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Please report vandalism at the top of the "Current alerts" list below. Please only use this page for repeated malicious vandalism, not for one-off edits, or newbie tests. Except in cases of vandalbot or other rapid-fire attacks, please warn users and wait for further vandalism before listing them here. Do not list non-vandalism.

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Cautions and alternatives
Please do not bite the newcomers by listing newbie tests as vandalism. Instead, assume good faith and list them at Wikipedia:Clueless newbies. If you suspect an edit may be vandalism but are unsure, list the edit on RC patrol. See NPOV dispute, Accuracy dispute and Requests for comment for content disputes. Page protection may be requested.

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See Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages.

Long-term alerts

Please do not add recent vandalism to this section. Add new alerts under current alerts. This section lists users or IP addresses that are not necessarily vandalising right now, but have vandalised in the past, and to whom special circumstances apply. Please add new active alerts below under current alerts and sign and date your entry with ~~~~.

Please list articles that are chronic targets for vandalism at Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages.

Sollog

Wikipedia is currently the target of vandalism by the followers of a self-styled god and resident of Philadelphia named Sollog who are unhappy with the Wikipedia article on their object of worship. They have set up a site called wikipediasucks.com (please don't link to it to boost their google rank) and on the forums there they are actively discussing ways to vandalize wikipedia. Targeted articles include God, Jesus, Devil, Jim Wales, George W. Bush, Britney Spears, Nostradamus, Adolf Hitler, Einstein, Sollog, Wikipedia, and articles linked on the main page. This is not an idle threat as they've already been actively vandalizing over the past week. Any admin seeing such vandalism from a Sollog puppet (who will usually make themselves known by invoking the name of Sollog or linking to http://wwwDOTwikipediasucksDOTcom or http://wwwDOT247newsDOTnet/2004/20041211-wikipediaDOTshtml) should - in my opinion - block them immediately without warning as they are persistent vandals who cannot be made into good wikipedians. See Talk:Sollog for information on their past behavior. Gamaliel 22:16, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

user:64.191.63.213 is a known anon open proxy which has been used by Sollog sockpuppets as well as others to vandalize wiki pages. Wyss 22:34, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

In the past, Sollogites appear to have operated from Kinko's (e.g. 63.164.145.85, which is currently blocked); Starbucks using T-Mobile addresses (e.g. 208.54.95.129, also blocked at the moment); anonymous proxies (e.g. 64.191.63.213, which belongs to http://www.surffreedom.com/). In addition to evidence from past behavior, a forum on the wikipediasucks.com website also encourages Sollog supporters to continue vandalism using those previously employed tactics, as well as public libraries, public wifi networks, and open proxies. Most of the attacks appear to have originated from northeastern Broward county in southern Florida, possibly Pompano Beach, Florida and/or Lighthouse Point, Florida. Sollogites share a similar writing style, using UPPER case for emphasis. The Sollog article has an interesting past, having been created by 65.34.173.202, vigorously defended by Sollogites during a vote for deletion which resulted in a consensus to keep, vandalized, protected, unprotected, and ultimately opposed by the user who created it, resulting in a streak of vandalism today. --MarkSweep 22:44, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

192.139.27.18

192.139.27.18 talk contributions

  • A proxy used by the Calgary Board of Education, possibly specific to Henry Wise Wood High School. All internet access from that school (and possibly others in Calgary) is routed through this IP address. The 'pedia is apparently a frequent target for vandalism from assorted students in the school, but many others are valid contributors. Do not block this IP for more than a few hours at a time, and be sure to explain the shared IP situation to the students thereof. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 17:55, 2004 Dec 7 (UTC)

128.253.117.69

  • Deliberate vandalism. How do I know? See [1]. I advise all Wikipedian's to keep an eye out for such vandalism, endorsed by the The Cornell Daily Sun. - Ta bu shi da yu 21:53, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • What a chap. Could this go in the 'Wikipedia in the news' section? - Ashley Pomeroy 18:17, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

24.66.94.140

  • Has vandalized Thunder Bay, Ontario page — 22 Nov 2004
  • Nov 27, Has made some edits that need fact checking. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 16:04, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

