Jump to content

Wikipedia:Requests for investigation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 80.134.121.126 (talk) at 10:57, 28 February 2004. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.


This page helps responsible users to prevent vandalism from taking place. List a contributor by IP or username, if they have vandalized the Wikipedia.

Note: Please add new alerts at the top of the "Current alerts" list.

Two levels of urgency

If you want to alert everyone, leave the "minor edit" option unchecked. Be careful: this is the default.

If the listing doesn't require a immediate response, please be sure to check the "minor edit" option.

Format

You can use the format under the Current Alerts heading: IP address, pages touched, damage done. For a more comprehensive guide for dealing with different types of vandalism, see Dealing with vandalism.


Blocks and other tools

For a list of currently blocked IPs and usernames and the reason why they were blocked, visit: Special:Ipblocklist. Tools for finding information on an IP number:

Cautions and alternatives

However, please do not label isolated instances of text deletions, replacements or odd additions as VANDALISM unless they seem intentionally overly lewd or offensive. More often than not, this is just a visitor to the site experimenting with how to use it (also see newbie test) -- labeling them as a VANDAL is a sure way of ensuring they will not become contributors. Only add alerts to this page of true VANDALISM such as a systematic attack on several articles. If you suspect an edit may be vandalism but are unsure, don't hesitate to list the edit on Wikipedia:RC patrol where it can be scrutinised by other editors. Above all, please be polite at first and give the person the benefit of the doubt until they prove they deserve otherwise.

If you need help or think someone else does, please leave a note at Wikipedia:clueless newbies.

Please note that deliberate vandalism of this page is likely to lead to you being blocked from editing Wikipedia.

If you disagree with someone's edits, please see the following pages:


Note: Please add new alerts at the top of the "Current alerts" list.

Current alerts

12.65.0.242

Blocked by Bcorr, Pakaran: (blocked "12.65.0.242" with an expiry time of 1 hour -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 03:36, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

65.0.168.180

contributions
In the article mental illness the first line reads "A big fat shit is a psychiatric disorder..." But in the edit history the last editor is user:Jwrosenzweig who reverted a similar vandalism by 65.0.168.180 . big fat shit is wikilinked, but the corresponding article exists, but contains no text and has no edit history. And when i try to edit mental illness the word reads not big fat shit but mental illness and is not wikilinked. This is scary. I just succeeded correcting the problem by replacing "mental illness² with "mental illness". And no, this is not a strange script on my own computer, the word mental illnesslooks perfectly normal wherever else in wikipedia it is. This is scary. Lady Tenar 00:41, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

    • It looks normal to me... I don't see an edit by you, so I don't know what it was. Evil saltine 00:50, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

66.47.62.78

  • (User:66.47.62.78 | talk | contributions)
    • Someone block this IP. This is banned user H.J. (Helga Jonat) (see User:Maximus Rex/banned users#User:H.J.). --Wik 21:17, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)
    • Done. Editors may wish to review and revert edits as needed. -- The Anome 22:23, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
      • His/her contributions are no vandalism, but an IHMO substantive correction of facts, though with a German point of view (also known from 24.2.152.139, Cautious, Gdansk, Space Cadet etc. who give a Polish point of view). It would be rather appropriate to ban user Wik for continuous slander.80.134.121.126 10:57, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

142.179.205.136

  • (User:142.179.205.136 | talk | contributions) - vandalizing 2004 and others at a rate of more than one edit per minute, in need of immediate banning otherwise reverting is useless
    • Banned. I noted "childish vandalism, very widespread", which will hopefully send the message. Jwrosenzweig 16:59, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

160.81.245.78

129.97.94.117

24.172.0.211

User:Wikighost

User:Yomher

  • (User:Yomher | talk | contributions) vandalised Pound sterling by systematically changing the dates of the 1940s-1960s devaluations by 10 years, and changing the name of the appropriate administration (and showed the edits as minor). Reverted. Please keep an eye open for his activities. -- Arwel 20:49, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

64.166.23.120

24.130.19.209

Vandalism of Holocaust article. Gamaliel 23:02, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

160.39.225.148

Keeps replacing page content with "MARK SUCKS" Perl 20:42, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

  • I blocked 160.39.225.148 after the user vandalized 20 times in 30 minutes. My first blockage of 2004. Alas. Kingturtle 20:45, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

216.186.33.4

  • (User:216.186.33.4 | talk | contributions)
    • Posing as automated deletion process at Hesperos in comment and blanking page - Texture 21:49, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • He received the boilerplate sometime ago, and then I warned him again. I have now blocked him.Tuf-Kat 21:50, Feb 20, 2004 (UTC)

