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[edit] Long term alerts

Please see Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/Long term alerts.

[edit] Current alerts

Current date is June 11, 2008; place new alerts on top.

[edit] Pages

This section is for pages that are the targets of persistent vandalism by multiple users (anonymous and/or logged in).

[edit] Counter-Strike

This page is being repeatedly vandalized by 82.153.109.156, 82.153.103.158, 207.5.192.239 et al. The first two appear to be the same person, since the last revision/blanking said something to the effect "since I was banned I changed my IP address" Kewp 09:22, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] An Introduction

This page, pretty much nonsense and other speediable junk has been created four times while I have been watching. Mostly by ips starting with 62.253.128, and two of them I know were .12 and .14, though I missed the others. -Goldom 23:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Update: Since this page has been protected, the vandal is now working at "An Introduction". 62.252.96.12 has created the same page there now. -Goldom 23:37, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FilePile

Various users, or sockpuppets, are removing information, adding nonsense, and making personal attacks in the article. Almost all of the vandals are recently created users who are also participating in the articles accompanying Vote for Deletion. One of the vandals has even attempted to obtain my password. Main culprits are User:Tranquileye, User:Flaunted, User:Aquafinal - Xed 22:10, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Christopher Walken

Anon IP deletions, apparently to hide claims that Walken's "2008 presidential campaign" is a fraud by "General Mayhem forums". (Interrupting reconstruction to leave this entry.)
--Jerzy·t 16:54, 2005 August 15 (UTC)

[edit] DeviantART

I'm not sure if this is really vandalism, or if somebody just wants to engage me in a edit/revert war over the above article. Somebody (or some people; I'm assuming the former) in the IP address range 151.44.*.* keeps adding false accusations against Scott Jarkoff (founder of deviantART) and nonsense to the page; repeated requests on talk page, as well as reminder-comment on top of page and all affected sections have been completely ignored and even mocked at. Request for protection of the above article is already up, person(s) have been warned on the 151.44.123.254 talk page (his current IP address). I have already reverted the article three times in a space of 24 hours; three revert rule seems likely to be breached soon unless action is taken. A.K.R. 15:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nancy Drew

IP constantly removes external link. Father Howabout1 Talk to me! 00:58, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

That's a content dispute, not vandalism. Some might regard your links as "link spamming", given that they're to a site with commercial advertising, and you've been placing them on many different pages; it's generally discouraged to add links to your own sites. *Dan* 01:02, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cindy Sheehan

Multiple anonymous ip's vandalizing both article and talk page. Eclipsed 00:57, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

70.176.183.170 (talk · contribs) (is this the pages first Hitler reference?[1])
24.18.128.52 (talk · contribs)
207.136.9.106 (talk · contribs)
68.23.100.34 (talk · contribs)
71.112.175.247 (talk · contribs)

[edit] Michael Dutton Douglas

User:Shem Daimwood repeatedly has removed the disputed indicators from the Michael Dutton Douglas article and refuses to engage in a discussion about the dispute. I believe in these circumstances, this is vandalism. I respectfully request the page be restored with dispute tags, protected so the dispute can be resolved. Coqsportif 01:30, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

  • Content disputes are explicitly not vandalism. If you want the page protected, go to WP:RFP. Note that you only have about a 50% chance of getting the version YOU want protected. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 01:46, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
  • This is not a dispute about the content of the article as such, a dispute over whether dispute tags should remain is not a content dispute. I have not reverted the content as I think a discussion is most appropriate but the tags are being removed, I believe this is vandalism. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize but I doubt that I am. Coqsportif 01:52, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Note: Please see Wikipedia:ANI#Coqsportif and Wikipedia:ANI#Coqsportif pt 2. This user is likely a sockpuppet, and has already been blocked once since his joining. Shem(talk) 02:16, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

I am not a sockpuppet. All I want is for the dispute to be resolved correctly. Vandalism is preventign that. Coqsportif 02:21, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gaming Age Forums

Several users (with a full range of IP numbers) seem to be taking turns vandalizing this page faster than it can be reverted. Mel "MelSkunk" Smith 19:20, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Insane amounts of vandalization. Can we use that as a reason to speedy? --Habap 20:08, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pope Benedict XVI

The image of the Pope is repeatedly being replaced with the image of Star Wars Emperor Palpatine by a vandal or vandals from anonymous IP addresses. Robert McClenon 15:18, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

  • Yeah, this was a problem back when the article had just been created. It's not a new problem... but it doesn't stop after one or two times, so watching the page would be a good idea. Trust me... I had to revert this particular image replacement quite a few times. --Chanting Fox 01:08, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of big-bust models and performers

A user (or users, but probably just one) using the IP range of 69.235.xxx.xxx keeps on removing certain links from the "P" section of the article. Recommend a block on that IP range. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 02:44, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Charles I of England

How can I (and several others) encourage User:Silverhorse to stop misspelling Habsburg. Also he keeps adding titles in inappropriate places. Just look at any 'royal' page he (or his several IPs) have edited Special:Contributions/Silverhorse. He has inappropriately changed several other 'royal' pages, some (such as the Hanovers) not being in my interest area remain for someone else to fix. --ClemMcGann 16:01, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Theforce.net

His IP is 70.84.11.130. He typed an inapropriet comment that has nothing to do with the topic.

