User talk:24.168.66.27

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I have been on here a long time. Please take the time to familiarize yourself with SURREALISM, your contributions to SURREALISM and REVOLUTION are much needed Infrogmation. Surrealism wants you.24.168.66.27 20:42, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Infrogmation

I changed the letter size of the Factual Information in good faith to prove that I do co-operate in good faith! However,I will stand by this factual information!24.168.66.27 21:00, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Identity

(this text moved here from Talk:Surrealism, where it was offtopic.)

Sigg3, really that is your point of view. Keith is a surrealist and even though you find him to be far from interesting when discussing surrealism, it appears that the public recognized him to be a surrealist, considering the activity that he has been involved in with Surrealism 2003 and NowSurreal UK and The Hammond Gallery and his recognition as a surrealist by other surrealists and other artists as well. You need to do your research more extensively which you do not from what you wrote above. Also, it is not mandatory to have a user name and to log in, until that becomes a rule, then I will. The signature with four octets will suffice in good faith.24.168.66.27 20:10, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Seeing as how there are a sizable number of different IP addresses who contribute to surrealism-related articles, which have long been suspected of being the same person (see Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/24.168.92.117, which doesn't even include your latest 24.168 address, above), it would make matters much easier if you could make one account and stick with it. Your ambiguous use of different IP addresses constitute wikipedia:sock puppets in my opinion, and I ask you to please stop. Will you please confirm or deny that you are all of the other IP addresses listed on that old RfC? If you really are not (unlikely imho) then thats all the more reason to make an account. What are your reasons for not wanting to log in? ~leif 22:18, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This is Leif's exact words

"Your ambiguous use of different IP addresses constitute wikipedia:sock puppets in my opinion, and I ask you to please stop."

Leif, please apologize. You are already violating my rights here on Wikipedia by your false allegations and name calling. I only post from this IP,24.168.66.27 22:40, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC), and I ask that you please refrain from the above attacks. You are violating my rights of due process here on Wikipedia by writing the above statement. Leif, please apologize.24.168.66.27 22:40, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Note that I then said Will you please confirm or deny that you are all of the other IP addresses listed on that old RfC? If you really are not (unlikely imho) then thats all the more reason to make an account.

Thanks for at least denying it finally. If you truly are not the same person as those other addresses, something of which I am not convinced, then I apologize.

Regardless of that, I do not believe I have violated your rights in any way. I asked if you were the same as the other users who have made simmilar reverts from the same IP range as you. This is a reasonable question. ~leif 22:57, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Anon, no one is violating your rights. If you have a personal conflict with Leif, please take it to Leif's talk page. Let's keep this discussion about the article. Gamaliel 23:14, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Gamaliel, thank you, I have no conflict with the good gentlemen Leif. I thank you for your sincere and kind input. I would kindly ask of the good gentlemen Leif, to please be more respectful of those who post here on Wikipedia's surrealism article and also Keith Wigdor. He did admit in his own words to having bias against the surrealist Keith Wigdor. Thank You Gamaliel for your input and concern.24.168.66.27 23:21, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Clarification of Inconsistencies

24.168.66.27, You said here that you "only post from this IP,24.168.66.27" and said that I was "violating your rights" to suggest that you might be the same person as these other IP addresses.

Here you make reference to "past administrator JRosenweig (sic) success at successful agreement with the article"; I assume you mean Jwrosenzweig, who reverted wigdor-promotion posted by 24.168.92.117 before compromising on a version that did include Wigdor.

If you are not 24.168.92.117, and you just know about Jwrosenzweig's edits (from June) from reading the page history as I did, and it's just a coincidence that wikipedia editors in the 24.168 range all happen to be serious Wigdor fans, then I apologize again. However, I really do not believe that is the case.