195.195.152.11

  • At first, I thought this anon was well-intentioned, but error-prone, as 3 out of 4 "corrections" to people's birth year (by one year) were incorrect, but had backing info on other incorrect sites. However, based on an edit that changed Malcolm McDowell's birth year from 1943 to 1950, with no backing info, I believe this user may be intentionally vandalising Wikipedia. Regardless of intent, all contributions should be monitored. The errors go back to September (although I am concerned with this major edit in June[2])—I have neither the knowledge or patience to verify all the changes. Maybe someone with interest in music could go thru it). Niteowlneils 19:38, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • If you took a sample and found 3/4 edits to be wrong then we should just revert all his edits unconditionally. Thue | talk 20:48, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
      • Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! we should check his edits and revert the bad ones. Reverting good edits harms Wikipeda. Theresa Knott (Tart, knees hot) 08:25, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
        • Seems to me that it's better to revert potential good information than to let large amounts of bad information in, especially if there's too much of it to verify easily. If it's good information, eventually somebody who isn't known for making bad edits will come along and make those same changes. --Carnildo 08:12, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • FWIW, while some edits are unverifiable, and some are worded oddly, I didn't find any provable factual innaccuracies in the 11/15 to 12/2/04 edits from this anon. Niteowlneils 22:03, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

User:198.20.32.254

212.219.56.194

  • This is my college, can it be blocked for unregistered uses only (so I, and some others, can access it while were there)? I made the mistake of showing wikipedia to some people who can't be trusted with it >:( Darksun 15:22, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'm not sure if specifically blocking unregistered users is technically possible. Pakaran (ark a pan) 19:29, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

202.156.2.170

  • This IP address is a proxy server which all users of maxonline.com.sg use. Please watch it carefully and revert any vandalism you see. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:04, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • It is active again against computer software products of various kinds. Would a letter to the ISP help, since Singapore has corporal punishment? Nov. 23 UTC Hu 06:11, 2004 Nov 23 (UTC)
  • Absolutely not. They have broken no laws, and Wikipedia is a free website. I do not advise getting the authorities involved here. That's just wrong. We should merely block for 10 minutes at a time to slow them down a bit. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:55, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Seconded. I really hope Hu's message was not meant to be taken seriously. Pakaran (ark a pan) 19:21, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

217.33.82.4

  • This IP address belongs to a school (which school has never been stated). If we're going to block, make it no more than a half-hour at a time so other students can also get a chance to edit articles in their lunch break, whatever. - Ta bu shi da yu 15:09, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
seems to be in Scotland.
If I run an IP search, I get Amsterdam, Netherlands as a result, not Scotland. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 22:24, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
The IP search in that case only tells you that it falls within a huge set of IPs assigned to Ripe NCC (217.*.*.*) which is based out of Amsterdam. They further assign IPs to other places. If you go to the Ripe site and search for it, it comes up as part of a group assigned to "Western Education and Library Board" in Belfast. DreamGuy 13:57, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

195.144.131.2

Has vandalised about a dozen articles since November and has had repeated warnings. Lumos3 11:35, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Current alerts

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December 12

= 62.97.196.2

Repeated vandalism.

The_Willy_on_Wheels%21

Mister vandal. Lot of vandalism Anr 22:27, 2004 Dec 12 (UTC)

Nasty, read the guy's page.

83.109.133.64, Rdsmith4

  • Breaking the 3RR rule is not vandalism. Please see the guidelines at the top of this page. — Mateo SA | talk 03:25, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
Had a look through the guidelines and it doesn't comment on the 3RR, but on the 3RR page it does state that if you are not an admin you should list it on this page. Evil Monkey → Talk 03:35, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
I hadn't realized that about the 3RR page. Since that is the consensus, I'll go along with it, of course, but I still think this is an inappropriate page for 3RR requests. Maybe we should create a separate page for those requests. — Mateo SA | talk 05:36, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

MarySaintJohn

Kelba

December 11

Multiple, repeat bad edits at Benedictine

  • A series of anon vandals at 168.229.*, and most recently at 128.59.168.78, have been inserting the name of "Eugene Leipounski" as a supposed stepbrother of St Scholastica into the Benedictine article; and more recently added the claim that he was homosexual. According to Mpntod, Eugene Leipounski is a real, twentieth century person from New Jersey and not a sixth century monk. -- Smerdis of Tlön 17:18, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

