User talk:129.78.208.4

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School IP address Attention:

This host, www-cacheD.usyd.edu.au, is registered to The University of Sydney (AU) and may be shared by multiple users of an educational institution. If the institution uses 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 be 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; if so, 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 from this IP address, anonymous editing may be disabled for up to 1 year at a time. Abuse reports may also be forwarded to your school administration for investigation.
School staff who want to monitor vandalism from this IP address can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

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[edit] January 2007

This is your last warning.
The next time you vandalize a page, as you did to John Howard, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Nlu (talk) 13:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] February 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism and immediately reverted. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. Maustrauser 10:09, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] March 2007

Please stop. If you continue to vandalise Wikipedia, as you did to Phenylalanine, you will be blocked from editing. Burzmali 02:19, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make any unconstructive edits, please ignore this warning

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to User:BrendelSignature, you will be blocked from editing. Xiahou 01:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock request

This 6 month block and protection of the user talk page is wholly inappropriate. The block duration should be reduced, as this is a shared IP address used presumably by several users, some of which have produced constructive edits.

Can you please login to edit then, it's becoming a bit of a problem at this end... -- Tawker 06:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
That misses the point; I'm not asking the block be lifted completely, I'm asking for a reduction (there's no template for that). A 6 month block for a shared IP due to vandalism isn't appropriate. Either you punish everyone using a shared IP or you be vigilant and block for shorter periods (24hrs per vandalism action should suffice!). It is up to the administrators to be vigilant, but most importantly fair, and not simply revoke edit privileges for all users who happen to be using a shared IP because of the actions of a few. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Moo2 (talk • contribs) 06:33, 2 April 2007 (UTC).
I have to agree with Moo2. I can agree with 6 month blocks on K-12 IPs, but blocking a university for that long should only be a final resort if efforts to contact their IT abuse desk have come to nothing. --  Netsnipe  ►  06:37, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! :)