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> Institutions, companies and governments can't bother to edit from a VPN, or from a tethered cell phone?

IP addresses are masked if using a registered account. It would be interesting to cross-reference those except Wikipedia don't gave this out.

I do know I opted-out of Wikipedia after being censured for posting the birth date of a deceased individual. In violating of privacy policy or some such WP:bla bla bla. The terms of which are impossible for the average individual to decode. A fortnite later the information was inserted by some senior administrator. I guess all Wikipedians are equal, except some are more equal than others.

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I stopped editing when it became clear that all of my edits were immediately reverted. They were all simple grammar, spelling, or tense modifications. I assume the original authors had scripts in place to make sure there were no changes.

Someone should make a wikibot to make such small innocuous edits, in order to detect such rogue editors who consider themselves “owners” of certain pages (against policy, I might add). It would perhaps also be possible to find at least some of these by detecting these changes in the editing history in cases such as yours.

The trick is to post the proposed edit on the talk page first, then make it after a few days if nobody objects. If your edit is reverted, you can point out that the user didn't raise any concerns on talk. Reverts are very much supposed to be a last resort measure, the primary way of shaping a wiki article is via discussion/deliberation on the talk page. Also very handy for edits that you know to be controversial.

Wow, that's a thing. Would you care to link your user page.

Please let me know as well, either here or via DM. I can definitely look into this.

This was about 8 years ago, and all my edits were anonymous. They actually relate to this article because it was from an IP registered to a previous employer. Only a handful of people used that particular address, so when I looked at the history they were all mine. So I dont have anything to send, but If I had to guess I'd say it was less than 10 edits spread over 2 years, and all of the edits were less than 30 characters. I later learned about the talk page and the internal politics, and I decided it wasnt for me.

" I guess all Wikipedians are equal, except some are more equal than others."

Where did they say all are equal?

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