User talk:209.221.240.193

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Vandalism to Interstellar_medium from this IP address on 2006-12-15.

Vandalism to Interstellar_medium from this IP address on 2006-12-19.

Contents 1 September 2006 2 Your edit to Thor 2.1 Regarding edits made during December 22, 2006 (UTC) 3 Regarding your edit to Jones Springs, West Virginia: 4 Cleanroom 4.1 February 2007 5 March 2006 6 August 2007 7 User:BryanFromPalatine, User:ClemsonTiger, User:DeanHinnen? 8 Could you please obtain a user account 9 Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Waterboarding 10 Waterboarding arbitration 11 Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waterboarding 12 Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waterboarding 13 Editing restriction warning 14 June 2008

[edit] September 2006

It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed content from Clemson University. Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. Thank you. /blahedo (t) 18:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Thor

Your recent edit to Thor (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // AntiVandalBot 18:04, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks may lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. --Gamaliel 18:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding edits made during December 22, 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for experimenting with 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. If this is an IP address, and it is shared by multiple users, ignore this warning if you did not make any unconstructive edits. Falcorian ^(talk) 21:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

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Do not edit comment of another user...--Naohiro19(Talk Page/Contributions) 16:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding your edit to Jones Springs, West Virginia:

Your recent edit to Jones Springs, West Virginia (diff) was reverted by automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either vandalism, link spam, or test edits to the page. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. Thanks! // VoABot II 19:18, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Jones Springs, West Virginia. Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. Take a look at our welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. The Rambling Man 19:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanroom

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Cleanroom. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses Nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --JFreeman ^(talk) 18:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Conveyor belt. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Veinor ^{(talk to me)} 17:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue spamming, as you did in Cleanroom, you will be blocked from editing. Húsönd 17:39, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] February 2007

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Linear actuator, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist, which includes all of Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Nposs 17:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, please ignore this notice

This is most definitely a shared IP address, shared by a large number of users. Nposs, I'll see what I can do about the problem you've mentioned, but this is for all practical purposes a public IP, so exercise caution if you feel a block is warranted. "Soft blocking" would be effective. Dino 18:13, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] March 2006

Thank you for experimenting with 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. --TeaDrinker 21:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] August 2007

Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to HD DVD. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add your original reference to the article. Contact me if you need assistance adding references. Thank you. Kbdank71 20:27, 31 August 2007 (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.

[edit] User:BryanFromPalatine, User:ClemsonTiger, User:DeanHinnen?

Hello, have you ever used any of these three usernames in the past? Lawrence Cohen 18:35, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

No. There are over 17,000 people employed by Robert Bosch LLC, from California to Massachusetts and many points in between, and we all share this IP address. 209.221.240.193 (talk) 18:50, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Could you please obtain a user account

Otherwise your comments may be mixed up with another person from the same IP address. If you don't want to do that for some reason, could you plase sign your comments with some sort of name so that there will be no confusion between you and other people from this IP address. Remember (talk) 18:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Waterboarding

Please see the above link as I have requested arbitration for a dispute that you are involved in. Feel free to contribute there. Regards, henrik•talk 11:44, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Waterboarding arbitration

If you want to post a statement here, I'll copy it over for you. Lawrence Cohen 16:52, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

You're wasting your time, Mr. Cohen. I'm guilty until proven innocent. There are 17,000 people working here, but it appears that we all have the same IP address and as far as Wikipedia administrators are concerned, we are all sockpuppets. But thanks for the offer. Despite accusations made by others I think you were just trying to create a good article, even though you and I disagreed on where that process should go. Others have now gone out of their way to make false accusations and engage in guilt by association. This is not constructive, nor does it contribute to the purpose of building a good encyclopedia. 209.221.240.193 (talk) 18:53, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, by the way, for the complement, Mr./Ms./Mrs. 209. Lawrence Cohen 19:22, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

If it had just been the IP address, I wouldn't even have mentioned it. But it isn't just the IP address, and it would be remiss of me not to point out the links. I would also be happy to post your statement on the Arbitration page. BLACKKITE 19:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

What else was there, Mr. Kite? I share an IP address with 17,000 other people, and one of them has been a problem at Wikipedia. The other 16,999 (including me) are blameless. What you have is the most thin and wispy circumstantial evidence I've ever seen, but you have a real talent for making it look like "Standing Over The Dead Body With The Smoking Gun In Your Hand." I haven't even looked at the Free Republic article. Freepers are lunatics. 209.221.240.193 (talk) 19:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Let's look at it neutrally. We have an article which is being attacked, almost certainly, by one or more sockpuppets of a previously banned editor. That particular editor had a major focus on the Free Republic article, as does anpther editor who has recently been blocked for sockpuppetry on the waterboarding article. Given that, it would be ludicrous not to point out that the article is also repeatedly being edited by an IP which was previously proved by Checkuser to have been used by the previously banned editor. Surely that is logical? BLACKKITE 19:19, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