[edit] Combat ration

Same person with a different IP address each day. Keeps reverting to what is now a very old joke.--JRL 13:21, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] John Howard

Not sure if this is a team of vandals, or an individual, or what. All anonymous IP's. Slac speak up! 02:06, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] World of Warcraft Expansion Pack

83.237.230.112 has repetadly added links to Russian porn sites. Havok 19:19, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Playstation 3

Repeated blanking by a number of IPs that are probably the same person. Trevor macinnis 01:54, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Coqsportif

Vandalism to Elizabeth Bentley, again. nobs 15:41, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal Vendetta

Certain AOL (who else?) user(s) are on a vendetta against me and are removing external links to my sites from Radio Boys, Grosset & Dunlap, Supermystery, Mildred Benson, Roy Rockwood, Clues Brothers, Casefiles, The Dana Girls, Hardy Boys Digest, Undercover Brothers, Harriet Adams, Ted Scott Flying Stories, Nancy Drew, Franklin W. Dixon, Rover Boys, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Tom Swift, Jr., Tom Swift, X Bar X Boys, Edward Stratemeyer, Hardy Boys, Tom Swift IV, While the Clock Ticked, What Happened at Midnight, The Yellow Feather Mystery, The Witchmaster's Key, The Wailing Siren Mystery, The Viking Symbol Mystery, The Twisted Claw, The Tower Treasure, The Sting of the Scorpion, The Sinister Signpost, The Sign of the Crooked Arrow, The Short-Wave Mystery, The Shore Road Mystery, The Shattered Helmet, The Secret of the Old Mill, The Secret of the Lost Tunnel, The Secret of the Caves, The Secret of Wildcat Swamp, The Secret of Skull Mountain, The Secret of Pirate's Hill, The Secret Warning, The Secret Panel, The Secret Agent on Flight 101, The Phantom Freighter, The Mystery of the Whale Tattoo, The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge, The Mystery of the Flying Express, The Mystery of the Desert Giant, The Mystery of the Chinese Junk, The Mystery of the Aztec Warrior, The Mystery of Cabin Island, The Mystery at Devil's Paw, The Mysterious Caravan, The Missing Chums, The Melted Coins, The Masked Monkey, The Mark on the Door, The Jungle Pyramid, The House on the Cliff, The Hooded Hawk Mystery, The Hidden Harbor Mystery, The Haunted Fort, The Great Airport Mystery, The Ghost of Skeleton Rock, The Flickering Torch Mystery, The Firebird Rocket, The Disappearing Floor, The Crisscross Shadow, The Clue of the Screeching Owl, The Clue of the Hissing Serpent, The Clue of the Broken Blade, The Clue in the Embers, The Bombay Boomerang, The Arctic Patrol Mystery, Hunting for Hidden Gold, Footprints under the Window, Detective Handbook, Danger on Vampire Trail, A Figure in Hiding and others. This is doubly annoying as I was the originator of many of the Wikipages and my web pages provide additional in-depth information on these subjects. This has been going on almost daily for weeks. PLEASE HELP ME!--FWDixon 10:53, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

From what I can see of your pages, they don't seem to have all that much actual content, but are full of commercial ads; the bulk of the site is devoted to selling various Nancy Drew (etc.) books, while the other content (forums and such) are inundated with annoying ads including interstitials and popups/popunders. I can understand how others might find such a link inappropriate, especially when it's "spammed" to so many articles. OK, there is some factual info on the various Drew / Hardy Boys / etc. books that may be of interest, but it's accompanied by "Buy It Now" links that presumably get you commissions. If you really were interested in helping enhance the content of Wikipedia rather than shilling for your own profit, you'd add the factual info on the various books that you have in your own site into the appropriate entries on Wikipedia, without any commercial links. *Dan* 23:25, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Swiss-Italian cheese

A false cheese invented to spawn an article which isn't that funny. Is created by an unregistered user.--Klestrob44 05:44, 9 August 2005 (UTC).