Paul Vogel/65.125.10.66/24.45.99.191/216.99.245.171b

IMO User:24.45.99.191 User talk:24.45.99.191 contributions has passed POV problems in asserting his neo-Nazi agenda and revert wars and crossed into vandalism. -- Infrogmation 21:10, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

If we aren't ready to ban him, can we get a protect for Hate speech without his inserted discussions? Thanks - Texture 21:39, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
This person (Paul Vogel) is now being incredibly persistent in adding 2 apologist paragraphs to variety of articles relating to white supremacists. A number of us have done more than 3 reverts to each article. He's now left a message on my talk page basically challenging me to revert him again on separatism. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 21:42, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

12.65.18.142

All this guy has done is to delete and vandalize pages. Please block him! --Vikingstad 09:14, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Blocked. Check Wikipedia:Block log and Special:Ipblocklist. Dysprosia 09:16, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

142.26.48.42/57

replaced Haida mythology with 'dicks'. Ausir

Possibly returned as *(User:142.26.48.57 | talk | contributions)

replaced Haida mythology with cut and paste paragraph on quasars May be a clueless newbie, but similarity to previous vandalism is suspicious to me.

It's the same person - only the ending of the IP is different. Must be connecting with some kind of dial-up... Ausir

202.88.133.253

Blanked Wiki and part of Software engineering --Phil 12:48, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)

205.188.208.8 + 198.81.26.7

Systematicially removing wikilinks from List of phobias. Why? --Phil 11:06, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)

Lir and 168

The DNA article and the related Talk page are currently in a Kaffkaesque imbroglio, each being reverted by the minute.

69.70.126.66

Several edits, 100% vandalism.

67.123.74.199

Serious vandalism of Biology.24.9.165.0

68.149.75.40

Repeated vandalism of Swing (dance), added "leigh is an awesome dancer" and some profanity to the title. 24.9.165.0

62.127.*

Various IP addresses, including 62.157.25.216. Started by vandalising Europanto, has also created Amerikopanto. We can't block this one as they continually shift IPs, rarely making more than one edit from a single IP. They have now tried to make a complaint on Wikipedia:RC Patrol. Morwen 22:16, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

65.125.10.66

Keeps adding WARNING: MOST OF THIS ARTICLE IS JUST MARXIST-PC POV PROPAGANDA! to White supremacy. Mrdice 18:57, 2004 Feb 13 (UTC)

62.171.194.8/9/36/38/42

Repeated vandalism of W and Z bosons, inserting various off-colour comments. --Phil 14:35, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)

205.188.209.42

(User:205.188.209.42 | talk | contributions)

Has been making a series of off-color edits and general vandalisms intermittently over the past several months on several pages, such as Zoe and Painting. Arno 08:06, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

203.97.231.210

User:203.97.231.210 | talk | contributions seems to be deleting all references to "Celts" in British history. RickK 05:19, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

It seems a little more complex than that, though there seems to be some advocating of a specific POV going on ... —Morven 01:45, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

68.6.105.88

User:68.6.105.88 | talk | contributions - Inserting vulgarity and other vandalism into Curse of the Bambino - Texture 21:21, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

James Horner article

The James Horner article (about the film composer) seems to have been removed, history and all. Moreover, its talk page not only has an obscenity on it, but has been protected, though it is not on the list of protected pages. I don't see any discussion of this in the usual places (unless there's a usual place I'm just unaware of). What's going on here? -mhr 18:58, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The talk page is not actually protected, it just had the protected msg. As for the article, it may never have existed. --No-One Jones 19:03, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I'm sure the article existed. I've read it before (which is why the change to the talk page was showing up in my Watchlist today), and there was even a debate on the talk page about including some content from an external Web site (possibly here, but I'm not certain), which the author of said site wanted to include. It's a bit disturbing that it seems to have up-and-vanished... -mhr 20:52, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
It did indeed exist. Snoyes deleted it in December as it was apparently a copyvio. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:38, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I'll write up a new page. Taco 02:44, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:207.44.154.35

User:207.44.154.35 | talk | contributions) - User is adding reference to List of new pages to many articles. This user created the List of new pages and is attempting to add whatever he finds to it. - Texture 16:17, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:216.109.1.226

-User:216.109.1.226 | talk | contributions)

-Adding nonsense to Ariel Sharon, all other edits look suspect as well. Secretlondon 22:34, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

