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Reply #30 - Sep 28th, 2007 at 11:00am
 
If the offending ip address was made public, I'm sure there might be someone with the capability of tracing it and perhaps initiating a Denial Of Service attack.
Just a thought.
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Reply #31 - Sep 28th, 2007 at 12:07pm
 
a very nice man wrote on Sep 28th, 2007 at 11:00am:
If the offending ip address was made public, I'm sure there might be someone with the capability of tracing it and perhaps initiating a Denial Of Service attack.
Just a thought.


The offending IPs are made clearly available on the history of the pages. However, Denial of Service attacks SHOULD NEVER be performed on any computer. It is illegal, and if traced back to you, you could be prosecuted and end up in jail.

Keith wrote on Sep 28th, 2007 at 10:51am:
I wonder what other site he/she vandalises? The logic applied seems to mean that we can change the capital of France to London on the appropriate page and keep changing it after it is corrected and there is a 50% chance that when it is protected it will be protected in the incorrect state even though that is patently stupid!


I know what you mean. That is why there are techniques in place to get content placed into the page once it has been protected. However, I would like to leave it a day and see if the user can be brought into the discussion. If they do not wish to participate, I will follow the procedure for getting information included and ask an admin to place it in. Hopefully that will bring them into the debate (if they wish to continue it).

Keith wrote on Sep 28th, 2007 at 10:51am:
Where there is a dispute it should revert to the original for discussion not some random point with a note stating there is a dispute.


The rules for full protection state that an admin is not to pick-and-choose the version they revert - they are to revert the page as it stands. If I had asked them to revert it while the anonymous user was reverting it also, we may have got a locked copy with not even the dispute notice. Be thankful atleast that we have the dispute notice.

Keith wrote on Sep 28th, 2007 at 10:51am:
I appreciate this is out of your hands, but I needed the rant!

Again good luck. If someone is unwilling to argue why something should be changed, it shouldn't be changed. That is just vandalism.


Don't worry - rants make people feel better Smiley. Yes, it is vandalism, but they feel it should be that way, and we feel it should be the other way. Atleast now we are making some progress with it.
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Updated 0870 number wikipedia article
Reply #32 - Jul 1st, 2008 at 9:04am
 
I just added a detailed call charges section to the 0870 number wikipedia article,something I have wanted to see for a long time.    There are some gaps however, so if some of you could pop along and update the missing information and the tba's,  I would be most grateful.  Some of the pricing links are blocked from my work PC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0870

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Reply #33 - Jul 1st, 2008 at 11:41pm
 
As a Wikipedia contributor to the NGN pages myself I would suggest that the anonymous entity causing these problems is most likely to be a plant from either Ofcom or BT (or both), who are attempting to suppress the truth. Interestingly I have not had any of my contributions removed. This is significant because until I edited these pages there was no proper coverage of revenue-generating call queuing and historical classification issues. I actually submitted the whole content for one or two pages when there was only a classification for the page commenced, and no page coverage whatsoever.

These facts are equally embarrassing to such entities, so it is surprising that they have not yet honed in on these to attack as well.
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Reply #34 - Jul 2nd, 2008 at 1:08am
 
Would there be any sense in adding an 0370 page on wikipedia? It would perhaps help some puzzled members of the public learn the difference between 0870 and 0370 as the BBC switches over. Right now, "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name".   Undecided
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