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[edit] 143.231.249.141 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log)

Congressional staffers from this IP have been featured in news reports, talked about on the ANI and summarized here. I think a sock puppet check is essential, considering the seriousness of the vandalism and Wikipedia credibility. Thanks, —This user has left wikipedia 16:38 2006-01-29

Copied over from the noticeboard: It might be useful if someone with SQL access to the database could generate a list of all non-empty contributions histories from 143.231 accounts; there's potentially 65,535 other IPs that might have been engaging in this. Hopefully there weren't many IPs from the range doing this, but this is indeed potentially troublesome. Antandrus (talk) 17:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Copied over from the noticeboard: I would suggest a similar check be run on 156.33.*; if House staffers are doing something, there's a good chance they've told some of their Senate buddies to try out the same thing. (Perhaps only a 156.33.195.* check would be needed on the Senate side; I'm not that great at deciphering IP allocations.) Also, 143.231.* is used by the House as well, though I'm not sure in what capacity. --Aaron 17:46, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Copied over from the noticeboard: A user has just heard this story on TV in Massachusetts. This is a big thing. Mushroom 17:21, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
143.231.249.141 is the only ip that has edited from 143.231.*, not including deleted edits. As for 156.33.*, see User:Phroziac/156.33.0.0/16 ips that have edited --Phroziac . o º O (♥♥♥♥ chocolate!) 16:05, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Issue reported to the board. Anthere

The faster we block everyone / revert every single POV edit, the better chances we have of receiving good headlines. —This user has left wikipedia 18:40 2006-01-29

Checkuser shows about a dozen users coming in on this ip. Most are not political edits. Fred Bauder 18:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Just for the record, I was wrong, no vandalism from registered all those users, I reviewed all 16 of them:
  • 8 are good faith editors
  • 6 have no edits
  • 2 show interest in politics but still good faith editors
That's a relief =D —This user has left wikipedia 19:22 2006-01-29


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