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Current alerts

GrazingshipIV

Is repeatedly deleting comments on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/GrazingshipIV. Sam Spade 00:40, 12 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

User:Avala

Has been involved in lengthy edit war on Janez Drnovsek, adding in material that has been fairly conclusively shown to be unnoteworthy. Consensus in the talk page is obviously against these edits, and user has been becoming increasingly abusive in his or her reverts. Furthermore, he or she has begun reverting useful edits along with edits that were simple reverts of his or her posts. Snowspinner 19:48, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

User:24.92.25.45

Wealth of Engrish articles being created. I'm tagging for speedily deletion as fast as I can, and I suggested that, if English is not his first language, he might be better served on a foreign language Wikipedia, but someone with more strength than a normal user could do better than I can. Snowspinner 17:46, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

209.56.250.*

Not much to see at any one IP since they are being deleted quickly. This seems to be one or more users creating quick vandalism. I plan to block the IPs for a day or two if they continue. - Tεxτurε 16:38, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

199.67.138.20

  • (User:199.67.138.20 | talk | contributions) - Looks to be a concerted nonsense-creating campaign, cutting & pasting text from job ads into new articles., 14 so far! --Stormie 06:20, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
    • 21 so far.. can someone block this idiot? --Stormie 06:26, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
      • I do not think ViP is the appropriate place for this - it's very likely that this is a naive new user. Until some more good faith efforts are made to contact the user, they should get the benefit of the doubt. Which does not mean that these articles shouldn't be listed for deletion - they should, and they should be listed en masse. But I'm not willing to call it vandalism yet - it could be naivete. Snowspinner 06:29, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
        • Hmm, I think it is extremely unlikely that this is anything other than wilful vandalism OK, watching his further efforts, I am now willing to concede that this user may be naive (or insane), rather than an active vandal, but what "good faith" efforts can you make with an anonymous user who shows up and creates dozens of nonsense articles? You posted something on his talk page (far more politely than I would have I must say!), he has ignored it - I say block him and see if that makes him slow down and read your message. --Stormie 06:35, May 11, 2004 (UTC)

172.195.239.108

63.197.115.201


--Repeat offender, most recent action was to blank mesosphere Ellsworth 22:16, 10 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]


165.139.171.10

Vandalizing chess, World War II and more.

81.99.250.101

Appears to be a new user who's been messing around with Football (soccer) (a nice inconspicuous article!) and Juggling. Sandbox warning issued -- please keep an eye open on future activities. -- Arwel 22:24, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

68.93.154.150

Seems to be continuly vandlizing chess and some other pages.


User:128.235.242.52

Multiple, high-speed vandalism, replacing entire entry text with 'Nice work!' - including Starship Troopers, Tru Calling, User talk:Camembert and many others. -- Michael Warren 17:28, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

User:145.253.2.232

wannabe h4x0R, vandalism in Winny

User:4.16.225.107

Has also vandalised Gunpowder Plot and List of terrorist incidents, also Oklahoma City bombing. Looks related to User:24.1.124.128. --Stormie 04:52, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

They've both been blocked for 24 hours. RickK 04:54, 9 May 2004 (UTC) [reply]

User:24.1.124.128

Has vandalised AMIA Bombing, Gunpowder Plot and List of terrorist incidents so far, doesn't look like he's about to stop. --Stormie 04:45, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

User:69.196.28.153

Intent on inserting a very anti-Curtis Joseph POV in Curtis Joseph; ends with a plea for someone to injure said player. I've reverted him 3x today (Contributions). - jredmond 04:02, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

User:68.251.113.43

Adding nonsense to American Idol and Leonardo da Vinci. Andris 00:44, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

User:216.127.82.97

This person committed acts of vandalism to Oscar Goodman by removing a legitimate image and then claiming on Oscar Goodman and Wikipedia:Copyright problems that these were stolen images from a Las Vegas based newspaper. They also maybe using a non-registered username. After careful investigation I found out that this person was making their posts from an Anonymous Web Browsing Service called Guardster.com. I thought AWBS's are a big NO! NO! on Wikipedia? Misterrick 06:57, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

User:68.54.148.47

Vandalism to various articles, including Condoleezza Rice, Sexual Intercourse, Dildo, and Transsexual. Snowspinner 00:49, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

216.239.x.x

Repeated addition of controversial material to Paul Newman and Concordia University without citing respectable sources, as well as various minor vandalisms. -- Kimiko 00:42, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

User:Schadenfreude | talk | contributions

Blanking Five-Year Plan, Joseph Stalin and other pages. Andris 22:00, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

User:66.153.67.173

Vandalizing Lila Kedrova. Andris 21:57, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

User:Hephaestos

User:Hephaestos blanked my user page. pooya 16:42 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Here is the "attack" in question - David Gerard 21:15, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

User:Schroeder

Is on the rampage vandalizing/erasing a series of historical articles: (User:Schroeder | talk | contributions). Left him a msg:tst. --Humus sapiens|Talk 05:53, 7 May 2004 (UTC) Addition: User:SchroedingersCat is focusing his/its vandalism on the same series of articles. --Humus sapiens|Talk 05:57, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Unnamed

Unnamed user seems to have vandalised Bognor Regis probably for the 2nd time. Andycjp

User:64.12.116.83 and other addresses in 62.12.*

Blanking random pages, especially User:Maximus Rex's talk and user pages. Knows that he/she/it is vandalizing (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:64.12.116.83&curid=639693&diff=0&oldid=0). Maybe User:CoolDude from below? Paullusmagnus 02:06, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

213.157.194.83, 213.157.194.115, 213.157.209.203, 213.157.209.217, 213.157.209.234

These IPs have been apparently used by the same person to make similar "corrections" into several pages related to Caucasian languages, e.g. Laz language, Svan language, Megrelian language, South Caucasian languages, Iberian-Caucasian languages, and Caucasian. According to all the sources I have seen the "corrections" are incorrect and misleading, apparently attempts to present a distorted view of the linguistic situation of the Caucasus for political purposes. This person also insist on adding (suspect) ethnic classification comments to articles that are strictly about language.
Unfortunately the person refuses to cite his sources or provide any comment or justification whatsoever.
It is very likely that the person is this user who withdrew from Wikipedia a few days ago after having become the subject of several complaints.
Jorge Stolfi 06:05, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

User:24.19.6.250

Update: User is back at work in the past few days. Still reverting existant pages to junk pages on Xena characters. Snowspinner 03:40, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Long history of junk updates about characters who may be minor characters on Xena. Seems to overwrite legitimate mythological entries with them. Possible that updates are not even characters in Xena, but characters from an online RPG - see MediaWiki:VfD-Saraphine for discussion and evidence of this. Snowspinner 23:01, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

  • I agree...the user has even been contacted numerous times on his talk page, but has persisted without responding or adapting. Postdlf 3:26 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Not just mythological entries. See the history of Shasta. RickK 03:36, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • I'll see if I can make an afternoon of reverting any entries by this user to older forms then. /sigh. And I'd so much rather be talking about Kant or videogames, too. Snowspinner 05:56, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • I've looked into this a bit further, and after a random sampling, I am reasonably convinced that few of the characters user has added are actually characters in Xena - I feel that all articles contributed by user ought be deleted. Snowspinner 16:02, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I agree with Snowspinner, except that care must be taken in deleting, to ensure that overwritten valid content is restored. Recent examples, where I restored the former contents, are Beth and Misery. In both cases I left in the Xena content but without trying to verify that the characters are "real" as opposed to coming from a Xena-themed RPG or fanfic. Deleting them all seems reasonable even if a few babies get tossed out with the bathwater. JamesMLane 06:53, 1 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