User:216.109.1.221 | talk | contributions) appears to be the same contributor. What may make this contributor unique is that they vandalising articles on Israel, from an Israeli POV. Secretlondon 22:47, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

User:80.76.41.98 contributions

also User:80.76.41.85 contributions

Thes IPs has been randomly blanking bits of articles, redirecting articles to other articles, adding random texts and so on. I think they are experimenting, but we've tried to contact them and its so disruptive it appears to be vandalism... Morwen 21:46, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

It seems to have stopped. Perhaps they got the message? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 23:02, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

213.16.152.175

User:213.16.152.175 is going about blanking pages: contributions) Jor 21:13, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

24.44.86.255

(talk | contribs)

Repeatedly vandalizing monism, blanked my talk page twice.

  • Threatened to expand vandalism further. Blocked. Keep an eye out for that other IP on monism, I believe it to be the same vandal. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 19:10, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Appears to be back as 65.125.10.66 (talk | contributions). Also tried to remove Dante Alighieri's message above.

User:130.88.96.66

Removing some paragraphs from articles related to Shiite Islam and Iran without providing any comments. Roozbeh 03:40, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

(User:130.88.96.66 | talk | contributions)

Vandalism by User:DJ Clayworth and User:Davidcannon???

Moved to Wikipedia:Conflicts between users

(User:131.247.156.94 | talk | contributions)

This seems to be hard-banned auto-revert User:JoeM. Same style, same target of articles. This IP address also edited the Jean Chretien article, which JoeM was vandalizing. 172 02:22, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Although they (131.247.156.94 [sar94.resnet.usf.edu]) made POV edits, they do not seem similar to JoeM to me. Maximus Rex 02:36, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
You're right, we don't have enought evidence for a ban just yet, but we still need to keep an eye on him/her just in case. If this user's not JoeM, it's a big coincidence that you have another user writing about marijuana usage in the Jean Chretien article while adding emotive language in Communist-related articles. Leftwing dictators attract hard-core POV all the time (from both left and right); JoeM is not unique in that regard. But Chretien and marijuana! That's a far more obscure topic!. Don't ban, just keep watching. 172 04:04, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)~

User:203.91.159.4

Vandalized List of Pakistanis by adding "traitor" to Abdul Qadeer Khan. Perhaps not a vandal, but by doing so, it changed the link to Abdul Qadeer Khan-traitor which doesn't exist. DigiBullet 02:05, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:198.174.223.20

Consistent garbage added to new junk article Sperry Electric Company - Texture 20:02, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

  • If he recreated that article (for what would be a fourth time, I believe) he's going to get blocked. Pakaran. 20:04, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Many IPs

There seems to be a recent mini-flood of vandalism, I need to head elsewhere for a few hours, please keep your eyes peeled. Mostly anon IPs, but they might get clever. --Dante Alighieri 19:30, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

66.189.92.121

66.189.92.121 contributions) Waging scorched-earth campaign against US in Middle East and History of Yugoslavia and other pages. -- Decumanus 00:20, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:168.221.143.68

Infantile edits to Cowboy. I have left a warning on talk page. Bmills 09:20, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:67.35.233.102

contributions) Actively replacing text with profanity. Elf 02:45, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Has been blocked. RickK 03:16, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:01213339999

| User talk:01213339999 | User contributions - blanked this page with spelling correction as summary. Bmills 12:58, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Seems to be quiet now, but an eye should probably kept out. [User:Dysprosia|Dysprosia]] 13:02, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
He is quiet because I blocked him and (for good measure) his alias. Thanks for the heads-up, Bmills. Tannin 13:11, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I'd have blocked them myself, but you were too quick for me. Bmills 13:19, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:24.150.85.30

User:24.150.85.30 - I noticed this guy adding "rainbow is for faggots" to rainbow and removing it a minute later. Then he added racist comment to South Windsor, Connecticut. Would this constitute vandalism - or maybe just testing for waters? - Nilmerg 12:07, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

  • Vandalism that should be deleted and blocked. RickK 03:21, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:195.92.67.77 and User:195.92.67.78

Hello? Anything besides just the User names? RickK 03:22, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

139.142.154.129

(User:139.142.154.129 | talk | contributions)

Making repeated profane vandalism to Ramapough Mountain Indians today.-- Decumanus 21:49, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

  • Blocked after being warned (nasty guy). Muriel 21:59, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

213.232.79.66

(User:213.232.79.66 | talk | contributions)

