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Italian IP-hopper removing details regarding celebrities' deaths

This has been going on for a long time from several IPs in Italy; I just reverted another of their edits. I reported them to AIV last month but one responding admin requested more details then a second responding admin thought I was requesting a rangeblock. Can anything be done about this? Some of the involved IPs:

151.19.58.228
151.57.143.115
151.35.164.166
151.37.208.134
151.37.140.41
151.47.227.167
151.37.133.229
151.37.130.52
151.57.9.61
151.47.19.185
151.37.230.153
151.57.154.248
151.19.154.35
151.46.183.124
151.43.217.155

  –Skywatcher68 (talk) 23:34, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi Skywatcher68, the large range could be made one of the conditions of an edit filter (WP:EFR). I have blocked the most recently used address for now, but a filter could prevent the edits or allow them to be found more quickly/easily. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 08:25, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Given that this has been going on for over a year, I followed the suggestion regarding LTA edits and sent an email.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 21:00, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Advice on disruptive editor

Hi! I wanted to ask your advice on how to handle 150.195.180.35 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). For over a year, this editor has been making the same edits to one particular article (List of Rolie Polie Olie episodes). All their edits involved changing the OriginalAirDate parameter in an {{Episode list}} template to add a date for a second country. My reading of the documentation for this template is that this is incorrect; this parameter should have only one date in it, the date of it's actual first airing. Several editors (mostly me but also others) have reverted these edits and I have added quite a few warnings on their talk page, but they have not responded and continue to persistently make these changes every few weeks or so (lately more frequently). I have also explained my reversions in each of my edit summaries but the editor has never used an edit summary.

This is a pretty minor point and I don't think it rises to the level of vandalism, so I don't think it's proper to bring it to AIV or ANI, and they are not breaking 3RR so AN3 isn't appropriate either. Is there a place that would be appropriate to discuss this? Or perhaps I am in the wrong and should just drop this? Thanks for any advice or help that you can offer. CodeTalker (talk) 01:36, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

You're correct about such MOS violations, which MOS I'm not sure, not rising to the level of vandalism but an admin such as ToBeFree could place a partial block on the IP to keep them from editing that list of episodes. Misplaced Pages does not list rebroadcasts of episodes or made-for-TV movies and broadcasts of theatrical movies appear to be only in special circumstances, such as The Wizard of Oz   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 14:28, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi CodeTalker, thank you very much for the notification! Skywatcher68 is right about partial blocks; I went ahead and placed a full {{anonblock}} for a year because I'd like to see rather an unblock request than this continuing in other articles. It is edit warring, even if it doesn't violate any short-term restrictions on the number of reverts. You can report such long-term edit wars at WP:ANEW too, but I've seen reports unnecessarily declined for a lack of 3RR violations too often to be able to say you should have done so. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:27, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the help! CodeTalker (talk) 21:54, 10 January 2025 (UTC)