User:7fex5q2ek

Has vandalized User:Adam Bishop and moved it, and has also vandalized vandalism appropriately enough. Snowspinner 22:29, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

-He/She probably is new to Wikipedia and doesn't know how things work sometimes, so he/she just post messages in articles. If we tell him/her what to do, he/she would probably do the right thing. --Lst27 22:52, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree, were it not for the moving of Adam's userpage, which suggests both a level of competency and an ignoring of the large warning sign on the Move this page option. Snowspinner 22:54, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Currently a little ways into a 24-hour block. If user has good intentions, user will be back and be more reasonable about doing things properly. Otherwise user may be blocked again as necessary. - Fennec 23:00, May 5, 2004 (UTC)


68.47.114.230, 68.192.76.120

Someone is assaulting the article on anime, reverting to last reasonable version. - Gwimpey 21:02, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Same user is attacking Faggot amongst others. Warned once. DJ Clayworth 21:24, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

69.106.5.22, 69.106.200.207, and 69.106.202.69

Has made five reverts to Deconstruction today. Frequently edits own comments on talk pages, making discussion difficult. Has admitted to not being interested in larger context of deconstructive philosophy, and refuses to accept answers to his objections based on it. Snowspinner 20:42, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

216.191.145.196

Sexual graffiti & article defacement on 5 may 2004. This IP was also a vandal on 4 march 2004 (Kiefer Sutherland) --FvdP 18:53, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]


129.96.142.16

Habitual vandal, back again. Cribcage 05:30, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

172.186.34.187 and 80.5.160.4

Mounted an attack for me listing Mal ed as a slang dic.def for deletion. Is now attacking my previous articles Diane Chambers and Spangles Is also attacking my previous articles Spangles and Plop! --bodnotbod 17:08, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

Quote: This page is as useful as a chocolate teapot..." I quite like them. But they have to go. --bodnotbod 17:17, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

User: 24.0.231.214

Has vandalized "Swishahouse" numerous times in a row now. BrandonR 05:53, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

User:24.122.3.194

Guy Andre has already been deleted twice today but this user has come back with it again -- in French.

User:67.71.178.214

Adding links that link back to the commerial (and much reviled in gaming) mysupersales.com page. Sneaky vadalism. Dominick 23:35, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]


69.192.223.99

Vandalised Pickering and House of Windsor. I have reverted the articles and placed a note on the User's talk page. Rjstott 08:00, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

User:Ezra

is repeatedly vandalizing Holocaust revisionism with reverts to copyrighted POV material. --Samuel J. Howard 00:32, 1 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

is also vandalizing Holocaust denial and created a POV Holocaust Revision to circumvent protection of Holocaust revisionism--Samuel J. Howard 01:14, 1 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

User:192.195.64.72

vandalized George W. Bush as well as Gun politics in the US and Assault weapon. Get-back-world-respect 13:04, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:192.195.64.72

Has vandalised this page, vfd, user talk, and some others. Have tried blocking him following two warnings, but Special:blockip appears to not be working as he is able to just carry on regardless on the same IP. Ideas, anyone? -- Graham  :) | Talk 01:13, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Note: Could not find a reference to his signature Dunn, Crutcher, and Finn Attorneys At Law on Google. Chris 73 | (New) Talk 02:27, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:JillP, User:SaltyDog, User:TruthSayer

Bird sockpuppets debating with eachother on Talk:Fallujah, leading to page protection... Pretty well confirmed that they are Bird. [1] --Michael Snow 21:13, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

User:216.8.129.126

Replaces articles with external links to www.porn.com, including Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers. Etaoin 21:27, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User: Kritik

A "sock puppet" who seemingly came out of nowhere when a "Vote to Delete" was placed on an apparent vanity article about John Hassel. insists on posting a vulgar "performance art" photo showing a naked man, presumably Hassel, in full rear view posing in front of the restaurant's entrance, citing it as "his most famous work." I've tried to edit out the photo, but this individual keeps putting both it and his poorly written, POV description next to it. The same photo is on the vanity page. See also Bunboy. - Lucky 6.9 02:04, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:203.10.121.81

He/She is adding nonsense to articles.

User:Dmn

Dmn has made nonsense edits to my talk page [2] and to other articles [3], and has lately reverted random edits of mine [4]. If he is not banned, I have no other option but to retaliate in kind and revert random edits of his until he stops. --Wik 18:43, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)

Umm, that doesn't seem like it would be a very useful way to proceed.--Samuel J. Howard 19:26, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
My, my, my. Wik's at it. Dmn does seem to have done some silly things, but Wik's behaviour is hardly exemplary either. I really do hope the arbitration committee find in favour of a permanent hard ban for Wik. David Newton 21:09, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Congratulations David! You've made it onto Wik's elite list of "unsuitable sysops", category "moron". I'm only a "rude" myself... Stan 21:56, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

12.216.167.100

Seems to be forcing frequent and repeated reverts to Michael Moore due to NPOV. Is anonymous and is ignoring his talk page.


-- Samuel J. Howard 15:52, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)


User:68.228.223.173

He's blanked a number of pages and placed "gag" images of a sexual nature on others (including the current Featured Article.


-- Ewlloyd 04:49, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC) (remove #)


User:Andrew Zito

Known for vandalizing the Deism page, now blanked entire page (added comment on Talk:Deism, without with profanity), added strong profanity to Wikipedia:Village pump and User talk:Bkonrad

Quote from Village Pump:
DEAR WIKIED-AHOLES DELETE IT ALL CAUSE YOU ARE AHOLES BASTARDS JUST TELL ME HOW ONE CAN OFF ALL THE WIKIS LEGALLY FOR YOU ARE NOT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA AND ARE AN INSULT TO NORMAL INTELECT AS YOUR SHIT DOESN'T STINK EXCEPT YOU ARE FULL OF IT BYE NOW SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS AS YOU HAVE DEVELOPED ANOTHER LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH WHICH YOU CAN REMEMBER WHEN YOU DROP DEAD. By the way for abuse look in the mirror ASSHOLE
End Quote

I reverted Deism twice (so far), and cleaned up the village pump. I did not revert the talk pages Talk:Deism and User talk:Bkonrad.

Chris 73 | (New) Talk 04:19, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Has been blocked for 2 hours. See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Andrew Zito. RickK 04:27, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)


User:66.2...

Same user, three different IPs. User:66.229.80.56, User:64.200.52.147 and User:24.117.80.208 have all added the link for a vanity article to 1984. They've done it before (look, if you're able, at the deleted edits for Matthew Kimbrough), I warned them on one address so they came back and did it on another, and then on the next. -- Graham  :) | Talk 01:31, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:207.213.160.212

User:221.136.80.205

"mops" spammer. Started at Amphoteric then Current events, Mops, and Pierre-Simon Laplace. b4hand 16:05, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

  • That was over 7 hours ago, and he has been consistently reverted. Not exactly "current"... Lupo 16:14, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:216.148.244.38

Had vandalized the Assassin page 2 times, and also the Earring, Elbow-joint and User talk:RickK pages. Edits before those look ok. --User:BrendanRyan 06:02, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

81.212.200.67

"hukuki" spammer, 1 sighting so far. --Zigger 03:34, 2004 Apr 25 (UTC)

User:24.184.42.214

Has posted what is probably a vanity page at Srila Vishnupada, H.D.G. Ramakrishnananda Swami. I added some factual, although admittedly quite negative information to the page which this user continually reverts and has begun to make threats. Look at the edit summaries for that article. older ≠ wiser 02:13, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:4.158.180.113

Vandalised the Pirates of the Caribbean (film) page, apparently has a strong dislike of Johnny Depp. PMC 18:29, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

