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This page documents vandalism in progress. Please report users engaging in 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. If you discover newbie testing and feel like the user could use some help, please list them at Wikipedia:Clueless newbies. 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 (see Cautions and alternatives below).

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Most vandalized pages
Long term alerts
Current alerts
(report vandalism here) User:Ravinesh rds


Please list the IP address or user name, pages touched, and damage done. Sign your name using ~~~~ after your report. Put the person's IP or username in the edit summary.

User:Ravinesh rds is delting images and text from articles relating to the human body.

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. Report three revert rule violations at WP:AN/3RR.
If you come across very recent vandalism where it seems that the perpetrator should be blocked immediately (and has already been warned), try listing your report on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.
Archives and related pages
How to spot vandalism, Dealing with vandalism, /Archive 1, /Archive 2, /archive06072004, /Archive 20040724, /Archive200408, /Archive200409, /Archive200410, /Archive200411, /Archive200412, /Archive200501, /Archive200502, /Archive200503, /Archive200504, /Archive200504-1 /New Imperialism, /Mr. Treason, /Wik, Old page history (pre May 2004)
Blocks and other tools
List of blocked users, information on an IP, network tools, Whois, Meta:Finding network abuse contacts, Trace the location of an IP address

Pages suffering from repeated vandalism

See Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages.

"WP:LONG" and "WP:LONGTERM" redirect here. For article length, see Wikipedia:Article size. For article durability over time, see Wikipedia:Build content to endure.
    Requests for investigation
    Shortcuts
    This page is not a noticeboard. To report vandalism, use the administrators' vandalism noticeboard.

    This page summarises a limited number of long term abusers, to assist members of the community who believe they may have cause to report another incident. Note that this page is not a noticeboard. Names should only be added for the most egregious and well-attested cases. Most users here will have been banned, some on multiple occasions.

    Cautionary notes
    Don't provide too much info
    The text should tread a careful balance between providing useful information and providing enough to obstruct detection. In general such information should only be shared with users of a high level of reputation.
    Hints on useful info
    Consider providing just a summary of the behaviors and nature of disruption, key case pages (SPI/ANI/RFAR), and the names of current experienced users familiar with the abuser (with their "giveaways", history, behavior traits, etc.)
    Don't use LTA unless needed
    Only add vandals that have a need to be pointed out, especially ones whose contributions could be confused for good-faith edits by somebody unfamiliar with their modus operandi. This includes sneaky sockpuppeteers, prolific trolls, POV-pushers, editors who add deliberately false or biased information and promotional editors. Blatant vandals whose sockpuppet accounts would be blocked swiftly as vandalism-only even if they weren't evading a previous block usually do not need to be listed here.
    Use language carefully
    Do not use language that glorifies vandalism. Do not use relative time phrases such as "lately", "recently" without qualification (use "As of date...").

    For help, please ask on the project's talk page or contact one of the helpers. You may also be interested in the filing instructions, but again, please be mindful of DENY. If you need more information on an user listed here, your best bet would be to contact the user that submitted the report, which can be found in the page history.