  • I have begun to clean up this article, and believe that with a little TLC, wikification, and a bit of hard work, it can be saved -- anon

[edit] Pop punk

This article seems to be attracting attention from a number of anonymous users (may be the same person, based on the similarity of their edits) who have repeatedly blanked certain sections, added profanity on occasion and steadfastly refused to discuss the reasoning behind their edits on the talk page. Might be an idea to keep an eye on it for a while... --Kurt Shaped Box 23:53, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I linked to the wrong page - should be Pop punk. --Kurt Shaped Box 08:42, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Danta

This article is being continuously vandalised by the users User:69.169.161.139, User:67.180.230.164, and User:24.3.27.8 for the past hour or so. Valhallia 08:07, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Canada_flag_large.png

this image has somehow been replaced with (porn?), but I can't find out how, or hw to revert it - Trevor macinnis 02:30, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pop Punk

This article seems to be attracting attention from a number of anonymous users (may be the same person, based on the similarity of their edits) who have repeatedly blanked certain sections, added profanity on occasion and steadfastly refused to discuss the reasoning behind their edits on the talk page. Might be an idea to keep an eye on it for a while... --Kurt Shaped Box 23:53, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jesus

I recently posted a legitimate addition to the article Jesus (the one that comes up right away when you type just "jesus" into the search bar) and it's been removed. I'm sorry I don't know how to link to the article or report the user etc., but I'm new. It seems like when I make legitimate additions to articles people just take them off right away and revert back to the original version. Being protective of your articles defeats the whole purpose of Wikipedia, no? Is there a way to get back what I added? (I don't have another copy.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.34.174.183 (talk • contribs) on 07:10, 5 August 2005

  • Once submitted, changes can (almost) always be retrieved from the page history (fourth tab from the left at the top). --Alan Au 08:06, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Often if you want to change a major article like Jesus majorly, it is better to have a look at the discussion page, read previous discussions and possibly join in and discuss your proposed change before doing it. When you are confident that you have a backing from the community, you can introduce the change and place a comment in the bar next to the "save changes" button that indicates the discussion has taken place. Also, more often then not, changing an article like Jesus (which is likely to attract quite a bit of vandalism) from an anonymous ip (rather than a registered user) will get reverted as vandalism very quickly. We certainly want you to help change wikipedia, but because of the amount of pov vandalism against pages like Jesus, many RC patrol wikipedians will intervene quickly - sometimes unjustly. Usrnme h8er 11:43, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lambgoat

Not sure if the site should even exist. Was created purely by trolls. Is being swiftly vandalised with trollish comments everytime it is cleaned. Help.

[edit] Fahd bin Abdul Aziz

[edit] WP:RFC

  • People are moving pages that have been certified by 2 people from "pages certified by 2 people" to "candidate pages, have not met the 2 person threshold". (unsigned comment added on 10:21, 24 July 2005 by -Ril-)

[edit] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

[edit] Cyrus Farivar

  • Journalist's article is getting vandalized in a variety of ways by multiple users for exposing an Internet hoax ("greenlighting"). --Tysto 23:09, 2005 August 1 (UTC)
    • Being vandalized repeatedly by anonymous IPs again today. Jsnell 23:27, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] IP addresses

Please report vandals who are operating under anonymous IP addresses under the appropriate severity level.

[edit] Severe

He came back two to three hours ago and started vandalizing again. Suggest immediate action, as he shows no signs of confusion or remorse; he's clearly just being malicious. --Shackleton 17:31, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
Edit: user is showing behavioural similarities to 70.81.118.93 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log).
Update: blocked by Gamaliel. Thanks. Nandesuka 21:08, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
I don't see any reason to believe this ip is being used by serious users. The history of vandalism goes back to mid 2004 with plenty of vandal edits. A long ban at least. Usrnme h8er 09:13, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

If you block 64.231.4.58, you are not following Wikipedia's policy of neutral point of view. There should be sympathy towards the Jews as well as reasons and substantial evidence on why the Nazis committed genocide. (unsigned comment left by User:DaGizza)

