Wikipedia:Abuse reports/218.185.79.222

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[edit] 218.185.79.222 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)

This IP address has produced dozens of edits over the past six months, all of which (without exception) have been acts of vandalism, often involving the purile insertion of obscenities.

Discussion

Accept for investigation. Hopefully we can get a positive response from the ISP on this so we can remove the 6-month block currently active on this IP (in case it's shared, etc.) --Darkwind (talk) 11:47, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Registry Information

218.185.79.222

Registered to: Uecomm Limited
WHOIS report

Contact information:

inetnum:      218.185.0.0 - 218.185.127.255
netname:      UECOMM-AU
descr:        Uecomm
descr:        Broadband fibre network service
country:      AU

person:       Adam Griffiths
nic-hdl:      AG85-AP
e-mail:       adgriffiths AT uecomm.com.au
address:      Uecomm Limited
address:      Building 8,
address:      658 Church St, Richmond
address:      Australia 3121
phone:        +61-3-9222-8650
fax-no:       +61-3-9222-9088
country:      AU

[edit] Initial Report

Overall, this IP has been responsible for 220 article edits from 15 June 2006 through the present. The most active month was August of 2006 with 55 total edits. During that active month, the IP was blocked twice, and in total has been blocked 9 times including the present 6 month block, set to expire in February 2008. Since the vandalism resumed immediately upon expiration of the last block, this abuse reports case was opened, and this will be brought to the attention of the ISP.

[edit] Abuse Summary

Investigated by Darkwind (talk · contribs).

[edit] 218.185.79.222 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)

Between June 12, 2007 (shortly after the last block on this IP address expired) and August 13, 2007 (when the current block was established), this IP address was responsible for 18 edits to 15 different pages.
Between June 12 and August 6, the edits primarily occurred between 04:00 and 05:30 UTC. From August 6 to August 13, the edits occurred mostly between 23:50 and 01:40 UTC.
All but 2 of the 18 edits were common vandalism.
The remaining 2 edits were good-faith changes to existing article text, which leads me to believe that a long-term block on this IP address may be affecting valuable contributors.
Vandalism samples: [1] [2] [3] [4]