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Abuse Response
Report Status
IP Address66.4.233.x
ContributionsContributions
Page MovesPage moves
Block LogBlock log
Contribution HistoryContribution history
StatusClosed
RequestorZach425 talk/contribs
Date22:43, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
InvestigatorAvicennasis
ContactorInvestigator



Requester comments

There has been repeated and persistent vandalism from IP addresses in the 66.4.233.x range, which belongs to the State of Tennessee Department of Education. Having looked into 66.4.233.1 to 66.4.233.30, I found the following IP addresses to have committed recent vandalism (each talk page now contains a SharedIPEDU tag):

There may be additional ranges within 66.4.x.x that have similar problems, but I'm not knowledgeable enough about Wikipedia to check contributions for these by any method other than manual entry. --Zach425 talk/contribs 22:43, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Discussion

No discussion posted.

Registry information

  • Summarized WHOIS report (All the same}:
OrgName:    State of Tennessee Department of Education 
 OrgID:      STDO 
 Address:    710 James Robertson Parkway 
 Address:    7th Floor 
 City:       Nashville 
 StateProv:  TN 
 PostalCode: 37243 
 Country:    US 
 NetRange:   66.4.0.0 - 66.5.255.255 
 CIDR:       66.4.0.0/15 
 NetName:    TEN-NASH-2BL 
 NetHandle:   NET-66-4-0-0-1 
 Parent:     NET-66-0-0-0-0 
 NetType:    Direct Assignment 
 NameServer: NS3.TENNK12.NET 
 NameServer: NS4.TENNK12.NET 
 Comment:    =20 
 RegDate:    2000-08-24 
 Updated:    2009-07-28 
 OrgAbuseHandle: CTI33-ARIN 
 OrgAbuseName:   Tillman  Charles 
 OrgAbusePhone:  1-615-401-4146 
 OrgAbuseEmail:  ct3646@att.com
 
 OrgNOCHandle: CTI33-ARIN 
 OrgNOCName:   Tillman  Charles 
 OrgNOCPhone:  1-615-401-4146 
 OrgNOCEmail:  ct3646@att.com
 
 OrgTechHandle: CTI33-ARIN 
 OrgTechName:   Tillman  Charles 
 OrgTechPhone:  1-615-401-4146 
 OrgTechEmail:  ct3646@att.com
 
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Comprehensive edits analysis

For a complete history & analysis of all of this IP's edits:
Summary of edits
No. of articles edited 604
No. of user pages edited 10
Average edits per day Sporadic
Top time segment Mon-Fri, 1300 to 2000

Abuse analysis

Abuse analysis
Target Page or Category: Not entered
Type of action Count
No. of abusive edits (blatant) At least 195+
No. of warnings 195
No. of blocks 14
Other edits (non-blatant violations) Not entered
Blanked own userpage Not entered
Block history
No. Block date Block reason
1 18 March 2010 Vandalism
2 18 February 2010 Vandalism
3 7 December 2009 Vandalism
4 4 December 2009 Vandalism
5 11 August 2009 Vandalism
6 15 May 2009 Vandalism
7 30 April 2009 Vandalism
8 24 April 2009 Vandalism
9 31 March 2009 Vandalism
10 23 March 2009 Vandalism
11 14 January 2009 Vandalism
12 1 December 2008 Vandalism
13 18 November 2008 Vandalism
14 3 November 2008 Vandalism

Abuse summary

Based on a random selection of articles, it seems like commonplace vandalism. There doesn't seem to be a goal or repeating theme at all. There is no political or social motivation other than simple disruption. The edits are childish. The pages are not linked in any easy to see way. It seems this individual is clicking on Random article and vandalizing whatever article they end up at. The WHOIS info comes back to a school system, and the edits for ALL of the IPs listed above almost always occur between 1300 - 2000, and almost always happen Mon-Fri. It seems like a students schedule, vandalizing during school hours (or perhaps after school in a computer lab or library.)

Modus Operandi

As above: It seems this individual is clicking on Random article and vandalizing whatever article they end up at.

Contact summary

Communication sent:

25 March 2010

Dear Sir or Madam:

On behalf of Wikipedia's Abuse Response Team, I am contacting you to inform you of an incident or incidents of abuse originating from your network.

Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia that can be used by anyone with Internet access free of charge. The English version may be viewed on the Web at http://en.wikipedia.org. A fundamental component of Wikipedia is that it may be edited by virtually anyone, as long as their edits benefit the goal of creating an encyclopedia. This approach has the downside that it exposes us to large scale vandalism, something that we are always trying to combat. We are able to achieve this by utilizing automated bots and tools to detect and revert unconstructive edits. If a user is identified as repeatedly abusing their privilege to edit Wikipedia, they are blocked, either temporarily or permanently.

I have completed an investigation and discovered that a series of IP addresses which appear to be registered to your organization, the most recent of which is [66.4.233.28], has been habitually abusing Wikipedia by vandalizing articles at http://en.wikipedia.org. His or her actions are likely preventing other users on your network from contributing, as this and many other IP addresses have been blocked from editing Wikipedia on many multiple occasions, many of which blocks are ongoing. Multiple warnings have been issued over a long duration of time, asking the user to refrain from abusive use of Wikipedia. However, the user has chosen to ignore the warnings, and as a result has incurred several blocks to IP addresses under your jurisdiction. I am contacting you because this user continues to abuse Wikipedia after his or her block expires and because this user has been blocked five times or more, justifying a need for a report to your organization.

The Wikipedia Community takes abuse of Wikipedia very seriously. The Wikipedia Abuse Response Team has completed a thorough investigation on this matter which includes a detailed log of activities conducted by the IP address in question. The server logs which includes timestamps of the activity should assist you in identifying the user responsible for abusing Wikipedia. The entire case is available for you to view at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abuse_reports/66.4.233.x

Additional information regarding this users most recent contributions to Wikipedia may be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/66.4.233.28

The block log for the most recent IP may be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User:66.4.233.28

In the future you may wish to monitor contributions made from this IP number at: (RSS & ATOM feeds)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:66.4.233.28


Please investigate and take action as deemed necessary, at your earliest convenience. Thank you for your cooperation.


{{Real name redacted}}
Avicennasis
Wikipedia Abuse Response Team

Reply received: None yet.

Case history

Investigated by: Avicennasis
Contacted by: Investigator, Netalarm sent second email on May 14, 2010.
Closed on:
Disposition: 01:42, 3 June 2010 (UTC)


Case log: Investigation Complete 12:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
12:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
04:42, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 Done Message received from district, stating that they did not know how to handle this situation. Netalarmtalk 01:42, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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