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[edit] IP addresses

  • Microkini keeps being changed by a person whose IP is 68.5.145.178, seemingly for promotional purposes. I hope my report is appropriate. If any administrator wishes to contact me for more information, I'll be glad to help. Elp gr 10:06, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Asian fetish Vandal: A vandal coming from a range of IP addresses (from dial-ins to a German ISP) listed below has been vandalizing Asian fetish, Racial fetishism, Anti-relativity, Arudou_Debito and other pages with anti-Semitic and racist tracts since January 14. The vandalism has resulted in several cases of these pages needing to be semi-protected. None of these IP addresses have been used to make other unrelated edits. All together, this user has probably made several hundred vandalism edits (of mostly the same material), all of which has needed to be reverted. The network that describes this address range is: 80.138.128.0/18 (i.e. a netmask of 255.255.192.0). More information is listed hereUser:Gnetwerker/My_Notes/Asian_fetish_vandal -- Gnetwerker 21:38, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
    • I've removed the list of IPs as they are available via the link given above, and not sure what can be done against them as they are non-static. Petros471 18:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
      • I suggested a range block, but don't know what (else) needs to be done to justify that. -- Gnetwerker 19:43, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
        I've range-blocked the vandal for a week. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 12:04, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
      • Mel's block was undone on the basis that it was too broad (fact, not comment). However, this vandal continues to vandalize 1-4 pages per day, every day. The latest here: [1] [2] [3]. -- Gnetwerker 01:11, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
        • This alert has been archived, since there is nothing administrators can do without causing unacceptable collateral damage. The user who filed the alert was advised to see WP:VIP/LTA. // Pathoschild (admin / talk) 16:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • 71.99.95.107 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) (formerly 70.121.24.213 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) ) Continually adds an irrelevant, off-topic, and sub-par paragraph to CPU. Has been asked to stop, has been asked to discuss, has been reverted by several editors. I think he's in violation of 3RR now. Please block. --uberpenguin 00:51, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
    • To clarify a bit more, this user is ardently trying to include information (I'm tempted to use the adjective "promotional" here) about the Atanasoff-Berry Computer in several computer-related articles that have little or nothing to do with the ABC itself. In particular with the CPU article, he keeps introducing text that is poorly written, out of place, and contains factual errors (for example, making the wild claim that "digital" and "binary" mean the same thing). This doesn't even address the fact that the text is irrelevant to the article. As I said before, he has been asked via talk pages to discuss his edits and has been reverted by several editors who watch the affected articles. I'll maintain a list here of the IP addresses I've seen him use. -- uberpenguin 05:41, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
    • 71.99.137.20 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) has now made various WP:NPA-violating attacks on edit summaries (though no content changes) - Gnetwerker 08:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
    • More personal attacks from 71.99.137.20 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) here. He is at least trying to explain his position now (albeit a bit fanatic and incomprehensible), so I'm not sure whether this should stay on VIP or not. Given his behavior so far, I think he should stay under watch a little while longer. -- uberpenguin 01:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
      • For the time being he is acting okay, no need to block him currently. -- uberpenguin 03:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
  • 195.93.21.33 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- Please help! This user/IP keeps reverting/deleting useful paragraphs from this entry. I have tried incorporating the useful parts of their input, but they constantly delete anything that is even mildly negative from the entry. According to [4], this appears to be a series of edits by users/owners of the website to insert NPOV adverts and links into Wikipedia. In addition, they are trying to edit the title of the article without moving it to the appropriate place in Wikipedia. As it is, I think it should stay put. Thanks for your advice! // Davidbod 01:38, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Judging from the contributions, Davidbod means POV rather than NPOV above. Jw6aa 03:36, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
      • Please help, it may take a little time to establish, but the user 195.93.21.33 is seeking to turn the page into an advert for the subject. In the interests of keeping the article NPOV, we are trying to stop this. Jw6aa 19:19, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
        • I saw this report earlier, and tried to get an admin's attention. That failed so I've reported their major WP:3RR violation to WP:AN3. Petros471 19:31, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
          • 3RR block was impossed on 195.93.21.33 for 24 hours, on Jw6aa for 3 hours. Petros471 18:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
  • 65.172.235.249 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) has vandalized many pages, but their favorites seem to be those about Cartoon Network cartoons, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy in particular. They also vandalize the user pages of anyone who edits their talk page, myself included. They have been blocked before, but persist on vandalism as well as creating speculation pages that seem to have a little TOO much information for a speculation page. -- PinkDeoxys 00:47, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
    • I've given them a further warning. If they continue userpage vandalism warn and report to WP:AIV. Once the articles they link to get deleted there should be no problem keeping the links out of the main article, for now better watch out for WP:3RR (violations to be reported to WP:AN3. Petros471 10:54, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
  • 206.246.197.250 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log)} -- Repeated vandalism, over a prolonged period of time from a school. Disruptive and obscene vandalism. Sunfazer 00:05, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Registered users