69.194.194.27

  • ( 69.194.194.27 | talk | contributions) has been vandalising & blanking pages for several days now. Now on 5th warning. About time this IP was blocked. [[User:David Johnson|David Johnson [T|C]]] 14:47, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Now on a page-blanking spree. Needs blocking immediately. [[User:David Johnson|David Johnson [T|C]]] 14:51, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Immediate IP block required, keeps blanking Current Events, Help and similar pages. Solver 15:08, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
      • Blocked by Dori and myself. -- ChrisO 15:11, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
        • Thanks Chris.Solver 15:14, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

24.11.21.192

  • Blatant copyright violation, dubious edits, created article for Anal spew as well as 3 articles for himself. Probably a juvinile.
Kaldari 02:13, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

December 10

Rambot

  • I'm only half-serious here, but can someone direct me to the conversation page where Ram-Man was given permission to spam everyone's talk page? - Ponder 23:43, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)
We're discussing this on Ram-Man's talk page. I wouldn't have raised an alert if there had been a link in the bot's message to a place where the use of a mass-message had been approved by consensus. The bot has been halted for now. -- Ponder 00:32, 2004 Dec 11 (UTC)

81.157.11.246

  • Multiple counts of vandalism, starting with Hans Island at 20:47, then revandalised at 22:20 after that page was reverted. Vandalised ten other pages in the next ten minutes.
  • Text of the vandalism suggests that this user is either British, Canadian, or both (just my opinion).
Deathphoenix 23:19, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

207.166.7.200

  • 207.166.7.200 | talk | contributions
    • History of dubious edits, recieved a two-week ban back in the middle of November, and now they're back and continuing where they left off. Well worth keeping an eye on for their tampering with the VfD pages on their stuff, removal of VfD notices, and the like. I'd reccomend a permanent ban. Sockatume 22:25, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
      • Since December 1st, this user has made 18 edits that include obvious vandalism [3] [4], a number of questionable edits [5] [6], creation of bunk articles [7] [8], removal of deletion notices [9], and a forgery at least one signature [10]. I tend to concur with the permanant ban. -- ClockworkSoul 22:52, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

4.37.73.58

67.82.95.236

  • ( 67.82.95.236 | talk | contributions)
    • Vandalized article on English Civil War, and articles related to it, with random insertion of "THEN LORD JAMES OF SCOTLAND BROUGHT A LARGE ARMY AND CAPTURED ENGLAND. CAVALIERS ROUNDHEADS NEW MODEL ARMY TORIES PURITANS SCOTS DIGGERS LEVELERS GREEN RIBBON CLUB HIGH CHURCH PARTY".
Daerandir 12:23, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

213.166.17.23

AndrewH 12:07, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

70.17.202.212

December 9

81.153.33.120

{duplicate request from David Johnson follows)

  • (81.153.33.120 | talk | contributions) is inserting the word "controversial" into many articles. I warned the user on the IPs talk page; their response was to vandalise my user & talk page in the same way. Please block this guy. [[User:David Johnson|David Johnson [T|C]]] 22:28, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • I blocked this IP (nslookup gives hostname of host81-153-33-120.range81-153.btcentralplus.com) for 24 hours, but I don't know how to do a mass-revert yet. Can somebody else do that real quick? -- ClockworkSoul 22:36, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Nevermind - I got it. He had inserted "controversial" into about 30 entirely random articles, give or take. -- ClockworkSoul 22:45, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

80.43.134.93


24.155.128.5

64.218.194.120

209.175.21.2

  • (209.175.21.2 | talk | contributions) is vandalising various pages, adding either nonsense or replacing single words to create factual inaccuracy which would normally be hard to spot. Has had 4th warning and has continued regardless. [[User:David Johnson|David Johnson [T|C]]] 17:49, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

24.173.58.138

  • Now creating hoax articles with imaginary biographies. They sometimes go unnoticed because they are longer than the average unsigned contribution. Deb 17:45, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

207.230.201.178

  • (207.230.201.178 | talk | contributions) Wiped out Congo Civil War, when I tried to revert it (I couldn't get the latest version so I was going to have to get the second oldest and they add diff with the latest to get the latest) 207.230.201.178 simply deleted it again with the following text, "NO THIS ARTICLE WILL REMAIN DELETED. IF YOU KEEP PUTTING IT BACK, I WILL JUST DELETE IT AGAIN".
  • I had just nominated this to be a featured article and was going to put the template in when this began happening.
If I were an administrator I'd handle it myself, but I'm not so here you go. Kevin Rector 16:51, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