205.188.116.204 and 205.188.116.139

User (from the IPs) 205.188.116.204 and 205.188.116.139 has been repeatedly adding his own family history to April 20, April 18 and sometimes April 16. Since these are AOL addresses (used by at least one legimiate Wikipedian -sorry!) we can't block them, so please just be watchful. He signed himself User:Michael by the way. DJ Clayworth 16:17, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

If this is an AOL address, why is it that he keeps getting the same number? RickK 03:37, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:216.108.215.163 and User:66.245.19.157

Repeatedly defacing Jew. -- The Anome 15:52, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

  • I just blocked the latter, have no reason to suspect both are the same person as they are each adding different material. May protect the Jew article if vandalism continues. -- Graham  :) | Talk 16:48, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:207.6.55.146

Repeatedly vandalizing felix the cat. Eurleif 02:46, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)

User:Epediac

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=DOOM&diff=3307981&oldid=3307958, User:Epediac/vandalised_link. not terribly active. Badanedwa 23:32, Apr 23, 2004 (UTC)

User:Maximus bird

Vandalizing page after page on Meta-Wikipedia. Andris 04:06, Apr 23, 2004 (UTC)

That will require an admin on Meta to take care of. RickK 04:15, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:63.231.189.101

vandalized tornado - SD6-Agent 02:37, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

67.81.4.153

Vandalizing several articles. RickK

User:Sayyed al afghani

Intentionally offensive vandalism of the Islam article, and attempted deletion of the Kaaba article. - Mustafaa 22:41, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Oh, and of the Muhammad article - though he appears to have stopped for the moment. - Mustafaa 23:01, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:157.157.94.119

Has been vandalizing Akureyri persistently. No other edits from this user. ---Biekko 18:53, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:128.253.213.101

This guy (from Cornell according to nslookup) started out by making somewhat amusing and perhaps valid edits to Harvard University, e.g. changing "one of the most prestigious" to "one of the most pretentious", etc.. But now that he's been reverted a few times he's degenerated entirely into really childish vandalism and page blanking. Recommend blocking the IP username while allowing him to establish a real username from this IP, is such is possible. Otherwise recommend simply banning the IP, active immediately.

Should also add, he has attempted to make constructive changes to Cornell University, although only to enhance the existing article's account of Cornell's international academic standing. He also added useful info to the Ken Dryden article. --Chinasaur 11:44, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)

User:YorubaMan, User:66.185.84.80, User:24.101.118.78, 209.151.129.82

YorubaMan (also see 209.151.129.82) has repeatedly fouled up entries related to Nigeria and the Yoruba with irrelevancies, grammatical errors and outright falsehoods - see for instance the entry for Oyo. In his comment on the edits he made to the Nigeria entry, he accused me of "lying" that "the Hausa/fulani are 2/3 population of Nigeria, It is not accurate infomation", a "lie" I clearly never committed. The Hausa/Fulani are indeed the largest ethnic group in Nigeria, going by the records of every census carried out in the country since the 1950s, and to claim that the Yoruba are the most numerous is a blatant falsehood. This person is obviously much less concerned with accuracy either in reading or in writing than he is with fouling Nigeria-related entries up with illiterate propaganda. Abiola Lapite 23:01, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

See YorubaMan's latest contribution at Talk:Nigeria for yet another example of what I'm going on about. Abiola Lapite 12:25, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

...24.101.118.78 seems to either be YorubaMan, or is at least working in concert with him, as he put back the changes to the Nigeria and Yoruba articles that I backed out. In addition, he's now fiddled with the Hausa-Fulani page, inserting the sentence Hausa fulani, are not educated, lazy people, who normal drink everyday, which is clearly vandalism by any measure. Abiola Lapite 10:00, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

...User:66.185.84.80, inserted the changes made by YorubaMan into the article on Nigeria, and graced his summary with extremely insulting references to my person in Yoruba (including calling me a bastard, a thief and a lunatic), along with the accusation that I'm "lying". Are all the administrators on Wikipedia on AWOL or something? Frankly, I'm getting tired of reverting petty vandalism and having nothing to show for my efforts but insulting remarks directed at my person. Abiola Lapite 11:22, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:195.188.152.16

Made a number of edits to musician sites, mainly adding a link to [5] and subpages, and removing some probably valid information from the pages. Now he is vandalizing the page of User:Modemac, who reverted his edits. His contributions:195.188.152.16 -- chris_73 01:38, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:82.49.113.138 and subnet

82.49.113.138, Contributions/82.49.122.239, Contributions/82.49.122.91 has been adding a link to several pages that goes to a controvertial website with limited or no relevance to the articles in question. I've revered once, someone else's turn, I think?

User:24.69.255.205 and .203

24.69.255.205 has been reprehensibly busy. Please block immediately. Most recently replaced entire Afterlife article with a one-sentence epithet. Tom (hawstom) 17:36, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Blocked by admin, after weeks of many reversions and posted warnings, along with 24.69.255.203 in a sub-class block. --Zigger 20:33, 2004 Apr 26 (UTC)

User:Dissidentcongress

Has spent about four days editing mentions of the UK Populist Party into entries. Populist party shows no signs of being important in any way. Following his entry for Populist Party (UK) being listed on VFD he created Populist Party (UK, presumably to avoid what is looking like a consensus to delete. Is also abusive troll on VFD, and marks all edits as minor. Snowspinner 22:10, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:129.93.211.55

On a vandalizing spree, editing references to Brian Kell into articles. References are both irrelevent and frequently spam (c.f. fuck). Snowspinner 03:58, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Also User:129.93.210.124 with the same MO. Possibly same user, or ally of. -- Michael Warren 04:00, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

User:81.133.55.168

blanks or changes 4 different pages repeatedly. Niteowlneils 23:29, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)


User:83.144.73.194

Keeps adding nonsense pages. I've already deleted at least 4. Pfortuny 11:22, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:68.223.175.17

Deleting references to the Orthodox Bahai Faith. RickK 22:30, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:24.25.65.8

vandalism spree...creating nonsense articles, largely through pasting entire content from the George Washington article. Examples: Clement Lin, Andrew LeBlanc. Postdlf 21:57 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

216.65.64.52

Went on a sudden massive attack on Taiwanese and Japanese articles. I blocked the address indefinitely. Can somebody check to see if it's a proxy? RickK 20:43, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)


user:67.86.181.45

Please block. Vandalized Hillary Clinton with profanity, created Adam Solomon. Cribcage 14:46, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

user:CoolDude

Announced that he was going to begin vandalism, and then started it by moving pages to random characters. I blocked him indefinitely. RickK 06:21, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:CoolDude keeps removing stub message on Suncrest,_Washington. views article as "his" since he started it.--Ryan524 05:17, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

  • Has also said on Talk:Suncrest, Washington "You will be banning till the day u die then, their are so many anonimus proxies in the world" - and has duly started using anon proxies to blank the article in question as well as deleting suggestions and complaints left on User talk:CoolDude. Proxies used so far: 64.12.116.204, 64.12.116.21, 63.187.242.237, 63.187.240.19. , 172.169.64.24 (last IP added by 172.169.64.24 05:29, 5 Apr 2004 )
  • Nice job adding your sock puppet ip to the list too, now I don't have to.--Ryan524 05:31, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC) and you even copied my message from above.


User:Nico

...started doing "revenge" reverts. See: [this diff] for an example... Tannin 05:49, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

(not the right place for such disputes)


User:141.213.173.121

Is blanking numerous pages dealing with terrorism and specific Arab figures. Rmhermen 03:01, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)


212.211.136.33

Vandalism, use of inappropriate language, and threats on MGM Mirage at the following times:
13 April 2004 at 03:26 (UTC)
13 April 2004 at 03:34 (UTC)
15 April 2004 at 01:22 (UTC)
15 April 2004 at 01:25 (UTC)
15 April 2004 at 01:29 (UTC)
18 April 2004 at 03:33 (UTC)

Vandalism of the user pages of MyRedDice, Plato, and Hephaestos.

