The unintentional IP edit, my favorite part of Wikipedia Options

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I've decided that there's nothing richer than catching the clique in an unintentional IP edit, and would like to list some of my favorites for you and hope you'll reciprocate.

1- Jimbo as vandal.
Long story how I know this, but suffice it to say that last winter, Jimbo Wales' home IP was 69.22.75.205. Here are some of the edits he made during that time while not logged in. Read them if you want, but with the exception of this edit to the Jeff Merkey article, they're not very interesting.

Here's what's interesting.

Missing from 69.22.75.205's edit history is an edit only evidenced by a note on 69.22.75.205's talk page. Whatever Jimbo initially did to alter the debate over deletion of the autobiography of Gary Weiss was interpreted as vandalism and reverted.

That happened at 16:00 (UCT).

One hour later he made two more edits as Jimbo Wales.

About that time he appears to have been made aware that his IP edit didn't take, and so at 17:11 (UTC) he deleted the whole thing.

As Jimbo later explained, he did it because the deletion debate contained some "discourteous commentary." (Challenge: find the discourtesy in this rescued record of what Jimbo deleted.)


2- Possible evidence of a SlimVirgin + Crum375 sock connection.
Yet again a long story, but trust me when I say that I know Crum375's home IP has been 67.85.164.120 for some time now. Crum has made mountains of unintentional IP edits, and I posted a link to them on the talk page for Crum375 on Wikiabuse.com last week (my intention was actually to prove that Crum and Slim were different people).

Because 67.85.164.120 had so many edits, I didn't bother to check more than a few to verify that they were clearly Crum's. But this guy MichaelLinnear on Wikiabuse apparently dug deeper and says he found evidence in this edit history of SlimVirgin also apparently editing from 67.85.164.120.

This would be a fascinating development, but for the fact that the entire edit history of 67.85.164.120 was shortly thereafter oversighted out of existence.

Yes...oversighted.

3- A cover-up on Wall Street.
Speculation as to Gary Weiss's obsession with control over the articles on Overstock.com, it's CEO Patrick Byrne, and Naked short selling were put to rest earlier this year when this edit history was discovered.

Weiss, whose sockdrawer is led by Mantanmoreland, created the article on St. Joseph's Church to further his claim that he's really a Catholic gen-Xer. As any wikipedian will quickly recognize, on January 9, 2007, Weiss's first edit of the day was made before logging in.

The IP edit that resulted is attributed to 207.45.43.68, which happens to be one of two main IPs used by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which is the organization charged with settling about a quadrillion stock trades each year. The DTCC is also the organization Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne has said acts an enabler of perpetrators of illegal naked short selling of many public companies.

Naked shorting is very bad, regardless of what Weiss has edited the article on the subject to read.

The DTCC is not one of those businesses where a buddy might stop by during lunch and use your computer to check his email. It's a fortress. From this incident, we can reasonably conclude that Gary Weiss is using DTCC computers in some official capacity.

This situation gets still more sordid, as you can read here.

Bottom line: ¡Viva la unintentional IP edit!

[LamontStormstar]

I've decided that there's nothing richer than catching the clique in an unintentional IP edit, and would like to list some of my favorites for you and hope you'll reciprocate.

1- Jimbo as vandal.
Long story how I know this, but suffice it to say that last winter, Jimbo Wales' home IP was 69.22.75.205. Here are some of the edits he made during that time while not logged in. Read them if you want, but with the exception of this edit to the Jeff Merkey article, they're not very interesting.

Here's what's interesting.

Missing from 69.22.75.205's edit history is an edit only evidenced by a note on 69.22.75.205's talk page. Whatever Jimbo initially did to alter the debate over deletion of the autobiography of Gary Weiss was interpreted as vandalism and reverted.

That happened at 16:00 (UCT).

One hour later he made two more edits as Jimbo Wales.

About that time he appears to have been made aware that his IP edit didn't take, and so at 17:11 (UTC) he deleted the whole thing.

As Jimbo later explained, he did it because the deletion debate contained some "discourteous commentary." (Challenge: find the discourtesy in this rescued record of what Jimbo deleted.)