  • JimmyT (talk • contribs) poses as User:David Gerard in this edit on his talk page. What's the appropriate template for "trying to disrupt Wikipedia's process by deception"? My inclination would be that such behaviour calls for an immediate bar. — ciphergoth 14:57, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Hall Monitor (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- claims Health of Pope John Paul II was vandalized when it obviously never was and banned an anon for 12 weeks over it// 132.241.245.23 00:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC) 132.241.245.23 00:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Flipper3 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- Probably still the same person as both Jrigole and Flipper2 (see below); somebody please block all 3 user names. Georgia guy 01:40, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Blocked by JDoorjam. Petros471 17:15, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Flipper2 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- Continuing to act like Jrigole (see below) under a new user name. Georgia guy 01:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
    • And what's worse; he just waits more than 10 minutes before coming back, wanting me to think he is gone (see this user's contributions.) Georgia guy 01:22, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
      • Watched by CVU. Report to WP:AIV if continues. Petros471 17:15, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Jrigole (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- Blanks his user talk page; removes an Afd message from Little Girl, and even removed the entry's Afd template from the Afd day as the next-to-last edit before my revert (the last edit before my refert of his edit was Afd Bot's update; which I did not revert.) Georgia guy 00:15, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Watched by CVU. Report to WP:AIV if continues. Petros471 17:15, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Gauntles (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) (and several others) -- the page Marian Rejewski has recently been subjected to a sustained and flagrant vandal attack by what is quite obviously the same person acting through several sockpuppets, replacing the whole of the page by obscene or irrelevant material. Mustafa Bevi 01:30, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
  • VrrayMan (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- Continually vandalizes FX Networks with juvenile vandalism, such as changing the network's logo to one vandalized using Microsoft Paint, and inserting someone's name throughout. Zpb52 00:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
UPDATE: Jwhitesecure seems to be going around inverting numbers. Since 'final warning' he has turned '45' to '54' [here] Bucketsofg 01:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Roitr (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) has been warned but has continued in this vandalisiation of 2002 Winter Olympics we requested he use to talk to discuess his grevinces but he was reverted the page many many times.
    • Was blocked but seems to have returned. Needs edits checking, then possible further block.Petros471 14:54, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
      • This user should seriously be banned from the site as he has used at least 4 registered sockpuppets and dozens of anon ip addresses to make nonesense changes to articles, circumvent the 3RR rule and pretty much doesnt give a damn about Wikipedia policies but is only here to cause problems and push his own point of view. We are dealing with another "Wiki on Wheels", I feel. Any suggestions on how to put a stop to this guy? -Husnock 15:52, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
        • The user has been indefinitely blocked for further violation of the three-revert rule soon after their last block expired, ignoring invitations to discuss by other editors. // Pathoschild (admin / talk) 16:12, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Will Beback (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) is a case of "Complex vandalism requiring in-depth investigation", because it seems like he has a very focused abuse of administrator powers against only a very small coterie of articles in which he subjectively purges Bush Administration related topics cloaked as "admin" edits. This is long though please bear with me. I apologize for the length though I wanted to demonstrate a pattern of behavior that was not simply linked to me, though has gone on a long time unaddressed with at least a dozen other people on his discussion page--which he never addresses or comments on. The discussion I have been having with "Will Beback" over this is only at the Skull and Bones discussion page.

    This is now split up into paragraphs as per request.

