https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56252

--- Comment #6 from Tim Starling <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> I'm afraid of administrators going overboard and blocking an ISP for one
> user.

I'm sure it happens sometimes. The first range block was for a single person --
the block of Bell Canada in the whole of Nova Scotia:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_archive_2004-09-26&diff=prev&oldid=2063547>

I still believe that it was the right move for the community at that time --
the block was effective, Hubley left, and we kept some valuable admins who we
might otherwise have lost due to burnout.

Now that we have IP block exemptions and anon-only blocks, blocks of large
ranges are pretty common. There is already a block of a /29 IPv6 range on the
English Wikipedia:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=&page=User%3A2A00%3AF48%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%2F29>

Anyway, the point is, the community has some experience in administering this
kind of block, they are not as naive as you think.

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