Notes for possible range block requests or extended page protection requests.
Since at least 2019 mobile IPs from Eastern US (almost all Verizon Business with a tightly-clustered geolocation) have been inserting mentions of dinosaur content in the Molasses article. Typically only one edit is made per IP, and at random intervals up to several months, so individual IP blocks and short term protections would not be effective. A 6-month pending changes block by user:Cwmhiraeth in 2020 kept the vandalism out of the article but did not stop the attempts. As of 16 April 2024 many of the older IPs are covered by an unrelated 6-month 2600:1004:b100::/40 range block by user:Johnuniq. It's not likely to be practical to use range blocks for this user since the recent edits not covered by the /40 block would require two more /40 range blocks (on 2600:1001:b0 and 2600:1002:b0), and still wouldn't cover everything. With eight edits in 7 days so far this April (as of 18 April) page protection may be warranted. Protected 3 months to July 18/24. Vandalism restarted August 14/24. Protected one year October 4, 2024 by user:HJ Mitchell
Edits
edit- 5 September 2019 is the earliest I am aware of [1] short description: a "dinosaur by-product" As of 16 April 2024 IP is on a 6-month /40 range block (2600:1004:b100::/40).
- 18 April 2020 [2] Body: "Molasses contains dinosaur DNA"
- 23 August 2020 This IP is AT&T Corp
- [3] Short description: "by-product of the refining of dinosaurs"
- [4] Body: "product resulting from refining ... or dinosaurs"
- [5] Short desc: "Viscous dinosaur by-product of the refining of dinosaurs," and body: "Molasses varies by amount of sugar, amount of dinosaur remains ..."
- [6] Short desc: dinosaur based by-product" and body: "product resulting from dinosaur and refining"
- 26 August 2023 IP is also AT&T Corp
- 28 September 2020 [9] Body "a viscous dinosaur byproduct" IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 29 October 2020 [10]Body: "a viscous dinosaur product" IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 11 January 2021 [11] Short desc: "Viscous dinosaur based by-product of the refining of ... and dinosaurs into sugar" IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 25 January 2021 [12] Short desc: "Viscous by-product of the refining of ... along with dinosaur remains into sugar" IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 25 February 2021 [13] Body: "a viscous dinosaur based product" IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 28 March 2021 [14] Body: "When younger plants are used more dinosaur remains are added to property age the product." IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 8 May 2021 [15] Body: "a viscous dinosaur product" IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 14 June 2021 [16] Body: "from refining ... along with small amounts of fossilized dinosaur into sugar"
- 2 July 2021
- 14 July 2021 [19] Body: "If the plant is real old it gets called dinosaur grade. All molasses contains some dinosaur." IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 19 July 2021 [20] Body: "a dinosaur based viscous substance" IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 7 August 2021
- 2 September 2021 [23] Body: "and powdered dinosaur bones into sugar"
- 11 September 2021
- [24] Body: "and dinosaur remains into sugar"
- 6-month pending changes protection starts
- 15 December 2021 [25] Body: "and percentage of dinosaur remains contained within" IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 19 January 2022
- 21 January 2022 [28] Body: "Older plants will contribute more dinosaur remains to the molasses although all molasses contains some dinosaur remains." IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 5 February 2022 [29] Short desc: "Viscous dinosaur by-product" IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 21 February 2022 [30] Body "Molasses has been found to contain various types of dinosaur based ingredients including fossilized dinosaur bones and dinosaur feces. It is unknown how it gets there. Some people think it just blows into the cane fields from nearby dinosaur excavations while others are convinced that there is a conspiracy perpetrated by the sugar cane industry to get as much dinosaur dna into as possible into those who love molasses, thus causing them and their offspring to have more dinosaur like traits while those who eat the refined white sugar continue to evolve since it is much more profitable for the industry to sell refined sugar than the less processed molasses" IP on same 6-month /40 range block as the first known editor
- 11March 2022 6-month pending changes protection ends
- 15 March 2022 [31] Body: "Dinosaur fragments are required to be added to molasses or else the product must be labeled de-dinosaured unrefined cane syrup." IP is Optimum Wifi
- 12 May 2022 [32] Body: "a viscous dinosaur based substance" IP is RCN
- 30 December 2022 [33] Short desc: "Viscous dinosaur by-product of the refining of dinosaur remains and ..."
- 19 January 2023 [34] Body: "All molasses contains a significant percentage of dissolved dinosaur remains."
- 11 August 2023 [35] Body: "which, arguably, would never have been discovered were it not for dinosaurs"
- 13 November 2023 [36] Body: "This process uses large amounts of fossilized dinosaur remains which is why all molasses contains some."
- 20 February 2024 [37] Body: "Molasses varies in the amount of sugar, the amount of fossilized dinosaur remains, ..."
- 5 March 2024 [38] Body: "The fossilized dinosaur remains that are found in all molasses contribute a large percentage of these minerals."
- 1 April 2024
- 5 April 2024 [41] Body: "Fossilized dinosaur remains which contribute to the minerals in the soil make their way into the sugar cane stalks which make their way into the molasses extracted from these stalks."
- 9 April 2024 [42] Body: "Its texture very similar to the kind of mud that dinosaurs sunk into and died."
- 13 April 2024 [43] Body: "It is so old some call it the dinosaur of sweeteners."
- 15 April 2024 [44] Body: 'Sugar cane molasses is an “dinosaur” ingredient used in baking and cooking'
- 16 April 2024 [45] Body: "Molasses is rich in vitamins and minerals, including ... many of which were once found in the dinosaurs which roamed the fields where sugarcane now grows."
- 18 April 2024 [46] Body: "It is also used to make dinosaur shaped dog treats." This is the only involved IP who has ever engaged on a talk page [47] and [48], and the subject is slightly different. The IP provided a source for the existence of molasses-flavoured dinosaur-shaped dog treats in the talk page posts, but the Verizon Business mobile IP coming from the same geolocation as the other IPs show that it is the same editor. Self-confirmed to be the same user via participation in user talk page thread[49], where the IP promised to stop the dinosaur edits if we left the molasses-flavoured dinosaur-shaped dog treats edit in. This raises the possibility of a connection between that e-commerce site and the editor.
- 14 August 2024 [50] 3-month protection ended and back at it. Body: "Molasses varies in the amount of sugar, the method of extraction and age of the plant and the age of the dinosaur fragments in that plant."
- 12 September 2024 This IP is Comcast Cable [51] Body: "It puts the dinosaur into our food supply like no other food can due to its high dinosaur bone content."
- 3 October 2024 [52] [53] Body and short description: "Vicious [sic] dinosaur by-product"