Vandalism of Ball lightning.

This appears to be an another anonymous web browsing service.

I have blocked that address indefinitely as it belongs to http://anonymouse.ws ( http://212.211.136.33 ), a free web anonymizing service. Maximus Rex 03:57, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)~

24.229.177.168

Vandalism in progress; Google, Cooking, etc. suggest blocking this IP. Antandrus 00:35, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

24.235.205.119

Vandalism to Billy Graham Agendum 23:35, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)


166.109.0.145

Vandalism to Maya Angelou (see the history). See also contributions. Gdr 17:33, 2004 Apr 14 (UTC)

199.64.0.252

199.64.0.252 has a history of nonsense, lately at 1991 and 1991 in sport. -- Zigger 04:32, 2004 Apr 14 (UTC)

220.240.186.181

Spamming several pages with a link to a suspicious, and generally non sequitur, website. RickK 04:18, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

66.130.26.109

Total nonsense on Cambridge Energy Research Associates entry I blanked it Moriori 02:22, Apr 14, 2004 (UTC)

68.94.70.35

Total nonsense on Kobe beef entry. I blanked it. Moriori 02:22, Apr 14, 2004 (UTC)

209.47.67.150 and 152.163.252.8

The Chevrolet Camaro article which is listed in the pages needing cleanup page was vandalized by 152.163.252.8 and twice by 209.47.67.150. Lucky 6.9 04:32, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

...This coward is back on the Camaro page. I give up. The stupid f**k can have it. I'm not changing it back again. - Lucky 6.9 04:48, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Make that FOUR attacks plus one attack (since reverted) on Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Can we get this dweeb banned? - Lucky 6.9 21:41, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

68.248.253.152, 192.154.63.99, 205.154.253.243 and IR

Hello! The entire content of the Industrial revolution article has been replaced by sexually based obscenities by:

18:16, 2004 Apr 12 . . 68.248.253.152 18:05, 2004 Apr 12 . . 205.154.253.243 17:47, 2004 Apr 12 . . 192.154.63.99 17:13, 2004 Apr 12 . . 205.154.253.243

Thank you for your kind attention, AlainV 23:58, 2004 Apr 12 (UTC)


216.65.64.52

Blanks various pages and places a phrase such as "suck my toes". Acts are rapidly reverted, but the history for this IP [6] address is filled with such acts of vandalism. Kd4ttc 17:46, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

24.195.222.144

Has vandalized Atlantis, Advaita Vedanta, Rapier medium fighter, Talk:Comparative military ranks, Revolutionary Girl Utena, UK Railway stations - H, Chitoor, Second Opium War, Rosewood, Florida, MediaWiki:VfD-UK Railway Stations 1 and Rosewood that I've discovered so far. Mostly just page-blanking.Rossami 14:27, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

67.39.185.4

Has vandalized Greco-Buddhism, Messiah, and Maitreya, both overtly and with absurd additions amidst what might also be copyright violations. - Moby 08:57, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)


66.185.84.80, 66.185.84.78

66.185.84.80 (talk contributions) -- 66.185.84.78 (talk contributions) -- 66.185.84.206 (talk contributions) -- 69.193.56.78 (talk contributions)

Long history of vandalism - blanking, inserting "not", "P.", "Cheese ...". Scaza article + backlinks. Same subnet as #66.185.84.208. Various complaints on talk page. Many of the old vandalisms are still present - please help with fact-checking. -- Zigger 15:05, 2004 Apr 11 (UTC)

66.185.84.80 targeting articles with copyvio warnings on April 13. -- Zigger 19:25, 2004 Apr 14 (UTC)
66.185.84.80 vandalising again - please block for at least 1 week. -- Zigger 08:41, 2004 Apr 18 (UTC)
69.193.56.78 looks like overlapping interests, inc. Ringo Starr. Please help them have a break from Wikipedia. -- Zigger 03:14, 2004 Apr 19 (UTC)


82.64.53.86

Is doing some major vandalism on the Featured article (Dreyfus Affair). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Dreyfus_affair&oldid=3123525
17:21, 9 Apr 2004 . . 82.64.53.86

66.25.93.252

Has been going around modifying pages to turn US spellings to British spellings, British spellings to US spellings, and some changes which are neither (e.g. imminent to immanent) apparently at random. The fact that this is two-way makes me think zie's a vandal rather than a pedant.


-- Marnanel 05:45, Apr 9, 2004 (UTC) (remove #)


User: Bearings

Has been adding a spam link to a (mechanical) bearing company to every page he can find with the word bearing or bearings. Pollinator 02:31, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

  • Blocked for 24 hours. Fennec 02:37, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

219.88.175.32

Is changing votes on MediaWiki:VfD-NZgamescom [7] [8] [9] -- Cyrius|&#9998 00:46, Apr 8, 2004 (UTC)

Last night, after about the sixth or seventh attempt at changing votes (had previously been warned not to do that), I blocked him for 24 hours. RADICALBENDER★ 16:18, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

67.167.119.186

Repeated nonsense on Infanticide page. Pollinator 20:31, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)


User:199.217.32.2/User talk:199.217.32.2

Has been defacing Sedna (planetoid) several times, started branching out into other articles. Kevin Saff 17:38, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

24.2.152.139

He is starting edit wars and inserting POV in various articles. / Ertz 03:01, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

and many others

User:Kakarot

Vandalized User:Hyacinth with anti-gay slur, this was in response to my response to 213.224.83.136, see directly below.

User:213.224.83.136

Vandalized User:Hyacinth with anti-gay slur. Also created questionable stub Penis Snatchers.Hyacinth 18:18, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:68.34.186.132

Keeps replacing Something Awful with nonsense, also blanked Why Wikipedia is not so great. Wmahan 08:05, 2004 Apr 5 (UTC)

User:Wickedpedia is a fascist project

... also Wickedpedia teaches fascism Talk | contribs)

Flood vandalism, probably Bird back from the dead.

63.188.176.111

User:63.188.176.111 has vandalised the Dick Van Dyke entry. Is it coincidental that 63.188.80.111 is just down this list a little bit? Moriori 01:19, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC)


Gay Nigger Association of America

Has been repeatedly vandalized by numerous anons. I'm not even sure what it is. Meelar 01:00, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:TDC

TDC won't stop vandalizing Karl Marx. He even wrote this on my user page the other day: "Please dont make me write a script to do this automaticly. TDC 06:09, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)" <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:172&diff=0&oldid=3049678> Tries to personally insult other users on his page. Get-back-world-respect 16:58, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

...further discussion moved to RfC/TDC.

24.2.152.139

Known vandal 24.2.152.139 is back, blanking Eastern Germany and vandalizing other pages. -- Nico 21:46, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Zap!

Moved several pages to non-obvious names. Banned indefinitely. RickK | Talk 08:55, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

AOL user

Some AOL users is blanking or removing content from articles, so be on the lookout. They change IPs, and those IPs do have useful contribs so you can't just block.

