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. (Note that there is a simple way to "reclaim" such an inadvertently anonymous edit, provided you act straight away: While still logged out, revert to the version in the history immediately before the edit. Then log in and re-revert to the version after the edit, re-entering your original edit summary.)

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 suda
Get the script from ~tstarling/attribute.php
Delete attribute.log and attribute.sql if they are there from a previous run
Run it with something like php attribute.php en 216.103.211.240 "Daniel Quinlan". This will append a log entry to attribute.log, and some SQL statements to attribute.sql
If necessary, review the log, and delete any unnecessary SQL statements.
Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each person
Send the SQL file into the mysql client
Copy the log to the wiki

Foreign requests

On fr contributions of 81.220.100.104 should be assigned to w:fr:Utilisateur:Hashar unless the comment contain HasharBot (regex anyone?) those one should be assigned to w:fr:Utilisateur:HasharBot

List : 81.220.100.104's contributions

Proof : HasharBot mentionned in the comments

Current ip: 81.220.102.177

Hashar 09:07, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The initial version of Geometria algebrica it.wiki was done by me Schopenhauer 22:55, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

confirmation 129.199.224.113 23:22, 18 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)

Talthen, can you please edit this page with that IP address, when you are logged out? I need to confirm that you really do own those edits. -- Tim Starling 03:18, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

Could you please change 62.212.100.184 (ip fix) to me, Okki http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Okki (french wikipedia)

For this commit : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Campbell

Thanks in advance

Hi, I forgot to login when I wrote articles about the city of Miskolc in both the English and the Hungarian versions of Wikipedia. My IP is 80.98.130.75 Can you please change this IP to my name Alensha? Thanx

Confirming: Alensha is me. 80.98.130.75

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)

Hello, following changes were made by me --80.95.106.161 13:53, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

   * 13:39, 26 Feb 2004 LanguageSk.php (Pridane premenne z Language.php a languageSk.php, preklad. caka na doriesenie open points a mail.) (top)
   * 13:24, 25 Feb 2004 Talk:LanguageSk.php (Otvorené body) (top)
   * 11:38, 16 Feb 2004 The provisional portal of Wikipedia (Slovensko (Slovac republic) changet to correct Slovinsko (Slovinia))

Could you please change those edits to me - Valasek 13:57, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)? Thank you!

Local requests

Please place new requests at the top

I edited the list of arcade games entry, as shown in this diff report: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=List_of_arcade_games&diff=2837494&oldid=2837170 ,whilst logged out. My name is User:Silverfish, so could you attribute the above edit to me. 217.17.112.144

Confirming - 217.17.112.144 is me Silverfish 01:13, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

hi.

that was me. Taak 03:23, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

(moved request from the bottom to the top were it is supposed to be-- chris_73 08:27, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC))

I was doing some edits before I got an username. For some reasons they are distributed on two different IP adresses (last digit differs). Is it possible to attribute both to me? The IP's are 133.240.96.4 and 133.240.96.2. Thanks -- chris_73 00:36, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

133.240.96.4 : (17:20, 20 Oct 2003 Wikipedia:TPS, 17:17, 20 Oct 2003 Toyota Production System, 17:37, 17 Oct 2003 Toyota Production System, 12:45, 17 Oct 2003 100-yen shop, 11:27, 17 Oct 2003 100-yen shop)
133.240.96.2 : (17:18, 20 Oct 2003 Just in time, 17:17, 20 Oct 2003 Toyota Production System, 17:13, 20 Oct 2003 Toyota Production System, 17:37, 17 Oct 2003 Toyota Production System, 17:22, 17 Oct 2003 Toyota, 11:26, 17 Oct 2003 100-yen shop)

and here I am again: -- 133.240.96.4 00:38, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

and here again with the second IP adress -- 133.240.96.2 02:36, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Please change User: 209.234.96.194 in Scottish Gaelic language to User: Eoghan. Thanks.

It's me again.

I contributed for some time as User: 68.116.64.92. Please change all the attributions for that IP, to my username, Academic Challenger. Academic Challenger 04:37, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Academic Challenger, please confirm that you have access to that IP by editing when logged out. -- Tim Starling 03:18, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure if I have the same IP now, but I hope this helps. 68.189.40.197

Some old edits as 66.58.166.118 to my current username, User:Merovingian. Thanks! --Monsieur Mero 11:34, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

Mero, can you please edit this page when logged out, from that address? -- Tim Starling 03:18, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

Alterations to 'Skat' were done by me: Dcutter; My IP at the time was 194.76.232.147.

Dcutter, can you edit this page logged out, using that IP address? -- Tim Starling 03:18, Mar 14, 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.

