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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 24.166.83.194 (talk) at 16:45, 24 October 2002. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The purpose of this page is to provide instant notice of vandalism taking place. You can use the format under the Current Alerts heading: IP address, pages touched, damage done. If you don't want to call attention to your report, be sure to check the box marked "this is a minor edit" (so it won't show up in most users' recent changes).

For a list of currently blocked IPs and the reason why they were blocked, visit: Special:Ipblocklist.

If you would like to look up information about the vandal's IP please visit http://network-tools.com/ and enter in the IP.

However, please do not label isolated instances of text deletions, replacements or odd additions as VANDALISM unless they are overtly lewd or offensive. More often than not, this is just a visitor to the site experimenting with how to use it -- 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. Above all, please be polite at first and give the person the benefit of the doubt until they prove they deserve otherwise.

If you disagree with someone's edits, your complaint might get more mileage at Wikipedia:Edit wars in progress.

CURRENT ALERTS

  • 24.166.83.90: Two contributions, both deliberate vandalism of existing articles misleading edit summaries used to attempt to cover tracks.
  • 152.163.188.164 - Biology: no others Anthere 05:39 Oct 24, 2002 (UTC)
  • 146.184.0.71 adding bogus links to and deleting valid data from various articles. -- Someone else 23:06 Oct 22, 2002 (UTC)

OLD ALERTS

Please move items down from "current alerts" after they are no longer an issue. Like, a day or two after a drive-by.

  • 203.166.96.234 defacing several pages -- Zoe 23:28 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)
    • I blocked that at the third offense, but I just now nslookedup it and it's called cache0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net, which sounds like a squid. The actual perp AFAICT could be any UU customer in Australia or Japan. I can't even tell from whois where the squid is. Should this IP be unblocked? -phma
  • 12.39.89.31 added nonsense to Joseph Nathan Kane, Rose Kennedy, Adolph Zukor, Eubie Blake, Nicolas Slonimsky, Irving Rapper, and Grandma Moses. IP is blocked. IP is a dialup line at madbbs.com and is likely to change. It may reappear at anywhere in 12.38.88/19. -phma 2002-10-17
    • This person has been adding sloppy short bios of people who lived to be over 100 years, with comments like "WOW THAT'S REALLY REALLY OLD!!"; may be more clueless than a deliberate vandal. -- Infrogmation
  • 66.108.48.88 was mucking around the hermeneutics page Slrubenstein
  • 209.189.128.78 Completely rewrote 2 articles and wrote 1 from scratch, all nonsensical and obscene. Quite funny, though, I have to admit, but still, absolutely not in line with the 'pedia. -User:Olivier
    • Blocked at your request, although we could be losing a talented contributor. --Ed Poor 16:42 Oct 16, 2002 (UTC)
    • I agree with you, I would be in favor of deblocking this contributor quickly and letting him/her know that he/she could better use his/her creativity. -User:Olivier
      • I think you guys have low standards for "talent" and "creativity" but... This IP belongs to a public school in Albuquerque; probably a library or classroom machine, which more intelligent students might stumble across. Unblocked. --Brion 11:04 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)
  • 195.93.32.9 Another vandal that deleted the Warsaw Pact article. Damage undone, but this is the third vandal (going by IP) in a few days to have done this. Scipius 20:11 Oct 10, 2002 (UTC)
  • 128.193.88.224 inserting random obscenities in multiple articles. --Ed Poor
    • damage undone -- 128.193.88.224
    • yes, good job of cleaning up. An amazing example of visitor to the site experimenting with how to use it And you've picked up on our formatting conventions rather quickly, too :-) --Ed Poor
  • October 8, 2002: 24.151.44.245 Set up pages at Natural catastrophe and Ignatius Donnelly with nonsense on them.
    • Just a kid fooling around. I deleted the pages; if he comes back, we can consider a block.
  • October 8, 2002: Several pages by 165.139.124.250, mostly full text deletions - IP blocked by popular demand --Ed Poor. Damages have all been reverted --FvdP
  • October 7, 2002: 208.155.3.133-- changed Mac OS to gibberish, then to graffiti; started Jef Raskin with jazz scat (so I morphed it into a stub) --Ed Poor
  • October 7, 2002: Cotton, Unix, World War II by 208.182.75.4 on Oct. 7, Taliban on September 25. --KQ
  • October 7, 2002: Windows Me, Unix by 208.182.75.3 on Oct. 7, Lycopene on September 25. --KQ
  • October 7, 2002: Several articles, by 12.235.190.90 IP blocked (see User contributions list for this user) (changes are often often commented as "Spelling correction" -- noted by 200.165.239.234
  • October 5, 2002: Mythology of demons by 139.134.64.153 -- noted by 200.165.239.234
  • October 4, 2002: 68.113.98.254 - looks inactive right now (for the last 1/2 hour [he ought to be: I banned him 20 minutes ago --Ed Poor ;) -- Of course; but I had not read your message at the time of my writing ;-) FvdP ] also stroke Talk:History of computing on 20:12 Sep 20, 2002. Never contributed content. Damage reverted.
  • October 3, 2002: 66.144.13.254 has been vandalizing several pages today, all of which have been reverted. -- Zoe
  • October 3, 2002: Vandalism of Connecticut by 164.83.4.85
    • Asked him to contribute or be blocked, same as 216. --Ed Poor
  • October 3, 2002: Vandalism of Great Sandy desert by 216.174.135.53, several times after 15:20. Cordyph 15:36 Oct 3, 2002 (UTC)
    • Protected Sandy Desert and 2 Scottish articles; tried to start dialogue with 216.174. I'll give him one more chance, then I say we use the "block" feature. --Ed Poor
    • Okay, 20 minutes of peace having passed since my message to 216, I have unprotected the 3 pages in question. --Ed Poor
  • October 1, 2002: Vandalism of Roman Colosseum by 65.199.239.171 between 19:01 and 19:05. Bernfarr
  • Anonymous user from dynamic IP 128.193.xxx.xxx has refused several attempts to move rational discussion of his entries from the Talk:Wikipedic page to the meta pages. Yes, he's made a few useful contributions too, but he has also edited comments made by others to make them look like they said something different; that alone shows a complete lack of personal integrity incompatible with a collaborative project, and I for one will not consider lifting his block until he apologizes for that. --LDC
    • I could just as well say that you have refused several attempts to keep rational discussion of my entries in the Talk:Wikipedic page. As for editing comments made by others, I'm continually finding my comments changed as well.
    • Give me a page title, date, and time where someone has edited one of your comments to make it appear you said something you didn't, and I will block that person's access as well. Many different things are welcome or at least tolerated here: dissent, zeal, bias, odd ideas, rudeness, etc.; those are all just part of what makes us a diverse community. But honesty is not negotiable.
  • Sept. 28, 2002: 210.22.168.10 has repeatedly replaced the redirect in PKZIP with a vacuous announcement of who he is.
    • Repeatedly? This only shows up once in the history, and PKZIP appears nowhere in the deletion log. Unless I'm missing something, I don't think that this is a vandal. — Toby
  • 198.74.20.78 has done Harmonica and Hasbro's Game of Life
  • Sep 26, 2002: 205.213.111.50 has been repeatedly vandalizing pages with their own comments. Looks like just a kid having a laugh; he seems to have even cleaned up after himself on a few pages. I won't block unless he comes back and does more damage. --LDC
  • Sep 25, 2002: 216.229.90.232 is uploading several copyrighted music articles. I already blocked him, but don't have time to revert all his changes and list them on Deletion page. Might be the same as another vandal I blocked yesterday around the same time, who was also uploading music articles. --Jeronimo
  • 198.81.18.166 is creating many nonsense articles. Not exactly vandalism, but the articles aren't worth having. -- Zoe 05:42 Sep 22, 2002 (UTC)
  • Sept 19 2002 - 64.163.38.122 replacing Israeli-Palestinian conflict articles w/slogans -- Already blocked
  • Sept 19 2002 - 207.75.101.98 (Dave's Good Stuff) vandalised Television
  • Sept 17 2002 - 66.157.7.121 random obscenity - IP blocked
  • Sept 15 2002 - 199.217.189.57 is deleting all Yugoslavia entries! -- Zoe