    I would contend that the user Will BeBack, recently given some sort of admin powers I think in the "mediation" committee, is not really acting the part of mediator, and is acting the part of purger. Is he some sort of professional troll that has infiltrated Wikipedia? I think so because of the repeated failures of others to vandalize the Skull and Bones articles or refute (they are welcome to) the facts it points out. So now he is saying he is going to subjectively roll back the article to long before factual information was even placed in it! (He has employed this strategy before to destroy articles, see below example).

    As I said his pattern of behavior is both topically related to purging Bush Administration related issues, as well as very strident and highhanded about doing it without explanation. These two issues make him very suspect for abusing his power of administration at Wikipedia.

    Examples follow.

    My request is that he be removed from the mediation committee for systemic administrator abuse that is only around his very personal goals across subjective articles.

    DATA FOLLOWS, YOU CAN STOP HERE AND RESEARCH YOURSELF, THOUGH BELOW IS HOW I WOULD BUILD MY CASE TO SAVE YOU TIME:

    With the Skull and Bones article, a lot of threats came down the pipe within days after the 'discussion page' user-requested added section "Bones and Opium" finally added to the article. Some had mentioned they wanted it for a long time and were surprised it was not addressed. Others have had no problem with it--except Will BeBack and several anonymous trolls and user trolls like user:Rotten. When the latter two failed to damage the article (and when Rotten was warned to desist by Jossi admin.), next within only a day the Will BeBack character starts appearing and attacking the article in the same manner, now claiming to have the power to "roll back" (i.e., vandalize with his admin powers and remove both the Bones and Opium sections and detailed information in other sections that have been added int he past several months).

    Thus his rollback power is being abused because it is exactly the same thing that the vandal Rotten was attempting to do several days beforehand and failed to do. In this case, 'rollback' and 'vandalism' will achieve the same goal of a "defactualized" article and a total purge of the Bones and Opium section--which as you can imagine is a politically sensitive topic, though it is not controversial factually. Jossi, another admin., can attest that that there was a complete wipe/purge by user Rotten, who he warned about that. Within a day, this Will BeBack guy is among a group of people (many anonymous IP's--see the Skull and Bones 'history' and 'discussion' pages, talking vandalism threats without specific critiques.)

    For instance one of them said something like someone "needs to come in with a chainsaw and hack through the garbage" (despite it being calmly edited by about six people it looks like right now); next someone has adding all sorts of warning tags (such warning tags were removed about two weeks ago without complaint, because the issues of "factual accuracy" were resolved and made it superfluous.

    Then, Will BeBack will roll back the article back before these factual additions were added, I note, making it incomplete once more. (See the Bones as German Society section for an example of the documentation--this will be "officially vandalized" by Will BeBack); Since the total purge of certain sections wasn't acheived by either anon IPs and then with registered users like Rotten (who were warned by Jossi for vandalism), Will BeBack comes in playing the next game of now an offical vandalism to purge back to an very shallow article, which achieves what Rotten or anon IPs wanted. There is a lot of support for this version (as you can see from the micro-edits and more positive comments of the past week or so on the 'page history', anonymous comments like 67.71.122.143 are positive and reflect what is suddenly going on without much explanation ("Article has been here a long time; unfounded flags are suspicious now").

    I think trolls or agents of some sort don't like it because it IS NOW so well documented, with a fine tooth comb. I have added cross-referenced data from the Skull and Bones roster, making it so, with thus original historical sources. Understandably, this would sort of make some very powerful people mad. However, they are free to add to the article of course where they see fit in changing it if it is inaccurate. Instead there have been no attempts at factual improvement, and only attempts at total purging under various guises without explanation a few days ago, and now in my opinion lots of very angry hot comments that are generated by one person back to back (that is a supposition, though it seems like the same unexplained hostility).

    Actually, there is an outpouring of support (see for yourself) in this version against "roll back" threats to what would become once more a suspect article--i.e., a purge without improving.