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    Reports

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    Report Page last updated Description
    47.54.219.33 20241007224854 IP-hopper from the Canadian Maritimes who disruptively edits Montreal Canadiens–related articles. Refuses to work collaboratively or accept consensus, frequently edit-wars over their preferred version of pages.
    109.151.65.218 20240504172819 Predominantly IP-hopping user who disruptively edits reference desks and articles regarding works of fiction about rape or sexual abuse.
    2600:4040:2800::/40 20240604031210 Edit-warring vandal who keeps restoring bad edits to TV show articles.
    A.I.U. Vandal 20240220223232 Repeatedly, across multiple accounts, appears to edit topics related to the credentials of Ghanian businessman Hassan Ayariga and the overall status of Atlantic International University, an institution widely reported to be a degree mill.
    Albert20009 20241013112724 An Indonesia-based user who mainly and frequently targets China, Malaysia, Singapore and several other countries media articles (like television/radio channels, newspaper as well television dramas/movies) with false information and WP:MOS/WP:OVERLINK related issues. The sock master has been globally blocked together with his sockpuppet accounts, but the user continues his disruptive edits through various IP numbers mostly from Medan and Stabat in North Sumatra and several other rare locations around Indonesia. He is also active in Indonesian language Wikipedia, Malay language Wikipedia, Chinese language Wikipedia and many more.
    Alec Smithson 20240804092615 A persistent cross-wiki hoaxer and sockpuppeteer since 2014. Globally locked in 2016 for long-term and extensive cross-wiki abuse, now edits using constantly shifting IPs resolving to Milan, Italy, and surrounding towns. The primary focus is to promote obscure members of the Natoli family and to spuriously link them to various European nobility, using fake or misrepresented references. Continues to create articles on the Natoli family and related subjects on all wikis that allow article creation by unregistered users.
    Ananny 20240906050550 A persistent cross-wiki spammer and sock-puppeteer since December 2006, Ananny's goal is to promote the work of a non-notable artist (as established in several independent AFD discussions). To this end the user has used more than a dozen socks and innumerable IPs to recreate the deleted article and add the artist's name to various lists. Although low level, the spamming has affected 19 Wikimedia wikis over a 9 year period.
    Andrew5 20240715195617 A persistent sockmaster in Long Island who has been active since 2019, frequently targeting 21st-century weather/baseball related articles, often making trivial edits to them and starting conflicts on sources and content. Engages in cross-wiki harassment of users who revert them or report/block their sockpuppets.
    Angela Criss 20240911180213 Changing singers and genres for topics related to Devo, Eagles, Nickelback, and country music.
    Ararat arev 20241014165055 An Armenian nationalist permabanned for revert-warring and sockpuppetry. His main focus is articles concerning Armenian antiquity, which he attempts to distort in accordance with certain nationalist fringe theories, mostly attributed to the www.armenianhighland.com website.
    Asdisis 20230804125531 A Croatian nationalist banned primarily for disruption at the Nikola Tesla biography. Multiple socks and more than 200 IPs involved.
    AudiGuy-1204 20240820201546 Sockmaster and troll from Turkey who targets articles about cars, voice actors, VTubers, and Japanese culture by adding references to automobiles, obscenities and/or Nazi themed vandalism. Impersonates, harasses and trolls users who report them, especially Harushiga. Also impersonates other LTAs like Lithuaniaball2 and BMX on WheeIs.
    Bambifan101 20240704214656 Focuses on Disney articles. Has a professed love of juvenile-themed movies (usually Disney animated features) and books.
    Benniejets 20240504172839 Chronic sockpuppeteer who disrupts Italy, Europe and International politics & statistics related pages with a strong Italian POV.
    Bertrand101 20230125074957 Massive vandalism on Philippine media. After being blocked on English Wikipedia, he will continue cross-wiki vandalism.
    Best known for IP 20240704214637 IP editor, regularly engaged in edit warring and personal attacks, particularly over the phrase "best known for".
    Belteshazzar 20240801110224 Persistent sockpuppeteer who most frequently edits articles related to the Bates method and Charles Ingram.
    Billy Hathorn 20240808150109 Chronic copyright violations and trivia.
    BillyNorth 20240504172807 Adds fictitious individual "Clutch Kahn" to associated acts or former member fields of infoboxes for alternative rock and blues artists. Once created accounts, now an IP hopping vandal.
    Blue Barette Bam 20240905232104 Repeatedly attacks and harasses editors with disruptive edit summaries, and occasionally posts personal information on certain pages.
    BMX on WheeIs, AKA Fuerdai 20240821152234 Vandalizes articles related to Fuerdai, technology, and China with the words/phrases "fuerdai", "on wheels", "testicles going up and down", or variations. Usernames and edits can often be derogatory to minority groups or editors who revert their edits. Occasionally uploads vandalism images on Commons as well. Started vandalizing articles related to Loki in 2024.
    Boy band vandal 20240803152031 IP-hopping user from Alberta, blocked more than 30 times since 2013 for disruptively adding categories such as "boy band" and "girl group".
    Brad Watson, Miami 20240719210857 Once spammed pseudoscience on talk pages, now adds cryptic rants centered around the number 7 to pages related to the Bible and ancient Egypt.
    Brianmagallano 20230827172815 Vandal primarily targeting video game articles, Philippine media articles and Football articles, introducing false information, active for years even after blocks. Dozens and dozens of suspected socks from the same IP range.
    Bulut 20241003052035 Disrupts Asperger syndrome-related pages, and edits their own talk pages with all Japanese edit summaries. See also ja:LTA:ASPE.
    Bucharest Wild Kratts and horror film vandal 20230804125530 Adding false information, section blanking, and edit warring, most often on pages relating to Wild Kratts and The Conjuring Universe.
    Caidin-Johnson 20240520230854 Nonsense edits at television shows for young children, Looney Tunes articles, and topics related to Happy Tree Friends; also known for hoaxing at List of Crayola crayon colors. Obsessed with inflatable, bursting, popping, and bouncing objects.
    CalebHughes 20240504172913 Adds defamatory content toward actors, actresses, and politics. Frequently vandalizes hurricane-related pages.
    Cambridge Canada vandal 20240603225502 Unreferenced trivia, genres, and analysis to film and music articles. Also known as the "box office bomb vandal".
    CaMI!oWave2015 20240504170017 Genre warring from Colombia IPs, starting in 2013 to change genres without discussion or references.
    Caribbean music vandal 20210805182242 Copyright violations, misrepresented sources, original research, and promotion of several bands.
    Catcreekcitycouncil 20241001070916 Prolific sockpuppeter with over 500 socks which inserts hoaxes about lions existing in Montana.
    Cause of death vandal 20240918185712 UK-based user blocked many times for disruption at biographies, changing to false dates or adding irrelevant information.
    Cebr1979 20190103171628 Personal attacks, harassment, and a generally combative attitude toward other editors.
    Chicago Happy Tree Friends vandal 20240116220452 Adding the adult-animated show Happy Tree Friends to Cartoonito USA-related pages and claims that it is airing there in 2022, other edits on pages relating to laptops and disambiguation pages.
    Chipmunks vandal 20240817035737 Adding trivial details about covers by fictional bands, especially Alvin and the Chipmunks, as well as Glee TV performances.
    Christian2941 20230827212652 Known for adding deliberate factual errors on Philippine-related articles, and for persistent sockpuppetry. Usernames typically follow a predictable pattern, such as RMxxxx or Southern Wear 201.
    Cruizir 20240504172847 Vandalism across a wide range of topics, likely engaging in meatpuppetry with BMX/Fuerdai.
    Country music category vandal from Tennessee 20240504172705 Uses primarily Tennessee IPs to target country music topics, adding inappropriate categories, usually to biographies.
    Cow cleaner 5000 20241007133313 Targets articles related to Weekly Shōnen Jump and Justin Knapp. Seems to have a fixation on linking these to terrorist groups or finding ways to link them to non-existent controversies.
    Date-changing vandal from Guatemala 20240524084837 Frequently changes release dates and track lengths of albums and singles without a reliable source, and ignores the manual of style regarding music.
    Date-changing vandal from Malaysia 20240504172416 Long-term Malaysian date vandal mainly active on biographies of government officials.
    Date-changing vandal from Poland 20240818004509 IP editor from Poland, who changes dates in music articles. Also active at Polish Wikipedia.
    De la lombertie 20240815060214 Disruptive editing, mostly about France or art; poor machine translations from French. Also active on French Wikipedia.
    Denver LTA 20230204052102 Blanking Denver radio stations, Chili's, Bennigan's, other.
    DiscoveryTeenHD 20240527193406 Primarily IP-using from Bulgaria who vandalizes or adds unsourced informations to TV related articles and engages in cross wiki harassment of users who report them. Also uploads copyvios on Commons.
    Dolby–Blob–Cars vandal 20240504172812 False credits on articles relating to film and music, especially Thomas Dolby, The Blob and the Cars.
    Dog and rapper vandal 20240218125856 General disruption on articles relating to dogs and rappers.
    Dusty8686 20230804125531 Numerical changes on various articles (mainly relating to puzzles, video games, science, and transportation) from various proxies, VPNs, and IPs in Florida. Is aware of how to game autoconfirmed, and has also harassed various users.
    Eagles hard rock vandal 20240504172855 Genre-warring in music articles from a combination of sockpuppets and IPs primarily from Rhode Island.
    Europeanhematology 20200324194342 WP:REFSPAM: IPs geolocating to Czech Republic or Slovakia adding references using {{PMID}} with no author information; once expanded the references are always to Mraz, M and/or Pospisilova, S.
    Fangusu 20220920012112 Ongoing copyright violations and violations of the image use policy, frivolous WP:ANI complaints against users who revert her, and repeated unblock requests.