What does that have to do with the nonsense about Baghdad bombings that this person was inserting into the Jew article? Antandrus (talk) 15:54, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 201.133.210.33 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) has been making many POV edits to movie-related articles, giving obviously POV reasons for why they flopped. The edits are subtle, but they are consistently POV, and he's been doing this for several days and warned numerous times by several editors. --Idont Havaname 03:39, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
  • One user posted evidence that users of the FaithFreedomInternational web forum are organizing on that forum to mount a concerted attempt to change Islam-related articles to their POV. This evidence has been blanked seven times already, by Existentializer and also by various anon IPs, with much bad language in the edit comments. Dunno what to do -- if we protect the talk page, no one can use it. Block all posting by anon IPs on that talk page? Zora 23:24, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Reverted an anon vandal twice already... some blocks would be nice. --Chanting Fox 03:46, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 69.50.191.198 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) Large-scale linkspamming currently in progress by this anonymous user 69.50.191.198. Please block. Thanks. Jez 00:12, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Appears to be a spam-bot program utilizing dynamic IP addresses. This is going to be nasty. --Chanting Fox 00:25, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
A wide ban of 69.50.* should be considered. It appears to be the only thing we can do now. Frenchman113 00:19, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
Please link to specific IP addresses and article names. It is impossible to look at this vandal's contributions based on this information. Rhobite 05:01, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
For samples look at edits by entries by myself and Eclipsed below. Usrnme h8er 12:12, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
  • The domain 69.50.187.* is recurring with a variation of ip addresses as what appears to be a spam bot. Should we consider a wide ban? Can anyone identify the owner of the domain? Usrnme h8er 09:51, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
69.50.187.92 and 69.50.187.87 both appears to be owned by organisation in San Fransico[5]. Interestingly enought, they have a acceptable use policy which forbids spamming[6], so maybe someone ought to let them know. However, a quick google seems to indicate the're a spammers haven thought. WegianWarrior 10:27, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
These IPs have a bit of history (see User:Nigosh/linkspammers). User:Thue took some action on 21st July - emailed ISP about spamming and added some URLs to meta:Talk:Spam_blacklist#Atrivo_linkspammer_on_en. Appears not to have had any effect. Propose blocking IP ranges:
  • 69.50.166.3-6
  • 69.50.184.210-215 & 217-221
  • 69.50.187.83, 85-89 & 91-94
  • 69.50.191.195-198
Nigosh 11:14, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
3 more linkspam events: (69.50.184.212, 69.50.187.89 & 69.50.187.91) - Nigosh 12:56, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I've warned them, but they seem to have become bored or stopped for some other reason anyway.-gadfium 01:27, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
  • KentingKid2 (talk • contribs • block) Gblaz 03:38, July 24, 2005 (UTC) -- Malicious/offensive edits to user pages. Also used user name User:KentingKid
  • User:63.70.62.84 also User:Siegerz: Vandalizing Human Rights in the United States repeatedly, vandalizing Talk:Islam. Appears to be a sockpuppet of the user Yuber, who is under temporary injunction not to edit from the Arbitration Committee. Please deal with ASAP.Existentializer 17:04, 27 July 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Moderate

Keep rm copyvio and is modying my userpage, talk page, etc. Ruiz 19:44, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

put some idiotic rambling into PlayStation, i removed it http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=213.5.31.67 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PlayStation&action=history

this person is vandalizing templates by inserting images of male genitals. --Revolución 21:35, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Expanses of text deleted outright from the Anthony Burgess pages in Wikipedia and Wikiquote. Motive appears to be a malicious attempt to destroy all references, both in Wikipedia and Wikiquote, to the Burgess biographer Roger Lewis.

diff. Note that I have never talked to this user once. I have not read the whole thing, but he seems to be writing about some stances I supposedly have, which might make it look like a discussion, which it is not. --Fenice 08:37, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

I banned him for 24 hours. --Woohookitty 00:17, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

This person is posting "biographies" of moderately well known professional footballers in which almost every "fact" is deliberately false, often ludicrously so. He should obviously be permanently banned, but having read Wikipedia's feeble policies I suspect I am wasting my time reporting him and I won't bother to contribute to this section again. Wikipedia seems to have a policy of institutionalising naivety and bending over backwards to be soft on malfactors. If that leaves those of you who handle this side of things with a lot of work to do, you have only yourselves to blame. Please don't post on his talk page as it would only encourage him. Osomec 16:54, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

I also encoutered, and just cleaned up, a lot of crap from this guy. Deserves a ban. --DR31 (talk) 14:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
  • 207.55.225.227 (talk • contribs • block) Warned multiple times. Continues to vandalize articles. Most recent reverts to remove vandalism by 207.55.225.227: [18], [19], [20]. Win777 14:10, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
The user is also using an alternate IP address: 203.127.203.16 (talk • contribs • block) cheese-cube 13:47, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Changing minor details on artciles, so that they are incorrect - but are often so subtle that they could go unnoticed. Asked to provide evidence of changes, but user just reverts, leading me to think that he is a vandal. The JPS 11:58, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Repeated vandalism of Parthenon. This person has been warned several times already and really should be banned for good. Adam 08:12, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Blocked for 24 hours. --Woohookitty 00:20, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Obvious vandal. Look at his comments in the history of the BOT2K3 page. I've applied for protection but none has been given yet. Oh, Wikigods, please help us! -- Nick2588 02:55, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Same user adding incorrect information of hit singles, regarding the years and titles and has been mostly warned by Rhobite. He has repeatedly been restoring "Cigaro" by System of a Down on the Top Hits list from the 2005 in music article, which is not an official single. It is actually a leaked track. -- Mike Garcia | talk 21:45, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

moron that only posts bob dole supports this message everywhere. no legetemate conenete.

This user is vandalizing a number of articles, such as African American literature.