220.236.152.72

  • (220.236.152.72 | talk | contributions) keeps cutting major portions out of Ayer. Warned by Hadal and myself. Persists. Since I'm involved, I gather I'm not who should block. Will someone else, please? -- Jmabel | Talk 07:23, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
    • I looked over the list of edits to verify and took the liberty. Current block is for 24 hours unless somebody sees fit to change that. -- ClockworkSoul 07:25, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Blue This, Bleu Cheese

Tagishsimon
[vandalism removed]
This user has also created the account Bleu Cheese and vandalized this post. — Mateo SA | talk 06:33, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

68.224.196.94

  • Repeated blanking of 4chan, replacing text with profanity/gibberish. Kurt Shaped Box 02:17, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

24.230.26.23

205.188.116.134

  • Weird little bot-type edits, including removing a comment on that "Ambition" card game on VfD. Has also removed warnings from the anon user page, answering "youre not welcome" to the one remaining warning. Almost all vandalism in the past from this IP from what I can tell, including its most recent to Siberia. - Lucky 6.9 01:35, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

December 8

159.134.149.174 / 159.134.149.47

[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 20:24, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Probably the same person, as these are both IP's from Eircoms pool. Eircom have one of the toughest TOS's ever, if you want to really punish someone for vandalism... Kiand 20:51, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

84.9.31.130

  • (84.9.31.130 | talk | contributions)
    • Responsible for three nonsensical vanity articles and vandalism to three legit articles. No prior edit history. Has been warned. - Lucky 6.9 19:38, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
      • Actively removing the speedy delete notices from the nonsense and adding more to the "mush note" vanity articles. Help!! - Lucky 6.9 19:42, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

129.19.68.66 / 129.19.68.114

  • Keeps adding nonsense and self reverting shortly afterwards, see Dijkstra's algorithm. Has been warned before — see the talk pages. BACbKA 09:55, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

68.21.161.50

  • Keeps removing the sandbox template. 66.32.248.236 02:36, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

155.33.79.75

  • Blocked for 24 hours according to SWAdair. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:13, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

68.107.238.229

December 7

65.175.203.50

  • Repeatedly blanking Pokémon. I cannot verify whether any of this user's other edits are legitimate. kelvSYC 23:11, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • I only see 4 blankings - two for Sean Howard and two for Pokemon. Left a message on the talk page. - RedWordSmith 23:24, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

207.28.99.145

Vandalising date pages and creating nonsense pages. -- FirstPrinciples 20:45, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

204.38.32.6

  • 204.38.32.6 | talk | contributions Has made many edits to various articles, most of them obvious vandalism, either blanking pages or writing things like "Ted sucks his mother." Has been already warned twice on his talk page. --[[User:Kpalion|Kpalion (talk)]] 00:31, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
He's back and still vandalising 20 hours later. FirstPrinciples 20:20, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Blocked for 24 hours. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:17, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Goldberg

  • (User:Goldberg | talk | contributions)
    • This is a sockpuppet (along with FamilyFord car4less) whose only edits are attempts to get around the 3-revert-rule and continue efforts to force wholesale replacement of the Yasser Arafat article with an article rewrite by User:HistoryBuffEr. HistoryBuffEr has been in revert wars on the Yasser Arafat page attempting to replace the article with his personal version for three months, wiping out many other editors' work, and refusing to engage in discussion on the Talk page. There is an ongoing arbitration case concerning HistorBuffEr for this [11]. Meanwhile, all of Goldberg's edits have been reverts to HistoryBuffEr's previous wholesale rewrite versions, usually after HistoryBuffEr has exhausted 3 reverts. Here is Goldberg's latest revert to HistoryBuffEr's version [12]. Notice that Goldberg is reverting to a copy of HistoryBuffEr's wholesale replacement from 4 days earlier [13]. Also, please note that "Goldberg"'s claim to be replacing the "anti-semite version" is a sham, since he's replacing the same version HistoryBuffEr claims is "pro-Zionist". This Goldberg sockpuppet should be permanently banned; its creation by whoever created it was purely to cause disruption. --MPerel 19:59, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

198.234.206.4

218.188.3.124

After being banned for 24 hrs on Nov 22nd, this user is back vandalizing. Awolf002 12:39, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Blocked for 48 hours. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 12:48, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

