
To user:Greg Lindahl: A disagreement about capitalization is not what the VANDALISM IN PROGRESS page is for. user:Vicki Rosenzweig, Saturday, June 8, 2002 Wikipedia as a community has limited feedback forums; if you have a more clever idea how to discuss this, please suggest it, but this was the best one I could think of. GregLindahl ---- What are you doing, 203.109.250.xxx? :If we are going to move :Christian Mythology to :The stories of Christianity, fairness dictates that we must move :Greek mythology to :The stories of the Greek religion, and so on. I agree with 203.109.250.xxx... one suggestion: could you log in under a name so we don't have to type the full IP address? ;) --User:KA :Sure -- User:SJK But some of the stories in these sections are cultural rather than religious, and cannot be described as associated with the group's religion, these stories should be distinguished. (On a side note I think it is also important that we distinguish between the stories of the ancient Greek religion and any stories the modern Greek Orthodox religion has.) -- SimonP :Well, the same thing could be said about some of the stories of the Bible, that they are cultural rather than religion. As to the distinction between Greek Orthodox religion and Greek religion, I think thats a fair criticism -- maybe we should rename it to :The stories of the ancient Greek religion to avoid confusion. But the thing I don't like is Ed Poor labelling all my changes as vandalism, and seeking to undo them all, without even discussing them first. -- User:SJK ==== What can (or will) this page do? ==== Inevitably I suspect someone will complain that this page will only encourage trolls. However this page has now existed for several days, and I quite like it. It's attention getting, and will quickly recruit a number of people to stem the damage. Even the most diehard troll will give up fairly quickly when their vandalism gets erased by the combined effort of 30+ people. ---- Actually, I'm the person who orignally objected to your naughty person list, and I started this page. :) If everyone starts using this page, I suspect most vandalism will have a total existance time of about 30 seconds. --User:Stephen Gilbert Actually I think they both work - this page won't catch the "insidious" miscreants, the ones who edit only occasionally to try and promote a particlar viewpoint. My page is not realy useful for large-scale vandalism. Agreed. --User:Stephen Gilbert ==== Automatic procedures ==== There is also opposite scenario available: Even the most diehard wikipedians will give up fairly quickly when a single perlscript will start vandaling. --User:Taw OK - Taw, I agree that this page does not solve that problem. So what do we do then? - User:MMGB Give short-term-IP-ban (like 30 minutes) rights to enough people, so that at least one of them is usually on wikipedia. Or rights of turning wikipedia into :War Mode for a short time (this will also work against distributed vandalism attack). During war mode all changes would be enqueued onto :War Mode/Proposed Changes Queue and could be accepted only by selected users. Of course this shouldn't be done unless somebody really attacks us with a perl script. Too much paranoia isn't really good. --User:Taw I like Taw's idea of a short-term-IP-ban facility. There should probably be some restriction to prevent a person using it more than once in any 24-hour period (say), just in case someone decided to misuse it. I was intending to write an anti-vandalism perl script, but never got around to doing it. The idea would be that as soon as a vandal is spotted, the script could be run to undo all his vandalism. --user:Zundark, 2001 Dec 2 Sounds excellent - who's got the coding chops to pull it off? (BTW this discussion about the Short-term ban facility SHOULD be moved to Meta) - User:MMGB Because we're changing software anyway, such thing should be coded into PHPWiki. Try contacting user:Magnus Manske. --User:Taw PHPWiki, I believe, is the name of a different PHP-based Wiki script. This script doesn't really have any name other than "Wikipedia PHP script" or "Magnus Manske's PHP script". --TheCunctator ==== Meta & OBTRUSIVENESS ==== Move this to http://meta.wikipedia.com and then we'd be talking. If my blatherings shouldn't fill up the Recent Changes page, neither should this. It belongs in a separate namespace from the main encyclopedia (thus if not meta, then at least a subpage under Wikipedia. The ALL CAPS TITLE is a little much, too. --TheCunctator I disagree - the purpose of this page is to catch everyone's attention. Hence it belongs on Recent Changes (where we spend a lot more time than on Meta), and needs the ALL CAPS, to stand out. - User:MMGB You're missing the point, C. The page isn't commentary, it's a utility to bring attention to a sustained vandalism attack. The ALL CAPS TITLE fits perfectly with this purpose, and if I could, I'd make the title red too. ;-) --User:Stephen Gilbert Stephen, I'm not missing the point. Meta is for pages ''about'' Wikipedia. It's what ''meta'' means. (I know that some people are restricting it to "unofficial" meta-pages.) This is a meta-page. I understand ''why'' you used the ALL CAPS TITLE, but I think that you should be more polite to people who don't care about this; meta was created so that people who don't want to see discussion on the Recent Changes page don't have to; similarly, the VANDALISM IN PROGRESS announcement, whether you consider it "commentary" or "utility", shouldn't be so obtrusive. Note: I'm not complaining about the idea; I just think it doesn't have to be so loud to work; and if it doesn't ''have'' to be, then it shouldn't be. Please don't tell me that I'm missing the point. --TheCunctator :It's not meant to be an insult, but I'm afraid I still think you're missing the point as far as the meta