Wikipedia:Historical archive/Changing attribution for an edit

Template:Communitypage It is possible for a developer to alter the database such that an edit which was attributed to an anonymous IP address is attributed to a username. This is usually requested because either:

An editor contributes anonymously for a while, and then creates a username and wants their previous edits attributed to their new name; or
A user accidentally logged out before making an edit

If a user changes from one username to another and wishes all their old edits to be attributed to the new name, see Wikipedia:Changing username.

If you wish to change the attribution of an edit in this way, place a request below using the same IP address as you used to make the edit. This is so that we can be sure the IP address was really the user in question. In some cases, an IP address from the same dial-up ISP will be sufficient. Also include the target username, and a link to the diff.

Developers reserve the right to deny requests if they feel that there is any reason to doubt the identity of the contributor.

Procedure

Get on the same computer you were on when you made the edit
Log out
Make your request by editing this page
Log in
Confirm the request by editing this page again

Instructions for developers

Log on to pliny
Get the script from ~tstarling/attribute.php
Run it with something like php attribute.php en 216.103.211.240 "Daniel Quinlan"
cat attribute.log and copy it to the wiki log page
Review the log for sanity
Comment out or delete entries in attribute.sql if necessary
Run sql-wikipedia en < attribute.sql (or some other database)

Pending requests

Place new requests below

All the changes by 193.220.224.11 on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Martyrs%27_Day were made by me (Somesh). Could you please assign them to me.

Confirming 193.220.224.11. Somesh.

24.65.177.33 (but you can call me 24) requests reattribution of "Depressant" to Denni

Yep, that'd be me. Denni 01:05, 2004 Feb 17 (UTC)

64.81.198.166 changes from were me... Taco 20:01, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC) confirming: 64.81.198.166 20:02, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

All the changes by 130.75.152.72, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=130.75.152.72, were made by me, Spike. Could you please assign them to me?

Confirming. Thanks. Spike 09:43, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I have made a few pages while I wasn't registered. They are here: http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Specjalna:Contributions&target=217.96.218.49 Could they be assigned to Talthen2? And one more thing- why I had to register in PL when I was already registered in EN version of Wiki?

Thanx, Talthen (EN)/ Talthen2 (PL)

Please reassign the following edits, all dated 7-Feb-2004, from 209.226.75.77 to erics:

   Talal of Jordan
   Space Ritual [2 edits]
   IG Farben
   Mustard Gas

Thanks.

Confirming request for reassignment from 209.226.75.77 to erics.

Pizzicato Five discussion page

. . 08:06, 5 Feb 2004 . . 211.14.201.26
. . 08:05, 5 Feb 2004 . . 211.14.201.26

Confirming. Thanks.

Could you assign the following to me [sj]? +sj+ 06:05, 2004 Feb 5 (UTC)

Mathematician:

 . . 21:27, 2004 Feb 4 . . 140.247.31.102 (notes about great mental calculators) 
 . . 21:26, 2004 Feb 4 . . 140.247.31.102 
 N Hans Eberstark:  21:38, 2004 Feb 4 . . 140.247.31.102

[oops... just realized I switched computers since dinner; will try to post again from the 140.... addr tomorrow]

Circumflex:

 . . 00:57, 2004 Feb 5 . . 24.128.27.113

And these: +sj+ 08:07, 2004 Feb 5 (UTC) (*!#&*%!% cookie cache issues) Thanks.

Tim Girvin:

. . 03:04, 2004 Feb 5 . . 24.128.27.113 
. . 03:02, 2004 Feb 5 . . 24.128.27.113 
. . 03:00, 2004 Feb 5 . . 24.128.27.113 
. . 02:54, 2004 Feb 5 . . 24.128.27.113 
. . 02:51, 2004 Feb 5 . . 24.128.27.113

Super Bowl XXXVIII:

. . 22:36, 2004 Feb 5 . . 24.128.27.113 
. . 22:35, 2004 Feb 5 . . 24.128.27.113 (score totals)

[Peace locations]:

