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IP user 122.161.52.32 block evasion

You blocked Special:Contributions/122.161.52.32 almost a week ago, they're editing on Special:Contributions/122.161.52.6. Would you mind taking a look? Thanks! Ravensfire (talk) 17:58, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ravensfire, thank you very much for the quick notification.

~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:00, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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pp-protection in Work to Ride

Hi! I think the protection level on this article is unwarranted. A number of new users started editing this article at the same time but I don't think it qualifies as 'disruptive' editing, most of them added content that was able to be easily backed up with reliable sources, and some did provide them themselves. Maybe one went a bit over the top with WP:PROMO but the rest seem to be sticking to the facts. There is also no evidence of WP:COI , I warned the users but it could just as easily be an editing party by current or former alumni, which I don't believe constitutes a COI violation necessarily. I think blocking all of them from editing the one article they have an interest in is a little bit WP:Biting. Could you please reconsider? JeffUK (talk) 13:23, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JeffUK, thanks for asking! Indeed it seemed worse than it is, and the editing was limited to one day anyway. I had seen a false-positive report at WP:UAA, noticed your talk page message to the user and thought it might be a good idea to protect the page for a while. I have unprotected the page now. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:27, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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135.180.153.166 and 135.180.156.116

Someone put a notice on User talk:135.180.153.166 saying that it might be a sock of 135.180.156.116 (which you blocked). What I think is more likely is that they're using a dynamic range. I'm given the range 135.180.152.0/21 for both, but don't know if there's any collateral. wizzito | say hello! 20:06, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for blocking, but why didn't you do the rangeblock? It's clearly a dynamic IP range, so this user could get another IP and do the same thing again... wizzito | say hello! 20:12, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Wizzito, thank you very much for the notification. The confusing wording "An editor has expressed concern" has been removed from {{Sockpuppet}} and its documentation,^[1][2] but {{IPSock}} apparently remains confusing. I have now informed Rzxz0839 that the template sadly doesn't trigger any notification, and about how to quickly create a SPI using Twinkle.

As the user has actively edited until now, I threw a quick single-IP block in before checking the feasibility of a rangeblock. This specific user seems to have a pretty static IP address assignment, for example because their ISP doesn't terminate the connection automatically. This observation led to the long-duration blocks of 135.180.156.116 (log). After almost exactly one month of silence, on 2021-07-29, 135.180.153.166 started editing. Their IP address has not changed for over three months. We'll have to wait and see if their IP address change was the result of manual block evasion or just a random hiccup. At the current assignment rate of new addresses, performing a rangeblock on a /21 range with evident collateral damage (135.180.154.192 35.180.159.189 135.180.156.55 135.180.152.251 135.180.158.194) would seem to be a bit excessive.

~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:35, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]