A few minor vandalisms to Banbury and Doctor Who but spread out over a five-hour span. -- Decumanus 10:10, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)


68.3.34.174

(User:68.3.34.174 | talk | contributions)

Childish sex-talk replacing pages including Silent Snow, Secret Snow, apparently other pages too.Zuytdorp Survivor 02:51, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

62.244.138.110

(User:62.244.138.110 | talk | contributions)

Polish nationalist trying to destroy the introduction of Gdansk and the worked out compromise. -- Nico 06:21, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Just to warn you: His edit comments are always misleading. -- Nico 06:30, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

62.244.138.110 has now created the sock puppet User:Gdansk. Nico 07:12, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:Mr paul g

(User:Mr paul g | talk | contributions) - keeps creating a non-sense article at Maura cronin. Has been warned twice. Dori | Talk 00:29, Feb 3, 2004 (UTC)

68.81.198.162

(User:68.81.198.162 | talk | contributions). Only vandalism edits and blankage, Torresian Crow, Spider, Latin declension, Children of Bodom. --Lexor 09:16, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)


User:Putamadre1234

(User:Putamadre1234 | talk | contributions). Only vandalism edits. Has previously created IEEE 802.7 several times with only insults as contents, previously with the anonymous IP 213.60.177.225 - always deleted quickly. Now the user account is blocked. andy 10:08, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

The user name is offensive anyway, and should be deleted. RickK 03:54, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

  • puta madre translates best from Spanish as whore mother, Is this a username we really need on this site? Pakaran. 04:04, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • This user has already been blocked. Do you mean you want to delete the account? If you do that, it will no longer be blocked. Angela. 04:12, Jan 29, 2004 (UTC)

User:Mariusz Marcel Ernst

(User:Mariusz Marcel Ernst | talk | contributions) Only edits seem to be adding self in article space (List of Germans for example ), and childish vandalism re User:Secretlondon/User:Secretlondon/Children. Immediate block perhaps? Dysprosia 20:07, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I left him a polite note asking him not to add himself to these lists - and he declared war on me :( Secretlondon 20:13, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)
Probably an indication that this user may not saddle up and fly right...blocked now Dysprosia Dysprosia 20:15, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Returning under lots of (mostly obvious) user names which tend to get blocked by multiple people within the first minute, but still being a royal pain. Pakaran. 21:34, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

141.209.33.144

Moved to User talk:141.209.33.144

192.251.125.40

(User:192.251.125.40 | talk | contributions) - Continues to vandalize Oil for Food - UtherSRG 04:04, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

12.218.226.33

(User:12.218.226.33 | Talk | Contribs) added content with profanic language to Isaac Newton. Adding a warning. Ilyanep 22:04, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

203.174.141.71

(User:203.174.141.71 | talk | contributions) defaces pages Ghariexem

It don't think that posting a copyright violation into a article is defacement, nor is it vandalism. The articcle in question (Sant Cassia) is now reverted to the original state, except a few wikifications. andy 12:50, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

68.88.148.59

(User: 68.88.148.59 | Talk | Contribs) Is repeadedly blanking, adding stuff about farts, etc. to Electrical Resistance. I'm adding a warning (This is on the record). Ilyanep 02:23, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

62.254.0.18

(User: 62.254.0.18 | Talk | Special:Contributions/62.254.0.18) is repeadedly blanking pages or adding spam... Mine is now the second or third warning. If this doesn't stop, I say we ban him/her.Ilyanep 01:44, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I don't see anything in his contributions that show that he's done anything like this today. RickK 01:55, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Just posting him here in case he decides to do that again. Ilyanep 21:59, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

81.137.90.137, 217.215.25.182, and 80.200.12.45

(User:81.137.90.137 | talk | contributions) (User:217.215.25.182 | talk | contributions) (User:80.200.12.45 | talk | contributions) All of whom appear to be the same person. In all cases , a series of unwanted and offcolour additions involving goat sex were made to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks article. It's probably the same persistant soul who has been making these contributions in the past. Arno 23:39, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

First IP is a dutch company, Second is Sweedish, Third is Belgian. In any case, they are all foreign, which makes it highly likely that they are all the same. Ilyanep 01:02, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

195.92.168.172,174,175

(User:195.92.168.174 | talk | contributions ) is wiping others' comments from talk pages -- see [1]. Needs close watching.

Keeps adding "a hobby for middle-class women, who have plenty of spare time since abandoning traditional activities like sewing and cooking." to Feminism, despite being told not to.

