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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Jimfbleak (talk | contribs) at 10:02, 24 May 2003 (67.117.110.96 blocked ~~~~). 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. For a more comprehensive guide for dealing with different types of vandalism, see Dealing with vandalism.

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 seem intentionally overly lewd or offensive. More often than not, this is just a visitor to the site experimenting with how to use it (also see newbie test) -- labeling them as a VANDAL is a sure way of ensuring they will not become contributors. Only add alerts to this page of true VANDALISM such as a systematic attack on several articles. 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, please see the following pages:

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

Current alerts

  • "http: //www.neonet.no-ip.com" isa vandalizing lots of articles (and leaving that address everywhere he goes). Many different IPs.
    • 24.127.0.18 is vandalizing lots of articles, gotta stop him/her/it. --PY
    • 24.127.0.18: all changes reverted now. An AT&T Broadband West (registered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts) user. Went away after 20 reversions or so. -- Someone else 08:00 24 May 2003 (UTC)
    • they went away because I banned them. The Anome 08:14 24 May 2003 (UTC)
      • Figures, 24.127 was on a rampage, I was wondering why he'd stop after only 20 pages. --PY
        • Also banned 64.166.62.180, a Pacific Bell customer and 207.213.182.149, the same Pacific Bell customer using his wireless internet. -- Someone else 08:49 24 May 2003 (UTC)
        • Sheesh, wasting wireless and regular fees on this reckless activity. --PY
        • It should be noted that one of the vandals has said here "Actually this is a coordinated attack..... were just having some fun :)" Karada 09:41 24 May 2003 (UTC)
        • OK, I'm going to start banning these guys soon: they have had plenty of slack, and they know they are not meant to be doing this. The Anome 09:53 24 May 2003 (UTC)
        • Note: other vandal comments include: "It's all about dail up, changing ip -Neo." and "That y it looks like we are in more than one place or servis -Neo.". Sheesh. The Anome 09:57 24 May 2003 (UTC)
        • Can you guys ban an entire block of Ips? Maybe we should email abuse services of the ISP. --Poor Yorick
    • Grrr, how did you beat me to so many of the reverts? كسيپ Cyp 10:00 24 May 2003 (UTC)
  • 12.65.0.199: inserting nonsense with misleading edit summaries, making allusions to previous nonsense (Breanna, North Carolina and BethpageHillBrier), sharing an IP address with previous miscreants suggesting he's them. Reverting all his changes, and deleting all new pages created. -- Someone else 05:43 24 May 2003 (UTC)
  • I banned 64.12.96.9 for harassing users. Kingturtle 22:12 23 May 2003 (UTC)
  • I looked at the users contributions, and I see no example of harassing users? He obviously vandalized, but please give me examples of harassment. MB 22:23 23 May 2003 (UTC)
Fuck you...you're so fired!, you idiot, Zoe [1] Kingturtle 22:26 23 May 2003 (UTC)
See also: User talk:Michael/ban, User talk:Weezer/ban
  • 217.118.42.2 with four instances of tagging, one of which in 1985 were he presumably wrote his own name and then deleted it... -- Egil 20:03 22 May 2003 (UTC)
  • 64.12.96.202 is back again, harassing users and partaking in pointed vandalism. I blocked the address. Kingturtle 19:42 22 May 2003 (UTC)
    • Michael's on a proxy with multiple IPs, so it'll take a lot more blocking than that to do any good, unfortunately. -- John Owens 19:46 22 May 2003 (UTC)
  • 12.65.66.157....see: [2]] Kingturtle 06:45 21 May 2003 (UTC)
    • I barely beat User:Sannse to the ban. Bob's got the dynamic IP going, though, so he may be back soon with something else in the 12.65.64.0/22 IP netblock or so soon. -- John Owens 06:52 21 May 2003 (UTC)

147.31.4.3 is deleting the content on numerous article - usually blanking the entire page. Ziggurat, etc. Rmhermen 14:45 20 May 2003 (UTC)

FIVE TIMES in fifteen minutes, Maoism has been hit by User:64.180.186.148. Please ban this jerk ASAP. --Dante Alighieri 22:55 19 May 2003 (UTC)

I'm guessing User:ElGringo is the Perth vandal again. - Hephaestos 08:04 18 May 2003 (UTC)

Three times in 8 minutes, nonsense posted to Alt.config by User:198.81.26.177 has been removed by wikipedians. Kingturtle 17:42 17 May 2003 (UTC)

User:WordMaster, User:Elegance, User:TheStick, User:CAPSMASTER, User:Haryapegirl, User:The STICK, User:Samnse. User:Suckerbot, User:AbbcMaster, User:YOU, User:WHATDOYOUTHINK?, User:MEOW, User:CAPSMASTER, seems to be the same person, frequent vandalism today, appears to be from australia (ip checks).