195.188.243.2

  • This user is repeatedly vandalizing Encryption and related pages. Talk page shows a history of warnings (and I've just added another). --PJF (talk) 12:04, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Blocked for 24 hours. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 12:57, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

68.21.185.217

  • This guy is having a little too much fun in the sandbox.
E r. I agree. But he now seems to be having fun adding himself to vandalism in progress [14]. Cool Hand Luke 03:29, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

60.25.119.200

4.139.57.147

70.56.161.49

  • Has vandalized several pages claiming he "pwns" them, including the vandalism in progress page and my user page. [[User:Norm|Norman Rogers\talk]] 00:39, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

December 6

68.224.211.201

  • ( 68.224.211.201 | talk | contributions) User is engaged in repeatedly vandalizing the 4chan article. Requesting SWAT team and air support ASAP. :: DarkLordSeth 22:31, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Looks like a dynamic IP. Has stopped now, but can be blocked as soon as vandalism starts again. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:36, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

166.109.178.51

  • ( 166.109.178.51 | talk | contributions) (I'm fairly new here, not sure the correct format for reporting vandalism.) This user is vandalizing butterfly related pages (and maybe others) by blanking much of the article and posting complete nonsense. Has posted nonsense on related talk pages also. Jonathunder 17:03, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC)
  • Anon has just 3 contributions, all reverted. And one warning on talk page. Please try to warn user before reporting him. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 19:10, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
    • Again, I'm new, so bear with me if this is the wrong procedure. Part of the reason I wanted to report this was there were very simular nonsense things from other IP addresses in the 166.109.178.xx range, and I think it is the same person doing this repeatedly.
    • More specifically, it looks like this is Ectoplasmic Goo | talk | contributions who also appears to be posting from 166.109.178.182 and 166.109.178.171
Jonathunder 20:49, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC)

207.208.196.2

  • ( 207.208.196.2 | talk | contributions) Contributed supdawg which was vfd'd and voted out. Today he added it again and removed a speedy. He has also vandalized at least one other page adding a nonsensical supdawg category and interfered with vfd process on his original supdawg. --LeeHunter 16:47, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

194.80.204.22

  • Has stopped after warnings on talk, edits have been reverted. I'll wait this one out. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:20, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

ExplorerCDT

  • Has been repeatedly redirecting pages that are on VFD when no clear consensus has been reached. I asked him to wait for consensus, and he told me to shut up. Check his comments on my talk page. He is disrupting the vfd process. --L33tminion | (talk) 07:06, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • He's been reverting reverts of his redirects, too. Not quite up to the 3RL as far as I've seen, though. --L33tminion | (talk) 07:12, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • He's also been adding smart-ass remarks to articles (Microsoft, for example). I've warned him; we'll see what happens. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 07:25, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

194.213.41.14

  • Apparent link-spam bot.

24.159.186.88

  • Added patent nonsense about 20th Century Fox having distributed Pokémon (anime) movies in Japan (they have not), and reverting my (legitimate) edit on Pokémon Sunday and calling me a troll while doing so. However, some of this user's edits appear to be legitimate. kelvSYC 05:24, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Try discussing things on the user's talk page first. If they have indeed some legitimate edits this is not the place to report them. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:53, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

70.177.170.196

  • Vandalised this very page. Nuff said. kelvSYC 05:17, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

208.48.205.238

61.145.206.xxx and 61.45.207.xxx, the "Guangzhou spammer"

  • ( 61.145.206.133 | talk | contributions) The "Guangzhou spammer." Usually he hits the Jew article. He's in a database of known massive internet spammers [17], for example, and uses a variety of IPs closely related within the range 61.145.206.xxx through 61.145.207.xxx. I suspect he adds massive spam to the Jew article because the article has a high Google ranking, and he wants to increase the Google ranking of his pages. He has been persistent for a while, and has been warned numerous times. Antandrus 01:29, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

82.32.38.159

Vandalizing several pages. Specifically those that deal with Microsoft and alternatives. Is apparantly a Microsoft-lover. He is altering pages with Microsoft's bugs to show names of competitors and alternatives with praises to show Microsoft's software. Examples: Linux, Windows XP, Internet Explorer.12.222.93.120 01:28, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I have blocked him for 24 hours. --Slowking Man 01:31, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