site is concerned. The meta site is for extended discussion and commentary about Wikipedia, not for all pages that aren't encyclopedia articles. If it were for all non-article pages, all the Talk pages, personal pages, utility pages, FAQs, writing guides, help pages, announcement pages and policy pages would be over at meta.wikipedia.com. :Regarding this page specifically, I'm more than willing to change the name to be less obtrusiveand/or move it to a subpage of :Wikipedia utilities (or even delete the thing altogether), if that's what the rest of the community wants. However, I would argue that making the warning less obtrusive defeats the purpose of the utility; it is supposed to be obvious. Furthermore, it is meant to be used only once during a sustained vandalism attack, and such attacks are quite rare, so it won't be filling up Recent Changes. Finally, I think that it's safe to assume that if anyone finds the all caps title to be harmful or rude, they'll drop by the Talk page and say so. --User:Stephen Gilbert
Stephen - you have my total support. If this thing was not so completely "in your face" I'd probably miss it and not be able to respond in time. - User:MMGB
I did drop by the Talk page and say so. I believe you meant to write "anyone else". My argument is simply this: does this page need the extra obviousness to be effective? I'm not sure that it does. Manning has argued that he does need that obviousness. This is simply the discussion I wish to encourage. I'm not attempting to denigrate your work. --TheCunctator
''"I think that you should be more polite to people who don't care about this"'': I assumed this meant that you were speaking for others, not yourself. I stand corrected. However, I remain unclear as to what you personally think, as you have mentioned three alternative options:
#move the page to the meta site
#move it to a subpage off of :Wikipedia (or perhaps :Wikipedia utilities)
#simply make it less obtrusive by de-capitalizing the title but leave the page in the main space.
Which one are you recommending?
I've already presented my arguments for leaving it as is, and Manning supports them. Let's see if anyone else cares enough to chime in. (BTW, I'm not insulted in the slightest. I am just mildly surprised at this type of objection; I thought they would run more along the lines of "this page is useless" or "it'll encourage vandals". Guess I'm not clairvoyant.) --User:Stephen Gilbert
Boy, do I wish I were clairvoyant. Sure would save me a lot of grief. Pity, that. (So, thanks for being willing to trust that I'm trying to communicate seriously with you.) Re the alternative options: What I personally would like is rooted in my attitude that problems, in the vast majority of cases, will "magically" disappear as long as we don't worry about them. In other words, except for certain very specific hypothetical scenarios, I believe that this can all be handled ad hoc, without any long term mobilization or institutionalized action. That's based on my attitude that very few people are intrinsically malicious--they just want to do something that amuses/interests them, and I think that building Wikipedia can be that kind of amusing/interesting thing. So my long-term attitude is that though there may be acts of "vandalism", there are no "vandals", just misguided contributors.
I know that's a little much, but so are calling silly kids vandals. Noone's knocking over gravestones. I don't take any short term problems seriously, and I don't think the rest of us should either.
But I know this requires a ''lot'' of faith, and rose-tinted glasses, so I certainly don't expect everyone to jump on the ahimsa bandwagon.
That out of the way, within the current structure, I recommend:
# Either moving the page to meta or to a subpage, probably meta, since long-term either action is mostly equivalent (both Wikipedia and meta will represent namespaces)
# Decapitalizing the page.
Totally IMHO stuff: More outre proposals would be something like making this a subpage of :Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense, like :Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense/Spam, etc. Some people like being called vandals or criminals; very few like being called spammers. I'm not convinced that decriminalization is usually a good idea in the real world, but in Wikipedia, I think it is nearly always a good idea. I think the only "criminal" action (other than somehow causing real-world, non-IP infringement harm via these pages, say by releasing someone's medical records) would be doing something like doing an admin-delete without notice or explanation, or writing a script to do mass deletes/overwrites/flooding. I.e. anything that's done by a person, which can be reversed, can be dealt with by other people. But there are good arguments against this, mainly in the realm of the "this will mean we spend all our time coddling annoying babies." I'm not sure what the proper response is, but I suspect it would be less time than one might think--and that if we set this up as an avowed principle, we'd attract people who enjoy "coddling". --TheCunctator
==== Minimize or Full Records ====
Moved from the main page:
:Some vandals enjoy the satisfaction of seeing lots of comments about their work in :Recent changes. Hence to minimise the fuss, just enter the letters "VR" as a comment, and choose "minor edit". This informs the other editors that a page has been repaired, but keeps the fanfare to a minimum.
I'm uncomfortable with making assertions about what other people's intentions or desires are; and "minimizing the fuss" often leads to unintentional suppression of useful information. I think it might be a better idea to keep this on meta; then it won't clutter up the main Wikipedia, but it will make sure that everyone's actions are clearly defined and accountable.
