Template talk:IPvandal

message: Someone should've made this a long time ago. Nice! Snoutwood (talk) 00:09, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Do you have a better link? ARIN isn't useful because it's North America only, and more than half of our users come from Europe, Oceania, South America, Asia, and even a few from Africa. If we're worried about the non-tech-savvy, how will they possibly know to go to RIPE or wherever else? If you have a better WHOIS site than Sam Spade, though, I'm certainly open. Snoutwood (talk) 05:29, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to be working perfectly well, the only issue I *might* have is that they seem to have a lot of server downtime--{anon iso − 8859 − 1janitor} 12:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wicked! 

message: I feel like calling this "IPvandal" insteald of "IPinfo" or something is disingenuous. Not all IPs are vandals (indeed, most are not), but sometimes it is useful to have such information for them too. - Che Nuevara 18:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If it were a non-vandal template, it shouldn't have the Special:Blockip link. I'd be happy to have a non-vandal version, but due to that (and to some extent the block log link, a bad-faith sort of link) I would think that it would be best in a different, modified, template. Snoutwood 19:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Point taken; I've used this template at an RfAr because I thought it would be useful to have the WHOIS etc., but I would support a new version without the block links. - Che Nuevara 06:13, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See also --172.152.30.67 20:56, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  necessarily vandal? 

message: why is a template that's never been vandalized sprotected? hmm?--172.152.30.67 20:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know. In fact, I don't think it's right to have high risk templates semi-protected. TobytheTramEngine 15:54, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  protection? 

message: I found an IP that has been a vandal and I would like to use this to report them, but I don't know how. Can I have some instructions? Thanks. Psu256 (talk) 14:28, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You fill out the template, then place it on WP:AIV so that the vandalism can be brought to the attention of administrators.--VectorPotentialTalk 15:13, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: so how do I use this?

message: Hello - I saw the IP Vandal Template when I edited at page:
    Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page:
    Template:IPvandal (view source) (semi-protected)
But when I used it above - a lot of the links are red (ip address and talk), show up empty (contributions) or don't work (http, RDNS). Someone should fix the template. 99.150.255.75 (talk) 02:27, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Not working correctly?

message: I don't want to muck this up but could someone switch the link here from dnstuff to the toolserver?  The ip talk and related pages already use that method. Kwsn (Ni!) 14:52, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: . -- Luk talk 16:31, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could someone update the WHOIS link? 

message: Maybe a bit pedantic, but could the separator dot please be changed to ·? The display at WP:AIV looks a mess, because this template uses a huge bullet, and  uses a tiny dot. The suggested code is a compromise. — This, that, and the other (talk) 10:08, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I used  (which is currently equivalent to ·) to match templates such as . Anomie⚔ 00:12, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like you removed the filter log in the process ... was that intentional, or an accidental omission? --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:47, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I didn't remove anything: this is all I did. Anomie⚔ 19:15, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I see now, sorry about that.  It looks like it was removed by Luk in  (look like it was related to the thread above this one).  I'll bring it up on their user talk page. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 19:32, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, I screwed up there! -- Luk talk 22:15, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separator character 

message: *
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Update preformed as some tools dont work for IPV6. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 01:47, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPV6 update 

message: This tag flips out if you leave a space around the IP number:
normal tag:
with leading space:
trailing space:
Since IP numbers are typically cut and pasted this happens frequently, at least to me. It can't be that hard to fix this (the regular wiki double bracket article links ignore leading and trailing spaces). Thanks. Hairhorn (talk) 13:01, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small fix needed 

message: WHOIS no longer works and I don't see it was migrated, so I suggest using robtex, like we do for RBLs. Please change:
(in the IPV6 section)
:|5=WHOIS
to
:|5=WHOIS
and
(in the IPV4 section)
:|6=WHOIS
to
:|6=WHOIS
—[AlanM1(talk)]— 14:15, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Note that the following templates also call the same defunct overlordq whois script: , , , ,  and are likely candidates for the same change. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 14:27, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

text: Question: Wouldn't it be better to use toollabs:whois? —  (e • t • c) 14:37, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The json output is not particularly user-friendly and I don't see a way to change that. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 12:06, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: (clarifying) I mean it's not obvious how to change it. I haven't looked at the code. I've used robtex myself for a while, and we use it for the RBL link, so it seems a reasonable solution. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 13:54, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably better if we can get this code added to Template:User-multi and then convert this template. Then we won't have to update multiple templates when the code changes. I've posted a request on the template talk page. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:08, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it's been added over there. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 17:52, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

text: * As this affects my ACC work in some cases, I oppose using an external whois lookup when we have our own on tools.wmflabs.org —  (e • t • c) 18:32, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Where? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 18:40, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Doh! I forgot about the above (and then wacked this edit – time for a break :( ). What about the less-than-ideal json output format? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 18:43, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

text: So, meanwhile, we still have broken whois functionality on a bunch of pages. Until a decision can be made on which of the other missing functions to implement and where, can we just get whois working again with the edits requested above? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 13:33, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the broken links, so we now do not have broken links.  Once this discussion ends up with a decision, a working link can be re-added. — xaosflux Talk 03:52, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

text: Two more have now been added here. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:50, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool. Thanks. I've updated the sandbox —[AlanM1(talk)]— 15:03, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

text: I've also updated or verified the other templates that called toolserver's whois:  (pending copy from sandbox), , , , . —[AlanM1(talk)]— 17:21, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 8 July 2014 

message: Please surround the user fields with . Thanks. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 00:06, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: IPs cannot be pinged. — JJMC89 (T·C) 00:13, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 27 September 2017 

message: It's quite annoying to get the "failed ping" notification every time I AIV an IP user. I'm not sure what the best fix here is:  would work, but losing the redlink is annoying; we could also do what pretty much everything else does with IPs and just link to contribs. Gaelan 💬✏️ 06:27, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I came here to post the same thing as , though I don't see losing the red link as a significant problem. Would it be possible to change this template to behave as  does, avoiding the notification system, by making external links with code like username instead of wikilinks like Username? BlackcurrantTea (talk) 21:21, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. Please reactivate this template when you have figured out what you want. Thanks. Feel free to make changes to the template's sandbox. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:34, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prevent ping notifications 

message: The "deleted contribs" and "block user" links should be hidden under sysop-show, as they are on , because only admins can access them. Username6892 18:27, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: this uses the meta-template  so you may need to make your request there instead — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:54, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 7 September 2020 

message: Template:IPvandal has been listed at Templates for discussion (nomination), but it was protected, so it could not be tagged. Please add:

to the top of the page to complete the nomination. Thank you. Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis ❄️ 13:31, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: . P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'r there 11:51, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request to complete TfD nomination 

message: Description of suggested change: This template needs to be merged into  per the outcome of the TfM. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:21, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 26 October 2022