2- Possible evidence of a SlimVirgin + Crum375 sock connection.
Yet again a long story, but trust me when I say that I know Crum375's home IP has been 67.85.164.120 for some time now. Crum has made mountains of unintentional IP edits, and I posted a link to them on the talk page for Crum375 on Wikiabuse.com last week (my intention was actually to prove that Crum and Slim were different people).

Because 67.85.164.120 had so many edits, I didn't bother to check more than a few to verify that they were clearly Crum's. But this guy MichaelLinnear on Wikiabuse apparently dug deeper and says he found evidence in this edit history of SlimVirgin also apparently editing from 67.85.164.120.

This would be a fascinating development, but for the fact that the entire edit history of 67.85.164.120 was shortly thereafter oversighted out of existence.

Yes...oversighted.

3- A cover-up on Wall Street.
Speculation as to Gary Weiss's obsession with control over the articles on Overstock.com, it's CEO Patrick Byrne, and Naked short selling were put to rest earlier this year when this edit history was discovered.

Weiss, whose sockdrawer is led by Mantanmoreland, created the article on St. Joseph's Church to further his claim that he's really a Catholic gen-Xer. As any wikipedian will quickly recognize, on January 9, 2007, Weiss's first edit of the day was made before logging in.

The IP edit that resulted is attributed to 207.45.43.68, which happens to be one of two main IPs used by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which is the organization charged with settling about a quadrillion stock trades each year. The DTCC is also the organization Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne has said acts an enabler of perpetrators of illegal naked short selling of many public companies.

Naked shorting is very bad, regardless of what Weiss has edited the article on the subject to read.

The DTCC is not one of those businesses where a buddy might stop by during lunch and use your computer to check his email. It's a fortress. From this incident, we can reasonably conclude that Gary Weiss is using DTCC computers in some official capacity.

This situation gets still more sordid, as you can read here.

Bottom line: ¡Viva la unintentional IP edit!

Jimbo's edit that got reverted was by a bot. I also think his IP was that same thing until last spring.

Also, it's a good guess who oversighted it http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...group=&limit=50 . Yup, her meat puppet. Of course we didn't know Slimmey was on Wikiabuse.... SlimVirgin, she watches everything, plotting something... something disasterous... but she never speaks and acts like she's not there. I don't know what she's plotting... destroy things with a giant laser from space, flood the earth with an underwater kingdom, what Lex Luther did in the plot from Superman Returns? Whatever it is, it's something bad.

More and more people seem to be harboring the suspicion that Slimmy and Crum375 are the same person at this point, or at least they might as well be the same person... That would explain the creation of the Crum375 account around the time of the Katefan0 incident, I suppose. Still, why go to all the trouble? Did she think she was going to have to disappear, give up the Slimmy account as being too unpopular, and figured she'd get her new identity all nice & ready for when the time came? The mind reels!

Did we ever answer the question of why Gary is so obsessed with this one company? Maybe he ordered one of those cheap inkjet printers, and it didn't arrive in time for his birthday, or maybe one of the ink cartridges exploded all over his favorite shirt, causing a mess?

What if Crum375 is Katefan0?

As for Gary's obsession, he claims WordBomb works for Overstock.

It is very interesting that IP edits would be oversighted. However, they did the same thing to some of Slim Virgin's first ever edits - her edits to the Lockerbie Bombing page (now called Pan Am Flight 103). We did a study on that here previously, and it definitely demonstrated who Slim Virgin was and what she was doing on Wikipedia when she first used it. Slim Virgin immediately went to work destroying an article, being aggressive towards the person who had previously worked hard to make it good, and then played all innocent to the admin noticeboard to beg for their help - and got it to the extent that that user quit, and others afterwards were banned. Yet all of that evidence, after appearing on Wikipedia Review, was oversighted. Slim Virgin then claimed that we were trying to out her by releasing this information. It didn't say her name or anything, just her very sinister reason for being at Wikipedia.

Did it take until the Oversight function got installed to remove the edits, which I think was less than a year ago?

As I mentioned before, her buddy Jayig has oversight and probably was the one who did it.

Also, MichaelLinnear is a Wikipedia admin.

I would have thought his attacks on Wikipedians over at Encyclopedia Dramatica where he's Lateral (previous name "The Real Deal") would have prevented him from becoming an admin. Then again, when you're cabal, you can do anything.