Not to be confused, a second cause of reverts is User:No-Fx, which seems to be an incarnation of User:Michael


--Rotem Dan 16:31 17 May 2003 (UTC)

User:WordMaster, User:Elegance, User:Suckerbot and User:TheStick seem to be the same person. At18 16:04 17 May 2003 (UTC)

User:Elegance making moronic insults on a number of user pages. Kingturtle 16:01 17 May 2003 (UTC)

User:TheStick on random articles. - Hephaestos 08:01 17 May 2003 (UTC)

  • Is this a bot, or a very tedious individiual? --Rotem Dan 08:23 17 May 2003 (UTC)
The latter I think -- sannse 08:24 17 May 2003 (UTC)
he seems like someone the Wikipedia could do without, urgently Ping 09:16 17 May 2003 (UTC)


12.64.66.15 repeatedly replacing contents of pages with unrelated text. -- Someone else 04:07 17 May 2003 (UTC)

  • I think this is the same person who created the Breanna, North Carolina article and similar text. They all come from the 12.64.* range. -- Zoe

12.239.176.188 twice blanked United States Navy. BobCMU76 22:14 16 May 2003 (UTC)

User:No-Fx is yet another incarnation of that tedious little nobody User:Michael, User:Weezer etc etc. ho hum. quercus robur 21:56 16 May 2003 (UTC), WARNING: This user is sneakingly annoying, keeps adding misleading and fallacious summaries to his edits, see [3]--Rotem Dan 22:06 16 May 2003 (UTC)

  • 147.31.4.3 is vandalizing many pages by adding bogus information - e.g. in Canadian Space Program he added a non-existing astronaut, in Bill Clinton nonsense about his impeachment. andy 14:40 16 May 2003 (UTC)
    • Note that this guy/gal has also made some decent edits as well, so please don't ban or go on a reversion spree. I notice that sie fixed hir own vandalism on vagina, which is a good sign. Martin 15:35 16 May 2003 (UTC)
      • Yes. I'll undo Brion's existing ban, and give the guy a chance. We can always ban him again if he goes silly. Keep your eyes open. Tannin 15:39 16 May 2003 (UTC)
    • Oops - my bad - I misattributed an edit on gender identity disorder to hir, when it was in fact by 162.83.146.228. Need to pay more attention to page histories... :-/ Martin 15:57 16 May 2003 (UTC)

203.108.4.70 vandalized Current events, Tollund Man, Wilfred Owen, Akhnaten, HTML, Electromagnetic spectrum, Salvinorin-A MB 02:51 16 May 2003 (UTC)

User:209.91.134.67 vandalised Royal Navy - reverted. -- Arwel 19:54 15 May 2003 (UTC)

User:192.169.41.46 vandalizes articles related to Dragon Balls. What's wrong with him. -- Taku 16:13 15 May 2003 (UTC)

User:199.248.201.253 vandalizes several pages, including Physics, Bus, Mathematics, Wikipedia:WikiMoney etc. typically replacing them with "YOU HAVE BEEN TESTPROGGED, FUCK" andy 15:12 15 May 2003 (UTC), Rotem Dan 15:21 15 May 2003 (UTC)

User:172.140.238.39 keeps re-adding commercial link(s) to several pages despite multiple reverts. See contributions. -- Minesweeper 05:56 May 12, 2003 (UTC)

On the Wikipedia:Votes for deletion page, User:12.64.66.146 said "fuckin DELETE ME AND PAY THE CONSEQUESTIONS. TESTPROG. THE WIKI WILL PAY." Kingturtle 02:47 May 11, 2003 (UTC)

In a possible related incident, User:204.39.225.151 edited Wikipedia:Votes for deletion to remove my request to delete StarProse. Kingturtle 02:51 May 11, 2003 (UTC)

User:203.59.112.73 has made a number of defacements. The Anome 14:42 May 10, 2003 (UTC)

User:JohnQ replaced Image:Wiki.png with a picture of a penis. This image was also added to Amphibology. See also his contributions list -- sannse 10:21 May 10, 2003 (UTC)

Watch out for User:81.224.187.184 [4], he tried to sneak a porn link in at health science. -- John Owens 03:20 May 8, 2003 (UTC)

User:66.129.40.177 has a short list of contributions, all of which are graffiti or vandalism. -- Heron

It isn't malicious vandalism, but it must be stopped. 217.235.14.62 did a fine job adding ISO information to existing articles, but is now creating articles with only ISO information in them. The information is really not that important to create articles with only ISO information in them. Kingturtle 03:34 May 6, 2003 (UTC)

Okay, maybe I jumped the gun a little bit. 217.235.14.62 seems to have responded to my request for him/her to only add ISO info to existing articles. But please watch. Kingturtle 03:37 May 6, 2003 (UTC)

Crumple zone contains nonsense (don't know if it's just testing or vandalism) Samw 03:18 May 6, 2003 (UTC)

please consider silencing User:Walrus for 24 hours. Each of his/her new articles have had to be deleted. Kingturtle 00:02 May 5, 2003 (UTC)

