Template:Welcome ISP

Welcome! Last edited: Last edited by: 20:25, 7 January 2025 (UTC) Primefac (talk · contribs) Interested in becoming a regular contributor to Wikipedia? Create an account! Your IP address, IP address, is registered to {{{1}}}, an Internet service provider through which multiple users may connect to the Internet via proxy, so you may receive messages on this page that were not intended for you. To have your own user pages, keep track of articles you've edited in a watchlist, and have access to a few other special features, please consider registering an account! It's fast and free. Review contributions carefully if blocking this IP address or reverting its contributions. If a block is needed, administrators should consider a soft block using Template:Anonblock. If you are autoblocked repeatedly, contact your Internet service provider or network administrator and request it contact Wikimedia's XFF project about enabling X-Forwarded-For HTTP headers on its proxy servers so that blocks will affect only the intended user. In response to vandalism from this IP address, abuse reports may be sent to its network administrator for investigation. Network administrators, to monitor this IP address for vandalism, can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

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Shortcut

• {{ISPTemplate:ISP}}

Usage

{{ISP|ISP name|host=Host Server}} ISP name is mandatory, host= name is optional.

Note: This page should not be substituted, but transcluded.

• Adds pages to Category:Shared IP addresses used by Wikipedia users.

Further information

Once an IP has been warned/blocked a few times, it is usually a good idea to add a header to the IP's talkpage, which identifies the WHOIS information. This info can be obtained by clicking on the "WHOIS" link in the talkpage footer, and reviewing the related information. Sometimes a domain may be identified at the top of the listing, or there may be other information in the fields labeled OrgName and (if available) CustName. Try to choose whatever seems to be the most specific information.

For example, if the OrgName is "AT&T Services", the CustName is "HumboldtCounty.gov", and the domain at the top is "mail.appletreeschools.com", then "Appletreeschools.com" is the most specific information.

Notes

• For specific examples on any of the above, click on the template name, and then from the template page click on "What links here" in the lefthand toolbox to get a list of pages which use that template
• Where possible, check to see if the organization has a Wikipedia article about it, and if so, link to it.
• Some ISPs may have their own templates, such as {{SingNet}}. For a complete list, see Category:Shared IP header templates

See also

• Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses
• Wikipedia:Sensitive IP addresses

• {{Shared IP advice}}
• {{Anonblock}}
• {{School block}}
• {{Proud of editing as an IP}} – humorous template advocating logging out

Category	Template	Notes
Educational institutions	{{Shared IP edu|<name>|<host>}}	Including schools, colleges and universities.
Public access points	{{Shared IP address (public)|<name>|<host>}}	Wifi hotspots, public computer terminals, etc.
Governmental source	{{Shared IP gov|<name>|<host>}}	Government sources, including departments and agencies at all levels.
Non-ISP businesses	{{Shared IP corp|<name>|<host>}}
Non-shared static IPs	{{Whois|<registration info>}}	Such as Spectrum Internet.
Shared static IPs	{{Static IP|<name>|<host>}}
ISP known to generate Dynamic IPs	{{Dynamic IP|organization|<name>|<host>}}	Such as AOL.
Mobile carrier	{{Mobile IP|<name>|<host>}}	Such as Telstra Mobile.
Internet service providers	{{ISP|<name>|<host>}}	Such as Cox Communications. The ISP's name will usually be obvious as to whether or not they are ISPs, or you may wish to search to see if there is a relevant Wikipedia article, and then read the information there to see how it is defined.
Colocation providers	{{SharedIPcolocation|<name>|<host>}}
Other type of non-ISP organization which may plausibly have shared IPs	{{Shared IP|<name>|<host>|<location>}}
Miscellaneous and other uses	{{whois|<registration info>}}
	Special cases
Private and Wikimedia Foundation IP addresses	{{WMF IP}}

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