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01 January 2015

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84.* was eventually blocked for long term use of talk pages as a forum for their pet theories on various religions. They were blocked for one month on August 26, 2014. One of their last edits was this. After the block expired, they returned under 178.62.27.90 with this edit expounding the same idea on the same talk page (for which gave them a final warning, but...). Then I found that 178.62.27.90 had also been using 178.62.59.70, switching between the two during 178.62.59.70's blocks. Sum mer PhD (talk) 17:04, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Adding 178.62.21.133. I'm assuming, of course, that most of this is stale. However, 178.62.59.70 has been blocked for 3 months as a proxie and I want to document the evasive socking by this editor to make further reverting/blocking a bit easier. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 17:12, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

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you blocked User:178.62.59.70 as a proxy. Geolocate looks suspicious to me, but I can't tell from it that it's a proxy. However, if 70 is a proxy, then I assume all the others in the same range with the same characteristics are also proxies. See, e.g., this history showing the various IPs editing the article one after the other, sometimes with less than a minute in between. I don't know what to make of all this or how to handle it. A little help would be appreciated. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:41, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * /17 range blocked as a web hosting service. Google the company name and you'll see what I saw. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:52, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ! I'm not sure I would have figured it out even if I had Googled it. They're apparently a cloud platform, but I'm assuming that if they are listed for an IP address, they are being used as a host, and they apparently don't prevent that. In any event, you've taken care of it all, so I'm closing the case.--Bbb23 (talk) 03:01, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * If you have a look at it's Wikipedia article (DigitalOcean) it says it's a hosting provider. And after having a look at their website it doesn't look like they provide residential services, just the web hosting. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:02, 2 January 2015 (UTC)