    Folkestone music vandal 20230402142059 User who edits from Folkestone IPs and makes minor changes to music articles violating WP:MOS.
    Frenchie vandal 20240713031208 Disruptive changes to rapper biographies, especially Frenchie (rapper), general music articles, and film articles.
    Friends vandal 20240504172851 Vandalism on articles related to the television show Friends. Persistently introduces factual errors regarding the relationship statuses of the characters.
    Gabriella~four.3-6 20240925051903 Edits in anime, manga, Monster High, and TV show topics, as well as WP:NOTAFORUM violations
    Gabucho181 20240504172904 Block evasion and persistent vandalism to television network and programme-related articles and harassment/trolling.
    Geraldine Edwards hoax from San Diego 20240504172911 Perpetrating a hoax, both on- and off-wiki, that the last girlfriend of singer Robert Palmer was someone named Geraldine Edwards.
    German reference desk troll 20230804205449 Frequents reference desks as an anonymous user from 84.* or 88.* range (geolocated in Essen and Bochum, Germany), and asks fairly difficult open-ended questions, targeted to waste other people's time. Also, creates or requests creation of implausible redirects, usually with vulgar or double entendre meanings.
    Gsthae with tempo! 20240928010036 Editor who uses both accounts and IPs from France to create patent nonsense drafts.
    Guangzhou IP vandal 20240907234909 Creates articles with administrator/rollbacker's usernames in Chinese Wikipedia and redirects many pages to Main Page.
    Hamish Ross 20240917143153 Persistent sockpuppeteer, vandal, and cross-wiki abuser since 2007, making several edits on his user page to game the system, reverting the most recent edit on random pages for no reason, then issuing a useless level 1 or 4 vandalism warning. Socks more often than not contain two words in them.
    Hanoi vandal 20240806152432 Fabricates musical collaborations between targets of interest.
    Hanover Research 20240504172702 For-profit organization from the Greater Washington, D.C., area who posts biased poltical analyses.
    HarveyCarter 20220327061032 Long term persistent sockpuppeteer, edit warrior, vandal.
    HarveyTeenager 20240307132322 Hoax information about Harvey Girls Forever! returning, as well as hoaxes about a long-form Elinor Wonders Why special and hoax episode information.
    Hassan Guy 20220605110337 Chronic sockpuppeteer out of Oman & Libya who disrupts articles related to Pakistan Armed Forces with Pro Pakistani bias
    HENRY APPLEGATE 20240504172825 Cross-wiki sockpuppeteer known for writing nonsense attack pages in userspace, alluding to Philippine celebrities or local insurgent and/or organised crime groups.
    Honduras200010 20240504172902 Honduras-based editor hopping between registered accounts and IP use, focused on climate classifications, adding photos of skylines, and divas. History of lengthy account names.
    Hong Kong geography warrior 20240918202637 IP-hopping editor from Hong Kong who adds obscure Hong Kong geographic place names, obscure land lot numbers, obscure names of physical features and infrastructure, and other uncited geographic trivia against consensus.
    I B Wright 20231208160525 Creating false consensus; POV-pushing about railways.
    Iloveartrock 20190819170048 Changing genres and categories at rock music articles, and extensive edit warring.
    Indahkhusnul 20241013021442 An Indonesia-based user who mainly and frequently promote Raditya Adi Non-notable person that claim this person is singer, etc. The sock master has been globally blocked together with his sockpuppet accounts, but the user continues his disruptive edits through various IP numbers She is also active in Indonesian Wikipedia, Malay language Wikipedia, Sundanese language Wikipedia, English Wikipedia and many more.
    Ineedtostopforgetting 20240504172822 Puffery, POV pushing, and edit warring on subjects related to Singapore.
    ItsLassieTime 20231222044726 This user has been banned from editing Wikipedia, with over 150 sockpuppet accounts and a CCI that encompassed over 700 articles. Edits a wide range of articles, but ones on children's literature and TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s in particular. Also has an interest in topics related to the American West. Has a penchant for being quick to attack anyone who disagrees with their edits and editing pattern is a problem due to frequent copyvio, close-paraphrasing and other misuse of source material. Tends to create usernames related to topics that account is editing and claim a different, often sympathy-invoking, persona for each. Recent socking has focused on making dozens of accounts with a few edits each and trolling, personal attacks, and harassment. Sockpuppets have been blocked in 2009?2018.
    Jermboy27 20231127132423 Vandal attacking road sign and TV-related articles. Vandalism scheme involves abusive use of multiple accounts and IP vandalism.
    John Daker 20230927051233 Hoaxing and impersonation.
    Judi 20241013093319 A global gambling empire that buys expired domains and redirects to gambling sites - "judi" is Indonesian for "gambling". Impacting 1000s of domains across all wikis, ongoing. Please report found domains to the LTA page. A bot will usurp any citations containing the domain.
    Jurisdrew 20240828145706 Cross wiki vandalism targeting flags, particularly from the Middle East and inserts images of fictional flags in articles as well in random user's sandboxes if it contains content anything related to flags. Also an IP hopping vandal from the Philippines. Edit summaries are always "scobedos"
    Karmaisking 20211116062043 This user has been indefinitely blocked for vandalism, personal attacks, soapboxing, and sockpuppeteering. He often uses multiple sockpuppets. Aliases have included User:Lagrandebanquesucre, User:KeynesianCounterfeiters, User:KarmasBlackSwan, User:Rememberkarma, User:Timothymak, User:TimothyDon-HughMak. Edits pages related to fractional reserve banking, Austrian school of economics, and libertarian-related issues. Often leaves insulting or misleading edit summaries, and sometimes claims to be a new user.
    Kenny Loggins vandal 20210424190036 This person puts false material into music articles, targeting mostly artists who were first active in the 1960s through the 1970s.
    Kingshowman 20231219115409 A frequent sockmaster who makes personal attacks against other users as well as defamatory statements relating to supposed controversies about Donald Trump. This user usually exhibits a grandiose tone in usernames and edit summaries.
    Krisdegioia 20200130180640 Edits relating to Kris Degioia and related topic areas: cyberstalking, cyberbullying, cyber crimes, etc. krisdegioia (talk · contribs) has been banned by the Wikimedia Foundation from editing Wikimedia sites consistent with the Terms of Use. Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to SPI for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. Notify the Trust & Safety team regarding any incidents at ca@wikimedia.org.
    KurdîmHeval 20241004230008 Sockpuppeteer initially blocked for nationalist edit-warring and personal attacks. Mainly makes disruptive unsourced changes on pages related to the Middle East, especially biographies of celebrities and historical figures. This includes adding Kurdish ethnic origins to such articles by falsifying, removing, or not providing a source.
    Lagoo sab 20240828150004 Attacks and reports editors who work in the India–Pakistan–Afghanistan topic area.
    Lpkids2006 20240504172716 Massive vandalism on Philippine media.
    Lithuaniaball2 20240819132403 Persistent cross-wiki vandalism and sockpuppetry on articles about cars, gender, sexuality and dates in December. Edits often consist of unwikifying text or replacing article text with content from other articles and/or text in Lithuanian. Also disrupts GENSEX-related articles with homophobic/transphobic vandalism. In addition to enwiki, vandalizes Lithuanian, Samogitian and Western Armenian Wikipedias.
    Lokicat3345 20240913012144 Persistent sockmaster who often targets weather related articles and talk pages. Especially ones related to tornadoes.
    Mangoeater1000 20210704234834 A vandal who moved pages to inappropriate names. After getting indefinitely blocked for fourth-offense sockpuppetry, he continued to edit using many sockpuppets. His contributions typically focus on tendentious editing regarding NYU Poly and Cal Poly Pomona.
    MariaJaydHicky 20240913212214 Persistent sockpuppeteer and banned editor that adds unsourced/poorly sourced content.
    Martial arts vandal 20210227231051 Disrupts martial arts-related films, especially (but not limited to) Hong Kong action films. Engages in genre warring, extensive edit warring, sock puppetry, and block evasion.
    Master12112wp 20240908190123 Repeatedly spams disruptive text in Hindi or Odia on articles.
    Mattisse 20230816030549 Contributor who had difficult interactions with several other established users. Has regularly resorted to socking to evade scrutiny and carry on grudges with other editors.
    Meena Kurian 20240728165305 Addition of poorly sourced information and indiscriminate listcruft of animals to articles about zoos, Planet Zoo or animals, broadly construed.
    Michigan IP 20230930234602 Overlinking in articles, especially in the topic area of climate change.
    Mikemikev 20231127092426 Frequent vandalism of and POV-pushing on race-related articles for over 13 years. When one doesn't agree with his viewpoint, he will call them names, such as "Anti-White", and frequently harasses users with racial slurs.
    Mikequfv 20240820000323 Originally indeffed in 2016 for disruptive color changes in climate boxes including turning the precipitation box blue and snow box green. Now uses IPs geolocating to Canada to continue these disruptive edits.
    Montreal music vandal 20240504172711 Wrong songwriting credits.
    Motorsports and Japan LTA 20210824010243 Pro-Japanese, anti-Korean edits in the topic area of motorsports; edit warring and disparaging others' knowledge of English.
    Muhammad Samiuddin Qazi 20200830105635 Chronic sockpuppeteer (including IPs), Urdu/Pakistan POVPUSHING on a multitude of articles, templates, cats etc. especially language (Hindustani, Urdu, Hindi etc.) and Indian/Pakistan entertainment related articles.
    Muppets LTA 20231207171212 Two users from the United States, (one from Indiana typically on Frontier, one from California typically on Comcast) persistently adding indiscriminate lists focused on "Background Muppets" or "Background characters" or "Muppet cameos" or "Not Featured Muppets" across a wide variety of articles related to The Muppets. Active circa mid-2015 to present (2017).
    MusicLover650 20240529072142 Disruption to music related articles.
    My Royal Young 20240205023622 Massive vandalism on US Navy ships, Encantadia articles and some talk pages. After being blocked on English Wikipedia, he continues to do cross-wiki vandalism.
