217.43.205.227

April 2018

Do not use multiple IP addresses to vandalize Wikipedia, like you did at Hugh McDonald (American musician). Such attempts to avoid detection or circumvent the blocking policy will not succeed. You are welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia but your recent edits have been reverted or removed. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Long-term abuse from Kent IPs, block evasion by Special:Contributions/86.144.111.198 and Special:Contributions/86.161.225.64. Binksternet (talk) 13:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Alphabetizing

If you're the same person who's been de-alphabetizing R.E.M. articles for the past two years or so... why? It's a waste of time and I'll just always revert it. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:56, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

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Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:11, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

• @Binksternet: and @Koavf: Looking at this anon's contributions—many small, unexplained changes that violate WP:V, MOS:LINKING and other guidelines and manuals of style—I have to agree with your comments above. Would one of you like to take this long-term offender to ANI or should I? Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:20, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for taking him to ANI while I was busy offline. Binksternet (talk) 18:50, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

@Walter Gorlitz: Thanks. If anyone needs, I can trawl thru a bunch of old talk page edits across multiple IPs saying the same thing. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:24, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

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