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> Institutions, companies and governments can't bother to edit from a VPN, or from a tethered cell phone? IP addresses are masked if using a registered account

> Institutions, companies and governments can't bother to edit from a VPN, or from a tethered cell phone? IP addresses are masked if using a registered account. It would be interesting to cross-reference those except Wikipedia don't gave this out. I do know I opted-out of Wikipedia after being censured for posting the birth date of a deceased individual. In violating of privacy policy or some such WP:bla bla bla. The terms of which are impossible for the average individual to decode. A fortnite later the information was inserted by some senior administrator. I guess all Wikipedians are equal, except some are more equal than others.

dec0dedab0de 6y ago
I stopped editing when it became clear that all of my edits were immediately reverted. They were all simple grammar, spelling, or tense modifications. I assume the original authors had scripts in place to make sure there were no changes.
- teddyh 6y ago
  Someone should make a wikibot to make such small innocuous edits, in order to detect such rogue editors who consider themselves “owners” of certain pages (against policy, I might add). It would perhaps also be possible to find at least some of these by detecting these changes in the editing history in cases such as yours.
  - zozbot234 6y ago
    The trick is to post the proposed edit on the talk page first, then make it after a few days if nobody objects. If your edit is reverted, you can point out that the user didn't raise any concerns on talk. Reverts are very much supposed to be a last resort measure, the primary way of shaping a wiki article is via discussion/deliberation on the talk page. Also very handy for edits that you know to be controversial.
- O_H_E 6y ago
  Wow, that's a thing. Would you care to link your user page.
  - howenterprisey 6y ago
    Please let me know as well, either here or via DM. I can definitely look into this.
    - dec0dedab0de 6y ago
      This was about 8 years ago, and all my edits were anonymous. They actually relate to this article because it was from an IP registered to a previous employer. Only a handful of people used that particular address, so when I looked at the history they were all mine. So I dont have anything to send, but If I had to guess I'd say it was less than 10 edits spread over 2 years, and all of the edits were less than 30 characters. I later learned about the talk page and the internal politics, and I decided it wasnt for me.
hutzlibu 6y ago
" I guess all Wikipedians are equal, except some are more equal than others." Where did they say all are equal?

dec0dedab0de 6y ago

I stopped editing when it became clear that all of my edits were immediately reverted. They were all simple grammar, spelling, or tense modifications. I assume the original authors had scripts in place to make sure there were no changes.

teddyh 6y ago
Someone should make a wikibot to make such small innocuous edits, in order to detect such rogue editors who consider themselves “owners” of certain pages (against policy, I might add). It would perhaps also be possible to find at least some of these by detecting these changes in the editing history in cases such as yours.
- zozbot234 6y ago
  The trick is to post the proposed edit on the talk page first, then make it after a few days if nobody objects. If your edit is reverted, you can point out that the user didn't raise any concerns on talk. Reverts are very much supposed to be a last resort measure, the primary way of shaping a wiki article is via discussion/deliberation on the talk page. Also very handy for edits that you know to be controversial.
O_H_E 6y ago
Wow, that's a thing. Would you care to link your user page.
- howenterprisey 6y ago
  Please let me know as well, either here or via DM. I can definitely look into this.
  - dec0dedab0de 6y ago
    This was about 8 years ago, and all my edits were anonymous. They actually relate to this article because it was from an IP registered to a previous employer. Only a handful of people used that particular address, so when I looked at the history they were all mine. So I dont have anything to send, but If I had to guess I'd say it was less than 10 edits spread over 2 years, and all of the edits were less than 30 characters. I later learned about the talk page and the internal politics, and I decided it wasnt for me.

hutzlibu 6y ago

" I guess all Wikipedians are equal, except some are more equal than others." Where did they say all are equal?