. . 01:34, 2004 Feb 6 . . 24.128.27.113 (further north-am listings) 
. . 01:32, 2004 Feb 6 . . 24.128.27.113

thanks! (confirming ident again, for good measure 24.128.27.113 06:37, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC))

Could I have the following edits assigned to me: merlante? Waterford City (Waterford_City)

194.125.53.183 23:54, 2 Feb 2004 . . 194.125.53.183 23:44, 2 Feb 2004 . . 194.125.53.183 21:49, 2 Feb 2004 . . 194.125.53.183

149.157.140.51 14:21, 3 Feb 2004 . . 149.157.140.51 14:19, 3 Feb 2004 . . 149.157.140.51 14:00, 3 Feb 2004 . . 149.157.140.51

I can confirm for 149.157.140.51, but perhaps not for 194.125.53.183 which is a dynamic IP on my home dsl connection.

Ooops! Forgot to log out there, well here I am again, please do the above updates.

Confirmed.

Can I have these three edits by 62.3.65.154 assigned to me (fabiform | talk 12:28, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)) please (but not earlier ones, flatmate). Cheers. :) fabiform | talk

02:47, 31 Jan 2004 False friend (added lots of french: abbé, adepte, administré, ado, affluent, agencé, agent, ail, aimer, aire, alerte, allure, alto, ananas, ânon, etc etc) (top)
23:21, 10 Jan 2004 Talk:Dunblane Massacre
12:36, 9 Jan 2004 Julia Quinn (Reorganised and updated book list, added link to official JQ website, specified she is a "historical romance" author)

Confirming I'm fabiform/62.3.65.154. 62.3.65.154 12:31, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks in advance.

MMBKG: Did an edit on 22:47, 28 Jan 2004 using the IP address 67.86.115.126. 67.86.115.126: Please put this post to MMBKG

In concept album.

Did one edit from 82.224.28.96 on December 4... --JidGom 00:17, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Confirming now that I'm unlogged --82.224.28.96 00:18, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Steve_Casburn edited this page earlier this week while using IP address 206.224.66.78 (I use a dial-up ISP, so I might not be posting now from the same IP address).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1920

Thanks for considering this request!

Hello. I have 9 edits from 161.53.106.5 between Jan 18 and Jan 19, please assign. Thanks in advance. Ike 22:59, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)

Confirming this now that I'm logged out.

I edited the following pages on 23 December, 2003, using the IP 4.41.242.18 17:45, 23 Dec 2003 Mabinogion

17:40, 23 Dec 2003 Welsh language

17:36, 23 Dec 2003 Battle of Maldon (top)

17:33, 23 Dec 2003 Battle of Maldon

17:31, 23 Dec 2003 Old English poetry (top)

Could they please be associated with DigitalMedievalist 22:07, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC) ? Thanks Lisa

Please edit this page when logged out. See the procedure above. -- Tim Starling 12:29, Jan 22, 2004 (UTC)

This is great. I made one change to the AS/400 page as 63.193.46.19 and my new login ID is Peterklevy. Thanks, Peterklevy 04:11, Jan 11, 2004 (UTC)

Please edit this page when logged out. See the procedure above. -- Tim Starling 12:29, Jan 22, 2004 (UTC)

I, User:Psychonaut, edited the article on Saskatchewan on 10:34, 28 May 2003 from IP 80.244.97.71, before I had registered.

And here is my confirmation, now that I'm logged in...

Psychonaut, I'm afraid the IP address used for Saskatchewan (gprs21.vodafone.hu) doesn't match the address you just used to make this request (dfki-2002.dfki.uni-kl.de). Do you still have access to the former ISP? -- Tim Starling 12:29, Jan 22, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't. I moved from Budapest to Kaiserslautern in August, so I no longer have access to the old Hungarian ISP. --Psychonaut Thu Jan 29 10:26:36 CET 2004

So, like, will I ever get this attribution changed? If it helps at all to prove that it's really me, you can observe my expertise on things Saskatchewanian in my recently-published articles on Colin and Ross Thatcher. How many other Wikipedians using a Hungarian host are likely to have corrected an obscure error in an article on an obscure Canadian province? :) —Psychonaut 22:19, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:66.92.237.227 is now User:Marnanel. Only page I'd edited was Emack and Bolio's.