    Nangparbat 20190103175723 Chronic sockpuppeteer who primarily attacks and disrupts articles on India-Pakistan-Afghanistan Military History with a Pro-Pakistani bias.
    Nate Speed 20230915173058 Long-term sockpuppeteer known for treating Wikipedia as his own sandbox for which to preserve his version of articles on studios and entertainment that he targets. Slings semi-censored expletives and insults at anyone who gets in his way in messages and email, even if it's by reverting his edits, and will demand said editors put his version back. Notorious for writing out Internet "punches" as well as a bunch of exclamation points in his messages and emails.
    New Order vandal 20230623041606 IP-hopping editor from Japan who primarily vandalizes New Order- and 808 State- related articles. This vandal mostly engages in genre warring, extensive edit warring, opinion pushing, personal attacks and spamming on talk pages. Also occasionally interchanges article contents and pictures.
    Nikita 20230729214727 Persistent edits and edit requests related to certification and sales inflation of Green Day and The Who articles and other abuse by globally blocked and locally banned user Никита-Родин-2002.
    Nipponese Dog Calvero 20240709201039 Trolling, personal attacks, harassment, creating attacking or confusing accounts and pages. He is more active on east Asian projects, such as Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese Wikipedia.
    NoCal100 20220823041913 Anti-Muslim, antisemitic edit warrior who edits mostly about cinema and Middle Eastern international politics.
    Nsmutte 20201018151329 Personal attacks, impersonating other editors, community banned
    Orangemoody 20240130215248 381 sockpuppet accounts blocked, mostly undisclosed paid editors, and 210 articles deleted in late August 2015. Received media attention.
    Otto4711 20210704184322 Block evader who edits primarily in LGBT and American television topics, and their categories.
    Philm540 20240504164621 Adding unreferenced information to articles about military aircraft.
    Piermark 20240916212657 Spamming and POV-pushing on articles related to religion.
    Pinkalicious vandal 20231221210536 Adding false and unsubstantiated information to Pinkalicious & Peterrific, and occasionally also Donkey Hodie (TV series). Additional behavior includes date changing.
    Pioneercourthouse 20240515040128 Many years, many sockpuppets, has resulted in indefinite bans and his very own abusefilter.
    Projects (GRP) 20240925204536 On- and off-wiki harassment, email abuse, threats; multiple topic areas including chess, martial arts, mysterious deaths; self-promotion.
    ProTaylorCraft, a.k.a. Cody Taylor 20240527050040 Perennial sockmaster who repeatedly adds poorly- or un-sourced information to a wide variety of pages, often inserting the name Cody Taylor into band lineups, TV casts, and hockey rosters. Has published or attempted to publish numerous hoax articles on songs, albums, shows, and hockey teams that don't exist, as well as himself.
    Richard Daft 20231205202517 Personal attacks, harassment, legal threats, vandalism to WP:CRICKET, prolific sockpuppetry with 120 socks to date. Modus operandi:- targeting mostly cricket articles edited primarily by three members of the cricket project, often vandalising the page with personal attacks or replacing words with immature alternatives. Often has several socks set up at once, with many more in reserve. In 2012 Daft became the subject of a site ban, having been causing disruption since 2008.
    Royer2356 20240501013416 Adding profanity to change the meaning of sentences in articles, "good hand/bad hand" sockpuppetry.
    Russian politics IP vandal 20220714172043 This vandal is using dynamical IP addresses in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, to introduce obscenites (in Russian, transliterated Russian, and English) into articles on Russian politicians, as well as using obscene edit summaries to these edits.
    Sandbox troll 20240129185625 Disruptive editing at sandbox pages; hostility toward users who act against them.
    Satt 2 20240504165803 Tendentious editing about Georgia (country), especially its geographic location and placement.
    Scottish12345678 20210704184646 Reverts foreign relations articles to fit their preferred version.
    Slowking4 20240326170906 Determined to "set things right", focusing on adding images to biographies and participating in editing drives. Edits are regularly poor in attribution, and has historically been violating our non-free content policy. Uses strong language and personal attacks when being confronted.
    Stubes99 20231212144741 Copyright violations and harassment of other editors, especially regarding the history of Hungary.
    Supreme Genghis Khan 20240516072617 Persistent trolling and large-scale vandalism, often referencing Genghis Khan and on articles related to Mongolia or Mongols.
    Szm020730 20190209164328 Image flag vandal, adding hoax flags to articles about places. Mostly edits from IP addresses.
    Taiki0409 20240903174651 Massive vandalism on articles about beauty pageants, anime and tokusatsu, and Philippine media.
    Techno genre warrior from Greece 20240602231111 This is a genre warrior from Greece who concentrates on music articles that are related to EDM, house, big beat, breakbeat, Eurodance, trance, etc. Without ever referencing a published source, the person frequently adds "techno" to the genre parameter of an infobox, or replaces existing genres with "techno".
    Teenage Fairytale Dropouts vandal 20230425155139 A frequent vandaliser of Wikipedia for several years. Most of their edits involve adding false, unsourced and/or dubious information about the children's television program Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. They predominantly target the articles So Fresh and So Random! as well as the associated pages of these articles.
    Television vandal from Tunisia 20230708193314 IP-hopper from Tunisia who adds or removes content from television related articles without any sources or communication.
    Thai gun hoaxster 20231031004252 The Thai gun hoaxster is an IP editor that adds user entries in firearm articles usually with false references taken from legitimate entries in the same or other articles. Sometimes, he just makes up ref names. He uses IP addresses from Thailand and has been active since at least 2017.
    Tim Zukas 20240504165822 Poor copyediting attempts at articles about rail or air transportation. Often edits logged out.
    Tirgil34 20240923115722 Fringe editing about Central Asian history, Proto-Indo-European culture, and the Turkic peoples, and personal attacks.
    Tokyo Metro 6000 series 20240603010557 Massive vandalism related to public transport (buses and trains) on articles, including Ralph Breaks the Internet. After being blocked on English Wikipedia, he continues to do cross-wiki vandalism.
    TV5Ozamiz 20240312084612 Persistent addition of hoaxes pertaining to Filipino media, malls, and films.
    TyrusThomas4lyf 20230722191102 This user is a persistent sock-puppeteer who had his account blocked indefinitely in May 2007 for repeated personal attacks and edit warring on NBA-related articles, despite numerous warnings and attempts to mediate. For a summary of this user's past behavior, see the RFC and his talk page User talk:TyrusThomas4lyf. Since his block, he has repeatedly attempted to subvert the block by resorting to sock-puppetry.
    UK Kennedy–Lincoln–Titanic IP 20240204215348 Conspiracy stuff, violations of WP:No original research.
    UnderArmourKid 20240702192315 Vandalizes Aflac, Office Depot, Under Armour. Themes include 9/11, aviation, cyclones, moon landing conspiracies, Geometry Dash, NASCAR, Santiago (Chile).
    Urbanuntil 20211029202826 Persistent sockpuppeteer on Mexico-related pages.
    The UPN Vandal 20240504165819 Adds hoax information to articles pertaining to television and film, especially children's media.
    Voice Cast Vandal 20240504165920 Adds hoax information to film and television articles and their associated actors with cross-referencing.
    Vote (X) for Change 20240218173325 Trolls user and project talk pages, superficial discussion disputes but with incorrect and misleading information.
    Weathereditor 20210704185355 Made unsourced changes to articles relating to weather and locations in the United Kingdom. Once other editors started reverting the unsourced changes made by the user, sockpuppets will undo those reversions.
    Wickwack 20230625045825 Trolling and impersonation at reference desks.
    Wikidestruction vandal 20240309082751 British Wikipedia vandal who constantly vandalizes articles relying on Now! That's What I Call Music, a large number of different musical artists, and some video game articles. User tends to "identify" the edits they reverse as "good faith edits", despite often being constructive contributions to the article.[1][2] The user occasionally pleads for other editors who repeatedly revert their nonconstructive edits, via edit summaries.[3][4]
    WikiExperts 20240825122414 Service that protects other businesses' interests on Wikipedia.
    Wikiexplorer13 20190103183333 Chronic sockpuppeteer who particularly engages in the pursuit and harassment of a number of users (Capitals00, D4iNa4, Razer2115, Raymond3023, MBlaze Lightning and Adamgerber80?to name a few) by reverting any edits that they have made until he gets blocked.
    Wikinger 20230624230626 Adds false information related to the Greek alphabet and to its related minor characters. Also impersonates other LTAs and sockmasters.
    WorldCreaterFighter 20230511071715 Mainly attacks articles within the realms of history, genetics, and linguistics as it concerns nations and ethnic groups throughout Asia, with a particular emphasis on topics that concern Turkey, Korea, and Japan.
    Xayahrainie43 20231031001149 Adds fancruft and original research related to mathematics, especially number theory.
    Yaysmay15 20230916215928 Targets Philippine history timeline articles, adds non-notable sensationalist events (and created articles for some of them), plus edit-warring, sockpuppetry and (at one instance) threats. Originally used the user name "Vince daryl falcunitin", he was soon blocked in 2016. Was the subject of complaints by Tambayan Philippines members, especially Hariboneagle927 and Blake Gripling (Blakegripling ph). Inactive since 2019, but still likely to be editing through IPs.
    Youngstown music vandal 20240816090322 Wrong dates, wrong facts in hip-hop music articles.
    Zhoban 20221023001307 Adds unreliable sources to Islamic terrorism articles, while acting in an uncivil manner towards other editors. Abuses multiple accounts and IP addresses.
    Zhmailik 20231117005715 Creates hoaxes and adds false information to music-related pages.