    TOPICAL SECTION CLOSED. NOW TO HIS REPETITIVE PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR, AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE:

    Frankly, Will Beback sounds like he has infiltrated Wikipedia to keep watch on contoversial issues and cut them out of only one area: he has only a strange concern over Terry Schiavo, Skull and Bones, neoconservatism, Kaiser Permanante, Larouche, etc., all very current Bush administration related issues only. These issues are topics that are critical of the Bush administration by nature of them being political topics.

    The fact that he groups his article attacks (under the rubric of "mediation" when no mediation is really occuring) puts HIS potential disinterest in complete doubt, and I think he should have his powers removed as a transparent plant of some sort here at Wikipedia. For other people who would back up this type of behavior you can view his discussion page:

    He has additionally, without any follow up explanation, purged this from another article according to this comment there: "Why are you removing the fact that Barbara Boxer is pro choice from her article?" (no response) [B. Boxer is one of the few Senators who has opposed the Bush Administration quite vocally and in action]....another example of his subjective vandalism disguised as "administrative powers" is this quote: "Could you please explain why you think this action [of yours] was an improvement: 23:41, 22 February 2006 Will Beback m (Reverted edits by Lance W. Haverkamp (talk) to last version by JesseRafe) You seem to be re-introducing all the things people were arguing about: Bashing the organization at the beginning of the article & a sales pitch at the bottom. Are you sure you meant to do that???" ... (I think he definitely meant to do that. This is the same pattern of behavior he intends to do with the Skull and Bones article.)

    Several other examples....."Will Beback" claims to have joined the mediation committee right before he started attacking this Skull and Bones article. Others from his talk history page have complained "Don't send me messages" which he doesn't comment on, and simply erases evidence that they wrote it there. Frankly, I think you have a psychopath on your "mediation committee." Another quote from his discussion page on this issue critiqing him: "I'm sorry for butting in but you just deleted just about every single thing I edited. Please try to be more collaborative and friendly."

    Other knee jerk reactions noted in "Will, I am registerd user "Oklahoma" I anonymously edited the Cosmotheism page and was banned by Mel Etitis for "Vandalism". If you look at the history you will see that what I did was not vandalism."...and yet another person on this guy : "Hey bub. Before warning people and threatening me with blocking like you so rudely did [1] why don't you keep your own house clean first? You reached the three reverts limit BEFORE I did and you have the gall to give me a warning?"...This is clearly admin abuse. Will BeBack was additionally warned by someone about this "Please do not keep undoing other people's edits without discussing them first. This is considered impolite and unproductive. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. - Crawfishboil"...Others write once more to him responding to some sort of rude continuous stalking or intimidation strategy it seems: "I don't know you, nor do I want to. Quit leaving messages on my talk"

    Will Beback sums up his own attitude right here which I think is very UnWikipedia: "Warning: You have been added to my watchlist. I will be watching your every edit and contribution. Expect anything you put down to be immediately vetted. [i.e., vandalized without even looking at it, by him with admin powers.] Any false info or lies and your information will be deleted and your actions will be noted on your talk page. [Then a truly psychopathic comment closes this threat:] Enjoy the rest of your time at Wikipedia" ....and yet another complaint about him: "the comment that you left on my talk page... are you refering to the links that I put on conspiracy related disscusions about a conspiracy based wiki? or to links I put on articles? cause neither fit the criteria. I would hardly call any of them private web site or a commercial site (since its contained within the wiki group). Plus since I don't know you you may want to tone down how you speak to me. don't come flying onto my page accusing me of something without telling me when I did it (using italics on the word content... I took that to imply that you somehow felt I had never added content to wikipedia.) I dont mean to be rude I just want some clarification but I do feel that you were being a bit sharp with me(obviously looking at this board I'm not alone)....

    Will Beback has yet another person upset with his unprofessional and arbitrary admin behavior: "If your going to discuss me then do so with me. I am not a 'sockpuppet'. Nor am I in any way dishonest. The above statement (another new Larouche account) indicates why I have contacted the parent corporation of this website. Sean, I bring up relevant points you did not answer and others attacked me. The point's I made, I did not only make on that page I made them to the above group including providing my full name etc. I am very displeased with the tactics used here and the labeling going on and the abuse I see.".....another example is: "I'm being accused again of adding material where I have not. I sign ALL my contributions."......