Dori | Talk 06:21, Apr 4, 2004 (UTC)

63.188.80.111

  • User:63.188.80.111 Is insulting/adding nonsense to User:Fennec and his talk page (done twice but I fear he will go on). Keep an eye on him as I cannot any longer for now. Pfortuny 08:28, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:Michael from the dead

contributions - I haven't looked closely but this stuff seems questionable, and the user name speaks for itself. Isomorphic 01:37, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Bet you a nickel it's the same messer as User:Michael3 and User:Michael33, but there's no way it's the Michael—it can write coherent, legible English, and it's editing articles that have nothing to do with 20th-century popular music. &mdash;69.156.205.32 15:13, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Crassus

(User:Crassus | contributions). 4 edits, all bad. Twice inserted false death figures into Leopold II of Belgium (which could have been a genuine error, at least the first time), replaced "right-wing" with "racist, facist" in Vlaams Blok, and inserted a link to a wares site. Not worth banning, at least so far, but needs watching. Tannin 00:30, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

217.96.26.34 (User:Gdansk)

Reincarnation of previously banned User:Gdansk, also known as User:Caius2ga, User:Swiecino, User:AntiNaziWatch, User:Germany and probably many more.

He is vandalizing pages, out of control, and needs to be blocked quickly. Nico 00:23, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)


BettyFlintsone

This user is XXX in disguise and is uploading offensive material and vandalizing user pages. —Frecklefoot 19:48, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

Simple English Wikipedia Mainpage has been vandalized.

62.254.64.10

User:62.254.64.10 (contribs / talk) repeatedly adding apparently defamatory page at Clements or Ian Clements - already deleted 4 times by admins. Previously warned, now blocked for 24 hrs for repeated vandalism. -- ChrisO 13:53, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

195.92.168.*

User vandalised Moss Side, was blocked, and within seconds came back under a different IP and did it again. Needs watching. -- Graham  :) | Talk 19:16, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

How to watch? --Hemanshu 21:29, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

140.147.158.*

  • This user has repeatedly vandalized the Scientology article, among others. He is using multiple IP addresses to make his edits, all in the range of 140.147.158.* (See User:140.147.158.29 for an example, then check the page history of Scientology.) I suppose he's probably behind a router. --Modemac 17:53, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Seems to have stopped going after Scientology for over 3 hours now. --Hemanshu 21:32, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

144.175.19.229

Blanking pages.
-- Marnanel 17:51, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

23:05, 1 Apr 2004, Silsor blocked 144.175.19.229 (expires 23:05, 2 Apr 2004)

From Block log. --Hemanshu 21:35, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

216.66.108.130


Vandalizing several pages.-- UtherSRG 16:27, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

21:57, 1 Apr 2004, Ahoerstemeier blocked 216.66.108.130 (expires 21:57, 2 Apr 2004) (contribs) (unblock) (vandalism, was warned) --Hemanshu 21:36, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

===209.226.37.4=== (replace # by =)


--Looks like rather a repeat offender (blanking, childish swearing) - currently sabotaging Tri-state Tornado but has repeatedly offended in the past. Average Earthman 14:, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Has been blocked for 24 hours by Ahoerstemeier. Angela. 14:26, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)


64.136.26.230

Strange, random editing and copyright violations. --Eequor 19:29, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

217.199.101.163

User:217.199.101.163 Continues to erase pages after receiving msg:test. Niteowlneils 19:24, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

207.177.122.121

User:207.177.122.121 Created the page "Circle changeup" with the sole entry being "FUCK YOU".

65.119.143.94

  • (User:65.119.143.94 (contribs) has been adding links to a content-barren, advertising rich site to a number of articles. (example) While the links do point to valid, relevant content, they are not especially helpful and appear to have been added to promote the target site.
    --UninvitedCompany 20:49, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • No activity in last 24 hours --Hemanshu 21:44, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

68.198.65.54

User is editing pages with "nigger" in the name. -- Wolf530 00:10, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)

User:212.29.204.9 / Thomas Alsop?

is creating page after page of nonsense that is getting deleted. - He is now making garbage text in legitimate talk pages. - Texture 18:08, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

  • Blocking repeat vandal (blocked Mar 11 for the same reason) - Texture 18:11, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:193.213.26.2

is happily creating chemical compund names with no useful content.

User:Fuck you Very Much and other aliases

This user is a deliberate vandal, who has announced his/her intention to rotate names and IP addresses until they get their way. -- The Anome 09:33, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

A quote:

What are you, a bunch of dweebs? you are supposed to arbitrarily block me, so I can come back with another user name and another IP number. Looks like the machine is starting to get a bit weary of being constantly ridiculed. Best estimates are for at least another six months of this before a genuine concern for accuracy begins to replace administrative strategies based on ego and identity. But we have supplies, materiel, resources and personnel to last 24 months, just in case... Fuck you Very Much
  • Which other aliasese? --Phil | Talk 12:14, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)

User:TheBam

This user has vandalized my webpage and is making false claims about knowing me. GrazingshipIV 12:48, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)

This user is vandalism my comments in an incorrect mannor. GrazingshipIV 16:42, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)

  • Looks like there are two sides to this story, check out his user page. Ashibaka ✎ 21:21, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Looks to me like User:TheBam and GrazingshipIV have both behaved abominably and will be hard to trust. How can Wikipedia thrive against such deceit and low-spiritedness? They both owe Wikipedia a contrite apology. 216.160.194.185 16:22, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Grazingship, you deleted this comment, but I don't see any rule against anonymous comments. In any case, TheBam does not seem to be "vandalizing" any more, so I think it's safe to put this on the back burner for now. Ashibaka ✎ 20:22, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

64.123.150.45

25 edits in 4 hours, none that I checked are valid. Has repeated his edits after they've been reverted. Niteowlneils 01:18, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)


User:Kenneth Alan

- see also: Requests for comment/Kenneth Alan

The articles dealing with Yiddish language and Germanic languages are vandalized not only at the English Wikipedia, but in numerous languages (German, Dutch, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Esperanto, Romanian, Polish, Catalan etc.) in a massive attack by User:Kenneth Alan, [[:sv:Anv%E4ndare:K%E4nde_Aulan]] aka 68.0.146.17 (also known as 68.0.149.88, 68.0.146.230, 68.0.144.17, 68.0.144.217, 68.0.150.158, 68.0.151.124, 68.0.152.92, 68.0.152.146 68.0.152.245 68.0.179.82 68.225.148.238 68.225.150.66 68.225.150.160). It caused a lot of work to clean up after him, he should certainly be blocked before he make more damage. // Zw 21:47, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

...further discussion by Zw, KA, and Mintguy, moved to Requests for comment/Kenneth Alan.


User:THE friendlyfriend

  • Is uploading images that have no encyclopedic value, such as Image:Chetta t nads.jpg. Is this vandalism? What should I do with him? Meelar 07:33, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Umm...how about calling his mommy and asking her to unplug him from the net until he promises to be good? I see no serious intent to vandalize at this point. Mkweise 07:43, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Vandalised Religion adding link to Penis Enlargement web site
Like people don't pray for that ♥ «Charles A. L.» 01:44, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)

User:Tim817

67.84.194.157


-- Mikiher 07:04, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

204.95.209.84

Is vandalizing several pages. see contributions

202.88.174.184

Has been appending an email address to pages:
Bubli Sagar <sagar925@yahoo.com>

User:Angela is a Troll

User:Angela is a troll is vandalizing, you guessed it, User:Angela and User talk:Angela. Gentgeen

User has been blocked indefinitely for personal attacks and possession of an offensive username. -- Graham  :) | Talk 14:07, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Anti-Jor/213.224.83.134/204.38.95.3

User:213.224.83.134 has vandalized two pages and harassed a user. I have given User:213.224.83.134 two warnings. Kingturtle 01:12, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

  • I have banned this user for 48 hours. The user continued to vandalize pages after two warnings. Kingturtle 01:16, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • How did you ban him 17 hours earlier and he returned with the same IP? - Texture 18:39, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
      • I had a similar problem the other day; see 65.105.183.220 below. This user was able to edit minutes after I blocked him. -- Hadal 18:48, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • I am going to ban him again. He just went to numerous pages redirecting pages like "retard" and other links to user pages (mostly Jor). - Texture 18:36, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • This is probably the same user I blocked a few minutes ago: 212.103.236.165. I don't think there'd be any harm in a longer block. Hadal 18:48, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • He's back as [special:contributions/204.38.95.3|204.38.95.3]]. - Texture 19:18, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Possibly 193.230.153.7 as well (edited my page and articles I worked on). Blocked by Morwen. These IPs are all public proxies. — Jor (Talk) 13:43, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Troll