Merlante, I can only reattribute the edits from 149.157.140.51, unless you can also edit this page from your DSL connection. -- Tim Starling 03:18, Mar 14, 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!

Fleminra, can you please edit the page when logged out, as specified by the procedure at the top of this page? -- Tim Starling 04:03, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

edit as 158.184.164.39

edit as 67.161.35.104

Can you please assign all edits at [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8] to my user name, they are all edits I did before signing up for a username. Thank you. -- Graham :) 14:13, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure about this one. You haven't edited the page when logged out, and the edits come from a very wide range of IP addresses. -- Tim Starling 04:03, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

Hello, yes. All edits (three or so in total) originating from 217.151.174.205 were done by me, Smári McCarthy.

Smári, you need to edit this page when logged out. -- Tim Starling 04:03, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

63.245.38.33 to User:Maio (cookies security preferences log me off sometimes). --Maio 15:49, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

Please edit this page when logged off, as specified by the procedure above. -- Tim Starling 04:03, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

My IP adress: 130.79.154.227 Please change it to: Kpalion 20:20, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

There are no edits attributed to that address, other than the one made to this page. -- Tim Starling 09:06, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

I keep finding that I get logged out by taking too long to edit new articles.

User: 80.4.5.165 should be — Solipsist

Solipsist, can you please confirm the request when logged in? -- Tim Starling 04:03, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

No problem - I hearby confirm.... (sorry I didn't get the instructions at the head of the page and deliberately logged out last time) Solipsist 09:10, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi... Is there a way to *remove* attributions for edits? I recently put up a list of articles I'd contributed under my IP addresses, and had the edits changed over to my username (thank you!) but also added were a whole load of other things I never did. The following were *not* by me:

13:52, 13 Mar 2004 User talk:Simonp (top)
13:52, 13 Mar 2004 User:Simonp (top)
13:51, 13 Mar 2004 User talk:Simonmpalgrave (top)
13:51, 13 Mar 2004 User:Simonmpalgrave (top)
00:22, 11 Mar 2004 Non-shivering thermogenesis
00:19, 11 Mar 2004 Thermogenesis (Thermogenesis is the process of heat production.)
16:17, 10 Mar 2004 Elf (Added a pointer to the entry on otherkin.) (top)
15:56, 10 Mar 2004 World Trade Center site (top)
15:43, 10 Mar 2004 Discworld
18:29, 4 Mar 2004 Space elevator (typos & addition of "political will")
17:34, 4 Mar 2004 Tether propulsion (a little re-wording.) (top)
19:56, 3 Mar 2004 Low Earth orbit (typos) (top)
19:37, 3 Mar 2004 Wikipedia:Votes for deletion
19:34, 3 Mar 2004 Wikipedia:Votes for deletion (added GEO orbit)
19:23, 3 Mar 2004 Orbit
20:54, 2 Mar 2004 Von Neumann probe (Created article)
01:03, 2 Mar 2004 March 2 (removed link to second 2003)
03:31, 27 Feb 2004 Otago Highlanders
16:52, 21 Feb 2004 Geography of the Faroe Islands (Slaettaratindur is not 882 miles above sea level)
22:11, 14 Feb 2004 Wikipedia:Sandbox (dude)
22:17, 10 Feb 2004 Oprichnik
01:24, 9 Feb 2004 La Plagne
00:43, 9 Feb 2004 Satire
17:07, 6 Feb 2004 Rugby Fives (Added 'Rugby Fives Association' link) (top)
13:51, 16 Jan 2004 Kaaba

Sorry to be a pain. Fosse8 17:06, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Please change all my edits done as 67.120.208.74 to my account Ryjaz. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Confirm, please change! (hopefully my ip hasn't been changed since i made those changes as i use sbc yahoo and it is a dynamic ip address)

Would it be possible to change 12.233.149.168 and 206.65.37.136 to Tualha? The first is an old IP address at home which I'll probably never get again; they seem to use new ranges now. The second is from where I was working at the time, and I probably won't be back there either.

Evidence that these are the same person:

They started about the same time (November 2-3).
They worked on several of the same pages at approximately the same time: Joshua A. Norton, Monomial, Probability theory, Homosexuality in China, Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

Evidence that they're me:

They both stopped about the same time Tualha started (November 11).
Tualha and 12.233.149.168 both wrote in Talk:Pregnancy and Talk:Audrey Tautou. The Tautou edits in particular look like the same person.
Tualha and 12.233.149.168 are both interested in articles on queer issues and people.

Please note that 206.65.37.136 made an edit to the sandbox on March 11 - that one is not me.

Thanks, Tualha 02:17, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Please change 209.249.163.62 to Chrisdolan --209.249.163.62 15:16, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Confirm --Chris Dolan 15:18, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)