    He's additionally quite often hostile and out of his depth, though he makes what could only be described as subjective edits with his admin powers, as noted by this comment..."i think you are over-reacting on the POV issue. i wrote this intro...i am a scientist who has studied Petaluma and authored 12 different documents on this city. the terms used are in fact objective in the urban planning context."

    IN CONCLUSION, ABOUT THE CASE ISSUE OF THE SKULL AND BONES ARTICLE,

    and the request about Will BeBack, I would like someone to suspend Will BeBack's admin powers because of subjective abuse of position.

    Personality style indicates that he is the wrong type to have any kind of power over another on a wiki, he's a real martinet and quite a loose cannon not really improving Wikipedia with his admin powers--instead his pattern of behavior is reversion to incompleteness with a personal bias on where he does this. I hope you read this because it is hardly just my personal issue: this has affected a dozen people or more, across multiple pages. Will Beback demonstrates systemic administrator abuse, with malicious "roll back" strategies toward incompleteness on subjective political areas. Please don't condone it or tolerate it. I request again his suspension of mediation priviledges for a pattern of point of view behavior that is destructive and can be considered vandalism cloaked with an official title. Thank you. // --ReSearcher 10:32, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

    • I confess. Everything ReSearcher has said is true. I am "a transparent plant of some sort". In fact, my real identity is user:Rotten. He only caught me because I forgot to archive the talk page of my sock puppet (Will Beback) regularly. But my admission means nothing because I am going to use my admin powers to cast a spell of "ignore". Shazzam. -Will Beback 12:17, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Hugeleinartfan (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log)} -- A new sockpuppet account by the person who has be vandalizing Matt Leinart for the past several months claiming that he is a homosexual. The article has reverted more than 3 times in just the past hour. J. Nguyen 18:13, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
These are all highly-suspected sockpuppets of TruthCrusader (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log), who has recently had both an RFA and RFC against me dismissed for lack of merit. - Chadbryant 21:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
    • All blocked. Petros471 21:37, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  • User:The Filmaker reported User:Pawnofwhite for repeatedly adding dubious statements to Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and related articles, and being rude/hostile/dismissive: when these statements were challenged, Pawnofwhite responded that the information is "well-known" but refused to provide a source, saying that The Filmaker should look up the info himself (Google provided nothing, and there was nothing relevant on the official Star Wars site). Pawnofwhite was blocked for 24 hours for 3RR, but not before first reporting The Filmaker for vandalism on the same articles. I blocked them both, and left notes explaining that they were both blocked until I could sort out who was telling the truth.
Outcome: The Filmaker was telling the truth, and was unblocked; Pawnofwhite's block was extended to one month for repeatedly making false statements and for falsely reporting other editors as vandals (and for being rude). DS 18:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Croboy on the Stairs (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) - I think that this article should be investigated by an administrator. It makes references to "ancient croboys" and "Evoneolis", neither of which I have a clue about nor have been able to find any relevent information on the internet. I also noticed that articles entitled "Croboy" and "Mean Croboys" have been submitted to Wikipedia, but were deleted and protected from restoration soon after, and that the two vandal accounts listed in Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Croboy on the Stairs: The_Cro!!! (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log), and Croboy_on_the_Stairs (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) have no edits listed in their user contribution sections. The way in which the article was originally written (before I revised it) also seemed a bit strange. Somehow, this article seems fishy to me and I suspect that it may be vandalism. It was created by User:Guinnstein. - Conrad Devonshire 08:50, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
    • According to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mean Croboys this page (and therefore related) pages are from the North Carolina vandal. Considering Wikipedia:Long_term_abuse/North_Carolina_vandal includes "He often boasts about himself, in the form of adding to this page, and creating other vandalism in progress pages on alleged "other identities" (see below). In fact, he started this page.", it looks like that page was created by him. The reason Croboy and The_Cro!!! have no edits listed is probably because their only edits were to the deleted articles (deleted edits do not show up in contributions). Petros471 10:05, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
      • Nominated for deletion, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Croboy on the Stairs. // Pathoschild (admin / talk) 04:46, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Megaman Zero (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) see [14] compared with [15] or [16] with [17]. He thinks he owns the article and I cannot make minor edits. --64.12.117.6 14:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Neither of your edits were vandalism, and I can't really see any huge benefit in one over the other, so please don't get into an edit war over this (that applies to both of you). Remember the 3RR and if needed discuss reasons on the article's talk page. Petros471 15:52, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
      • well, can you put a warning on his page or something because he doesnt own wikipedia and i have the right to edit if i want and hes gotting into trouble before. see his talk page.
        • No, he doesn't own Wikipedia, nor any particular article. However you don't either, and vice versa, you both have the right to edit (within certain limits). As that makes you equal there is no need to warn either of you. Petros471 19:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