  • User:Troll has it in for me--perhaps I offended in him/her in another iteration? He/she/it came out of nowhere and is adding VFD notices wherever possible. Maybe he/she/it really just thinks my pages are madly stupid, but... jengod 01:00, Mar 26, 2004 (UTC)
I was seriously worried when I saw that user name being created, now I see I was right to feel wary... -- Graham  :) | Talk 01:10, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Who is that person, Jengod, who accuses me of trolling while she has an offensive user name which includes the word God in it? Why she doesn't leave Wikipedia and she insists creating pointless lists and being an atheist? She should lost her adminship provileges for having an offensive user name and creating pointless lists! Troll 01:15, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Your username is pretty apt. Ashibaka 03:03, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

65.105.183.220

Repeated vandalism of Platyhelminthes-- UtherSRG 15:32, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I actually blocked this user at 15:22 (it's even in the ipblocklist: 15:22, 25 Mar 2004, Hadal blocked 65.105.183.220 (expires 15:22, 26 Mar 2004)). But he somehow managed to edit again at 15:28. I've no idea how that happened. -- Hadal 15:43, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:Jhahn2k4

has vandalised a number of pages

195.92.168.179

Adding spam (singles group) to numerous pages, including gardening, astronomy..Pollinator 13:24, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Repeatedly vandalising Priory of Sion and then User:Guanaco because I reverted his vandalism. Guanaco 15:45, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

67.66.121.166 attempt to use my account

The IP 67.66.121.166 just tried to get my password by requesting a new password for "Texture". The request went to my email and I have changed the password reset that occurred. You might want to pay attention to your accounts and passwords in case this is the start of a concentrated attack. - Texture 05:47, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

81.86.108.128

Repeated vandalisation of articles (Joseph Gelfer, Howell Harris, John Mehegan, Christopher Eccleston, Apeldoorn) alleging homosexual activity. When challenged for evidence, vandalised User:Arwel Parry. Warned against vandalism. Left insulting message on User talk:Arwel Parry. Blocked for 7 days, and ISP abuse dept notified. -- Arwel 17:10, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Apology received -- computer being used by a relative who has been warned off from ever accessing Wikipedia again. Ban lifted. Note, however, that this user was banned for 24 hours on 24 Dec 2003 and 18 Mar 2004, so keep an eye open for recurrences! -- Arwel 23:46, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Wow. ISP (PIPEX, UK) abuse desk responded helpfully! User warned to adhere to AUP re posting defamatory information. Arwel 20:48, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

68.222.9.242

This vandal is moving to other Wikimedia projects? I blocked him at Wikiquotes and discovered his activity here, and he has vandalized the Afrikaans project as well. I am going to track the damages a bit more and revert any I encounter. We need to develop a more thorough and swift response system for combatting these infantile project hoppers? I went around reverting the changes of one a few weeks ago.  ? Kalki 01:44, 2004 Mar 19 (UTC)
This vandal also replaced the main page of the main page of the maori wikipedia yesterday with extremely explicit racist and abusive language. (diff) I blocked him from Maori for 24 hours. Perl 13:56, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

They are a Bell South customer: adsl-222-9-242.msy.bellsouth.net. MSY is the IATA code for New Orleans airport, and Bell South seems to serve the New Orleans area. -- The Anome 17:04, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

152.163.*.* / 205.188.*.* / month monster

This user is logging in multiple times on the same day to create a single article each time that is linked to the previous article. Titles such as April starting on Tuesday, July starting on Tuesday, etc. - Texture 22:28, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

  • 152.163.252.198
  • 152.163.252.35
  • 152.163.252.135
  • 152.163.253.8
  • 152.163.252.66
  • 205.188.209.41
  • 205.188.116.76
  • 205.188.208.167
  • 152.163.252.226
  • 152.163.252.227

and lots more each making one new article of a month and relogging in minutes later with a different IP to make another...

I was going to question whether or not the creation of these pages counted as vandalism, but their actions do appear suspicious. -- Graham  :) | Talk 22:30, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

CP


-- Graham  :) | Talk 21:05, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User created nonsense on a couple of articles that were speedily deleted. After I added {{msg:test}} to user's talk page he then edited that to "i do not like you Graham i do not like you Graham" over and over again. -- Graham  :) | Talk 21:05, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)


144.134.110.156 and 144.136.252.110


persistent vandalism of White Australia policy
Adam 09:00, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

  • I've temporarily blocked these, and one other IP with similar abusive edits. They are Telstra customers. -- The Anome 09:09, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:Thizrark

On a roll vandalizing several pages. -- Decumanus 01:49, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

137.186.199.90

  • Persistently vandalising Rap music
  • Also using account Damian666

Stormie 02:43, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This appears to be the same vandal as Lord Cornholio / Yahweh / Velrith106. This particular IP is now blocked for a month. ARIN notes that they are coming from TELUS Communications Inc., CA -- The Anome 01:53, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Reverse DNS gives: 137-186-199-90.abhsia.telus.net -- The Anome 01:56, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)


61.218.217.246

  • (User:61.218.217.246 | talk | contributions)
    • Vandalism of user pages - he told me to block him, so I am. - Texture 20:19, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Must be another bird reincarnation. andy 20:25, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
      • Interesting. A little digging shows this appears to be an hinet.net ADSL line in Taiwan, in the block 61.218.217.240 - 61.218.217.247, netname HUNG-MING-INDUST-TN-TW. This is consistent with the previous presumed Pacific Century Cyberworks IP for another apparent incarnation. -- The Anome 23:18, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

67.74...

217.225.222.29 / Aram Goldsmith / 80.135.93.121

Attacking Turkey-related text. -- Zigger

Changes to Aramaic alphabet also by user:134.76.165.76 may need to be reverted?

Reverted (with user:217.225.217.42), and noted that 134.76.165.76 has made more positive contributions elsewhere. -- Zigger

(User:80.135.93.121 | talk | contributions) targeting parts of List of ethnic groups in same fashion, but RL calls. -- Zigger 16:24, 2004 Mar 11 (UTC)


66.185.84.208

Lots of bad edits extending over a long period: copyvios, inserting porno image search external links, nonsense edits, has been warned repeatedly by various people over a long time, keeps on coming back over and over again to repeat behavior.

  • Banned: edits by this user need review for plagiarism and vandalism.