This appears to be in connection with the Rotting squirell VfD; several of the editors of that page have had their user pages blanked from this address, and this user has added some content to the Rotting squirell page in the last few days. Vashti 07:27, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
  • 168.10.27.12 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- Has vandalised quite the number of pages, but sporadically, as in: a bunch of vandalisms in a row, then nothing...or more accuratley: vandalisms in a row, and then good edits. I suspect that this IP address is a public one with more then one user at it, because it goes periods with out vandalism, then a period with. I'm not sure what do do, to see if it is a public one (i might be completely wrong, though)--Quadraxis 02:36, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Update: This IP address appears to belong to a school (See comment here). --Quadraxis

Paul Levesque Soltak 17:34, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Jondel 00:47, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

  • 69.205.10.119 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) Repeatedly removes external links from various juvenile book pages without discussion. This has become a daily routine. Believe this person may be mentally unbalanced.--FWDixon 14:30, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
  • 203.19.252.190 (talk • contribs • block) -- Altering country articles/templates to include Union flag and British info --ScottDavis 11:24, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

24.229.138.135 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - repeated blankings to article Windows Vista. Has been warned with tests 1-3. May have stopped at time of this posting --Blu Aardvark | (talk) | (contribs) 08:42, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Active again today (August 1st). Zerbey 12:25, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
  • 65.94.129.105 (talk • contribs • block)Has been replacing pages, including at least Help:contents, with a short nonsense story about his aardvark. Spot checking his contributions show not all are yet reverted as of this writing. Lar 15:54, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 218.183.76.159 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) Probably a Sharp employee. Repeatedly inserts obvious advertising about Sharp camera phones into Camera phone. — JIP | Talk 12:35, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
    • The vandalism has stopped. 218.183.76.159 apparently understood the warnings and toned down the Sharp advertising. The section he added, which was in not that grammatically good English (the user is Japanese) was fixed first by another user and then by me. No need to do anything about this user at the moment. — JIP | Talk 11:47, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 69.205.10.119 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) Systematically removing all external links from a range of books, has been warned 4 times, and continues to remove links. ∞Who?¿? 11:43, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Vandal has returned. Only edits attributed to this IP are the removal of links to about 23 articles each time. This IP has never been blocked, despite the previous request and warnings on the user page. ∞Who?¿? 07:41, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
  • 12.73.195.132 (talk • contribs • block). This user is dead set on disrupting the Cfd process, has unilatterly made changes that were against the previous consensus, vandalized the Cfd page and removal of Cfd tags, and adding {{d}} tags to cat's that should have been kept. Is now removing comments from Cfd, [28],

[29], [30], [31], [32] . ∞Who?¿? 01:40, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

  • 84.9.73.115 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) Err, not sure if this is the right place. This IP blanked Obesity and needs to be reverted. Could someone direct me to a more appropriate place if this isn't correct? --Mrtea 01:08, 29 July 2005 (UTC) (moved from current alerts by James 01:11, July 29, 2005 (UTC))
  • 68.2.117.116 (talk • contribs • block) Has made 5 attempts in the last 24 hours at replacing addiction with text from (or link to) a dodgy site selling self-improvement books. —Ghakko 16:35, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
    • He's back after a two-day hiatus. Doesn't appear to be interested in any other page. —Ghakko 18:51, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 63.19.154.81 (talk • contribs • block) Anon has added a series of hoax "Croboy articles; they were previously deleted as such. He has also added references to these non-existent croboys to real country articles. He's been warned three times, and a block would be helpful.Scimitar parley 16:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 70.112.212.191 (talk • contribs • block) This user erased the Pokemon article more than once, and vandalized several other pages. -- 67.85.2.175 04:51, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Discovery Bay
    • Please help - protect page perhaps? Receiving constant addition of the paragraph, The Plaza also provides a unique community childminding scheme, whereby children can play freely in the area, while their parents can relax and enjoy themselves without having to worry about their children's behaviour from a series of anonymous IP addresses. This is inappropriate for an encyclopedia and resembles more like vandalism of the practical joke variety. Discussion started at Talk:Discovery Bay but user not cooperating. --Mintchocicecream 18:20, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Is the statement inaccurate? How? It doesn't seem to violate NPOV. Is there not a place for children to play? --Randal L. Schwartz 18:49, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
His/her statement is plain wrong: The Discovery Bay Plaza simply does not provide a unique childminding scheme - or any childminding scheme for that matter! The statement is really a sarcastic statement complaining about the behaviour of children in the plaza. More such complaints can be found in external forums such as [[33]] One might also wish to compare this type of statement to the changes that *did* violate NPOV introduced by yet another series of IP addresses between 15-20 July [[34]]; furthermore attempts to discuss with anonymous user(s) has been fruitless. --Mintchocicecream 20:26, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
One might also wish to refer to [[35]] where people are discussing changing articles in Wikipedia. --Mintchocicecream 20:29, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I've put him under severe, he appears to be using bots. Frenchman113 00:22, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • 62.47.132.187 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) Viennaspice linkspammer adding his site to many Bollywood-related articles. Formerly spammed from IP 62.47.152.222, may have spammed from other IPs too. Warned at old IP, returned under new IP. Please block. He hits dozens of sites at a time, and it takes too much time to remove the spam. Zora 22:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Vandal now linkspamming from 62.47.132.65 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log). Please block. Zora 22:39, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Has vandalized again. Urge a permanent block. Superm401 | Talk 04:43, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
As noted below, he now has the username Mark512, and continues to revert the aforementioned VFD page, as well as vandalising Canderson7's user page.
  • 213.249.214.235 (talk • contribs • block) Has vandalised various music-related articles by randomly inserting blankspaces in the middle of words. Flowerparty talk 14:43, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Please block! Vandalism continues, has been extended to Pakistan article. Today, coming from the 172.195.85.28 address. Zora 01:45, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Vandal has taken username, Ashraydos, has returned to vandalizing Shahrukh Khan, Pakistan, Kal Penn, and Indian American. Confused desi kid. PLEASE BLOCK -- possibly for a short time. Maybe he'll get a clue? Zora 10:20, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Vandal has returned as IP 172.192.180.130, vandalizing same articles. I checked the IPs. They're all AOL. Can we contact them to stop the vandalism? Leave message on my talk page if you want me to do it. Please block again. Zora 10:58, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Vandal has returned as IP 172.192.78.211, vandalizing (blanking) same articles. PLEASE BLOCK. Zora 02:20, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Low

