Wikipedia blocks a Senate's IP after vandalism of Snowden article

[Ichingcarpenter]

Wikipedia blocks a Senate's IP after vandalism of Snowden article




This IP address, 156.33.241.5, is registered to United States Senate and may be shared by multiple users of a government agency or facility. If the agency or facility uses proxy servers, this IP address may represent many users at many personal computers or devices.
For this reason, a message intended for one user may be received by another, and a block intended for disruptive users may also affect innocent users. If you are editing from this address and are frustrated by irrelevant messages, you can avoid them by creating an account for yourself. Sometimes, in response to vandalism, you may be temporarily unable to create an account.


Hello, I'm Ginsuloft. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Edward Snowden seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Ginsuloft (talk) 20:54, 2 August 2013 (UTC)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:156.33.241.5

[Coyotl]

1. Well-written headline! knr

[MattSh]

2. Not really. There's no mention of the IP being blocked.

It's just saying the edit was removed.

In fact, it likely they'll never block a Senate IP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SIP#Sensitive_IP_addresses

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. its a soft block

look at my link again its been updated.

[Babel_17]

4. Colbert showed us how this works :)

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=stephen+colbert+wikipedia+prank

IIRC, one of Wikipedia's founders came on his show to tell him he was banned from editing. lol