May want to count in (User:195.92.168.172 | talk | contributions) - seem to work in tandem or something. They don't seem to quite get NPOV. Dysprosia 14:43, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Current Feminism article is simply a celebration of an ideology with no balance
Whatever. If you want to criticise, read this article, understand it, and then go ahead and criticise according to this policy. Otherwise, we cannot accept your contributions. Dysprosia 14:48, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I have read and understood - I suggest you do the same

(User:195.92.168.175 | talk | contributions) mere vandalism, page blanking, falsification of user comments: seems to have it in for Secretlondon: IP now blocked -- The Anome 16:37, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

69.91.15.70

(User:69.91.15.70 | talk | contributions) repeatedly turning Landmark Education into an advert. Secretlondon 22:24, Jan 24, 2004 (UTC)

81.49.157.87

(User:81.49.157.87 | talk | contributions) Repeatedly adding an advert to their web site on Lebanon, Aranes. Also seems to be (User:Aranes | talk | contributions) Secretlondon 22:20, Jan 24, 2004 (UTC)

User:81.50.52.205 appears to be the same person as well. WormRunner 08:10, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC) User:80.14.115.141 also WormRunner 00:51, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

207.165.135.37/207.165.135.113 etc

(User:207.165.135.37 | talk | contributions)| (User:207.165.135.113 | talk | contributions) seems to have a dislike for Jimmy Page, and other edits made by user Leanne. Looking at the edit history I suspect it maybe a Wikipedia regular hiding behind a non-login address. Iam 01:05, Jan 24, 2004 (UTC)

Well, the second of these IP addresses you list hasn't made any contributions for well over a year, and the first only has two recent ones. Are there any others that also display this activity, ideally recent? -- Finlay McWalter 01:56, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)

204.39.94.9

(User:204.39.94.9 | talk | contributions) adding swear words to prohibition (reverted by me), and nonsense and rude words to current events (about to be reverted by me). Fabiform 17:02, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)


207.44.154.35

(User:207.44.154.35 | talk | contributions) has been vandalizing my revisions in World Series of Poker and they have resorted to using inappropriate and foul language against me and keeps changing the page everytime I revert it back to the correct wikipage. Misterrick, 23:55, 12 January, 2004 (UTC).

He's back, 207.44.154.35 has now vandalized Atlantic City, New Jersey claiming that it was commercialized. If he or anyone else does not like the information contained on a Wikipedia page then he should post his dispute on that page's 'Discuss this page' area and not just blatantly delete material without discussing it first. Misterrick 22:36, 20 January, 2004 (UTC)
He's had enough warnings, and responds only with profanity. I've blocked him. Misterrick - post here again if he resurfaces after the block expires. -- Finlay McWalter 22:58, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
More vandalism occured by 207.44.154.35 this time on 22 January, 2004 at 02:21 (UTC) again in the Wikipage Atlantic City, New Jersey it was reverted back by Salsa Shark. I could not confirm this but this could be another anonymous web surfing site used to attack Wikipedia. Is there anyway we can easily identify the anonymous web surfing IP addresses and permanently ban or at least make it so that these IP address can only be used with a registered Wiki account and if someone tries to edit a page from an anonymous web surfing service without logging in they will get the following error message: "We're sorry but this IP address is restricted. To access Wikipedia services you must either log into your account or access the Wikipedia website from a non-anonymous IP address. Thank you for your understanding."
I am personally getting tired of having to revert pages back because someone thinks it's funny to continuously vandalize the Wikipedia pages. Misterrick 03:10, 22 January, 2004 (UTC).
Salsa blocked him again (and I did too!). Man, does he kiss his mother with that mouth? -- Finlay McWalter 03:32, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
207.44.154.35 strikes again (Twice actually) in the Atlantic City, New Jersey wikipage, once at 06:55, 23 January, 2004 (UTC), Page was reverted back by Jiang and then again at 06:57, 23 January, 2004 (UTC), Page was reverted back by Snoyes. Misterrick, 07:12, 22 January, 2004 (UTC).

207.44.154.35 is back and on Meta and zapping pages. 2003, Feb, 10.