Chris/195.92.67.65

  • User:195.92.67.65 | talk | contributions
    • Is vandalizing Feces. Has made vulgar accusations/threats on my talk page after I left him a request not to vandalize pages (along with {{msg:test}}). - Texture 23:34, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • I've blocked two incarnations - however they are freeserve proxies which makes me cautious (freeserve is one of the UK's biggest ISPs) Secretlondon 23:51, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • User is suspected of being the same vandal as is listed under Various IP's below. -- Graham  :) 16:11, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

67.74.103.33

Chris/Various IP's

Repeated vandalism over a long period of time of Long Crendon, Talk:Long Crendon and Shabbington pages. User has a non-static IP so it is impossible to block them. User adds nonsense about badgers and paraplegic fishermen to the articles, and has recently taken to starting debate on the talk page using different IPs to make it look as if different people are asking for the nonsense to be included. User IP's:

This user may also be Chris/User:195.92.67.65 | talk | contributions - since he mentioned Graham and his repeated vandalism on my talk page - Texture 23:44, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

203.10.59.63

User:Jesus Chirst

  • User:Jesus Chirst - keep an eye on this user. actions and name are suspicious. Kingturtle 03:19, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • He's the Red Faction vandal from January and December, as I mentioned on requests for de-adminship. Whether he can reform is debatable... Pakaran. 02:16, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
      • Isn't that user name a violation of the no offensive names policy? Arno 12:33, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
        • That username has been blocked by User:Ed Poor for offensiveness. Jwrosenzweig 18:24, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
          • To be fair this user never vandalized and only posted in talk pages. He asked a verry good question, " I seen various members on wiki bothering because I am a former vandal, I ask you why?" He was a bother, maybe. But you were looking for a reasion to ban him. Is wikipedia a place where we wont give someone a second chance? I hereby request the removal of this ban. It is unjust, unwarnted, and obsered that we would not give him a second chance. Why are you fear reformed vandles. If I say I am a reformed vandal will you block me too? I request a review of this ban. -- Quinwound 04:22, Mar 15, 2004 (UTC)
            • The username has been blocked. The user is free to log in under another username (and they have). Maximus Rex, 04:26, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

24.69.255.203

Long track record of getting modifications reverted. Vandalism is sometimes subtle, sometimes blanking... sometimes apparently valid edits. Hard to figure out what this person is up to, or if it's the same person each time.

Back again and very active No Guru 06:31, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Epitome

This user keeps moving 2000 to Deaddead, among other vandalisms. - UtherSRG 00:31, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

    • Has been banned for 24 hours, but needs watching when he/she comes back. RickK 00:44, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

160.39.193.101

User:

  1. Is consistently vandalizing political pages with rubbish
  2. Has been warned twice
  3. Deleted his own talk page (check the page history for the first warning)

Vergina

Macedonia is not FYROM !

FYROM, (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,is the oficial name ! I have corrected this and it is right in such a way! Where do you see the problem? If I am, so, a nationalist!? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Boris_Trajkovski&diff=2561742&oldid=2558488 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=List_of_official_languages_by_country&diff=2559108&oldid=2558143 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=List_of_official_languages_by_country&diff=2557966&oldid=2557295 Vergina 06:36, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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)

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)
    • (User:YOMHER | talk | contributions) appears to be the same user. Has made some strange edits in the past, though recent stuff seems to be more helpful. —Mulad 04:59, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

User: 148.136.141.172

is Vandalising homosexuality

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)

203.10.59.63

  • (User:203.10.59.63 | talk | contributions)
  • He's been doing this off and on since late February, sometimes replacing a whole article with one word, sometimes inserting an improper word into the middle of an article. Five vandals within a two minute period earlier today. He needs to be blocked, and blocked good. Postdlf 14:16 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

195.92.168.172,174,175

(User:195.92.168.174 | talk | contributions ) is wiping others' comments from talk pages -- see [10]. 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)

65.101.28.163

Has vandalised The Revolution about ten minutes ago. Watch out for any other action?


Non- or minor vandals

Paul Beardsell

Talk:Artificial_consciousness I asked him an explanation of his behaviour on his talk page, but he didn't reply. Please someone remind him that other users should not be treated like that, Also he and Matt Stan recently started a parallel article synthetic consciousness It is not a Wikipedia policy to create parallel articles, but this is by far not the first time when they did that. They should delete the parallel article, continue to edit the artificial consciousness and respect the people there. Tkorrovi 16:35, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Tkorrovi has not read what Wikipedia considers to be vandalism. Tkorrovi is also a lying troll. He lies again here: I did not reply? Not only did I reply but I have his reply to that. Paul Beardsell 17:52, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I notice that Tkorrovi has just added one of his favorite sentences back into the artificial consciousness (AC) article, namely, "It may be interpreted so that AC must be able to predict in all circumstances, but as this is impossible, then we can interpret it so that AC must be able to predict the external events in every possible environment when it is possible to predict for capable human." There has been discussion about how nonsensical this statement is (even when transliterated into good English), and I therefore do not construe it as vandalism to remove/amend/improve such statements as this in attempts to have the article make sense. Indeed it can be construed as vandalism to have added such a sentence to the article. I leave it to other readers to judge. What do you construe from Tkorrovi's sentence (above)? Do you think such a sentence adds to the excellence of wikipedia? The accusation of vandalism against Paul Beardsell can be answered by showing that he is only making attempts in good faith to undo the vandalism that he perceives is being done by Tkorrovi. Matt Stan 12:23, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
I've removed the sentence again. Tkorrovi can find no scholar to support his view. Perhaps intelligibility has something to do with it. Paul Beardsell 14:59, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

69.111.53.180

Intentional abuse on Talk:Tehran. Since the abuse is towards me, I would prefer someone else put a comment for him officially pointing him to the No personal attacks page. The user is already aware of the policy, as he has been referred to it in the Persian wikipedia and was later banned because he paid no attention. So if you think that is enough, ...


-- Roozbeh 17:03, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The anonymous user insists on reverting his personal attacks. See Talk:Tehran. Roozbeh 23:17, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • I refactored the inflammatory posts and left a message for 69.111.53.180 explaining why. That user's next post was well within acceptable bounds and he acknowledged that refraining from inflammatory posts was in his best interests. I'll keep this page on my watchlist for a while, but it appears that the conduct has changed. SWAdair | Talk 07:26, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:RK

Discussion moved to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/RK

128.112.108.218

Is doing some minor vandalism which seems to have started out as an ill thought out first edit. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 19:24, 2004 Apr 8 (UTC) [11] [12]

User:I am sexy

History of sexuality, Bisexuality Exploding Boy 04:34, Apr 4, 2004 (UTC)

    • As all of this user's edits were simple vandalism, I blocked himher for 24 hours. Angela. 05:11, Apr 4, 2004 (UTC)

(since has stopped vandalizing and moved sextalk to wikinfo +sj+)


User:206.82.16.34

This user created Gay_Mag_Belgium which was a page that basically stated the users dislike of homosexuality and reaffirmed this users (claimed) status as heterosexual. GrazingshipIV 14:10, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC)

128.122.128.25

Is doing some valid edits but totally breaking the style guide on other pages ( see User talk: link above ), i've posted a message on his talk page but he continues to edit articles, adding some useful info ( which might be bogus, i dont know enaugh about the subjects, but the At the gates edit he made seems to be valid if you dont count the breaking of the style guide. He is not responding to warnings on his talk page so i'm listing him here. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 13:56, 2004 Apr 10 (UTC)

213.51.91.137 on Google

213.51.91.137 is trying to advertise his software on the google page. Three changes since March 1, and no other contributions, two in the last 24 hours. Time to talk to 'em?

Sorry if you think that I try to advertise GGSearch on the wikipedia. I think it is not fair to the creator of the tool to not have this software in the Google list. You could add a third party list. I am using his software for two years now and that is why I typed it. The reason why I did it again, and again (four times if I am correct) was because I thought somebody was messing with the text. Now there is no reason to add anything else to the Google wiki because it is already complete. Sorry again for adding GGSearch to the Google wiki. To bad you don't use it yourself. That would open your eyes why I wanted to add it there. Sincerly John Mandel. Harlingen.

User:64.180.150.24

Creating File:Fag repeatedly with stupid description of a friend of his that he wishes to insult. Ashibaka ✎ 20:14, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

No subsequent vandalism. Keep an eye on it, but not that worrysome. Snowspinner 20:15, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:62.254.96.5

Just a kid messing around, I think. Deb 17:26, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Romanm and GeneralPatton

Discussion moved to Talk:Janez Drnovsek.