  • 65.92.130.151 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) / Cronodevir (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) / Muslim_Sunni (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) (He is NOT a mainstream Sunni) is the web-master of http://www.sunna.info and http://www.qiblah.us and several other web-sites. He belongs to Al-Ahbash / Habashies / Assocaition of Islamic Charitable Prjects (AICP) sect which is NOT a mainstream Sunni sect. To faciliate recruitment and seek legitimacy, he and his fellowers lurks around WikiPedia Islam-related pages like Islam, Qibla, Sunnah, Sunni Islam .etc and actively incorporte hidden links to their web-sites. Consequently, they are NOT only vandalizing WikiPedia pages delibrately but also jeopardizing the integrity of WikiPedia content by impostering as mainstream Sunnis which they are not.

    Their strategy has been outlined in a research paper - by THOMAS PIERRET), The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) as per following:

    At first sight, devices such as live interactive lessons or voice chat groups seem to encourage debates within the movement, but, on the contrary, close examination reveals that these instruments are primarily used by the leadership to increase its ideological control on their followers and to attract new devotees. Similarly, if one checks the AICP’s unofficial e-forums (www.talkaboutislam.com), one discovers that they function as ideological spider webs. Nothing points to the fact that these websites, which only present themselves as being “Islamic,” are actually part of the Ahbash’s cyber network. For instance, they are not related to the official websites by any hypertext link. Therefore, the random visitor is normally unaware that he or she is exposed to a set of selected opinions through carefully controlled debates. Firstly, zealous participants frequently post chapters of books edited in Lebanon by the AICP, but without any reference to the author or the editor. Secondly, veteran members answer questions concerning fiqh (jurisprudence) and reprimand novices whose religious knowledge is considered “deviant.” Thirdly, a team of regulators supervise the discussions and are in charge of censoring the Ahbash who are too keen to use takfir (excommunication) —since such a stance is considered a mark of extremism by most of the Sunnis—but above all of eliminating most of the messages posted by participants of Salafi persuasion. Ideological hegemony is thus achieved by the creation of a neo-traditionalist virtual space in which they assess very critically the ideas of leading Islamic personalities such as Amr Khalid, Khalid al-Jundi and Yusuf al-Qaradawi. In the same way they reduce the Wahhabi doctrine to a mere “heresy” in line with the Ottoman scholarly tradition of which they consider themselves to be the inheritors. (Source: http://www.isim.nl/files/Review_15/Review_15-50.pdf)

