Template talk:SharedIPEDU

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Contents 1 Documentation 1.1 Usage 1.2 See also 2 What to do? 3 Admin contact and school website address? 4 Police image

[edit] Documentation

This template categorizes pages to Shared IP addresses and Shared IP addresses from educational institutions.

[edit] Usage

Usage	Output
{{SharedIPEDU}}	Attention: This IP address, SharedIPEDU, is registered to an educational institution and may be shared by multiple users. In the case of institutions using proxy servers, this IP address may in fact represent many users at many physical computers. For this reason a message intended for one person may be received by another. Similarly an innocent user may get blocked for another user's vandalism. If you are editing from this address and are frustrated by irrelevant messages, you can avoid them by creating an account for yourself. In some cases you may temporarily be unable to create an account due to efforts to fight vandalism, in which case please read our advice on this situation. Caution should be used when blocking this IP or reverting its contributions without checking - if a block is needed, administrators should consider a soft block with the template {{schoolblock|optional comment}} as the block reason. Note: In the event of persistent vandalism, anonymous editing from this IP address may be disabled for up to 6 months at a time while abuse reports may be forwarded to your school administration for investigation in case of long-term abuse by registered users.
{{SharedIPEDU|Organization}}*	Attention: This IP address, SharedIPEDU, is registered to Organization and may be shared by multiple users of an educational institution. In the case of institutions using proxy servers, this IP address may in fact represent many users at many physical computers. For this reason a message intended for one person may be received by another. Similarly an innocent user may get blocked for another user's vandalism. If you are editing from this address and are frustrated by irrelevant messages, you can avoid them by creating an account for yourself. In some cases you may temporarily be unable to create an account due to efforts to fight vandalism, in which case please read our advice on this situation. Caution should be used when blocking this IP or reverting its contributions without checking - if a block is needed, administrators should consider a soft block with the template {{schoolblock|optional comment}} as the block reason. Note: In the event of persistent vandalism, anonymous editing from this IP address may be disabled for up to 6 months at a time while abuse reports may be forwarded to your school administration for investigation in case of long-term abuse by registered users.

[edit] See also

Template:SharedIP is a general version for use with non-educational establishments, e.g., public libraries.

[edit] What to do?

This template is helpful, but I'm a little lost as to how to proceed.

It says "In the event of vandalism from this address, efforts will be made to contact the institution to report network abuse." and I know of a case of vanalism on Edgar F. Codd. What am I supposed to do? put a {subst:test} on the page? McKay 17:12, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, best to check WP:VANDAL for good instructions. I suspect we don't go to the trouble of reporting abuse to the organization for just a tire-kicking vandal. However, the vandal should be warned on their talk page, partially to let other editors know there is a pattern. -- cmh^TC 18:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Admin contact and school website address?

I think the template should be changed to include an admin contact for the school and the school website. I've done that on user talk:70.88.111.65, my school IP. This will make it easier to contact the school in cases of abuse. ~Crazytales !!! 12:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

You can link the school directly from the name. Try {{SharedIPEDU|[http://www.powerscatholic.org/ Powers Catholic High School] (Flint, MI)|host=backup.powerscatholic.org}} --Geniac 18:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. But what about modifying the template to include an administration contact? ~Crazytales !!! 12:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I think these links to school websites should be done. I'm not sure the best way, though. User:Selket says he/she needs us a list compiled of school websites (and contacts), in order for the bot to add the links. Alternatively, we could manually add them when we give subsequent warnings. --Aude (talk) 20:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Police image

Is there really no place for the image removed in this diff? I suppose it doesn't really matter but I find the reasoning to be quite dubious. Yonatan (contribs/talk) 03:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd have to agree that removing the image because "Many users live in regions where the police are not "friendly", to say the least" is a bit odd. If the police image is a problem, how about Image:Nuvola apps important.svg () instead? auburnpilot talk 21:03, 9 March 2007 (UTC)