User talk:HJ Mitchell
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Fire/Police/Military disruptive editing
[edit]Hello. You've blocked a sockpuppet who was making disruptive and redundant edits on various police, fire, and military pages (Special:Contributions/38.137.157.89). Looks like they are back with a different IP and right back to the same disruptive editing: Special:Contributions/38.137.156.203
Anything you could do to assist would be appreciated. Thank you. HankScorpio1519 (talk) 20:14, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- @HankScorpio1519 I've blocked Special:Contribs/38.137.144.0/20 for a month. Let me know if you have any more problems. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:41, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Hi. Can you remove the move protection settings from these pages as they are not necessary? Thanks. Cheers. Thepharoah17 (talk) 11:23, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
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- Will try and participate but no promises. My calendar is filling up for the summer and even at my most active I can't keep up with the most prolific editors! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:36, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
122.173.28.0/22
[edit]Hi HJ Mitchell, I saw that you blocked the range 122.173.28.0/22 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial)) for 2 years back in April 2024. This is a pretty wide range for a hard block, especially one that is multiple years long, and I think it is causing quite a bit of collateral damage (at least a few UTRS appeals recently). Is there any chance we could downgrade it to a soft block? Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 01:58, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Mz7 how many is a few? Looking at the log, it hasn't been checked many times since the block. I'm reluctant because I don't make blocks like that lightly. From what I remember, there was absolutely nothing useful coming from that range but it was being used extensively for spam. With the added concerns about proxies etc, I can't see a soft block being a good idea unless the collateral damage is significant. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:25, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Ah, I was just looking at the UTRS backlog, and I think I saw 2 appeals from that range in the last few months, so not a whole lot, but I figured I reach out in case there was any alternative to IPBE. IP addresses in India tend to be highly dynamic and population-dense, so my understanding is that even a /22 like this could affect many thousands of people. However, if you have observed that the wide majority of edits are spam, then I could see a block being justified. I am happy to defer to your judgment on that. We can continue to handle collateral damage on this range through granting IPBE. Mz7 (talk) 19:14, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Hi, can you remove the move protection as it’s not necessary? Thanks. Cheers. Thepharoah17 (talk) 12:45, 2 June 2025 (UTC)