Lotfinia

This is to remind self since, I made newbie error and forgot to include the reason for my editing of the Prince Enst August of Hanvor. I did it because the article didn't include his male line descent claim to the line of succession to the British throne. It is this claim that requires his house to seek the British monarch’s permission to marry; not his female line descent.Lotfinia (talk) 11:30, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Prince Richard

Hiya. By established convention, it's "Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester" or just "The Duke of Gloucester" DBD 22:04, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you DBD Lotfinia (talk) 23:10, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Mistakes happen

Hi Excirial I am Lotfinia there is a problem you need to be aware of I believe. I have received another post from you explaining your changes to my edits but I didn’t make those edits in the first place. The first time you notified me was 2/21/13 regarding Meridian Mississippi and now about CoverGirl- 3/5/14. I dismissed the first one because I knew it was an error. I can assure you of the very few edits done by me none were on either topic since I limit my occasional edits to either the Ancient World and royalty edit. I understand goof ups and cross wires I just want you know we have been a victims of such events. I appreciate all the work and effort you and the other really active folks do for Wikipedia and myself, thank you. Respectfully Lotfinia Lotfinia (talk) 14:53, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi there Lotfinia,

The situation you describe must be one of the most asked questions on my talk page in regards to vandalism, so i figured it might be an idea to create a detailed explanation alongside a diagram to explain and illustrate this issue. The subject is fairly technical and I've only just made the text and the diagram - so i am actually quite curious what you think about it. (Is it understandable / to technical / to simple / to long / to short?)

Explanation

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If you connect to the internet your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will provide you with a so-called IP Address, an unique number that can identify your connection over the internet. This IP is both used to determine where you are, and who you are. Using the IP adress a website like Wikipedia can determine who asked it to do something - be it retrieving an article, be it editing a page or otherwise. If you are not logged into an account Wikipedia will only recognize you as an IP address. Once you are logged into an account it will recognize you as that user instead (Wikipedia will still know the IP address, but it knows it should address you as a specific user instead).

This is where the diagram to the right comes into play. Imagine we have two editors - one who is doing good work, and one who is just trying to vandalize pages. In this example both editors are not logged into an account and as of such their edits are only recognized as being made by their unique IP address. Like any other editors, IP addresses have talk pages that are used for communication towards them. If such an IP editor vandalizes, they will receive a warning that will be placed on their talk page.

This is where some technical stuff comes into play. While an IP Address is unique it only identifies a connection, and not a user. Most ISP's actually have what is called an Address pool, a large set of unique addresses that they can give to their users once they connect to the internet. In most cases an ISP will not give a subscriber the same address every time they connect to the internet. Instead it will look at its pool of addresses and determine which ones not in use yet, and give the subscriber one of these. Just compare it to a hotel: If you rent a room you will receive a random one, and the hotel will not keep your room reserved between your various stays.

Since IP addresses shift between various people it might occur that you may receive an IP address that was previously used by a vandal. If this occurs the talk page of that editor will still contain warning for previous acts of vandalism. So all of a sudden you might end up seeing a boatload of warnings for editors you never made in the first place. To emphasize this - the warnings you saw were targeted at this IP's talk page as opposed to your user accounts talk page. If you look at the contributions made by the IP address you will probably see several more editors that you never made.

There is actually quite a bit more technical stuff involved and the above explanation is a simplified version. Still i hope it explains what happened here, why the warning were there and why you see them even though you were not their target. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 20:04, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Old Kingdom (Egypt) Third Dynasty section hacked citation 5

== Old Kingdom (Egypt) Third Dynasty section hacked citation 5 == By an Afrocentric it is the only way the whole section reads and makes sense. The Dr. Dr. Susan J. Herlin is not affiliated as of this date with the Department of History at the University of Louisville in embedded link. Unable to find books referenced I did find a Susan J. Herlin with the last name Broadhead, in Amazon "Trade and Politics on the Congo Coast 1770-18701971" by Susan Herlin Broadhead. I determined the citations as published by this Dr. Herlin might be two separate works with the earliest period mentioned as the 15th century BCE and long after the 3rd Dynasty. Google refused as did Amazon to locate any work by the article's authority Dr. Susan J. Herlin. Lotfinia (talk) 18:46, 20 January 2017 (UTC)