December 5

210.54.53.13

  • Even continued vandalising already vandalized article as I was trying to revert. Banned for 24 hours. Feel free to block again if behaviour continues after expiration. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:38, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

169.151.1.214

  • ( 169.151.1.214 | talk | contributions) I reported this IP address for vandalism on November 26, and the IP user has come back to vandalize again, on December 2 and December 3. Those recent cases of vandalism have been reverted by other Wikipedians. Steve Casburn 19:50, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

User:Wfgh444

  • Replaced the content of the Rennes-le-Château several times by his own comments. After I protected the page and suggested a dispute resolution process on the talk page, he started replacing the talk page by insults, which I have reverted several times. (see the history of the article and the history of the article talk page). olivier 19:35, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
  • Given user pointers on Civility and "no personal attacks". This is not yet persistent vandalism, IMO. Please try dispute resolution first. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:47, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
  • The particular user in question has blanked and replaced related articles before. His intentions are basically good, but I don't think he quite "gets" how Wikipedia collaboration works. Gwimpey 20:41, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

24.24.93.91

  • Placed test3 message on user talk page. Test2 seemed to slow whoever this is down, maybe mentioning that they could be blocked will stop this. - RedWordSmith 19:53, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

User:Mr Vandal

December 4

81.152.223.19

(submitted by User:Glueball)
  • User has only 2 edits. Please report again if vandalism persists, but please try to reason with the user first. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 13:23, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

Chan Han Xiang

  • (Chan Han Xiang | talk | contributions)
  • Marking legitimate articles VfD out of spite; modifying other users comments on VfD and other talk pages. This is escalating. I strongly suggest a 24-hour block. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 18:54, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Found he removed a comment from another user here. Am investigating further. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 19:16, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
      • Has stopped after warnings by jpgordon, feel free to block later if behavior continues after time I stamp this comment with. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 19:22, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Has at least once (since Mgm's comment) deleted other users signed comments in WP:VIP. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 23:58, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

207.81.89.222

  • Has stopped editing after Estel's warning. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 19:25, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

24.9.10.235

  • So far 18 removals of pictures from Vagina and Penis articles in the last 30 minutes, all of them reverted, the edit war is still ongoing. Rafał Pocztarski 10:48, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • The person doing the deleting expressed their frustration on the Penis:Talk page, apparently unaware that the topic of pictures in the Penis and Vagina pages is an active discussion in Wikipedia. Hopefully they will read it and stop. I hope this one can be filed under 'clueless newbie'. --Ejstarchuk 10:58, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • I'll file it under "clueless newbie". User has enganged in discussion on Talk:Penis after warning. Is no longer reverting at this time. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 19:31, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

December 3

65.49.189.224

  • Blocked for 24 hours. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 16:57, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

70.56.149.35

  • This user is rapidly adding links to a number of commercial sites, presumably to improve Google ranking.

Woegaohghgljahsdgj

  • Blocked for 24 hours. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 17:04, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

207.102.176.111

  • Vandalising Legal drinking age and marking for deletion after my first revision. I'm too new at this to handle this person quickly (or accurately without a lot of looking up). Also editing my user page, so they're probably not just experimenting. - 20:37, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Aeconley
  • Is gone, so blocking won't help. Feel free to report him again if he returns with similar edits. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 19:42, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

67.87.234.103

  • Has made a series of small edits: some are obvious insertion of errors; others I have no information to judge whether they're true or not. All his edits today need checking, and probably reverting, I think Malcolm Farmer 21:39, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

212.159.106.109

  • Vandalized two existing articles and cut loose with a malformed and vicious anti-Semitic and anti-American rant. Guy can't even spell simple words.  :^) - Lucky 6.9 21:22, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

193.207.168.126

  • Vandalising year pages. - 20:39, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC) Lee (talk)
  • Yup, seems to be using a script that vandalizes the pages one year at the time, is into the future now.. Script adds naughty picture and pretends to be "helping to fix common mistakes on the wiki" in message. Martijn faassen 21:43, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Can't someone block that IP or something? A2Kafir 21:36, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • User just now started the counter at 1 and was working his/her way up; made it to 6 before they were stopped. Lovely. - jredmond 21:53, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
above text restored after deletion by Willy 0.01
  • This user has been falsey accused of vandalism please unblock user and revert back to his edits. He has e-mailed me and says that said edits were done by an imposter who registered a IP address similar to him. Willy 0.01 22:11, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
How are these accusations "false"? That IP address — not one "similar", but that particular IP address — added the penis image to all of those year articles; the edit histories offer proof of this. And, frankly, there is no way we're going to revert and put that image back on the top of all the year articles from 1950-2078. Nice try. - jredmond 22:25, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

