User talk:170.161.64.16

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This IP address, 170.161.64.16, is registered to Eastern Suffolk BOCES (Patchogue, New York) 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.
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[edit] Warnings

This IP has been repeatedly blocked from editing Wikipedia in response to abuse of editing privileges.
Further abuse from this IP may result in an extended block.

[edit] February 2008

  1. Hi, the recent edit you made to James Van Der Zee has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. - ALLSTAR echo 14:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  2. Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to James Van Der Zee. Your edits have been automatically marked as unconstructive/possible vandalism and have been automatically reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: James Van Der Zee was changed by 170.161.64.16 (u) (t) making a minor change with obscenities on 2008-02-05T14:30:01+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 14:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  3. Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to James Van Der Zee. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. - ALLSTAR echo 14:31, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  4. This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Jelly Roll Morton. - ALLSTAR echo 15:03, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Anonymous users from this IP address have been blocked from editing for a period of 6 months in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy due to persistent vandalism originating from your proxy server or network. If you have a registered Wikipedia username, you may log in and continue to edit. Otherwise, once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 14:27, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
    If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.