    I hope someone will loot at this complex and delibrate vandalism. McKhan

  • 0waldo (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) - This guy is a habitual linkspammer (most recently on OpenGL), has deleted comments from his homepage, was banned recently for linkspamming and immediately his ban was over, went on to linkspam OpenGL again. He also used a couple of IP addresses as sockpuppets during his recent ban. SteveBaker 16:23, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
After some initial friction, he seems to have calmed down and has been using article talk pages to discuss potentially controversial changes. --GraemeL (talk) 20:25, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Archiving to allow for fresh start. Petros471 20:42, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Licinius (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- This user appears to be using multiple sockpuppets to vote in polls at Talk:Football. He/she claims that several editors use the same PC. However the "users" concerned appear to have cooperated on several articles to a very close degree, and even edit each others' user/talk pages. I have warned him/her/them and have grouped them under Category:Wikipedia:Suspected sockpuppets of Licinius. // Grant65 | Talk 10:19, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
The suspected sockpuppets include: User:J is me, User:The man from OZ, User:130.130.37.6, User:60.225.200.50 and User:60.225.202.61. Grant65 | Talk 11:13, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
User:60.225.200.50 has also tried to portray User:CambridgeBayWeather as my sockpuppet.[18] Grant65 | Talk 12:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Added users to CVU bot blacklist. Petros471 10:19, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Licinius has now disregarded the results of a poll at Talk:Football and insists on editing the article once again to reflect his/her own (eccentric) POV. I have asked an op to restore the page protection. Grant65 | Talk 11:35, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Suspected sockpuppets blocked per checkuser, Licinus blocked for a month. Petros471 20:45, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Regulus_marzo4103 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) User has repeatedly edited Freedom House, Kofi Annan, and Phillipines with inaccurate information. Has been warned several times, but continues to go back and re-edit those articles. —This unsigned comment was added by Jacooks (talk • contribs) .
    • The above post was made on 2006-20-3 16:32 UTC, my apologies for the lack of signature. This user has gone back and edited the above articles, again, as of 2006-03-20 23:26. JACooks 02:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
      • I've left a note on their talk page, and watching future edits. If applicable, report any WP:3RR violations to WP:AN3. Petros471 21:09, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
        • Most recent edits seem ok. Warn and report if there is any vandalism in the future. Petros471 15:12, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Medule (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- User Medule has been for over a month repeatedly making changes to the pages History of Croatia, Croatia, Medieval Croatian state, Dalmatia, Hvar, London Pact, Battle of Vukovar, and others related to Croatia by removing any mention of the words "Croat" or "Croatian" and substituting them with either "Slavic" or "Serb and Croat" etc.; or by adding information which are widely viewed as Serbian nationalist propaganda sometimes supplying external links to organizations such as the Serbian Union Congress as evidence. The dispute was tried to be resolved on the corresponding discussion pages by a number of Croatian contributors to the Wikipedia but to no avail. The user won't give up. In fact, after the protection of Croatia page imposed because of his controversial edits, he has turned his attention to the aforementioned pages and possibly others related to Croatian matters. The situation is further aggravated by the suspicion that Medule may be using the following sockpuppets User:KHasek, User:Bzezen, User:Clavell (as of March 15 2006) as well as anonymous IPs 195.252.84.xxx or 195.252.85.xxx (195.252.86.175 (talk • contribs), 195.252.84.184 (talk • contribs), 195.252.85.237 (talk • contribs), 194.106.187.133 (talk • contribs) etc. // EurowikiJ 10:11, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Filed a WP:RFCU. Petros471 17:50, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
      • Checkuser confirmed socks were blocked. Petros471 15:12, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Samstayton (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) - He accuses innocent users (mainly Zouf) of vandalism, has repeatedly added non-NPOV comments to the Ford Motor Company and Jaguar pages, and has attacked Zouf quite often. --ApolloBoy 02:22, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Seems to have stopped, will keep a watch for a while longer. Petros471 13:41, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
    • He has also shown quite some temper on the discussion on the Lexus LS talk page. I am quite honestly somewhat intimidated by his assertive manner of argument. He has also given me an ultimatum in which I have to delete all parts of the Luxury Vehicles article or he will propose the article's deletion. Signaturebrendel 00:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
      • I've also noticed he's been deleting unanswered comments on his talk page. --ApolloBoy 03:54, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
        • Seems to have stopped. Petros471 15:12, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
  • These usernames have been indefinately blocked. Probably need an entry on WP:LTA for the 'June 6 meet its maker' vandal. Petros471 10:19, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
I think the case of randazzo56 is very clear considering the manner in which he has vandalized even this page. Signaturebrendel 02:52, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
It is probably not neccesay to mention but he has vandalized this page again. Signaturebrendel 02:15, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Appolo-boy, Brendel, and anyone else concerned can see my user talk page for the end word on this charraderandazzo56
    • 'Archived for now at least, let's see if Randazzo56 can stay away from personal attacks after being warned. Petros471 16:08, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Williamo1 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) history of contanst reverts against Wikipedia consensus on a number of articles. Especially on "Roy Gordon Lawrence" and "Hyper-Calvinism". The reverts on Template:Roy Gordon Lawrence are personal in nature. I intend to refrain from future editing of those articles. Andyru 13:50, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
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