User:144.126.232.164

User:216.113.225.201

User:141.154.227.246

84.47.54.137

User:Nossr50

  • (User:Nossr50 | talk | contributions) Everything contributed by this user was vandalism. New attack has been launched just half an hour ago. Has previously received Warning #1, #2 and now #3, also continued under another IP - User:66.82.9.81 | talk | contributions. Oneliner 11:31, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Blocked username for 24 hours, IP still needs investigation. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:42, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
      • The vandalism by (User:66.82.9.81 | talk | contributions) was apparently done by User:Nossr50 as well, however the same IP contributed two or three relevant edits before. Possibly due to dynamic IP assignment by the DSL provider. Oneliner 12:05, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

User:Gtabary

  • Usuage of abusive language by using these words: "Generating mess and noise" and "stop making noise" just because author by writing Medical Specialist Centre article; when actually it was highly wikified, and true facts. He supposed to have made the reply more friendly. Considered as a Indirect Personal attack.
- User:Chan Han Xiang, 10:14, Dec 3, 2004

The following was deleted by User:Chan Han Xiang, as part of his continuing pattern of changing and deleting other editors' signed comments. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 18:43, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Tc191

  • User changed details of page elephant into rubbish, however written in a way that most people wouldnt react without knowledge.
  • Blocked for 24 hours. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:47, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

222.152.196.205

  • User is blank page vandalising the pages of black metal musicians.
Rje 09:23, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • User hasn't been warned about page blanking. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:51, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

12.220.161.74

  • Constantly adding nonsense. Another speedy delete was put up on a previous article, and they keep recreating it. I've placed my last warning on his page. One more, and he/she should get blocked for 24 hours. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:29, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

65.184.155.227

  • Racist garbage at an article called "Arabic terrorist." Hydriotaphia 04:19, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Ectoplasmic Goo

  • Random feces (literally) on a couple of articles, a talk, and their own talk page. - UtherSRG 02:09, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

84.47.87.248

User:24.185.149.111

  • User:24.185.149.111 may not be a vandal in the narrow sense, but seems to be doing nothing but inserting copyrighted material into existing articles. Has been warned, no way to know if he/she has read the warnings. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:06, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
    • I now believe this wasn't a vandal at all. It appears that David Storobin of Global Politician was attempting to donate material from his own site, and it never crossed his mind that it would appear to be someone else violating his intellectual property rights! I've suggested that he set up an account so that it is clear what is going on here, then log in and re-add his contributions that have been reverted (inappropriately, as it turns out) as copyvios. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:26, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
Even so, he could try to integrate the added text into the articles. So far the contributions of 24.185.149.111 were to dump a bunch of text into seemingly random place without any attempt to integrate it into existing writing. On the other hand, he never failed to sign the text with an URL to his web site. This appears more like a desire to promote the web site, rather than to make a useful contribution. --Gene s 07:56, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

216.209.153.2

  • This was brought to my attention by another anon. Seems this guy is posting a bunch of nonsense articles about a non-existent or totally non-notable actor named Paul Paquette. No IMDb for him or his movies whatsoever. Also a bogus article called "Arrowhead" about this guy's supposed band. He put the info on the Arrowhead disambig page. Google points to an artist of the same name. Not the same guy. To top it off, I'm getting nasty notes on my talk page from a fairly new registered user who insists that untrue articles aren't speedy deletion candidates. He's posting them for peer review instead. I already reviewed the articles. They're totally false. Sigh... - Lucky 6.9 00:02, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

December 2

207.70.141.194

  • Deliberate vandalism. Previously warned in August (As per user:talk)
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Reproduction Sex can also be called Fucking by younger adults. A few people said, "It feels good going in and out of the vagaina, and then the climax is great!"
Fifelfoo 22:16, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

204.193.6.90

156.63.190.132

205.213.111.53

  • adding graffiti, removing content from US constitution articles Pedant 15:22, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)

