User talk:Winstonwolfe
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[edit] Tidy Up
Hi, welcome and thanks for taking the time to drop me a note. Please make all abuse amusing.
I've deleted some older entries to clean this up. All previous entries can be seen at the history page dated 15 June 2006 or 21 Spetember 2006:-).
[edit] Has your Autoblock become a vandal bot?
If you have been asked to unblock this page, it is almost certainly because an autobot has attacked IP 130.216.191.84. That is The University of Auckland, accessible by 39,000 students. Like the students of any other university, those at IP 130.216.191.84. have created many high quality articles, many more mediocre articles and a few well intentioned but frankly pretty poor articles. Also, unfortunately, and like any other university, it is the home to a small number of vandals.
Like vandals at other multiple user IPs, these vandals deliberately provoke bots to attack the multiple IP - taking advantage of poorly thought out autoblocking bot programming to turn the supposedly antivandal bot into the vandal.
Blocks of multiple IP users are limited to 24 hours, and so don't stop vandals. They do however create carnage for innocent users, expecially when repeatedly triggered as soon as they are unblocked.Punishing 39,000 innocent people who cannot get separate IPs for the actions of one vandal is not only morally wrong, it is exactly what the vandals want you to do.
Correctly programmed a bot should block only those at the multiple IP user who have not logged in from editing. This forces vandals to create a new login identity, (which can be blocked instead of the IP address). The constant need to make new identities turns vandalism a very time consuming hobby - and is far more effective than 24 hour autoblocks.
Bots that autoblock all multiple IP users need to be reprogrammed to prevent them becoming tools of vandals. Those responsible for the bots are responsible for stopping the bots from causing unacceptable "co-lateral damage" - if you are asked to unblock this user then THAT INCLUDES YOU.
Please don't just unblock and continue, but take the time to save others from repeating your job in the future - get the appropriate user to fix the rogue bot. A bot not reprogrammed is a vandalbot, and should be deactivated until fixed.
Please DO NOT attempt to escape action by reference to Wiki comment on blocking reading: " Innocent?. Sometimes IP ranges or shared proxies are blocked from editing Wikipedia. This means that innocent people sometimes can't edit...If this problem affects you repeatedly, ... ask [your ISP] to remedy the problem." this is self evidentally unworkable and the Wiki community must take responsibility for the solution, not encourage vandals by evading inconveinent realities nor hold their victims responsible for Wikis poorly targeted revenge.
Winstonwolfe 06:24, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
(copies of previous blocks and unblocks deleted 21 Sept 2006)
[edit] Welcome
[edit] Aerial topdressing
[edit] Topdressing c.f. crop dusting
[edit] Aerial application
[edit] more aerial topdressing
[edit] History of aerial topdressing in New Zealand
[edit] Hongi Hika
[edit] Hongi Hika again
[edit] RE:New Zealand Permanent Air Force
[edit] Tuatara on peer review
[edit] New Zealand portal
[edit] Auckland meetup
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter, Issue I
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue II
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue III - May 2006
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue IV - June 2006
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue V - July 2006
[edit] Loob
[edit] Portal:New Zealand/Did you know list
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] Autoblock
[edit] Copyright
[edit] Tame Iti
[edit] Spud One
[edit] Avro 621 Tutor
[edit] Experiment
[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history Coordinator Elections!
[edit] Monty Python TfD compromise
[edit] External links reverted
[edit] Military history WikiProject coordinator election - vote phase!
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue VI - August 2006
[edit] Alpha 2000
[edit] re Image:ZK-AFH Miles Whitney Straight.jpg
[edit] link to British
[edit] WikiProject Military history Newsletter - Issue VII - September 2006
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[edit] Kemp House
Used to be. Now called the Mission Station. But wait!!!! Maybe it's the Mission House. That's why I never ventured past name change, like changing the links. I will amble down there tomorrow morning and look at the HPT signage (and get a pic) to get the dinkum oil. Don't panic. Moriori 08:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
For your tip-off on my userpage, re Ségolène and Gérard Royal. Whoops! Really should read the article more closely before pontificating. I've corrected it and am very grateful to you. :) -- TinaSparkle 09:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
