Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

I dunno, I'm under the impression that v4 already sucks, just that the pain is felt on the other end - users who are IP-banned because their ISP does Carrier-grade NAT, cellphone users who randomly cycle through banned IPs as their phone changes addresses, that kind of thing.

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by boomboomsubban » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 3:17 AM UTC

Isn't this glorifying the abuse? If I were a troll I would strive to make this list.

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 3:22 AM UTC

These... are subpages. Every one of these people/groups has a dedicated Wikipedia page about why they're banned. There's probably a "notability" joke in here.

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by joib » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 3:28 AM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #5

paulpauper wrote: post #2

how does ipv6 change things

I dunno, I'm under the impression that v4 already sucks, just that the pain is felt on the other end - users who are IP-banned because their ISP does Carrier-grade NAT, cellphone users who randomly cycle through banned IPs as their phone changes addresses, that kind of thing.

I'm impressed that someone managed to get my ISP's entire IPv6 address range banned indefinitely from editing Wikipedia.

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by mistrial9 » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 3:30 AM UTC

I am dizzy to see Justin Knapp, the first wikipedia editor to make more than one million edits -- to be clear, real edits; he is mentioned as a target of one of the banned ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Knapp

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by joib » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 3:31 AM UTC

Some of these are hilarious.

Favourite so far is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Chip...

> The Chipmunks vandal, also known as the Alvin vandal, adds trivial detail about the Chipmunks fictional musical group's cover versions to song articles, for instance adding a Chipmunks cover version to the Rolling Stones' song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". Not only the Chipmunks but the vandal also targets the Chipettes and other fictional bands. He also adds trivial detail about Glee TV performances.

If I was this vandal I'd be quite stoked that Wikipedia has a shrine to this absolute nonsense I wrote.