207.44.154.35 has placed SPAM up on the mainpage of Wikiquote, which I reverted, and I noticed he has done the same at the Hindie Wikipedia… I have not checked much else yet. —Kalki 08:56, 2004 Feb 11 (UTC)

User:Notavandal & 12.29.206.254

(User:Notavandal | talk | contributions) and (User:12.29.206.254 | talk | contributions) appear to be the same vandal, as both have edited the same pages) within a span of mere minutes. Repeatedly. Hadal 20:22, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

68.83.252.253

(User:68.83.252.253 | talk | contributions) vandalising Euclidean domain -- Finlay McWalter 13:19, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

66.185.84.206

(User:66.185.84.206 | talk | contributions) Has been periodically adding links to celebrity porn sites on those celebrities articles. - UtherSRG 21:30, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)


Mr-Natural-Health

(User:Mr-Natural-Health | talk | contributions) is vandalizing the Wikipedia:Conflicts between users/Mr-Natural-Health page, and confesses that he will continue to do so:

Excuse me Troll, but adding material is not moving matieral. I will delete anything that they added that was not moved. Just thought that a Troll like you might want to know. -- Mr-Natural-Health 04:49, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

216.211.50.21

(User:216.211.50.21 | talk | contributions). Creating nonsense articles then re-adding them when they're deleted. Adding nonsense to existing articles. RickK 04:22, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

193.251.169.169

(User:193.251.169.169 | talk | contributions) This vandal repeatedly (for the 2nd time in 2 days) replaces occurences of the word "Palestinian" with "ISRAELI" in the article Terrorism against Israelis. No comments left, no constructive contributions either. This is intentional and offensive. Humus sapiens 22:06, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

128.12.53.90

User 128.12.53.90 is systematically removing passages from articles on political subjects with which he obviously disagrees. He is making no comments on his changes, is not making edit summaries, and is not saying anything on the Talk pages of the articles. RickK 03:41, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

66.75.39.3

User:66.75.39.3 | talk | contributions is messing with fertile crescent

66.81.121.244

(User:66.81.121.244 | talk | contributions) - User continues to add page deleted by admins. - UtherSRG 03:14, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

12.77.83.172

(User:12.77.83.172 | talk | contributions) - This user is currently vandalizing Sulphuric acid. - UtherSRG 02:54, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

66.98.130.76

(User:66.98.130.76 | talk | contributions). I'm not sure if this is vandalism per se and would welcome others' opinions. 66.98.130.76 has recently been modifying a considerable number of articles (see contributions) to insert "Her Majesty", "His Royal Highness" etc before every reference to a member of the British Royal Family. Either this is vandalism, or the editor is being extremely pedantic. Either way, I am strongly inclined to revert all his recent edits. Opinions? -- Arwel 02:53, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I saw the same things, and left it alone in deference to what is going on with the Peerage discussion. However, my inclination would have been to revert. Not sure this helps at all. :) Fuzheado 02:55, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Only slightly! :) Thanks for reverting his changes to Caernarfon - his references to the Welsh form of the name being wrong were politically offensive and make me less likely to view his other changes in a charitable light... Arwel 03:03, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I reviewed his previous edits, which were all vandalism and quickly reverted, so I decided to revert all these too. If anyone objects, they can of course always be restored... -- Arwel 03:46, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

66.124.101.229

(User:66.124.101.229 | talk | contributions) Is systematically going through articles relating to Russian Communism (Bolshevik, Joseph Stalin, Leon Troksky etc) and adding anti-semitic comments about the supposed "Jewish-Communist World Empire" conspiracy. This should be a "revert on sight", I think. -- ChrisO 11:31, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

4.63.109.118

Is adding garbage and jokatory statements to articles.

  • User will be blocked if this continues. I've warned him twice. Pakaran 02:30, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

195.238.32.0/19

195.238.50.251, 195.238.50.252, 195.238.48.12, 195.238.48.13,

Probably the same vandal trying again with a new IP after the previous one is blocked. Keep an eye on this network block. andy 11:30, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
One determined fella. Fuzheado 11:36, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
But he had to stop once he used 4 of the 5 available proxies of that ISP. But I now lifted the block on these IPs, as our User:Anjouli uses the same ISP and cannot edit anymore. andy 15:53, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

213.122.0.0/16

(User:213.122.86.57 | talk | contributions)

Comes back every day or so and puts a sick 'joke' on Western Wall. Dynamic pool of 65,536 IP addresses, so blocking is rather pointless. A note from a wikipedia.org address to abuse@btinternet.com might help, but probably won't. Salsa Shark 16:55, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)


68.114.236.197 and 68.114.237.74

(User:68.114.236.197 | talk | contributions) (User:68.114.237.74 | talk | contributions)

They keep inserting into random insulting text directed towards some people named Becky and Elliot into The_end_of_World_War_II_in_Europe. It's been reverted twice, once by me and once by User:Mark. These edits are as of yet their only contributions. PMC 03:23, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

