User:64.12.116.10

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This IP address is that of an AOL web proxy which now sends X-Forwarded-For headers to the Wikimedia Foundation. No further edits should originate from this IP address. For more information, please see Wikipedia:AOL.

If you are an AOL user editing from this IP address, please email an administrator to have the problem corrected. Note that this IP address has been indefinitely blocked, so you will not be able to edit from this address.


[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)

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