User talk:194.81.255.254

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School IP address Attention:

This IP address, 194.81.255.254, is registered to Moray House Institute of Education (UK) 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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This IP address has been repeatedly blocked from editing Wikipedia in response to abuse of editing privileges.
Further abuse from this IP address may result in an extended block.
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Thank you.

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[edit] Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

The McCanns have not received £1 million and it is defamatory to say so. The Fund has received the money; a very different situation. This is well covered by the page Response to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. TerriersFan 23:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking policy

Edinburgh University ip address, no use of blocking this one since it's a different person every time and blocking means missing out on loads of constructive edits on complicated subjects by university schooled people. --194.81.255.254 13:45, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

The over-riding consideration is the protection of the Project. If that means missing out on good edits then so be it. The way forward is for people who wish to contribute positively to create an account. TerriersFan 23:31, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I totally agree with you, TerriersFan. I think it unlikely we will lose any valid input; experience suggests that constructive contributiors rarely hide behind IP addresses, whereas vandals usually do. Carbonix 23:39, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
I am an unregistered user and have all of my internet access through the University. I have only recently wanted to create a Wikipedia account as I am a first year student and before now have considered Wikipedia a "nearly finished resource" (Oh how wrong I was!). [Deviation from topic....] Anyway: Now that I want to create an account I cannot BECAUSE of the block, and so am caught in a "Catch-22" situation - I want to edit an article on Wikipedia so I must register, but I cannot register as I am in a blocked IP, thus I must email people on Wikipedia, but I cannot email people because I DO NOT HAVE AN ACCOUNT!! As you can guessed, I am annoyed about this... If possible can you please rectify this. mr dot timothyfoster at mac dot com 12:42, 1 December 2007 (GMT)
This can be resolved quite straightforwardly. The options are:
  • Ask your tutor, or any other person in authority, to send an email to the address in the link in the illustrated box at the bottom of this page, from an email address listed on the institution's website. A Wikipedia account is not needed for this.
  • Register on the computer of a friend or relative.
  • Register at a Cyber Cafe - see here for example. HTH. TerriersFan 20:08, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
It's very inconvenient and I find the system rather stupid, but I shall find a way to register using these tips. Thanks again. Timothy mr dot timothyfoster at mac dot com 12:42, 1 December 2007 (GMT)

[edit] September 2007

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Pollock Halls of Residence. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Grblundell 21:52, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Please stop vandalizing Rupert Grint. If you have a source that says his name is "Carruthers," include it. Otherwise, please refrain from adding it. Thank you. faithless (speak) 22:25, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Rupert Grint, you will be blocked from editing. Oda Mari (talk) 19:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] October 2007

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Sickle-cell disease, you will be blocked from editing. TerriersFan 23:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

You have been temporarily blocked from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for abuse of editing privileges. 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. TerriersFan 17:10, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] November 2007

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to New Year's Eve. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Thank you. TOL 21:47, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Shine On (Jet song) worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. Thank you. ZacBowlingtalk 20:51, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for experimenting with the page Sophie Blanchard on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. AZ t 21:35, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for abuse of editing privileges. 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. TerriersFan (talk) 01:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

This blocked user (block log | autoblocks | rangeblocks | unblock | contribs | deleted contribs) has asked to be unblocked, but an administrator has reviewed and declined this request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock request while you are blocked.

Request reason: "This ip address is shared by students and personel of the University of Edinburgh, amongst thousands of students there is a vandal, but blocking all other people means doing more harm than good. Because if you're gonna ban a lot of people just for the chance of banning one bad user, by that logic you should disable anonymous editing as a whole, because there's always some vandals between all the anonymous edits. In fact, it's more likely that constructive edits will come from university students and personel then from average anonymous users. Therefore banning this ip defies common sense and the ban should be revoked."

Decline reason: "No ban is in place, only a block. And you have provided no reason to believe the vandal has been stopped nor an explanation on why we should embrace vandalism. Constructive editors are not prevented from using this address, please read above. — Yamla (talk) 16:20, 21 November 2007 (UTC)"

Please make any further unblock requests by using the {{unblock}} template. However, abuse of the template may result in your talk page being protected.

Sorry, i meant block then, i'm not familiair with the wikipedia terminology for such things considering i have never been blocked before. Anyway. the reason why this ip should be unblocked because it's a large university network. Yes maybe there is still a vandal here but there's also many genuine users. Just like on the internet on a whole, you know there are vandals, you know they haven't stopped vandalising, and yet you still allow anonymous editing, because anonymous editing is what made wikipedia big. And yes people can make accounts and then edit, but the majority of the people don't, just look at the statistics. Besides, vandals can make new accounts as well, and then the only way to stop them is to block ip addresses from making new accounts, and then you still end up with the same problem of excluding thousands of academically schooled people from improving wikipedia for the benefit of stopping one vandal. And isn't the lack of scientists on specific scientific areas the biggest problem of wikipedia? Blocking shared university ips from editing isn't the smartest thing to do then. With a big university network like this the only sane policy is therefore to allow editing and revert the occassional newby vandalism that occurs.

This blocked user (block log | autoblocks | rangeblocks | unblock | contribs | deleted contribs) has asked to be unblocked, but an administrator has reviewed and declined this request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock request while you are blocked.