And the fact that nearly all the IPs involved in all the attacks and disruption all geolocate to within a 15-17 mile radius in one corner of suburban Illinois. Seems a bit of a coincidental stretch that all these random people all arrive at once, from the same physical neighborhood (Elmhurst, Palatine, Hoffman Estates), with similar viewpoints, outlooks, and with the same adversarial tone and language that this BryanFromPalatine used. Lawrence Cohen 19:22, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

You said, "the article is also repeatedly being edited by an IP which was previously proved by Checkuser to have been used by that editor." That is one of many false statements and conflations, Mr. Kite. I never edited the Waterboarding article. I very calmly and rationally discussed proposed changes on the Talk page, with all due respect to people who disagreed with me, despite being labeled as an SPA and a sockpuppet. I finally blew my cool on one occasion at ANI after being tagged, once again, as an SPA; but my conduct on the Talk page has been exemplary. But you have succeeded in getting rid of me, Mr. Kite. Relish your victory. 209.221.240.193 (talk) 19:24, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

• You misunderstand. I was talking about User:BryanFromPalatine, who previously used this IP address (as confirmed by CU). And that user is linked to User:Shibumi2 - etc. BLACKKITE 19:30, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Now I'll turn to you, Mr. Cohen. Chicago is the communications hub of the Midwest. The world headquarters of AT&T is there. Therefore Internet users all over the Midwest are using IP addresses that resolve to Chicago or one of its suburbs. There are probably close to 100 million people with IP addresses resolving to Chicago or one of its suburbs. I will add that there are about 50 million people using Sprint wireless accounts, and Free Republic also has thousands of users (I have no idea how many, but there are evidently a lot of them) and they're all obsessed lunatics who own guns. I want nothing to do with them, but they're political junkies and it shouldn't surprise you to find a few of them hanging around a politically explosive current topic like Waterboarding. 209.221.240.193 (talk) 19:33, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

• The mathematical odds of multiple people using the same IPs with the same language, interests, tone, and inclinations as a single person in one particular physical suburb (Elmhurst, Palatine, and Hoffman Estates are not Chicago, they're suburbs west-southwest of the city) are far fetched. Then, for multiple people from the same distinct, tiny geographic area to all arrive with similar IP addresses and agendas in a short time span, as a known Conservative zealot are just plain ridiculous. Lawrence Cohen 19:38, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

What part of "Chicago [and its suburbs are] the communications hub of the Midwest" don't you understand? 209.221.240.193 (talk) 19:39, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

The part where I began to wonder why you never simply logged into an account, perhaps. Or where more and more evidence turned up. Unfortunately, I will not posting here again, as I am fairly sure you're who is suspected. Lawrence Cohen 19:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

• The problem is not that there are some disruptive accounts that resolve to Chicago or to Midwest-based Sprint - but that ALL such accounts we have identified so far do so. It is flat out not realistic that this is a coincidence. And that is my last comment here too - it seems pointless to continue this dialogue. BLACKKITE 19:43, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waterboarding

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waterboarding/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waterboarding/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Anthøny 16:40, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waterboarding

This Arbitration case has closed, and the final decision may be reviewed through the above link. Further to the relevant findings of fact, Waterboarding and all closely-related pages are subject to article probation (full remedy); editors working on Waterboarding, or closely related pages, may be subject to an editing restriction at the discretion of any uninvolved administrator, whereby any edits by that editor which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, may result in a block. (full remedy).

Should any user subject to an editing restriction in this case violate that restriction, that user may be briefly blocked, up to a week in the event of repeated violations. After 5 blocks, the maximum block length shall increase to one year (full enforcement). Before such restrictions are enacted on an editor, he or she must be issued with a warning containing a link to the decision.

For the Arbitration Committee,
AGK (talk) 14:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Editing restriction warning

In the recent arbitration case, administrators were given the power to impose discretionary sanctions on any user editing Waterboarding-related articles in a disruptive way. If you engage in further inappropriate behaviour in this area (such as uncivil comments and/or assumptions of bad faith from other editors like your comments here: [1]), you may be placed under sanctions including blocks, a revert limitation or an article ban. This constitutes your warning as required by the General restriction remedy. Thank you. Lawrence § t/e 16:20, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Diana, Princess of Wales 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. Tresiden (talk) 19:32, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

The recent edit you made to Boy George constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thanks. Epbr123 (talk) 19:36, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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