  • 159.91.91.212 (talk • contribs • block) Blanked a page earlier, now repeatedly vandalizing. Jsnell 20:02, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
  • 24.114.158.177 (talk • contribs • block)-- Anon user has twice added an inappropriate joke about Madonna (the singer) to the article Ancient history. The odds are good that he/she will do it again, and I won't be able to revert it because of 3RR. Thanks Fernando Rizo T/C 21:42, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 68.47.224.80 (talk • contribs • block) - has been blocked several times in the past and continuously changes Attack of the Show page without discussion on its Talk page Hibana18:52, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
Wrote stupid and purposeless things on a number of pages such as writing "He is currently dating Melinda," on the Bobby Valentino page, probably the user's name.
Osu8907 17:17, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 24.109.243.169 (talk • contribs • block) — According to talk has been blocked temporarily before. Minor changes (changing one word etc) Greg Robson 23:04, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
  • International standardisation organisation created by User talk:69.50.191.198 (talk • contribs • block), not suitable content Mark 00:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 65.115.11.2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) has done nothing but post links to his fantasy football web page on the pages of many NFL players. I strongly believe that after all their edits were undone, user signed in as user:dburrick who did the exact same thing to many of the same pages. --MJR 18:51, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
  • 131.62.10.36 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) posted offensive material mainly on the Motorola i930, before and after I made the Motorola i930 more like a real-life Wikipedia Page. In addition, because of him, I was actually forced to put a Vandalism Lock on the Motorola i930 Article. It may get worse as his vandalism habits need to be watched. -- Vesther 21:27, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
  • 195.188.152.16 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) makes stupid edits to random pages (e.g. "cock face"), including links to a penis image, and rarely, apparent subtle edits, though possibly some are legitimate. Dhartung | Talk 16:56, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Registered Users

Please report vandals who are operating under registered usernames under the appropriate severity level.

[edit] Severe

  • Erwin Walsh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) has nominated numerous pages for VFD and copyvio within minutes of the original post, far too little time for any consideration. The VFD he posts are in a wide range of subjects that he appears to have no understanding of. While some of the vfd are justified almost half are not and this is causing a lot of work for people.

--Gorgonzilla 16:24, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

I urge any admin reading this to take a look at my deletion log User:Erwin_Walsh/Vfd/ which demonstrates a consistent effort towards improving wikipedia, and is clearly not vandalism. Erwin Walsh
The proper place for this criticism would be your user talk page but you keep deleting it there. The point is that three minutes after an article is posted is not enough time to allow for the person editing a stub to improve it. Several of the articles listed as 'unimportant' are about very well known brands and personalities that Walsh clearly has no idea about--Gorgonzilla 17:08, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Gorgonzilla is right. Walsh is either an incompetent or a troll; either way he's a pain.--Spliced 16:49, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
What's more, he is now persistently removing criticism of his behaviour, including references to this page, on User_talk:Erwin Walsh --Spliced 17:02, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Folks, this is not the right place for this dispute. Vandalism in progress is a place to list things that need to be cleaned up, not users who make too many VfDs. Take this to Wikipedia:Requests for comment if you must. (Will the next person who comes by here please move this discussion to a RfC is one has been opened; thanks.) JesseW 17:34, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Attempting to create Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Erwin Walsh. Continue there if needed. Abb3w 01:03, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Jorgenpfhartogs (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- This guy is a total lunatic. Most of his edits are copyvio's, he reverts my copyvio banners (Sarah Curran(Pub)), he has uploaded around a hundred images without licensing information, I suspect all copyvio's, he totally ignores WP:MOS when it comes to article naming, adds all his articles to a lot of too generic categories, ... and does this faster than I can revert. --R.Koot 11:37, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
  • WoW has come back as User:King Abdullah on Wheels, User:King Fahd on Wheels, and probably more. AlbertR 22:30, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

