Dananimal

Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment

As a fellow Wikipedian environmentalist I would like to welcome you to help with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment. Alan Liefting (talk). Alan Liefting 23:38, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Howard

That last edit summary was not aimed at you. However, you are still trying to demean him. Please stop. It is not something that requires drawing attention to because that is POV pushing, and if you continue I will have to take further action. Xtra 07:18, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I am not specifically attempting to demean. Merely illuminate historical Facts about Howard's personal life reader's should draw their own conclusions as I said.—Dananimal 07:35, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Xtra

Having fun arguing with the guy yet? Whatever you say about John Howard, no matter how factual, if it looks bad for the PM, Xtra will want it removed! Dankru 14:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Excuse me? Xtra 15:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I would not characterise this as a personal attack. It is not unlike what I would deem an acurate description of what my experience with the user Xtra has been like. Alas such is life. Dananimal 04:08, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

TPG Internet Transparent Proxy Servers

I have experienced thoroughly irritating issues with colateral damage from these proxy servers being autoblocked. Mediawiki needs to have it's code revised to correctly interpret user's real public IP addresses from the IP addresses of transparent non-anonymous proxy servers. I was advised and have added the template {sharedip} to the Talk pages of the IP addresses as listed below.

202.7.166.163 syd-pow-pr1.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.163

202.7.166.164 syd-pow-pr2.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.164

202.7.166.165 syd-pow-pr3.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.165

202.7.166.166 syd-pow-pr4.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.166

202.7.166.167 syd-pow-pr5.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.167

202.7.166.168 syd-pow-pr6.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.168

202.7.166.169 syd-pow-pr7.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.169

202.7.166.170 syd-pow-pr8.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.170

202.7.166.171 syd-pow-pr9.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.171

202.7.166.172 syd-pow-dns1.tpgi.com.au (I list this as it is within the same range as the proxies but is a DNS server)

202.7.166.173 syd-pow-pr10.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.173

202.7.166.174 syd-pow-pr11.tpgi.com.au User Talk:202.7.166.174

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The effects of blocking make rectification of the issue very difficult. Considering the massive prevalence of dynamic IP addresses this method is a very blunt stick. I hope I do not have to deal with this too often. I am accessing through the Australian ISP TGP which employs a transparent proxy system too, I believe that the IP address is that of the proxy so this block will have effected most of the users of this ISP in the most populous state of Australia.

From research I have just undertaken Wikipedia must not be detecting IP addresses correctly, I get a valid response from http://whatismyipaddress.com it also states that the proxy is syd-pow-pr4.tpgi.com.au:3128. This is a serious issue for wikipedia and requires attention ASAP, I cannot contribute as yet as I am blocked as are all users who's traffic is transerred through this proxy.

This is not the external IP address shown by the Internet access device here.

As it is however not my account so I cannot contact them usefully myself, if I can obtain details of the abuse I will pass this on through the account holder. Dananimal 04:10, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

It is now past the time listed for this autoblock to expire and it has not. I appreciate that this is software based and there is a need to avoid wikidrama over such things, but the actions of the software are wrong and need to be changed. Apart from anything else wikipedia is blocking proxy servers, which is useless beyond annoying the hell out of people. Wikipedia needs to immidiately alter the IP detection code to recognise user's IP addresses and ignore the addresses of proxy servers. Tracking proxy addresses means that serious offenders cannot be tracked as well as being very irritating. Dananimal 05:21, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the remaining autoblocks. Blocking of proxies shouldn't be switched off IMO, otherwise we would be impotent against those vandalising wikipedia through them. --pgk^(talk) 08:51, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:P-10-4-D70B.png

Hello, Dananimal. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:P-10-4-D70B.png) was found at the following location: User:Dananimal. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 07:39, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:RainbowLorikeet-Bh00.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:RainbowLorikeet-Bh00.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to [email protected], stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to [email protected].

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

And also:

• File:NoisyMiner-Bh00 0.jpg
• File:NoisyMiner-Bh00 1.jpg
• File:NoisyMiner-Bh00 2.jpg

✗plicit 06:35, 24 March 2022 (UTC)