    Full list

    For a full list of all the vandals (where all of the entries are shown on one page), please click here. Note that some usernames will appear as "Full" until clicking the [edit] link which leads to the individual subpage.

    Current alerts

    Please add new alerts at the top of this section. Please use the template below when you edit this section. Copy the template and paste it above the latest entry, change "IP" to the name or IP address, and then replace "DESCRIPTION" with a description of what the vandal did. Sign your post by appending four tildes: ~~~~.

    ==== IP ====
    * {{subst:user|IP or username}}
    ** DESCRIPTION


    February 13

    218.102.189.112

    February 12

    69.2xx.xxx.xxx

    • I suspect a user logging via internet cafe or something persistently creates neologisms, e.g., of type *polis, *cle. Could be a bunch of pals. I admit, two of his words were salvageable, but by 100% replacement of content (not simply rewriting). Too wide range to block IMO. Mikkalai 04:38, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    4.29.229.141

    4.178.51.170

    66.0.156.3, 200.85.65.43

    • 66.0.156.3 (talk | contributions)
      • I just gave this guy his "last warning". He's vandalized for the past two days and was warned each day. – flamurai (t) 02:40, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)
        • Blocked 48 hours, since he's been at it for a while. -- Curps 02:29, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    Perverted-Justice.com

    • Many people are removing the totallydisputed tag, all anonymous users. I've been forced to use the rollback function and lock the page to counter. I'm going to start blocking after giving a warning. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:51, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    February 11

    198.81.26.73

    asdfdsa 22:49, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

    65.120.80.4

    68.202.32.231

    • 68.202.32.231 (talk | contributions)
      • Replaced many articles with childish nonsense (such as replacing the entire death article with "death is bad"). Also created a page with the word "hi" as the only content. JoaoRicardo 21:49, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    217.33.207.195

    64.12.116.197

    Rangers F.C. and Celtic F.C.