80.136.106.79

(User:80.136.106.79 | talk | contributions)
(User:80.136.103.40 | talk | contributions)
(User:80.136.98.222 | talk | contributions) is constantly blanking Kaliningrad. -- Nico 23:52, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

...and Königsberg, and Samland -- Finlay McWalter 00:03, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)
And even Seven Bridges of Königsberg. He have a particular interest for that city. The IP seems to be German.
He's also blanking that article in other languages, for instance: de (blanked four times by now)

199.235.112.238

(User:199.235.112.238 | talk | contributions) Canadian Pacific Railway History of Chinese immigrants Pacific scandal

131.191.48.115

(User:131.191.48.115 | talk | contributions) Four of his eight edits (Four of seven if you don't count the sandbox) have been vandalism, including: User:Ed Poor, Columbine (Bizarrely enough, he actually added a bunch of information to the page before blanking it), Wikipedia:Help, and nerd. Nothing to panic about, just making a note. PMC 04:55, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

24.193.115.241

(User:24.193.115.241 | talk | contributions) Created useless insult page F.o.b. This is his only contribution as of yet... PMC 05:10, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I deleted it (patent nonsense). -- Finlay McWalter 12:13, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

142.177.114.228

(User:142.177.114.228 | talk | contributions) appears to be EoT back again. EoT knows he is hard-banned for previous repeated misbehavior and his contributions are unwelcome here until he can persuade Jimbo to lift the ban. Please feel free to revert/delete as necessary. Reverse DNS is hlfx64-2a-228.ns.sympatico.ca.

My reply copied from User talk:The Anome: "That's kind of amusing. I noticed a while ago that I had accidentally made the range 142.177.71.0 to 142.177.114.0 instead of to 142.177.114.255. But, I thought, that's only 2% of the range, what are the chances of him being allocated one of those IP addresses? Well the chances are pretty high if he dials up and tries to edit pages a few times per day for a couple of months. The words "get a life" come to mind. I've fixed the range." -- Tim Starling 01:46, Jan 8, 2004 (UTC)

209.174.15.139

(User:209.174.15.139 | talk | contributions) has been vandalising Wikipedia twice today, and in recent days Linguistics, Tourism, and Family and consumer science. Warned off by Maximus Rex. -- Arwel 18:59, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

66.66.83.63

(User:66.66.83.63 | talk | contributions) Vandalized Dialectician, replacing the article with "A dialectician is a made up term to describe a terribly flawed world view. See "Universal Dialectics." Also vandalized Universal Dialectic in a similar manner. This user is very likely the same person who, using different IPs, has been repeatedly vandalizing articles associated with pantheism. This user has a history of such vandalism at other sites, having been banned from more than 20 message boards and forums. Naturyl 19:05, 3 Jan 2004

user:67.74.81.250

Fidel Castro and Che Guevara On both pages, this user blanked the page, but the reverts have occured. It seems that a great deal of vandalism on these pages has been coming from this or a similar IP. punkchePunkche 20:50, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User 203.167.214.42

This user has reappeared having been away since August (or operating from a diff IP) when he vandalised pages. He blanked Hone Heke yesterday, which I reverted. Moriori 23:55, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

Persistent Vandalism

192.139.27.18

User:192.139.27.18: Several, occasional incidents over the last three months; most recently The Scorpions. Andy Mabbett 17:45, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

137.94.11.222 / 205.189.49.40

is consistently vandalising Indian independence movement and Subash Chandra Bose with his PoV. The user seems to be ignorant of the usage of his/the article's talk page, and never reads the edit summaries. He has not responded to any request to consider rephrasing or properly substantiating his claims.

He sometimes blanks the article page to post his comments and has consistently in the past used (and has been warned for using) copyrighted material for presenting his case. A case in point is his repeated insistence in adding Swami Vivekananda to the list of Indian freedom leaders, and his blanking the contents of Subash Chandra Bose in the past (Without any substantial evidence, that would at least make it a NPOV dispute and could be dealt with)

There seems to be no way we can communicate to this user and reach a compromise. The user has not made any other worthwhile contribution to wikipedia. I advocate banning this user's IP address. chance 09:15, Dec 3, 2003 (UTC)

