Template:Whois

	Welcome to Wikipedia, unregistered user! Please note the following:
	This IP address, Whois, is registered to {{{1}}}. If too many disruptive changes are made using this address, {{{1}}} may be contacted to report abuse. Information can be found in the WHOIS report.
	If you are using this address, note that it is possible for the owner of the IP, {{{1}}}, to find out who was making changes using this address at any time.
	If you own this address and you are responding to reports of disruptive changes, you may find the change history and block log for this address helpful. Please feel free to contact any admin who has blocked this address with questions (blocking admins will be listed in the block log).

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This template can be transcluded onto the user talk page of any IP address. It provides information about the origin and use of the IP address. To prevent excessive clutter on the user talk page and to make future changes easier, please do not subst: this template. Please do not use this template on the talk pages of evidently good-faith constructive IP users, since its wording could be misunderstood as implying the IP's edits are problematic.

Restoration of this template is not exempt from the edit warring policy, and editors who repeatedly restore it may be blocked to prevent further disruption.

Usage

{{Whois|name of institution}}

Note that unlike many similar templates of this type, Whois does not currently support the host= parameter.

Related pages

• {{SharedIP}} is the standard version
• {{SchoolIP}} is a version for use with educational establishments
• {{SharedIPCORP}} is a version for use with IP addresses registered to a company or business