Wikipedia talk:Requests for investigation/Archives/2006/03
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[edit] Vandalism
Hi, I don't have time to read all the guidelines because I need to leave shortly, but the "September 11, 2001 Attacks" article was vandalized obviously and I can't figure out how to revert it. Thanks Xiphoris 11:16, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I also have not read all the guidelines and am new to this but...I searched for any article on Ralph McGehee, a CIA critic, and find that that article about him has been completely deleted.
[edit] A proposal that might eliminate 50% or more of vandalism
This discussion was moved to the Village pump on 17:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC) by Pathoschild (admin / talk).
[edit] YTMND
I am a fan of YTMND and I'm an active wikipedian, so I've been catching a LOT of YTMND vandalism on wikipedia to make lame jokes about a YTMND fad. I'd just like to call to your attention that Wikipedia articles Safety, Time Travel, and John Titor are all being repeatedly vandalized, and Wiktionary's entry on safety has ALSO been vandalized! There needs to be something done about these three wiki articles and wiktionary entries. Jolb 05:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spamming vandalism
Where does one report repeated spamming of articles with commercial links?
Should the VIP article proactively describe this?
Atlant 17:12, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Report of chaotic behaviour of WP:VIP page Feb 17 01:00-03:00
An edit from February 17, since 01:25 caused deletion of significant part of the content. When trying to restore it I was able to repeat the problem (once). When written the page should be in stable state, with just one reported IP lost.
Symptom of the problem is that whole section disappeared, with no warning at all. Looks like technical problem (page size is still manageable).
Perhaps taking care of the reported vandals and removing their records would move the system into stable state again. Pavel Vozenilek 01:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] When to remove IP reports?
I'd be happy to help clean up this page a bit. In particular the IP section looks like it has old reports where an IP has done some vandalism in the past, but has not done any since. Is it ok to remove those, and if so should I archive or just remove them off the page?
I'll probably do some minor attempts at the above now, and if an admin can check I've done it ok and let me know that'd be great. Petros471 11:49, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
- Most alerts about IP addresses shouldn't be on WP:VIP at all; only IP addresses that are suspected open proxies should be placed on this page (see Wikipedia:Requests for investigation/Help#What belongs on this page). All others should be removed without archival, or moved to WP:AIV if they've recently vandalised. // Pathoschild (admin / talk) 12:59, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
- On the VIP page it says "Only report open proxies, or static IP addresses engaging in complex vandalism requiring investigation." On the help page it only says open proxies. One probably should be updated to be the same as the other. If it is only for open proxies, why not re-name the section to that and direct all IP alerts towards AIV (though some more instructions about warning might have to be added here). Petros471 13:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] PokeRealm
I hope this is the right place to post this. The PokeRealm article has been deleted three times and it was just re-created again. Can an admin please delete and protect the article so that it can't be re-created? Thanks. WHenry 19:25, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