ThomasJefferson (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - Uploaded an image to vandalize Image:Canada flag large.png and added a pic of a penis being masturbated to Template:Canada. [42]. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 04:25, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

  • User Ronald20 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) is at it again. He's been warned repeatedly. Please, someone put a stop to it, I'm sick of cleaning up after him!!!!!!!!!! Jlam4911 00:01, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Seen senselessly removing stubs on various radio stations even though they are of stub size. I'm losing faith in this website since he is still around after being warned, having IP's that he's posting from blocked, etc. ErikNY 18:27, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
      • He's just got a 24 hour block for his troubles, both here and on an anon IP that he seems to use. Grutness...wha? 02:10, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
        • Despite being blocked, he's still at it. Take a look at the edits for 66.81.163.103 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log). These fit the description perfectly. He just won't learn. Further action must be done. ErikNY 01:26, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
          • And now that his block expired, Ronald20 is back with the same bizarre vandalism - inserting stubs into auto articles, fake future events, etc... It's sad. --SFoskett 00:03, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

AI (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) Vandalism; fifth report - a 4th revert without explanation; Won't discuss the information being reverted, instead claims hes doing "Wikification." It is doubted at this point AI knows much about the information he keeps reverting to, nor has any interest in discussing or substantiating the information. Maureen D 21:04, 2 August 2005

  • Willy Wonka on Wheels! (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) WoW is back to his old tricks again. He's done multiple nonsense page moves already. Ryan 19:04, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
    • He seemed to make a few legit edits before suddenly moving pages. I guess that it's an attempt to trick users who are unfamiliar with him. --Ixfd64 23:38, 2005 August 2 (UTC)
  • AI (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) second report - changed name without permission, adding undated information, won't discuss Talk:Arnaldo_Lerma reported by user: Maureen D
  • AI (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) fourth report - Vandalism; reverting 3 times with repetitive, undated information; disorganization of page, specifically to date integrity; repeated removal of url links, this time with new edit explanation: "WP is not a link farm." Has removed several media article url links, directly relating to, and including this one, a part of the RTC vs Lerma law suit: Church in Cyberspace; Its Sacred Writ Is on the Net. Its Lawyers Are on the Case, by Marc Fisher, Washington Post, August 19, 1995. This person seems to be on a mission to write in misleading, undated, unsupported information. Maureen D
  • Stmethodist (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- vandalising Methodism faster than can be reverted. I think 212.103.162.102 and 62.114.1.70 are also the same vandal. Pollinator 05:44, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
    • Uploaded a homoerotic image he called Image:Methodism.jpg I have uploaded a single pixel image to replace it but he needs to be blocked, he's had all the newbie tests he deserves. Pedant 07:23, 2005 August 1 (UTC)
Was going to say something myself, but it looks like Petaholmes already blocked him. Nufy8 01:54, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
  • User:--Ril-- is vandalising Authentic Matthew with porn - impersonating [User:-Ril-]] - can someone please block this user immediately and permanently. --Doc (?) 22:01, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Done. Thanks, Doc! FreplySpang (talk) 22:03, July 29, 2005 (UTC)



[edit] Moderate

User is repeatedly vandalizing Platypus Rex page (several times a day), and was warned on his/her talk page. Has filled the page with ludicrous biographical information (e.g. Glen Daniels was Time magazine's "Man of the Year", that Coburn appeared on a (non-existent) Friends spinoff called "Chandler", that I myself have been dead since March of 2004.) Continues to re-institute this incorrect version each time the vandalism is removed. As a member of Platypus Rex I am able to confirm that my version is correct and Killertunes' is not, and the band's Web site at www.platypusrex.org includes a bio quite contrary to his information. -Jyaus 15:32, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Attempting to disrupt dispute settlement [43] between User:Nobs01 & User:Cberlet, complaints from other users. nobs 05:36, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

  • Dvirgueza (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- Constantly adds enormous, copyrighted pics to dozens of pages, along with spamming links to fansites and deleting big chunks of text (and often infoboxes) with no reason. Has been warned over a dozen times, and blocked briefly (during which he may have changed IPs). --InShaneee 02:47, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Update: user is now reverting pages back to his (vandalized versions), and reverting anyone who attempts to change things. --InShaneee 02:39, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
      • Update: Following a two day block, he's continuing doing the exact same things as before. --InShaneee 03:03, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Dirty Animals is adding obscene pictures of animals to user pages. See an example. I am reverting his edits. - grubber 12:36, 2005 August 3 (UTC)

