Mr. Smith-Jones (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
This is my only account. I was clearing messages from shared IPs because they are years old and stale. I use that service provider on my phone, and get different IPs all the time. I don't like those messages appearing all over the place. If I can't clear them, how do I get them cleared officially as I see some in the range have already gone?
Accept reason:
Following request. PhilKnight (talk) 21:45, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
- And how did you get to that idea, blanking these talk pages as your first thing to do in Wikipedia? Max Semenik (talk) 18:12, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- @MaxSem: oh it isn't the first thing I've done in Wikipedia, by a long chalk. I've edited on and off for a long while now as an anonymous ip user. I prefer it that way because it's my employer's phone. Using a mobile phone/cell phone means your ip address keeps changing. The service provider has reserved ranges, and as a subscriber you get a different random address from one of their ranges each time you connect. For huge providers such as the one I use, it's extremely unlikely that a user will ever get the same ip address twice, so these messages are particularly pointless and ill-targeted. Wikipedia doesn't seem sensitive to that technology, and I often pick up inappropriate messages, aimed at a previous user of the address, who will never get to see the message. These messages could be intimidating to some ip users too, so I had the bright idea of registering an account to get rid of some of them, and put a more useful message in their place. I registered to give consistency and allow scrutiny. Otherwise, I would just be a bunch of different ip addresses editing talk pages of other different ip addresses! Ip users are not necessarily bad users, so I think they should be respected and not tarred as clones. Can you help get shot of these completely useless and meaningless messages - or let me finish the job please? Mr. Smith-Jones (talk) 18:40, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- You have, of course, hit on the basic answer to your problem. By creating an account you will immediately, when unblocked, cease to see irrelevant messages aimed at IP editors. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 21:26, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- No, even with an account, I still see the orange message banner when I open the Wikipedia webpage, before logging on. These messages are misleading and can be intimidating. Given the slim chance that the intended user will ever get assigned that ip again, and thus see their message, such messages are pointless, so need erasing. There can be no point and no justification for pointing out that such an address was once used by such-and-such a user as a sock puppet, because that user will probably never get that address again, and the next time that address is used it will inevitably be by an innocent bystander, who should not be subjected to that message. Mr. Smith-Jones (talk) 21:44, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- You have, of course, hit on the basic answer to your problem. By creating an account you will immediately, when unblocked, cease to see irrelevant messages aimed at IP editors. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 21:26, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- @MaxSem: oh it isn't the first thing I've done in Wikipedia, by a long chalk. I've edited on and off for a long while now as an anonymous ip user. I prefer it that way because it's my employer's phone. Using a mobile phone/cell phone means your ip address keeps changing. The service provider has reserved ranges, and as a subscriber you get a different random address from one of their ranges each time you connect. For huge providers such as the one I use, it's extremely unlikely that a user will ever get the same ip address twice, so these messages are particularly pointless and ill-targeted. Wikipedia doesn't seem sensitive to that technology, and I often pick up inappropriate messages, aimed at a previous user of the address, who will never get to see the message. These messages could be intimidating to some ip users too, so I had the bright idea of registering an account to get rid of some of them, and put a more useful message in their place. I registered to give consistency and allow scrutiny. Otherwise, I would just be a bunch of different ip addresses editing talk pages of other different ip addresses! Ip users are not necessarily bad users, so I think they should be respected and not tarred as clones. Can you help get shot of these completely useless and meaningless messages - or let me finish the job please? Mr. Smith-Jones (talk) 18:40, 23 August 2015 (UTC)