See also: Vandalism in progress - old alerts

Here's how it works:

When you notice what you believe to be an act of vandalism at work, take note of that person's IP number or handle.

Edit this page, adding the person's IP number, the date and the approximate time (server) of the alleged vandalism.

Then put the person's IP or handle in the Summary box and hit save. (Important!!! Otherwise people have to open the vandalism page to see what's happening.)


VANDALISM IN PROGRESS appears in caps on Recent Changes, along with the id of the alleged vandal, and the rest of Wikipedia can jump in to decide whether damage has actually occurred. If there is consensus that an attack was correctly identified, everyone will help repair the damage (see guidelines below for how to remove undesired changes).

If no attack occurred (e.g. it was just a difference of opinion about what is appropriate content or style, not intentional defacement), you should probably apologize to the person you branded as a vandal.


When the attack is finished, come back and remove the information you added. When it is removed, you may wish to add it to Vandalism in progress - old alerts for future reference.

Please only use this page for geniune malicious vandalism, and only for a sustained attack. If you make any changes to this page for other reasons, check the minor edit box, or put something like "Not calling a vandalism alert" in the Summary box.

Incorrectly considered as a vandal

    • 128.193.88.xxx is also "OsmosisTwo" person who attempted to resist the cabal the other night. baffling, not malicious. -- Tarquin 15:48 Oct 2, 2002 (UTC)
    • 128.193.88.xxx, please register a user name so you have user page where can talk to you about how you can go about helping this project. please stop editing my words (above). it's rude. -- Tarquin
    • I will not register a user name.
    • It's your choice, and regular contributors have chosen stay unregistered before. It does make it easier for everyone if people have names instead of numbers. -- Tarquin

Notes and further guidelines:

When you list times, please modify to "server" time for the international community. You can obtain the current server time from the preferences tab.

How to remove undesired changes:

  1. click "History" for the damaged page.
  2. click the date & time of a previous undamaged version to display it.
  3. click "Edit page"; there will be a warning at the top of the edit box that saving will erase changes that were made in later revisions -- that's exactly what you want!
  4. click "Save page" to save the old version as it was.


If you wish to minimise your actions, just enter the letters "VR" as a comment, and choose "minor edit". This informs the other editors (if they choose to view minor edits in their preferences) that a page has been repaired.

See also Wikipedia:IP probation watchlist.

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