Communications committee/Notifications/Archives/2009

State of Illinois

Blocked for 8 days due to vandalism such as this, this, and this. The IP resolves to the State of Illinois, but may be educational of some flavor, given the character of the edits. It's large-scale government, though, so here we are. ZZ ^Talk 19:58, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I know this is stale, but it may be worth while to point out that WHOIS says this IP belongs to Oak Lawn Community High School. 76.5.24.16 02:41, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikimedia secure gateway

66.230.230.230 blocked as a Tor node. Spellcast 23:45, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Does not lookup as the gateway. I think there's a bug in the range given for the secure gateway in enwiki's special:blockip page and the user's script. Kylu 04:24, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I was also suspicious of the notice, but en:MediaWiki:Blockiptext lists 66.230.192.0 – 66.230.239.255 as being part of the gateway. Spellcast 07:48, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I think the error is caused by en:MediaWiki:Sysop.js, which places the notice on every IP block form in the above range. Spellcast 23:39, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

See this post by brion. Cbrown1023 talk 01:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

United States Department of Justice

149.101.1.121 blocked by ProcseeBot for 1 year as a proxy. --Geniac 02:40, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

U.S. House of Representatives

I've blocked en:User:143.231.249.138 for 72 hours for disruptive editing. --Geniac 18:02, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

138.162.8.57

I've blocked 138.162.8.57, which is registered with the Navy Network Information Center for 24 hours for persistent vandalism. Nja247 20:41, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

User:143.231.249.138 on English Wikipedia (US House of Representatives)

I have blocked this address for 1 week for disruptive editing/vandalism. Please contact me on Wikipedia with questions/comments/concerns. Best, Tnxman307 20:40, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Threat against Queen Elizabeth II

An anonymous IP editor from Morocco has issued a threat on the en Wikipedia against Queen Elizabeth II. While this is probably just a case of a meaningless rant I feel that such threats should be followed up on "just in case". Accordingly I have passed on details to the UK anti-terrorist hotline. This will probably come to nothing but I thought it was worth alerting you in case there are repercussions. Tonywalton 19:57, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Outing a US intelligence Agent

If I may, I'd like to draw the committee's attention to a thread on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Outing_an_intelligence_agent It appears that a US intelligence Agent's personal information was revealed and then oversighted. I think it would be best that you are all aware of it, if it has not already been done so. Icestorm815 22:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

BC provincial government employee edit-warring on Wikipedia

An anonymous IP editor has been hopping from computer to computer to edit-war at the Wikipedia article Battle of Seven Oaks (1816. That range resolves to computers operated by the provincial government of British Columbia. All are in the 142.23.96.xxx range. Obviously the same person trying to evade being blocked for edit-warring. Blueboy96 20:18, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

New Zealand Parliament IP removing critical material from an MP article

I note that en:user:203.97.232.81 has five times removed sourced critical material from en:Sam Lotu-Iiga, while also making apparently benign but unsourced changes to the article. This IP address is currently assigned to en:Parliament of New Zealand, so there may be a conflict of interest. I have now blocked the user. Since this is potentially newsworthy, I reported it at en:WP:ANI and was advised to report it here.

We had a somewhat similar incident at the beginning of April, when an MP was criticised in Parliament for editing his own Wikipedia article. See en:Talk:Richard Worth.-gadfium 01:54, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Press report at The Nelson Mail.-Gadfium 21:24, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Threat against Barack Obama on Wikipedia

A relatively new user on Wikipedia's first substantive edits were to make threats against President Obama on both his Wikipedia article ([1], [2]) and on his userpage ([3]). The user has been blocked indefinitely, but given the gravity of the situation, I felt it appropriate to alert you as well. Blueboy96 21:16, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

U.S. Naval Telecommunications Station

I've blocked 138.163.0.42 on en: for 24 hours after several edits which were either vandalism or tests. The IP has been blocked previously although not recently, and has made many both constructive and destructive edits, indicating that it is used by several people. Reporting it here because it's listed as a sensitive IP address.-Gadfium 21:01, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Holocaust memorial gunman a wikipedia (ab)user

en:User:James von Brunn. FYI, comcom. Hipocrite 19:42, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Hit the press - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6473316.ece Hipocrite 20:11, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