International relations theory seems to have been vandalised. Could someone revert, please - I'm not quite certain how to do this. Arno 07:26 Apr 30, 2003 (UTC)

    • Hmmf! This article is hard going even when reverted! Arno 12:16 May 10, 2003 (UTC)

64.12.96.12 vandalised Single-party state twice with Finally Paul Morton's weiner is huge. All the girls want to suck on it. They want him to fuck their hot pussies untiol they are tired! ÉÍREman 22:19 Apr 28, 2003 (UTC)

  • Did he provide a citation? If not, delete it and ask him to NPOV it. -º¡º
    • Don't worry I did a babbit to it and chopped it off cleanly. Maybe we should ask him for a jpeg and place it on the physical deformities page. ÉÍREman 01:34 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
    • Good. I'm suspicious anyway, a google search on "Paul Morton's weiner" returns zero hits. -º¡º
  • Following the deletion of the previous entry Rory Storm, 67.31.228.18 has recreated it with garbage content: does the origin of the salute have anything to do with a subordinate soldier maintaining a relatively defenseless position in the presence of a superior officer JUST IN CASE THE SUPERIOR OFFICER DEEMED IT NECESSARY TO EXECUTE THE SUBORDINATE ON THE SPOT..... this having also to do with the Romans' attempt to eliminate all left-handed babies, making all soldiers right-handed, and then forcing them to hold a right-handed salute in the presence of a superior officer until the superior officer allowed them to return to this or that non-saluting disposition -- Arwel 01:10 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
  • 207.28.99.82 created new entry Rory Storm with the sole content GOOD CHARLOTTE. Seems to be this address' sole entry. Looks suspicious, anyone know anything about Rory Storm? -- Arwel 20:38 Apr 25, 2003 (UTC)
He led a skiffle group in the 1960s. No relevence I can see. -- Infrogmation 01:25 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
I thought the name was familiar! I know "Good Charlotte" is a current popular beat combo, M'Lud, but no relation to our Rory :-). Thanks for deleting the entry again. -- Arwel 01:31 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
I'll work on a Rory Storm article soon. When you hear the few tracks of his band, it is quite amazing how much artistic influence they had on the beatles. Ringo was the drummer of Rory's band before switching over to the Beatles. Kingturtle 21:28 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • 63.105.22.154 has been making 3/4's nonsense changes so far. Please ban, and revert all changes to articles on which it is the last author. user_talk:hfastedge
    • Seems taken care of; still existing edits okay. -- Infrogmation 01:25 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)

68.78.105.255 and 206.148.78.98 are apparently sharing a single brain, mostly putting wikis in articles that direct to YOUR MOTHER. -- goatasaur

  • 68.161.238.220 is blanking MASSIVE amounts of articles, mostly dealing with Laos. He needs to be quickly banned. -- goatasaur. Actually I think this user is deleting his own articles which have been ruled to be violations of copyright. Chadloder 01:08 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC)
    • He is blanking articles that many other people have worked on in conjunction with him. Wanton blanking of others' work (even in an article you have contributed to) is against the rules. -- goatasaur
      • He appears to have stopped now. The deletions have been reverted (and in some cases, rephrased to avoid any potential copyright problems) so there seems no need for further action. Tannin 01:49 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC)
  • 216.39.137.110 the noted vandal with the predeliction for the Ptolemy Dynasty and fictious Cleopatras has reappeared. Only one vandalism so far, but expect more. -- Someone else 22:41 Apr 17, 2003 (UTC)
    • I blocked that IP address right off the bat, but he's been known to use more than one, so keep an eye out regardless. -- John Owens 22:44 Apr 17, 2003 (UTC)

Minor vandalism:

  • 129.119.170.222 has been talking on some boxing pages without facts, just opinions, and has commited some vandalism, like saying that Wilfredo Gomez is arrogant, on the Salvador Sanchez page, and that Felix Trinidad is a Puerto Rican tomato can. He should be banned because his obvious hate of Puerto Ricans and love of Mexicans (for the record I like Mexicans a lot I think all Latinos are brothers and sisters) makes him have no neutral edge and he writes in an unencyclopedic way, and he conveniently erases everything that has to do with Puerto Ricans doing well or Mexicans doing bad. (When I said in the article Gomez is known among many Mexicans as The Mexican beater, which he is known as, he erased that, when I put he beat Lupe Pintor, also Mexican he erased the also Mexican part.

God knows what else he'll do against Puerto Ricans on wikipedia.

Antonio bi transvestite Martin

The last time he edited was on 7 April 2003. So I don't see any need for a ban. --mav


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

See also: User talk:Sonya L/ban, User talk:Michael/ban, user talk:Susan Mason/ban, User talk:Dietary Fiber/ban 

67.117.110.96  blocked jimfbleak 10:02 24 May 2003 (UTC)
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