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Evidence

The text of nearly all of these diffs are substantially the same. In one edit the editor reveals knowledge of violation of wikipolicy when he leaves the edit summary "Notable?" In another edit he demonstrates an intent to mislead with the edit summary "removed vandalism."

Diffs:
Associated with 207.200.116.197: [1], [2]
Associated with 128.195.92.184: [3], [4], [5]
Associated with 128.195.92.155: [6]
Associated with 128.195.92.163: [7], [8]
Associated with 68.7.126.32: [9]
Associated with 70.230.194.24: [10]
Associated with 128.200.100.170: [11]
Associated with 128.195.223.160: [12]

Comments

An unregistered IP editor has been repeatedly adding the name of a non-notable person to a disambiguation page and the names of other non-notables to various other pages. The name he continues to add to the dab page is associated with the academic institution from which many of the IP edits are made and indeed there is a single student registered with the school whose name matches. This can be verified by examining the public record of students the school's website has on its frontpage. Two or three times other IP addresses have been used that are not associated with the school and I believe them to be socks. The main reason for concern is that there is no way to verify that the IP editor adding the names of this student and others is actually the student in question. As such this may be part of a campaign designed to provoke retaliation against the student as a target. The school that the student belongs to is very open with personal information, and this student's phone number and home address are given. The most recent edit made by this editor explicitly included the address of the student and gave details as to his academic course of studies. Perhaps I'm being overly cautious, but I can see dangerous potential for problems to arise. Editors (at the dab page at least) have been dealing with this problematic editor on and off since possibly as early as October 2006...

Conclusions

My fear is that this account is a purposeful vandal account which in edits such as this attempts to bait retaliation against a real person. Such a thing should not occur. -Thibbs (talk) 22:38, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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