Wikipedia:Abuse response/84.203.0.0/17

Requester comments
The history of this seems to begin last year, with the blocking of a registered account. (I won't name it here out of consideration of privacy concerns, but it's fairly clear from the history, and I'll supply it on request, privately or otherwise.) Subsequently, similar editing continued anonymously across the noted range, which is the entire dynamic IP range of domestic customers of the ISP Smart Telecom (of which I'm also one, and hence have been collaterally affected when trying to edit "anonymously", along with various others). Since then, blocks have been applied across the whole range by several different editors, of lengths escalating up to three months, along with account creation. As of now, the whole ISP is again "softblocked" for another three months. Some time ago, a Smart Telecom admin indicated a (somewhat non-specific) willingness to look into this, but may have been waiting for some more "official" contact from Wikipedia before doing anything about it. Judging by the range contribs tool, the "problem" editor has been used three different IPs in that range since the lifting of the previous block, for roughly 200 edits, while a roughly similar number of unrelated edits were being made in parallel with those from other IPs in the affected range. Smartiger (talk) 14:42, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Registry information
inetnum:       84.203.0.0 - 84.203.127.255 descr:         This range is used for Smart Telecom DSL Customers netname:       IE-SMART-TELECOM-IPV4 country:       IE admin-c:        RK2019-RIPE tech-c:        ST1911-RIPE status:        ASSIGNED PA mnt-by:         smart-telecom-noc source:        RIPE # Filtered
 * WHOIS report
 * Summarized WHOIS report:

role:          Smart Telecom NOC Role address:       Smart Telecom Holdings address:       Digiweb Data Centre address:       College Business & Tehnology Park address:       Blanchardstown address:       Dublin 15 address:       Ireland admin-c:       DC323-RIPE tech-c:        CE550-RIPE tech-c:        DC323-RIPE tech-c:        AM10478-RIPE e-mail:        noc@smarttelecom.ie nic-hdl:        ST1911-RIPE mnt-by:        smart-telecom-noc source:        RIPE # Filtered

person:        Ronan Kelly phone:         +35314699344 address:       Smart Telecom address:       3300 Lake Drive address:       Citywest Business Park address:       Dublin 24 address:       Ireland nic-hdl:       RK2019-RIPE mnt-by:        smart-telecom-noc source:        RIPE # Filtered

route:       84.203.0.0/16 descr:       Smart Telecom origin:      AS31458 mnt-by:      smart-telecom-noc source:      RIPE # Filtered

Abuse summary
It appears as though this is one of may IPs controlled by a sockpuppet master. We believe this account is controlled by Redking7, as per this investigation: Sockpuppet_investigations/Redking7/Archive. Redking7 has a long record of abuse on Wikipedia, and it appears his actions are now affecting the entire 84.203.0.0/17 subnet.

Block log

Contact summary
No contact history entered.

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Case history

 * Investigated by: || --ANowlin: talk
 * Contacted by: || Investigator
 * Closed on: || 00:02, 10 March 2011 (UTC) by Rich (MTCD) Talk Page
 * Disposition: ||
 * Closed on: || 00:02, 10 March 2011 (UTC) by Rich (MTCD) Talk Page
 * Disposition: ||
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--DQ --ANowlin: talk 01:23, 16 August 2010 (UTC) - Rich (MTCD)  Talk Page 00:02, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
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