User:64.12.116.10
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This IP address, 64.12.116.10, is the address of a shared AOL (formerly America Online) web proxy server and may be shared by hundreds of AOL users at any given time (see AOL ranges). Comments left on this page may be received by other users of this IP and appear to be irrelevant. Caution should be used when blocking this IP or reverting its contributions without checking.
If you are an unregistered user operating from this address, note that this is not the IP address of your machine. 64.12.116.10 is the IP address of a proxy server that communicates between your browser and the Wikimedia servers. These and other proxies are shared among thousands of AOL users. If you are frustrated by irrelevant comments appearing here, you can avoid them by creating an account for yourself.
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Warnings or messages left on this page will not be received by the intended user. Because of the way the AOL cache assigns IPs based on the pagename requested, warnings will almost never appear on the correct page.
[edit] This IP address is probably static
Unlike most AOL IP addresses, this one appears to be static. Not only does it not change with every page load, it appears to remain static between sessions. This IP address has edited Wikipedia:Blocking policy four times in the past week or so, with two edits per incident. The changes that were made after the first edit were reverted and then the same IP edited the page again shortly after. No other IP addresses, AOL or otherwise, edited the page in between, which suggests that the user did not just cycle through the range of IP addresses. Someone making the same kind of edits on the blocking policy page with this IP address showed up about a week later. Again, the changes were reverted and then the same IP address made similar changes shortly after, with no other IP addresses editing in between. Additional evidence is found in the IP address's contributions page. It shows multiple edits to the same articles over a short time period and edits to the same articles over several days.
Finally, based upon the IP address's editing frequency and style, I believe that it is used by only a couple of people. It might even be used mainly by one person, but I suspect that another person or two may edit infrequently or that some people occasionally come in through a search engine and make a few edits and then leave, if that is the case. For this reason, I do not think a block of 24 hours or even a week would have much collateral damage. -- Kjkolb 12:11, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
