Wikipedia:Requests for investigation/Archives/2003/08 (Michael)

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I have an IP address of a vandal, evident from the hisotry of his user contributions. See: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=152.163.253.71

It seems like Michael. Another sysop should use this opportunity to ban the address. If it's not Michael, it's still another vandal. 172 23:32 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

It's an AOL address, which means it could be used by perfectly legit contributors as well as Michael and other vandals. No actual vandalism has been done from that address since the 13th June, so I don't think there's any need to block it. --Camembert 23:35 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Michael is back - see his contributions. -- andy 18:05 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

  • Would someone like to check [1], the first edit summary seems slightly suspicious to me: "Reverted to last edit by Hephaestos", and it's not a revert. כסיף Cyp 10:32 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • Looks like a misunderstanding. - Patrick 10:46 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Michael is back, this time as User:Xxx.xxx.xx.xx and then as User:Michael's IP. Please revert as appropriate, and try to avoid feeding the troll. -- The Anome 23:39 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • In User talk:Michael/ban, Randyc said:
    • Is this Michael? [2] All changes have reverted to what Michael made previously. Randyc 15:43 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • User:Unblocked User mysterious user back adding music pages again. Almost certainly Michael. Please block.
  • 157.157.127.14 -- please keep an eye on this one. Editing Neo-Nazism etc.
  • Is User:Jar Jar Binks Michael, I know nothing about these genres music, so could someone check out his edits. He's doing a lot of them and they seem to be in Michael's field of interest. SimonP 01:44 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • Work reverted, claim to be a real actor removed from his page (could get wiki into trouble with actors union Equity and the actor's lawyers!) and page protected to stop its reinsertion. FearÉIREANN 18:24 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • User:Michaelism (aka Michael) is busy with edit wars, vandalism, and general abuse, for example, renaming users' home pages to User:Penis. Can someone block him, please? -- The Anome 19:26 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • 205.188.209.69 seems to be Michael. Can someone look over the historical edits from this IP address and make sure he hasn't managed to slide anything in? I'd do it myself, but I'd dead tired.... --Dante Alighieri 11:04 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • Articles with information, which don't seem to have been reverted: Super Bowl, Scott Reynor (Redirect to different spelling, redirect to article edited by similar, but different, IP), Jules Hardouin Mansart, Hippogriff, and a few year articles have had nl: langauge links at the top. Think everything else by that IP was reverted at some point. Looks quite possible they were edited by different people with the same IP address.
  • Michael seems to be back as 24.104.48.252 (interesting, by the way, that a page edited by him, Nine Inch Nails, gives some details about the psychic state of one Michael Trent Reznor whose first name has been chosen for username by our misled fried)
    • Are you sure? That's not a known IP range for him, is it? What about the edits makes you think it's Michael? --Dante Alighieri 19:19 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Ouch! Seems that 24.104.48.252 changed the date in The Downward Spiral to the correct year. Michael´s favourite pages + date changes -> suspect. In this case probably false alarm. See Avoid michaelism paranoia. Sorry. 145.254.41.254
  • Michael is back as User:Weezer/NOFX -- The Anome 14:58 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • User:205.188.209.107 reverts to Michael's content, see contributions, the IP has a history of Michael-type edits. -- Rotem Dan 14:29 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • 205.188.20*.* is Michael again. Keep a watch out on this ip range. MB 14:55 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • Michael is now also editing as User:Fuck. The Anome 15:32 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • And as User:Weezer/NOFX as well. andy 14:50 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • User:Eddie claims he's not Michael, but systematically reverts all of Michael's clouded content. See contributions -- Rotem Dan 18:47 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)


  • User:152.163.253.66 appears to be Michael, signed as User:No-Fx, see User talk:Soulrider -- Rotem Dan 14:40 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • User:152.163.253.34 is possiblly him too, the ip and contibutions are too similar. MB 14:59 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • Update: Possibly Micahel in every IP in the form 152.163.25x.xxx -- Rotem Dan 15:07 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • User:Michael/Crass is back, again. Reverting / deleting all contributions on sight, see user talk:Michael/ban for justification. The Anome 00:08 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • ditto User:Michael/Trapeze. -- The Anome 19:59 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Blocked 24.130.213.242, apparently another tentacle of the Michael / etc. entity. The Anome 22:44 31 May 2003 (UTC)
  • I have now unbanned a bunch of AOL proxy addresses in the 152.163.xxx.xxx range. This may let Michael/Crass/Weezer etc. back in, in which case please ban them again: you can see the list in an old revision of my talk page. The Anome 22:30 31 May 2003 (UTC)


  • User:Michael/Crass is back, again. (a) Edit comments of the form "I'm gonna rape you!!!" are abusive/threatening behavior that is grounds for banning. (b) Michael/Crass/Weezer etc. is already hard banned, and knows it. The Anome 17:07 31 May 2003 (UTC)


  • User:Michael/Crass is back, again. Appears also to have made edits as 152.163.253.5 -- The Anome 21:40 29 May 2003 (UTC)