PR department for government institution trying to edit

The PR department for the James Lovell Federal Health Care Center tried to create an article about it on Wikipedia, and also edited Jim Lovell's article there as well. See contribution history. Given that this is a U.S. government agency, I decided to err on the side of caution and alert you. Blueboy96 21:25, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

153.107.97.154

NSW-DET-AS NSW Department of Education and Training Telecommunications Branch NSW State Goverment Blocked for first 1 month and now 3 months on simpleWP for vandalism. fr33kman ^{t - c} 05:03, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

149.101.1.125

149.101.1.125 has been blocked by EhJJ for 1 year at the Simple English Wikipedia because it is an open proxy. The IP is registered to the United States Department of Justice. It had 2 changes at the project, the creation of a non-notable article and the editing of it. Griffinofwales 03:21, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

NNIC

Hi, I just blocked en:Special:Contributions/138.162.128.52 due to BLP vandalism. -- Mentifisto 18:38, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

...and en:Special:Contributions/138.162.140.54. -- Mentifisto 21:06, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Australian Department of Defence: One IP blocked

I couldn't get this through the ComCom e-mail list so I post it here. I wanted to give you a heads up of a block I gave to en:Special:Contributions/203.10.224.94, which is registered to Australian Department of Defence. There is long term vandalism, edit warring, defamation, with a full slate of warnings. The block is 24 hours, I have allowed for registered users to log in, account creation is disabled. Valley2city 04:07, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Province of British Columbia IP blocked

I just blocked for 1 month on en-wiki the IP User:142.29.12.66, which is registered to the government of British Columbia. This block is due to vandalism within a 24-hour period. If you have any questions, go to my talk page on en-wiki. Thanks, Willking1979 18:59, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

US House of Representatives

en:Special:Contributions/143.231.249.141 was blocked for 72 hours due to vandalism. I was not the blocking admin, but it came to my attention that it was an IP assigned to the US House of Representatives, and I wanted to make sure that the Foundation was aware. Killiondude 16:55, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Another British Columbia government IP blocked

Just blocked another British Columbia government IP on en-wiki. 142.33.56.149 has been blocked for 31 hours due to vandalism. If you have any questions, please go to my talk page on en. Thanks, Willking1979 21:49, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

More British Colombia IPs

Blocked 142.29.141.49 and 142.29.141.100 for one year as vandal proxies. For any questions, please ask me on my talk page on meta or simple. Pmlineditor ∞ 16:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

UK Houses of Parliment, and a Guardian story to boot

You may be interested in en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Strasburg, which might be located at en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Strasburg/Archive by the time you get to it. NW (Talk) 01:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

US Department of Homeland Security IP blocked for 24 hours

Just blocked an IP address registered to the US Department of Homeland Security for 24 hours for vandalism on en-Wiki. If you have any questions about the block, please see my talk page on en-wiki. Thanks, Willking1979 00:47, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

US military IP blocked for 31 hours

I just blocked IP 132.58.234.21 for 31 hours due to vandalism on the English Wikipedia. The IP is registered to the 754th Electronic Systems Group of the US Air Force. If you have any comments or questions about this block, see my talk page on en-wiki. Thanks, Willking1979 19:35, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Yet another BC government IP blocked

I just blocked 142.26.133.248, an IP registered to the government of British Columbia, for 1 week on en-wiki due to vandalism. For any comments or questions, please see my talk page also on en-wiki. Thanks, Willking1979 22:30, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

US military IP blocked

I just blocked 132.40.121.33 on en-wiki for 55 hours due to vandalism. The IP is registered to the 754th Electronic Systems Group of the US Air Force. If you have any questions or comments, go to my talk page on en. Thanks, Willking1979 21:28, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

US miltary IP blocked for 96 hours

131.6.84.110, registered to the 754th Electronic Systems Group at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, has just been blocked on en-wiki for 96 hours due to disruptive editing. This IP has been blocked in the past. If you have any questions or comments, please see my talk page on en. Thanks, Willking1979 15:27, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

US military IP block

143.81.248.53 has been re-blocked by myself for 6 months (originally blocked by Spinningspark) for the same duration for a pattern of disruption and vandalism. NJA 19:17, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

138.162.0.40/29

Short small rangeblock (24 hours, 8 IPs) of the U.S. Naval Telecommunications Station. If there are questions or concerns, please let me know on en. Thanks! Tnxman307 17:21, 23 December 2009 (UTC)