    Both being heavily attacked by several IPs. Norman Rogers\talk 16:22, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    Indeed, I've barred several IPs for 24 hours and warned others. No vandalism for about 10 minutes now, but if it resumes I shall protect these pages for a while. -- Arwel 17:13, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    Both pages now protected. -- Arwel 17:55, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    Cityhuntr

    Robin Donald

    A guy that calls himself Robin Donald (so far, TWO anonymous IPs) has been creating vanity articles with news about the U.S. Government. I find it, add it to BJAODN, mark it for speedy deletion, and leave a message on his talk page. This is where I need the help a few volunteers. Scott Gall 09:22, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    Presumably you mean 219.93.174.100 (talk | contributions) and 219.93.174.109 (talk | contributions) ? -- Curps 09:29, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    I do. I caught 219.93.174.100 creating another page. If he does it again, I'll just grab hold of an administrator. We don't want people like him around if all they do is test the patience of innocent people like us. Scott Gall 09:37, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    I blocked 219.93.174.110 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) (his THIRD IP) earlier today for 24 hours for posting the same religious nonsense all over the place for the Nth time. Presumably this same guy has also been spamming Yahoo messageboards for some time now with his drivel, see for example [5]. I have filed few abuse reports to Yahoo occasionally in past, but he seems to have numerous Yahoo Id's. Don't bother to BJAODN his garbage; as a long-time Internet kook he can generate more of it than you ever want to see. jni 17:07, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    Thanks. But he's on a dynamic IP, so there's an 80% chance he'll be back. Scott Gall 07:56, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    203.164.244.230

    70.59.143.40

    February 10

    67.125.91.7

    24.244.210.190

    User:Sithunml

    65.93.23.195

    • User:65.93.23.195
      • Repeatedly vandalizing Google hosting on Wikimeta by removing the content of the article with the word "GAY" and inserting offsite links to homoerotic imagery. 03:30, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) KiTA 03:13, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    68.126.196.226

    66.11.100.12

    204.38.191.99

    Wikipedian231 17:15, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    218.40.170.194

    • 218.40.170.194 (talk | contributions)
      • Now this is a weird case here. There were some Japanese articles that were on en.wikipedia that looked legit. Like, I read them, and they are about a husband and wife who are announcers with MBS. See my translations at Mareo Kamei and Keiko Furukawa. I thought this was a fine piece of knowledge to be adding. Also, when I looked at the links to the Japanese ones, there were no pages. So, I translated and transwikied. Then I got a message on my talk page saying that this user was banner from ja.wikipedia and just moved his articles to the en.wikipedia. It isn't really vandalism, but it does appear to be not quite kosher. The user over at Japanese wikipedia, [ja:%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85%E2%80%90%E4%BC%9A%E8%A9%B1:Lem], suggested we ban him. So, um, do we delete these seemingly fine (if not a bit short) articles and ban this user like the ja.wikipedia has, or do we just let it silde?! I have NO IDEA. What do you guys think? Jeshii 13:26, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
        • This isn't really a case of vandalism. If your knowledge of Japan is sufficient and you considered these people sufficiently notable and you are the author of the current English-language pages and endorse their content, then there's really not a problem. There are many cases where a possible problem user started an article and somebody turned it into a legitimate article. -- Curps 01:33, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    User:Serge Dupouy

    • Serge Dupouy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
    • He has personally attacked me on homophobia talk page, which I had already requested mediation. "Apollomelos = not too bright or Troll (flamebaiter) ?" "Apollomelos, Are you stupid, or are you just pretending to be stupid? " "Since one can only assume that either 1. you're an idiot, or 2. this was a sad attempt to discredit an organization you don't like….. please don't ever write anything on Wikipedia ever again. You've been caught red-handed, chummy. Take a hike."

    I think it could be Noah Peters who I sought an arbcom ruling against because of his harrasment but was turned down after he agreed to be banned permanently and have his page deleted. And now it appears he could be back. Apollomelos 12:34, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

      • This is not vandalism, but personal attacks. The user has been warned on his talk page. -- Curps 01:37, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    212.219.250.3

    147.26.62.182

    68.126.217.53

    69.143.206.106

    User:Banned for vandalism

    February 9

    68.91.10.88

    207.35.188.13

    • 207.35.188.13 (talk | contributions)
      • Repeated vandalization of Jonathan Wild, today's featured article. Also vandalized Doughnut and National park today. Talk page for the user indicates the IP address in question is a computer in a Toronto-area school, and contrib history shows a random pattern of useful contributions and puerile defacement.

    Gnoitall 19:51, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    The Goatherd

    207.12.238.59

    199.212.250.96

    MarkSop

    My edits are not vandalism! Anyone can see that, while my first edit was ironic coment on the biased nature of the article, all other were completely legitimate! I find these insinuations very insultive!

    Also, my substantial edit (restoring a removed chapter from one of the previous versions) was reverted more than 3 times by user 151! He is a true vandal. He admitted to breaking the rule, by saying that my edits were vandalism, which they are not. I will respect the rule pointed to me, but will there be penalty for user 151??

    -MarkSop

    151.203.229.38

    User 151.203.229.38 has broken 3 revert rule and was putting insultive comments on my talk page. Having different view from his is not a justification for harrasment.

    Can we block this user for breaking the rule, abusing and insulting users here?

    -MarkSop

    216.47.187.221

    165.139.24.240

    4.131.131.171

    131.54.121.12

    Javier Solana

    Multiple anon IPs (same person, likely) keep adding a Biblical "666" quote to this page. -- Curps 03:58, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    69.242.123.31

    210.11.188.17

    February 8

    212.44.48.10

    212.44.48.10 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

    • Vandalised Economics twice today Feb. 8. He's a recurrent vandal. All his edits to other articles were also reverted because of vandalism (see his User contributions) and he was warned and blocked before according to his user page User_talk:212.44.48.10. Please ban this guy. JavOs 17:21 , 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    207.179.68.164

    222.7.139.141

    203.217.52.233

    weezil

      • Gave them the standard newbie warning.-gadfium 08:25, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    63.147.240.12

    Iamamoderator

    Iamamoderator (talk | contributions)

    • This user has vandalised numerous pages, including my user and talk page. His username is also inappropriate. Carrp | Talk 03:59, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
      • Was blocked for 24 hours by Rdsmith4 (expires 23:02, 8 Feb 2005). Bears watching after block expires. Inappropriate user name, only edits are vandalism. SWAdair | Talk 06:31, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    203.155.58.10

    203.155.58.10 (talk | contributions)

