert him on their user and user talk pages (or sometimes his own). One of the best examples of his lack of desire to cooperate might be found here. In the course of his disruption, he has accumulated no less than 43 blocks, as well as one range block. The IP range subject to this report appears to be the unfortunately large 71.99.0.0/16 range. (Additionally, two IPs are outside this range). These IPs all resolve to Verizon - Tampa, Florida area. The WHOIS report identifies the full range as the much larger 71.96.0.0/11, which the two IPs outside of my given range are included in. It should be noted that several of these IPs are inexplicably labelled as socks of. I believe this labelling to be in error, as I see no similarities in edits, summaries, or target articles (they also edit from different continents). Someguy1221 (talk) 22:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Um, could we not block the entire 71.x.x.x range? My IP address happens to be in it (but it isn't any of those ones on the list! I'm no vandal!) MalwareSmarts (talk) 23:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't think anyone advocates blocking that entire range, which would be a hugely disproportionate response. The most I've seen is a brief range block somewhere in the 71.99... range.-- Kubigula (talk) 01:56, 22 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment I'd support going forward, according to the WHOIS, the IP is registered to Verizon Wireless, so I'd feel fairly confident in their taking action. --Pstanton (talk) 01:41, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Abuse Summary
The person that has been linked and found to be the user of the above IP addresses has been an habitual violator of Wikipedia policies by posting violating content on countless occasions. The user has been suitably warned of their violations, and the user has acknowledged either directly or indirectly of the warnings issued to them by responding to warnings posted on the talk page of their IP address (for example, see 1, 2, 3, 4) but has continued to violate Wikipedia policy despite those warnings.

Modus Operandi
The user targets articles related to the Czech Republic.

Analysis
Despite the many warnings which have been acknowledged by the user, it is my opinion that the user will continue to abuse Wikipedia and will not comply with Wikipedia policies. As a result, I will be contacting the ISP from which the user accesses Wikipedia.

Contact information
OrgName:   Verizon Internet Services Inc. OrgID:      VRIS Address:   1880 Campus Commons Dr City:       Reston StateProv: VA PostalCode: 20191 Country:   US

NetRange:  71.96.0.0 - 71.127.255.255 CIDR:      71.96.0.0/11 NetName:   VIS-71-96 NetHandle: NET-71-96-0-0-1 Parent:    NET-71-0-0-0-0 NetType:   Direct Allocation NameServer: NS1.BELLATLANTIC.NET NameServer: NS2.BELLATLANTIC.NET NameServer: NS2.VERIZON.NET NameServer: NS4.VERIZON.NET Comment: RegDate:   2005-01-18 Updated:   2005-08-15

OrgAbuseHandle: VISAB-ARIN OrgAbuseName:  VIS Abuse OrgAbusePhone: +1-214-513-6711 OrgAbuseEmail: *****@verizon.net

Case History

 * Submitted 31 December 2007
 * Investigated by: Bsmithme
 * Contacted by:     bsmithme    20:47, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No reply foreseen.      bsmithme    00:37, 23 August 2009 (UTC)