67.86.182.204

  • Blanking random articles and replacing with nonsense. Has been warned for doing so before. Goplat 02:56, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Blocked for 24 hours, if vandalism repeats after expiry date, maybe a longer block is neccesary. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 12:59, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

64.12.116.201

Jesus in a cultural and historical background (article)

  • article continuously being blanked and converted into a redirect
N.b. see the article talk page for commentary on this issue. CheeseDreams 00:35, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

CheeseDreams

  • created Jesus in a cultural and historical background for spite (IMO), doubling the controversy on a protected page, after obstructing consensus-building attempts on that page. Cheesedreams may be no ordinary vandal but his behaviour seems to have reached some sort of crisis point, at this point IMO he is one toe over the line, and bears watching. Pedant 15:48, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)
Read the comment by Llyrwch on the talk page of the article in question, and you will see the reason why the page exists CheeseDreams 18:16, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

December 1

212.217.2.36

  • The "Willy On Wheels" moron has made his return. bot-style. HUGE amounts of rapid-fire nonsense! - Lucky 6.9 23:23, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

206.172.38.200

--Mixcoatl 23:19, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Blocked for another 24.

81.10.76.254

195.188.152.10

  • Returning vandal judging by talk page. Blocked for another 24 hours. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 20:48, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

70.88.129.205

Has apparently been blocked before, see his talk page - maybe a longer block is in order -- Ferkelparade π 14:24, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I've blocked him for another 24. --jpgordon{gab} 15:46, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

83.29.19.9, 83.29.11.3, 83.29.13.118, 83.29.41.67

  • (83.29.19.9 | talk | contributions) Repeatedly spamming Kraków with a link to commercial site cracowonline.com (hotels etc in Kracow). The spamer changes IPs daily, but they all come from 83.29.0.0 - 83.29.127.255 (NEOSTRADA-ADSL). The spamer has been warned numerous times, and has been revered by various people many times. --Gene s 09:37, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
spam continues, this time from User:83.29.10.48 --Gene s 08:52, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

217.106.58.222

Users Critical and CStar

  • Has there been a troll / vandalism on eight pages and three users?
For the record, the user Critical ( talk, contributions), who slapped the "disputed NPoV" sticker on some pages, has made his or her first edits tonight (or today) and within less than two hours has attacked eight articles for PoV, including (ironically given the CStar example given on the Logical fallacy talk page), Physical law. These were the only "edits" (plus weak justifications on talk pages in the same vein as this one). I don't think the PoV claim has merit. We may ask if this series of attacks is to be taken seriously.
For the following reasons I am thinking that these pages has been the victim of a tiresome semi-sophisticated troll and the PoV sticker should be removed sooner rather than later, if not immediately. We may note that CStar ( talk, contributions) after making edits, paused during the period user Critical made edits, and then CStar took up responding to these edits after the series of user Critical edits ends, as if there is only one user involved, and the user logged out, changed cookies and logged back in. Further, user CStar left a note on Charles Matthew's talk page, Chalst's talk page, and Angela's talk page pointing to a supposed PoV accusation placed on the Logical argument page, when in fact no such sticker has been placed. Perhaps the irony regarding the Physical law page is not so ironic. Hu 05:26, 2004 Dec 1 (UTC)
I've responded to this on the Logical fallacy talk page.CSTAR 14:40, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Point of information
I have responded to this on the logical fallacy talk page, as well as on the pages of the above mentioned users. It does appear that these pages were as Hu suggests the victim of a tiresome semi-sophisticated troll. But I wasn't the perpetrator. This suggestion appears to have been an honest mistake, I consider the matter closed, and it appears that Hu does as well. CSTAR 01:56, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Anthony DiPierro

  • Repeated revert-editing of Vulva. [[User:Davodd|DAVODD «TALK»]] 03:59, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
That's not vandalism. Take it to RfC if you wish to get consensus for your preferred version. anthony 警告 04:08, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
It's not vandalism but you are violating the Three revert rule, a policy which may be enforced by a 24h ban. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 11:06, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
It's not vandalism - and I don't think it's voilation of 3RR (6 reverts in two days) I suppose he might have got the timeing wrong on one of them but I'm not willing to split hairs. What it is is disruption. Anthony you have been reverted by four different people - you cannot win a revert war - so give it up please. Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 11:19, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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