    65.93.95.69

    • 65.93.95.69 (talk | contributions)
      • Blanking pages. - RoyBoy [∞] 02:57, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
      • Yes, so far he has blanked Atheism and Baron d'Holbach. This IP address was also used by the anon who has also been editing Yi Seok. My request on the Talk page for the anon editor to put discussion comments in sequential order and sign them, resulted in the response The editor of this article is not anonymous. Address all comments to POofYS by this IP. Note POofYS is an acronym for "Press Office of Yi Seok". --BM 03:19, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
      • The IP is now involved in an revert war on Yi Seok with User:Curps, User:BrokenSegue. Earlier, the IP did the same revert on me, and User:POofYS did the same revert on User:Philthecow --BM 03:25, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    68.64.231.101

    24.69.255.205

    • 24.69.255.205 (talk | contributions)
      • Incredibly clueless newbie(?) returning to add a slew of weblinks regarding Anne Shirley. Did a strange edit on the Current events page which was reverted. Numerous warnings regarding questionable edits and weblink-only contributions dating back months. User was even blocked for a time. Apparently, s/he didn't get the message. I've left polite word on the talk page with instructions for creating a proper redirect. - Lucky 6.9 02:42, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    24.71.223.141

    • 24.71.223.141 (talk | contributions)
      • Vandalizing page DDT numerous times today, another IP was doing so yesterday with similar edits, (likely same person under a dynamic-ip). -Goldom 00:54, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
      • Blocked for 24 hours.-gadfium 01:23, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    68.253.199.72

    February 7

    168.99.197.188

    24.93.213.84

    216.177.244.30

    24.163.46.190

    66.4.125.11

    • 66.4.125.11 (talk | contributions)
      • Vandalising many articles over about a year, usually one at a time. Only contributions seem to be vandalism (apart from one single request about Aesop)File Éireann 19:27, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    212.219.94.206

    38.139.36.111

    204.141.39.59

    38.139.36.111

    160.5.19.26

    PL/I

    • this page needs to be protected, it has been the site of severe vandalism from several sources over the past couple of days. --User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 17:29, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
      • unprotected, hopefully coast is clear Daniel Quinlan 08:24, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

    69.128.82.122

    66.20.28.21

    • 66.20.28.21 (talk | contributions)
      • Removing and changing a lot of contents of the article Opus Dei (that I find a useful context) for the third time without voting consent. Looks like an edit war if this is the right term. Insulting an user in Edit Summary. I'll leave him a message if this is possible, I hope it will help. Someone has to edit History to remove the insult.Eleassar777 09:22, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
      • Hey I just visited his talk page User_talk:66.20.28.21 and it seems like he was adding biased info on a whole bunch of pages. Someone should have a look at this. My opinion is that this is repeated vandalism and this user's IP should be blocked. Eleassar777 09:26, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • User:66.20.28.21 may be blocked for not editing according to the NPOV rule following an arb com ruling. Feel free to block if evidence is presented/found. Mgm|(talk) 13:52, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
      • So could someone do something about this? Eleassar777 15:33, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • It looks like multiple editors have had problems with this IP address. I have had to revert unexplained reversion of a few of my edits. This IP should be blocked. —Mike 02:41, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)

    80.58.9.235

    • 80.58.9.235 (talk | contributions)
      • Randomly replacing images with Madhappyfaceblob.gif. Quite active in this pursuit today.--Pharos 00:40, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
        • Blocked as an open proxy. --fvw* 00:46, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)
        • Unblocked as it's a shared proxy of an ISP with an open proxy behind it. Sending a nastygram to the ISP in question. --fvw* 01:15, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)
          • I have yet to see a nastygram sent to an ISP even result in a response, let alone a satisfactory result. RickK 05:56, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
            • Perhaps, but since this is eating their bandwidth, who knows. And if that doesn't work we can honestly say we tried and block the lot of them. --fvw* 06:06, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)

    216.135.148.53

    • 216.135.148.53 (talk | contributions)
      • Nice little spree today, hitting Dimona and other Israel-related pages. Corrected vandalism, time to lock him down before he gets out of hand. Inky 00:33, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
        • Warned. No need to report vandals here right away, just stick the appropriate test template on their talk page. The "You have new messages" banner stops a surprising number of people from repeating their vandalism. --fvw* 00:37, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)

    195.194.75.225

    • 195.194.75.225 (talk | contributions)
      • if we believe this person then the mother of Mary I of Scotland was not, as historians believe, Marie de Guise, but "fflur philips the school girl", has vandalised other articles as well, notably on Japanese earthquake, all now reverted.
    PatGallacher 17:15, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)


    February 6

    64.81.68.204

    • 64.81.68.204 (talk | contributions)
      • Has come up multiple times under 64.81.68.204. This vandal inserts the name David Hasselhoff into text. 3x on multiple articles. Cute but its time to be done. --Plowboylifestyle 23:28, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    68.124.23.111

    168.143.113.125

    • 168.143.113.125 (talk | contributions)
      • Repeated vandalism (3x so far today) of Urban exploration, changing the description of a forum in the External links to an insulting phrase. My guess is that it's some beef that 168.143.113.125 has with someone on that site. jdb ❋ 23:14, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    Agquarx

    Dnagod

    • Dnagod (talk | contributions)
      • I'm not sure how to handle this. This guy has been posting (and reverting after his posts were removed) several minority Nazi religion and holocaust denial sites and references throughout articles such as God (eg: a list of religions said "Christianity, Hinduism, Cosmotheism, Buddhism".. and I started singing, "one of these things is not like the other....")
      • He seems to be a little off the wall, see his statements at: Talk:Holocaust denial. --brian0918™ 18:08, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • But he's not a vandal. He's a garden variety Nazi. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 02:00, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Dnagod has not committed any acts of vandalism, he just posts links and sources which the jewish supremacists members of wikipedia do not like because the links are based in facts, science and sound scholarly research. Dnagod 14:44, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    62.252.64.18

    141.158.181.11

    Soska657

    • Soska657 (talk | contributions)
      • This user created a series of redirects from User:Htacces and variations about that. Evil Monkey∴Hello 08:04, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
        • This activity seems to date from January 31, is there something more recent? -- Curps 08:16, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
        • OK, I guess page-move vandalism is considered particularly heinous (although this was a user page rather than article pages). He was blocked for 24 hours back then, but I'll block indefinitely, since his edits are either outright vandalism or in some cases simply silly at the very least ("a European" → "an European"). Also, the page moves seem to have been his first contribution, so there's a good chance that the account was created simply for the purpose of page moves. -- Curps 09:50, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    202.156.2.170

    • Repeated vandalism on pages including win, die, fungus, and Nice. He/she has received multiple warnings. Carrp | Talk 06:15, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
      • Blocked temporarily. -- Curps 06:36, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    68.63.168.248

    • Be on the lookout for 68.63.168.248, who I am dubbing the Lawn Gnome Bandit, who for some reason as yet unknown has decided to stick pictures of lawn gnomes on pages as diverse as cookie, homosexuality, and Johnsonville, New Zealand. GabrielF 04:41, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    The Lawn Gnome Bandit has struck my user page. I'm trying to decide if I'll revert it. GabrielF 04:43, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    I think we can consider the incident finished. FWIW the LGB posted the following on my talk page: "Hey, I know the whole gnome thing was probably vandalism and I agree that it should probably get removed, but I just wanted to see how long it would stay before someone took it down. Besides, even you have to admit that lawn gnomes are funny. --Tylerni7 04:50, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)" GabrielF 04:56, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    Tylerni7

    February 5

    81.*.*.*

    RdSmith4

    MCBastos 16:27, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

      • I'm taking back the previous comment; the same username has been fixing the damage. Weird thing is, during a short period the only contributions listed under that username were the inappropriate moves. Maybe some jerk managed to hack into his username for a while?