Request reason: "I realise that there probably is a better way than another unblock template, but still. Would it be possible to remove the restriction on account creation? Many of us have no way to otherwise create an account, and we, rather ufortunately, get tarred with the same brush as vandals.--194.81.255.254 (talk) 15:48, 26 November 2007 (UTC)"

Decline reason: "I feel your pain, but this would only force vandals to create temporary accounts. The current block is only a week long, and applies only to anonymous editing: either register an account through a different connection, or wait until the block expires and register an account then. After that, this kind of block won't affect you. Mangojuicetalk 17:08, 26 November 2007 (UTC)"

Please make any further unblock requests by using the {{unblock}} template. However, abuse of the template may result in your talk page being protected.

BTW, this block expires in about 12 hours at this point. Mangojuicetalk 17:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Cannibal Holocaust, you will be blocked from editing. TerriersFan (talk) 19:25, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Kosher foods. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 21:05, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Radiohead, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Pandacomics (talk) 00:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Radiohead, you will be blocked from editing. Pandacomics (talk) 00:16, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

If you wish to contribute to this encyclopedia, please create an account at home and log in with it here.

Due to persistent vandalism (see edit log), editing by anonymous users from your school, library or institution's IP address may be currently disabled. You continue to have full access to read the encyclopedia. If you are logged in but still unable to edit, please follow these instructions. To prevent abuse, account creation via this IP address is probably also disabled.

If accounts need to be created at school for class projects, please have your teacher or network administrator contact us (with reference to this IP address) at unblock-en-l from an email address listed on your school's website. Alternatively, if you have no Internet access at home, you may email us using your school-issued email address, telling us your preferred username. An account will be created for you. Please check on this list that the username you choose has not already been taken.

Thank you. — TerriersFan (talk) 04:08, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 month in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for abuse of editing privileges. 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. TerriersFan (talk) 04:08, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] January 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Alec Lindsay, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. 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: Alec Lindsay was changed by 194.81.255.254 (c) (t) making a minor change with obscenities on 2008-01-07T00:33:11+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 00:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Kirkcudbright. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. —Animum (talk) 00:27, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to Cafu, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. NawlinWiki (talk) 17:49, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Bear, you will be blocked from editing. NeilN talk ♦ contribs 21:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make any unconstructive edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant warnings.
You have been temporarily blocked from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for abuse of editing privileges. 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. LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:04, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:04, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

To edit, please log in.

Editing by anonymous users from your shared IP address or address range may be currently disabled. Registered users, however, are still able to edit. If you are currently blocked from creating an account, you may email us using an email address issued to you by your ISP or organization so that we may verify that you are a legitimate user on this network.

In your email, please tell us your preferred username and an account will be created for you. Please check on this list that the username you choose has not already been taken. We apologize for any inconvenience. -- {Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button Image:Signature_icon.png located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you!}

Comments: 31 hour block

Your recent edit to Pollock Halls of Residence (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. The edit was identified as adding vandalism, or link spam to the page or having an inappropriate edit summary. If you want to experiment, please use the preview button while editing or consider using the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. If you made an edit that removed a large amount of content, try doing smaller edits instead. Thanks! // VoABot II (talk) 10:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Pollock Halls of Residence, you will be blocked from editing. Grblundell (talk) 11:23, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] February 2008

Hi, the recent edit you made to Coplanarity 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 21:17, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. --Urban Rose 22:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 2008

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Jons63 (talk) 00:42, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make any unconstructive edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant warnings.

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to Gmail, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Longhair\talk 00:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC) Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Gmail. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. FusionMix 00:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You know you are vandalising. So don't do it. This behaviour is likely to get you blocked. It's not useful to vandalise and then apologise for it. Just don't do it. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 00:38, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

Hi, the recent edit you made to Bridgend suicide incidents 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. JSpung (talk) 14:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Chrysler LeBaron. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Scheinwerfermann (talk) 15:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lewis

Re your edits to Lewis - I'm sure if you asked nicely, your parents would buy you a colouring book and some crayons, it may be more suited to your editing abilities? Otherwise, please try Uncyclopedia, they revel in that sort of thing.MRM (talk) 15:57, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits, such as the one you made to Lewis.
Any further vandalism will result in your being blocked from editing Wikipedia. TerriersFan (talk) 16:07, 29 April 2008 (UTC) (


[edit] Your Afc nomination of tour de france 2008

Your nomination at Articles for Creation was a success, and tour de france 2008 was created. Please continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia, and please consider registering an account so you can create articles yourself. Thank you for helping Wikipedia! ArcAngel (talk) 16:10, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for abuse of editing privileges. 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. UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 18:12, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Pollock Halls of Residence, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. 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: Pollock Halls of Residence was changed by 194.81.255.254 (u) (t) making a minor change with obscenities on 2008-05-03T21:26:41+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 21:26, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing, such as the edit you made to Pollock Halls of Residence. If your vandalism continues, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.  Channel ®    21:26, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

You have been temporarily blocked from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for repeated abuse of editing privileges. Please stop. You're welcome to make useful contributions after the block expires. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below.

-- Ed (Edgar181) 21:37, 3 May 2008 (UTC)