  • A consistent vandal, comes back almost everyday to make the same changes. Also has used the IP 205.189.49.40 . Has been vandalising regularly since 17 Nov, the latest being 5 Dec. Is exploring and moving on to newer pages. Jay 22:10, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • 205.189.49.40 has been vandalising Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in the pattern same as above. Requires immediate blocking. Jay 08:23, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
      • I see 4 acts of vandalism over 24 hours - how does this "require immediate blocking?" -- Pakaran 08:26, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
        • I don't know. But, 137. shows no signs of tiring. He may not be a vandal who believes in blitzkrieg attacks, but as can be seen from his yesterday's edit in the Indian independence movement page he is madly persistent - saying the same things all over again, and my, what a nauseating plagiarist he is! This fellow cannot even bring himself up to defend what he says, with a few words of his own. I am sick of this attitude. I bet he is waiting for us to tire of him, and let him do all he wants, however stupid that may sound. If this is not persistent vandalism, what is? Something has to be done about this. Maybe a protection request for the pages, and not allow others edit? To protect the articles from one single person? chance 08:44, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)
        • 137's contribution for 9th Dec was the vandalising of Mahatma Gandhi. Protection of pages won't help as there's no dearth of articles for him to play with. Maybe ban the two IPs and check if he comes up with new ones. Jay 09:12, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
      • The requests of non-anonymous users who have clearly been investing a lot of time undoing the damage of an anonymous user should be honored as soon as possible. Peak 08:48, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
      • 137's at it again (on Indian independence movement! Grrrr. The 137.* address is registered to Royal Military College, Ontario, so we'll have to keep an eye out for Good Guys who get banned too. The other address is an ISP. Could someone please block this guy? Gaurav 17:47, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
      • And.... (Is it me who is getting annoyingly repetitive :-) ? )... again on Dec 12 in the articles, Indian independence movement and Swami Vivekananda. Seriously, when does a user get banned? How more serious should it be than this? One user who has done nothing to wikipedia for the last one month, except defacing the same set of articles still lurks around, quite freely. I would appreciate if some sysop takes note of this and suggest what should be done. It has been nearly two weeks, and nobody seems willing to check this user :-( chance 05:22, Dec 15, 2003 (UTC)

137.94.11.222 has been blocked. --mav 05:36, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

No longer blocked and he is back with his antics again in Indian independence movement. Has he been removed from Blocked IPs? I dont see the IP there. chance 04:55, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)
137.94.11.222 is still at it. Hadal 20:22, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
137.94.11.222 still vandalizing Wikipedia as of 9 Feb 2004. Ban his IP, at least. Connelly 08:10, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Repeated Vandalism by 12.64.etc/12.65.etc

Over a long period of time several hoaxes have been added to Wikipedia from these IP ranges. Many of these hoax articles seem perfectly reasonable at first glance, often mixing facts in with the fiction. One of their favorite targets seems to be LeAnn Rimes. Some have been in concert with User:199.248.201.253. I am not sure if they are from the same user, but they appear to be. Examples (very incomplete):

I am posting it here so that hopefully more people will see this. --Maximus Rex 08:17, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Someone needs to put this entire class C network on permanent ban. Repeated vandalism, all the same style, also many deleted pages that were hoaxes. First, the IPs that have histories (I checked every IP on the subnet). Daniel Quinlan 20:45, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)

add to the mix these pages which are deleted (or not, someone is restoring them against policy to delete obvious vandalism)


162.40.48.250

Showing below 50 results starting with #1.

05:44, 10 Feb 2004 Ivan IV of Russia
05:38, 9 Feb 2004 Ivan IV of Russia (1)
  • seems like died out. Mikkalai 18:12, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

66.36.249.149

Looooong history of vandalism. I don't see him here. Time to ban? Mikkalai 02:02, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:207.44.154.35

User:207.44.154.35 | talk | contributions) - User is adding reference to List of new pages to many articles. This user created the List of new pages and is attempting to add whatever he finds to it. - Texture 16:17, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

This IP has a long history of vandalism; check his contributions. Most recent targets: Village pump, IRC channel, software engineering, user interface engineering. --No-One Jones 21:36, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:206.163.247.95

Transhumanism and Magnetic levitation

i reverted transhumanism. let me know if i am handling this wrong.

User:210.68.149.241

Can someone sort out what he has put on, also how has an anonymous user slipped through the net on four occasions?

SimonMayer 06:18 21 Feb 2004

Anthony DiPierro

This user continue to try to vandalize the Al Gore page by removing pictures that have been uploaded by me. He did this about a month ago, and proved nothing. He does this for attention and to be a troll. User:ChrisDJackson

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_investigation&oldid=2562143"