Your IP, 24.168.66.27, first edited wikipedia on September 29, 2004, not long after the last post by 24.168.91.84 (Sep 26). Likewise, that IP first posted on Aug 13, not long after the last post by 24.168.95.76 (Aug 11). Likewise, that IP first posted on July 14, not long after the last post by 24.168.92.117 (July 5). Many people's cable or DSL modems hold DHCP leases for weeks at a time, which results in the appearance of semi-static IP addresses. Especially when one takes into account the content of the edits of these IP addresses, it seems quite likely that they are all the same person, and that said person's IP address changes periodically (either beyond their control, or when they intentionally get a new address by resetting their modem or router).

So, my question is, when you said that you "only post from this IP,24.168.66.27", were you being truthful (posting in "good faith" as you said you were earlier)? Do you expect us to accept all of the above as mere coincidences? I'm just trying to clear up some of the unnecesary confusion caused by your refusal to use a logged-in account. ~leif 10:40, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Leif, you are confusing me. Do you mean IP address or IP host address or do you mean that all four octets are consistent and change? You are really confusing me here with the computer detective work, but I know that you are really being sincere in your investigation into this matter. Who do you refer to when you state above, "Do you expect us to accept all of the above as mere coincidences"? Are you conducting an investigation for the wikipedia administrators and sysops? If so, are you doing this for the benefit of the information on the surrealism article and any information you can research on surrealism? Leif, it is not mandatory to create a logged in account. Leif, when I asked you if you read Andre Thirion's, "Revolution without Revolutionaries" why did you not answer? I would love to get your feedback on this matter and anything that you can find out that I do not know and then add it to the article. Leif, are you as aggressive in your investigations into Ip's as you are into surrealism? Leif, can you find some new information on Tropiques? or how about the Time magazine interview that Yves Tanguy gave in 1951, saying that, "Surrealism had ceased to exist in 1939"? Leif, can you find any info on Aime Cesaire and add it to the surrealism article?

When you say that you only post from 24.168.66.27, I assume you mean that you always post from the same always-connected computer. I believe that Leif is asserting that those two statements aren't necessarily equivalent, because your IP address can (evidently) change anyway. Maybe you could look at the edits that Leif is talking about and see if some of the edits from other IP addresses might actually be yours. Then, I believe, the whole issue of who is who would be settled. By the way, why do you post from an IP instead of a username? I'm just curious (not critical), 'cause I find it easier this way. Tim McCormack 02:36, 2004 Oct 12 (UTC)

Hello Tim. Thank you for your kind and generous input. I choose not to have a username because I find it easier this way. Please respect my decision to do so and I do thank you for your input. Tim, are you speaking for Leif when you state, "I believe that Leif is asserting that those two statements aren't necessarily equivalent, because your IP address can (evidently) change anyway."? Tim, can you please help with any information on the surrealist, Aime Cesaire? I can only find limited information and I want to add Cesaire's, "Poetry and Cognition" to the surrealism article. Tim, can you help?24.168.66.27 02:45, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I'm not speaking for Leif; I'm just saying that he appears to know more about always-on connections than I do, so I'm assuming that what he said specifically about DSL and IPs is true. I'm not actually siding with anyone, because I don't like being locked-in with a viewpoint that I may come to disagree with later! What I'm saying is, this argument is not necessarily zero-sum -- you might both be right. (I.e., you could have always used the same computer but been using different IP addresses without knowing it). Tim McCormack 18:32, 2004 Oct 12 (UTC) P.S. I don't know anything about surrealism besides that I like some pieces and don't like others :-)

Dear Tim, thank you for the clarification. I myself get confused over Ip's. I cannot tell the difference between what an Ip address is, as compared to an Ip host address. I guess that they do mean the same thing, I do not know. Tim, again, thank you for clarifying your input.24.168.66.27 02:25, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism

Your use of the word "vandalism" in your recent edit summaries on Surrealism is inaccurate. It is not vandalism for me to remove text that has been voted for removal. If you need a more "official" poll, I told you, you're welcome to create one and I will vote in it. Until then the 5-1 vote to not mention Keith Wigdor in the article will stand. You have been reverting the Surrealism article to promote Wigdor for many months, and I think you should probably be hard-blocked if you continue. Please stop. ~leif 22:29, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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