    MCBastos 16:39, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    Actually, they're two different users. The vandal (possibly Willy on Wheels) used the user name User:RdSmith4 to impersonate the admin User:Rdsmith4. The vandal copied the user and user talk pages to make it more convincing. Carrp 16:43, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    You are right, I got fooled by the CamelCase. MCBastos 16:44, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    Yup, it was Willy (or some similar bot-vandal) impersonating me. It's all fixed now. User:Rdsmith4/Sig 16:46, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    Acidmonkey

    • Acidmonkey (talk | contributions)
      • Deleting things and inserting nonsensical words and sentences. Everything by this user appears to be vandalism. / Tupsharru 10:41, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    200.73.51.163

    • 200.73.51.163 (talk | contributions)
      • Vandalizing User pages and user Talk pages. Replacing all content with the word AYSEN repeated.
        • Has been blocked for 24 hours. RickK 06:50, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

    Sonmupu

    PHP

    • PHP is being vandalized by some sort of spam bot, which deletes large sections of the page and replaces them with external links. The edits come from multiple IPs, and typically happen very quickly, filling up the page history. These IPs are not open proxies but they are from such spam-friendly places as Brazil and Russia, and many of them are already on spam blocklists. I'm afraid this may be a testing run, since it is currently only happening on this one article. Please be on the look out. Rhobite 04:43, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
      • Not just PHP either. The last two were open proxies by the way, so I suspect the rst may be trojaned machines or similar. --fvw* 04:55, 2005 Feb 5 (UTC)
        • If they're open proxies please block them indefinitely. Are you testing them yourself? I usually just use openrbl.org to check if they're on blocklists. Every IP I've checked is on some sort of spam blacklist. Most are in countries known for spam, the last one was in Hong Kong. Oh yeah I came here to ask, should we protect PHP for a while? Although that would probably just drive them on to another target. Rhobite 06:15, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
          • I've protected the article for now. Did it before I even read this.  :) Which IDs are the proxies? RickK 06:52, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
          • Page just came out from protection, and already vandalized twice.. -Goldom 06:16, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Related to that, the user created the (deleted 4 times already) page Thatware, adding the external link (again), also to the talk page thereof. -- Chris 73 Talk 06:20, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)

    Dick Suck

    February 4

    82.154.154.198

    83.167.82.252

    205.188.116.66

    • 205.188.116.66 (talk | contributions)
      • Nothing but numerous warnings on the talk page about vandalism. Latest "contribution" is pure Spam for a fundraiser in Hilo, of all things. - Lucky 6.9 22:17, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    205.200.236.19

    198.163.125.144

    193.226.61.146

    February 3

    201.2.251.23

    152.19.42.62

    206.106.97.107

    206.106.97.107 (talk | contributions)

    • Deleted content from and added nonsense to multiple articles. This IP address has also vandalized in the past. Posted a warning on the user's talk page. — Brim 19:40, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
    • Added more nonsense on February 4 after this user was reported on this page. User should be blocked. — Brim 18:45, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

    66.20.28.21

    69.231.123.244

    203.10.121.82

    205.188.117.7, 64.12.117.7, 152.163.101.7

    205.188.117.7 is an AOL IP address, so any bans should be short-term ones to prevent vandalism in progress. --Deathphoenix 05:15, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    The reason Deathphoenix is saying that bans on AOL IPs should be short is that, on AOL, the same IP may be assigned to more than one person. Mateo SA | talk 22:10, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

    Please be watchful of these users and ban while they are vandalizing like today Feb. 3rd, and they have been banned in the past. Apollomelos 23:45, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    Please re-issue temporary bans on 64.12.117.7, 152.163.101.7, & 205.188.117.7. They have continued vandalzing after the expiration of the original bans. Apollomelos 23:15, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    February 2

    User:Joey1234

    80.58.33.172, 81.154.12.10, 64.59.222.2, 216.124.23.51, 213.249.155.239

    81.154.12.10 (talk | contributions), 64.59.222.2 (talk | contributions), 216.124.23.51 (talk | contributions), 213.249.155.239 (talk | contributions), 200.226.125.130 (talk | contributions)

    81.152.94.114

    • Adding junk on article Heer --Jcw69 06:31, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    209.71.11.137

    • Adding inappropriate, irrelevant language to article about King Henry IV of France.

    69.17.35.72

    • Adding Development Gateway's ICT for Development Community (http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict) to a number of articles. In my opinion many are inappropriate (Telecommunications) for example. I will add a note to the user talk page but I don't expect anything. Is there a way to simply remove all these modifications? --Rjstott 05:05, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    February 1

    205.121.112.60

    205.121.112.60 (talk | contributions)

    • changed description of William Wallace from "Scottish patriot" to "Scottish asshole", I hope this guy has good life insurance.
    PatGallacher 21:50, 2005 Feb 1 (UTC)

    82.32.83.19

    82.32.83.19 (talk | contributions)

    • Vandalised page Bristol Grammar School (currently suffering sustained attacks during the past few days), edit was reverted by User:Gadfium, but was swiftly changed back again by the same IP. Nick04 19:20, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    24.225.233.40

    24.225.233.40 (talk | contributions)

    203.76.255.86

    203.76.255.86 (talk | contributions)

    • Blocked for 2 hours - hopefully that gets his attention -- Ferkelparade π 13:55, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

    205.223.222.254

    205.223.222.254 (talk | contributions)

    • is attacking Huey Long, has been warned and continues. --User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 13:18, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Repeat offender with several warnings. Blocked for 2 days. Mgm|(talk) 13:45, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

    207.218.152.146

    207.218.152.146 (talk | contributions)

    195.172.14.67

    38.115.7.18

    • 38.115.7.18 (talk | contributions)
      • Keeps adding commercial links to the External links section of medically relevant articles. Seems to have a financial interest in Astra Zeneca. Has received multiple comments on his talk page asking him to stop, dating back to April 2004. He is a repeat offender. —Brim 01:00, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
      • Blocked for 1 week for continued spamming after several warnings. Mgm|(talk) 13:25, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
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