Translation articles

Students from U.Bilbao are creating many copyvio articles... not vandals, though! See MediaWiki:VfD-Translation articles for more info. (Lupo et al)

68.237.36.204

User:

  1. Keeps adding links in Hebrew to articles after being asked nicely to stop.
  2. Is vandalising pages to include incoherent messages about the messiah
  3. Has editied someone's user page.

Maroux 14:27, 2004 Feb 29 (UTC)

He was not warned so i unblocked. Muriel 14:39, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)




Persistent Vandalism

User:Lord Cornholio, Rishartha, Aenea666, et al.

User has removed all info from articles on Jesus Christ, Christianity, and Islam, replacing them with (in one instance) yuo=fagot and links to a very gross picture, "http://www.tubgirl.com this is what I think of jesus". This has happened numerous times. DavidR 21:24, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This person was back just now under a new name (now blocked) and will doubtless be back again. Can something be done? 82.35.17.203 21:27, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

L-user is now on as a new name User:Yahweh. Please block IP range. DavidR 01:31, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:Velrith106 appears to be another alias. -- The Anome 01:39, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Do you have any IP addresses for this user? -- The Anome

No, sorry. I was hoping an Admin could see the IP they posted from. Velrith106 is the one the 2nd poster reported as blocked. DavidR 04:15, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This individual appears to have created his/her login for the sole purpose of vandalism. The deceptive use of edit summaries and the minor addition tag is damning. Special thanks to Moncrief for catching it. The current block is only for the default 24 hours; as I'm still a rather new admin, I didn't want to overstep my bounds. A longer block may be necessary. -- Hadal 07:08, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Shortly after I blocked Rishartha, he/she came back under the login Aenea666. Another 24 hour block currently in effect. -- Hadal 07:19, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I've blocked Aenea666 as well. --Merovingian ↕ Talk 07:20, Mar 18, 2004 (UTC)
Other reincarnations:
-- Hadal 09:42, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This is all the Lord Cornholio (see below) vandal again I guess. I wonder if some admin person is able to do something about this? It's getting a bit boring. 138.37.188.109 09:31, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

You're right; I hadn't made the connection. As for what can be done, I suppose a range block would be the only option. I'm not qualified to do that, however. -- Hadal 09:42, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I did some tracking of this user. There's a pretty good case that this user is not just Lord Cornholio et al, but also at least twenty different IP addresses. The reason I have these suspicions is based on the fact that the IPs are often used to vandalize the same page: He gives each page 3 to 7 tries, and doesn't realize we're smarter than he is. Perhaps an AOL user? If my suspicions about him and his identities are correct, he's been vandalizing pages throughout the month of March, even up to today, and may (I say may, because I don't know) be the one launching attacks against RickK. Mike Church 16:13, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

also Son of Rishartha... Usual rubbish, very offensive, targets religions. Can nothing be done?


User:Bird,User:Raptor and various other incarnations

Banned by me for 72 hours. --Uncle Ed 19:11, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Many more -- see the Block log for recent IP blocks -- mostly this user. BCorr ¤ Брайен 14:41, Mar 10, 2004 (UTC)
Not banned:
  • (User:194.200.187.130 contributions) - interesting. This is an IIS box attached to the Internet, showing just a default page. It might be an idea to contact the admins of this machine, and ask them if it should be posting messages here.
All thease IPs (at least last time I checked) Were proxy servers. He is proxying around the blocks. If you do a google search these ips are all on proxy lists. All these users are bird. Quinwound
Ten more IPs BCorr ¤ Брайен

And another one:

RickK 04:58, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This is a weird one.

That is a slanderous cheap shot, thrown with the confidence of mob support. Brd
Since User:Raptor made the above edit I guess Bird is creating more puppets? - Texture 21:58, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)


Bird seems to be mostly or totally blanking articles, most of which the user has contributed to extensively, or even exclusively. The big exception to this is the brain article. That was almost completely blanked with allegation of a copvio. I checked and the standard procedure for copyvios had not been followed which lead me to follow this up. I'd say bird requires watching over the next few days. David Newton 17:22, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

  • To get some context here, you might want to review Talk:Brain and also, User talk:Bird, before it was blanked, when I and Bird were having a discussion see this edit: [13]. It appears that our peer review standards were not high enough for Bird or something. Anyway s/he seemed to get bent out of shape about image formatting and decided to just leave. --Lexor|Talk 17:38, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Bird now appears to be going by the name of Accuracy dispute. Washington irving 19:56, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It appears that User:bird has now recruited a sock puppet. User:Accuracy dispute has already undone some of the reversions that were made to articles earlier. We have to sort this out.
There are two separate problems I see. One is that we have to stop Bird and sock puppets blanking articles. The other is that we have to investigate whether the articles are indeed copyvios, and if they are, we need to delete them. I'm going to protect pages that Bird is messing with so that we can sort this out once and for all. David Newton 20:01, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Where can we continue discussion of these pages. I can help re images. and original content. Washington irving 20:04, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Sorry, but you are the vandals. User bird questioned the integrity of contributions under that byline, and several users decided they would rather have innaccurate articles that were not even recognized as valid by the author. User bird stubbed the articles so better informed writers can fill them in when they find time, between their important task of telling other writers what they should do.
A mob of vigilantees moved into the USER_talk:bird page to tell user bird what user birds problem was but of this cabal of very intelligent encyclopedia writers, not one has attempted to accurately articulate what were birds concerns, and in the rush to lynch a vandal, few cared that it was bird questioning the provinence of bird's contributions. This can go on forever or people can respect that others do thing they might not want them to do and accept the loss. That is the outcome of this: the user name bird is lost to this community and I will not repair it. If people want this to stop, they will start researching and contributing to articles and will not grab a rope and yell vandal when somebody else makes a severe edit on text they wrote but can't fully trust. Or, you can spread the false romour that bird created intentionally false articles meerly for the opportunity to the be victim of a lynch mob.

Adding material of dubious provenance surreptitiously, then announcing it to be a copyright violation without specifying enough to allow its clean removal and then creating confusion with sock puppet user-ids constitutes bannable behaviour in my opinion. Pretending to do so likewise. I suggest starting on the procedure for banning Bird in all its incarnations. -- The Anome 16:58, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

There was no serruptitious action. The material was added over the course of several weeks, there were comments added to the talk pages inviting criticism, such as the posting of a list of names of the cerebral hemispheres about which the user had honest doubts but attempted to make a good faith effor to identify. After the questionable identifications were on the talk page for two days, the user assumed them to be accepted by others who said they were watching, and placed them on the talk page. Further research led to further understanding about the regions, and more accurate identification and the user updated the caption to reflect accurate information.

When other users began to question aspects of the layout, users doubts further increased, and the user began reverting text about which user had doubts. If this is a project that ejects members who continue to question their writing after it is completed, or who do not allow other members to rest their confidence in content on the identity of an author, then that arbitration committee probably better just arbitrate, because that is the only standard at play - one which is arbitrary and capricious.

The user claims the user was hazed. There have been reports that new identities introduced in this environment were treated with either hazing or warm encouragement depending largely on political affiliation and acquiescence to acts of group agression. User:Your_Love_Is_Hollow

I did a temp-ban, as there have been suggestions that (a) this is a previously banned user and/or (b) it's a case of "rampage". I invite the Arbitration Committee to review my action. --Uncle Ed 19:13, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this is related but 62.211.221.106 just tried to remove the vandal warning. - Texture 19:22, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)


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)

12.64.96.36 -12.64.96.48 -12.64.96.61 -12.64.96.74 -12.64.96.81 - 12.64.96.112 - 12.64.96.113 - 12.64.96.137 - 12.64.96.148 - 12.64.96.154 - 12.64.96.155 - 12.64.96.161 - 12.64.96.177 - 12.64.96.253 -

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


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