Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2017/December

First choice of user name is blacklisted, not sure why
I'd like to register, and use the same name as I use on other forums, Neil_UK. Is this possible?
 * It doesn't seem possible to have "_" in your name... maybe "Neil UK" (from CentralAuth). --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 16:18, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

83.18.191.198
Noting here admin action I've taken, and am taking. Over the past few weeks or months, there's been this ongoing situation involving, apparently, edit warring between IPs; there seems to be a suggestion, somewhere in the murky situation, that all IPs on both sides of the war are the same person, creating a lot of confusion and trying to thereby slip stuff in without being noticed. Early in the game I recall sifting through edits looking for those that seemed sound, but after a few rounds my attitude is very much to just unwind all of it, and if somebody wants to do something useful they can register an account and explain just what they're doing at each step. I've doled out several 6-month blocks to IPs, one of them earlier today and I'm now going through their 100-or-so edits trying to unwind each page to a point before the edit-warring started. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:19, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * One of them told me it was against a vandal, but I'm not convinced: User_talk:JackPotte. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 16:54, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Proof that we aren't the same person is, i don't use open proxi's. Wielbiciel Papieża (discuss • contribs)
 * I don't find that a credible claim. Not using an open proxy is not proof of identity.  Behavior is more convincing, and behavior says User:Wielbiciel Papieża is part of this.  In any case, they're clearly claiming to be the same user who was just blocked as an IP, which makes their large-scale reversion of my edits block evasion.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:15, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Just administered a short (one week) block to 83.31.82.208 over this. (Perhaps it ought to be much longer, but at least this puts something in the block log, that can be seen on later observation of the IPs.)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:59, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * 83.31.62.39. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:31, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
 * 37.7.152.166. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 18:06, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 83.31.87.95. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:29, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Behaviour itself isn't enough to claim the identity. You didn't address that the IP user doesn't speak Japanese, which is an important identity evidence. You should also perform an Geolocation IP lookup and you have to address all parts of the IP user's Request reason. --Rezonansowy (discuss • contribs) 05:07, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * A few remarks.
 * For the most part (though this has been going on long enough that I don't recall details of older instances), I've avoided closing the requests-for-unblock myself, merely providing a link back here so anyone who does consider them is aware of the context.
 * As far as I recall I have routinely checked the location on IPs involved, which have consistently (and as expected) been in Poland (at the time checked).
 * Saying "I don't speak Japanese", like saying "I am only making constructive edits", means in itself nothing. Given the behavior involved with these individuals on Wikibooks, it looks to me rather compellingly like meat-puppetry at least.
 * --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 11:46, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Please note that Poland is a big country with more than one person. --Rezonansowy (discuss • contribs) 05:04, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * That objection doesn't hold water. You insinuated I had not checked the IP locations; I offered sober reassurance that I had.  It's just further support for what's already obvious, though:  we have a long succession of cases where somebody acts in a very specific and highly distinctive way, and in every case the person involved is in Poland.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 06:45, 31 December 2017 (UTC)