I also added him to WP:AN/I. Ryan 12:38, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
  • Sherurcij (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- Leaves horrible, obscene edit summaries despite repeated friendly warnings. Has been removing speedy delete notices from experiments and vandal stubs and replacing them with stub notices without expanding the articles any further beyond the obscene summaries. To his credit, he did expand an article at Alfred Boucher after he threatened to "kick my ass" in the edit summary for tagging a five-word, incomplete sentence for speedy deletion. I won't take this idiocy from this user any more. - Lucky 6.9 22:13, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
They're surly responses to articles I see listed for Speedy Delete that really shouldn't be, I've contributed to every single 'stub' I've removed a Speedy Delete tag from, and it wasn't a personal threat to kick your ass, it was a poetically-refrained attempt at livening things up with edit summaries among a bunch of people who slap a Speedy Delete on an artist or historical character because they're too lazy to use google and make it a proper stub like I do. I suggest you view stub histories, before running off to mommy and daddy crying that I improved stubs and used a bad word in my summary Sherurcij 22:20, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
  • I'll let that comment speak for itself. Except for the example I cited, no improvements were made. - Lucky 6.9 22:25, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Sashanan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- Continues to troll VfD with a bogus article about Sashanan, a non-existent Dutch myth. In reality, the page is a thinly disguised attack page. The VfD is infested with sockpuppets and this user continues, in a rather articulate manner, to defend the existence of this myth. - Lucky 6.9 22:26, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Has been blocked for 24 hours. --20:59, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
  • BunkyBoopy (talk • contribs • block) User has a history of vandalism. In particular he has been warned in the past about Natalee Holloway that I just reverted an article blanking on.ZeWrestler Talk 20:08, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Reverted it twice now. The second time he wrote in his blanking "ZeWrestler's mom sucks a good dick."--ZeWrestler Talk 20:09, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Low

Taken from: [46]--Muchosucko 20:47, 13 August 2005 (UTC)


  • 217.43.154.52 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log). Vandalised Yahoo! article - see history. Also using wikipedia for advertising. Adding previewseek all over see contributions. --84.48.119.171 08:06, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
    • The Yahoo! edit looks like a newbie mistake. I've reverted it. I've also suggested to the user that they cut back on the links to previewseek, and we'll see how that article goes on its Vfd.-gadfium 08:47, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Ronald20 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) has occasionally done good edits, but has also been adding lots of nonsense to mostly TV and radio-oriented articles. The same misinformation about a "Stairway to Death" has been inserted and then reverted from the CBS Columbia Square article several times. I don't think this user has ever discovered his user or talk page, so he will have never seen the warnings that he has already received (vanity, test1, test2, test3). Perhaps a brief banning may be in order. NOTE: I have reason to believe that this is also the IP 204.108.96.10 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) that is listed above. BlankVerse ∅ 14:08, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
    • I've also noticed that the contributions from the IP 204.108.88.10 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) are similar to the others. The IP that you listed was given an "overdue" block recently for similar disruptions. In addition, I've seen similar contributions from other IP's that fit this description. This user must be stopped. ErikNY 14:29, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
      • He's at it again today!. I've just wasted a bunch of my "Wikipedia time" (again!) reverting him. Please, please, please give him a 24 hr. block to see if that might give him the message. BlankVerse ∅ 05:47, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
        • I've been cleaning up his crap today too. Can we get rid of him please? This is a pain in the butt. Jlam4911 09:27, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
          • I just wasted more of my time. He even deleted a message that I left for him as a comment in one of the articles that he regularly edits (see [47]). Do I need to move this user to Moderate to get him blocked? BlankVerse ∅ 14:46, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
            • More shit today! There were a few good edits, but also the usual bunch of nonsense ones, plus he has also progressed to page blanking (see [48]). I QUIT!!!!! If nobody is going to block him or page protect the articles that he keeps adds nonsense to, I don't BLEEPing care anymore. BlankVerse ∅ 10:36, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
  • 202.138.112.252 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) is on prowl - found him inserting nonsense in some articles. --Bhadani 14:43, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
  • dburrick (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) has done nothing but post links to his fantasy football web page on the pages of many NFL players. I strongly believe that before all their edits were undone, user was "65.115.11.2" who did the exact same thing to many of the same pages. --MJR 18:56, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

161.53.156.3 (talk • contribs • block) attacking User:Canderson7 in shit, oral sex..Cate 09:53, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Sockpuppets

This just one user out of many. Cool Jared (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) did the same thing. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 07:53, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
Also likely to include Goodboy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log).
By all means, continue to draw attention to your re-creation of deleted material and repeated removal of delete tags from an article you created. It will get the material removed from Wikipedia again that much faster. —Cryptic (talk) 18:57, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
Grand Theft Auto IV is a shore to come out as Harry Potter: Book Seven, Both should be left on Wikipedia! - Agent003