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The user was originally posting on WMGM-TV using an IPV6 address that WMGM-TV will be airing a 23 hour raw feed from the NBC television network without providing proper references or evidence to that effect. The fact is NBC revoked WMGM-TV's affiliation with the network in 2014 in favor of its own owned and operated station WCAU-TV being the defacto network affiliate for the Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey market. Further, after the WMGM-TV article was set in a semi-protected mode they started spamming the talk page with the same unreferenced claims using the IPV6 and now an IPV4 addresses, the edits for both IP addresses have been reverted by myself and another user. Clearly this person is a persistent vandal who switches from one IP address to another to avoid detection but based on the way the posts are written it is the same person. Evidence can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here YborCityJohn (talk) 03:47, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * Hello . It appears what we have here is an unregistered user.  It's typical for just about anyone nowadays to wind up on multiple IP addresses; in the last few months I've edited under at least half a dozen different IPs - and only one of them geolocated correctly, a few of them even geolocated to a country I definitely wasn't in.  The difference is that for a logged-in registered user, you'll still keep seeing the same user name. For unregistered editors, you'll see their IP address - and chances are it will change frequently.  Depending on their location, their ISP, and whether or not they are editing from a landline or a mobile range, the same person could have multiple IP addresses over the course of a few hours or a few days.  Are the IPs the same editor? Probably, based on the content edits. Is there something to be blocked or otherwise disciplined?  No, it's still quite acceptable to edit Wikipedia without registering, and even today the majority of active editors started off editing without registering, and the edits being made give the impression of a new user who is not particularly familiar with some of the more esoteric Wikipedia policies.  If the edits being made are really problematic, you can ask for page protection at WP:RFPP.  Risker (talk) 02:03, 14 September 2016 (UTC)