Please edit this page when logged out. See the procedure above. -- Tim Starling 12:29, Jan 22, 2004 (UTC)

I ( Imma ) am requesting for older edits to be under this name instead of my IP ( [199.35.143.208] ). Thank you.

On the Dutch Wikipedia, user Inge Habex would like to get her previous anonymous edits as 134.184.247.9 to be moved to her username. Andre Engels 13:10, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

hereby i hope you can verify my identity 134.184.247.9 13:20, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

second verification being logged in Inge Habex 13:23, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

When will the contributions I made on the Dutch Wikipedia before I was registrated be added to my username? Inge Habex 18:26, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I have several edits from 81.86.157.65 can these be attributed to me: Washington Irving

Pages edited: Catford, Hutton Inquiry, Andrew Gilligan, Alastair Campbell.

Thanks.

81.86.157.65 20:10, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC): logged out. Washington irving 20:11, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC): logged in again

Created this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhul-Kifl

Confirming.

Changezi

All edits from this IP 141.219.155.83 21:35, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC) (work computer), should be directed to Ionized 21:38, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)

Also, all edits from this IP 24.236.185.227 22:00, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC) (home computer), should be directed to Ionized 21:57, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you very much.

Forgot to mention: Plasma cosmology, Talk:Plasma cosmology, Non-standard cosmology, Talk:Non-standard cosmology, Cosmic background radiation, Steady state theory and various related articles MAY have edits by my ip addresses. Thanks again -Ionized 17:22, Feb 3, 2004 (UTC)

Strange. I requested edit changes on the previous page, that edits fromUser:66.153.56.194 be directed to me, and it looked like the request was taken care of, as that IP address is indeed a red link on that page (and this one), but at Talk:Technological escalation, my first edit is still listed as User:66.153.56.194 as a valid link ... and if you click on it there are many edits listed. Thanks - Tempshill 20:19, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I requested on 6 Jan 2004, 05:47, for the contribs of 131.111.193.146 to be merged into my username. On 22 Jan 2004, 13:06, Tim Starling removed this request with the edit summary "(moved completed requests)". However, my request has not been considered. I am herewith requesting again. -- Timwi 21:28, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

This is a pretty old request, but I've used the following ips to edit in the past: 63.162.72.111, 63.162.73.137 Thanks in advance, Sarge Baldy 22:45, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, please change attributions of address 202.7.64.88 to my username Zigger
-- 202.7.64.88 17:36, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
(confirming)
-- zig 17:39, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Browser froze and I had to restart it; forgot to log in again. I changed a couple of things related to Mare Island, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and Vallejo, California--don't remember what all. 64.166.86.19 03:47, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) ... Thanks. Elf 03:48, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Please reassign the edit of Zeppelin by 137.226.20.209 11:49, 10 Feb 2004 to J.Rohrer. Thanks in advance. -- 137.226.20.209 11:53, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Confirming -- J.Rohrer 11:54, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Please reassign the edits of 80.90.160.162 : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=80.90.160.162

To the user Isam .. those were from the period before creating the account.. Thank you in advance.. (PS, My IP Change every 2 days, but so I have now another one. but both are given to me from the same ISP)

Confirming -- Isam 17:03, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I would appreciate it if all my edits from user:greenmountainboy, User:alexandros, and user:sennheiser would be merged into the user AlexPlank. Thank you. Alexandros 13:51, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

All 67.161.35.104 edits -> Fleminra please. Thanks!

All 158.184.164.39 edits -> Fleminra please (also). Thanks!

All edits by 63.105.21.223 were by me, Matt Gies. Please merge them into my current username. (confirming this logged in as me

Edits by 24.78.104.220 were done by User:GHoppe. Please Merge. (confirming)

Edits by 82.39.129.86 were done by MPF. Please merge.

(Today's) edits by 213.84.26.127 were done by (forgot to log in) Hankwang 22:15, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC). See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=213.84.26.127