I believe that accountability is more important than worrying about whether idjots get satisfaction out of hearing their name in print. If we don't treat them like outlaws, they won't have anything to fight against. Branding juvies as "vandals" will just encourage them. (Of course, this is just one side...) --TheCunctator
I then promptly restored the deleted text, as Cunctator seems to have missed the point of the guideline - it is to provide a simple, understated method for editors to fix vandalised pages and notify others they have done so, and thus not trip over each other trying to figure out which pages have or have not been repaired. The simple code of "VR" is discrete, while still serving its purpose. User:MMGB
You not only restored the deleted text, but also deleted some of my additions. If you disagree with them, unless you feel that they must be removed immediately to protect Wikipedia, I would appreciate it if you expressed your disagreement here. Please stop making ad hominem attacks ("Cunctator seems to have missed the point of the guideline"). I have not impugned your talents for comprehension; rather, you seem very intelligent, though short with me. --TheCunctator
Actually there was no disagreement, that was simply a lack of diligence - I failed to check to see if there were any other changes. My apologies.
Re the meta discussion - I do think that the discussion about the 30 second ban, and the discussion about whether this page is the BEST solution for a recognised dilemma, does certainly belong over at meta. - User:MMGB
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I imagine someone has already said this above, but what's wrong with simply saying, in the "summary" line when you're fixing some eedjit's vandalism, "[IP number or handle] is vandalizing"? That's what we've been doing and as far as I can tell, it's worked pretty well.
Also, if you insist on keeping this page, ferchrissakes can we get rid of the all caps? This is a respectable establishment! :-) :-) --User:LMS
:I don't insist on keeping it; it's just an experiment to see if it is useful. Using the summary field may not always work as most people have their preferences set so that the summary fields get knocked off Recent Changes when someone else makes another change.
:That two people against the caps. You realize that this puts you in agreement with Cunc, right? B^) Anyone else? ;-) --User:Stephen Gilbert
::I don't think there would be any point to the page if it's not in capitals, as it wouldn't stand out. But the talk page shouldn't really be in capitals. --user:Zundark, 2001 Dec 11
::I agree with LMS & Cunctator -- Mathijs
::I disagree with LMS & Cunctator, and think that it should be allcaps. The purpose is to catch wikipedians attention when its needed. If it doesn't catch their attention, then the page has no purpose. --User:arcade
::(Somebody's using a browser that adds spaces whenever editing a Wikipedia article...this is a chronic problem for some relatively uncommon browser, I forget which. Maybe Opera.) Just saying "so-and-so is vandalizing" has always, so far, proven to be quite effective in allowing us to track and remove vandalism (and in the case of repeat offenders, temporarily ban the vandal's IP address. ''Given'' that, having this page, let alone this page with the title in all caps, is unnecessary. --User:LMS
In support of Larry, I have to point out that a :Recent Changes full of ''removed vandalism by ...'' is pretty hard to miss.
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(''Most of the vandalism on these pages that I can see was very minor. Are there any egregious examples I missed? --LMS'')
:''He deleted almost all of :San Francisco Peninsula. Besides, there is no practical difference between major and minor vandalism - it still means someone has to spend time reverting it.''
I would consider such a deletion major, not minor.
Suppose someone is just experimenting with the wiki for the first time and, in a spirit of playfulness, just changes a few links the way this person did on the :San Francisco page. I totally agree with you that (1) that's very annoying and (2) we shouldn't have to revert such idiocy. I wouldn't ban the person's IP number, though, not just on the basis of that. I'd keep a very close watch, though, and if I saw a pattern (as there definitely seems to be in this case), I'd reluctantly ban the person. --User:LMS
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Is there any way that this article could become a little more "juried". Much of what is enterred seems to be only one person's opinion of what vandalism is. Often it refers to newbie errors, or is a response to what someone else considers valuable. I consider the long entry for the value of pi to useless but not vandalism. An occasional troll is not vandalism unless it involves obstinacy; it's sometimes helpful for puting a subject on the table. In my view vandalism is persistant and malicious. A format along the following lines for each allegation might be useful:
\"Name\" :''What is being done'' :''Why it is vandalism'' :''Disagreements'' *To summarize why I feel that 62.98.136.xxx is a vandal (it has also used 62.98.140.xxx). My view of vandalism is anything that undermines the credibility of the wikipedia. It started with the "Penis Bird" 'joke' including references to it in other pages. Then it moved to dumping old Household cyclopedia articles which tell ways to make break, how to make fertilizer, etc with methods that are long out of date. It then started inserting "Our savior", "Our lord", "Our Christ" references into gospel articles. It then started the whole scientology/Xenu thing (with an apparent agenda). It then started extending inifinite sequences of numbers to multiple lines (like about 20). It even 'translated' Bruno's comment on Talk:Artificial intelligence into french. Any one of the above could be considered a 'joke'. But each individual one added useless (in the form it was put in), outdated, and even potentially damaging information. It has not responded directly to why it does such things even though it obviously sees such questions. In my mind, these actions undermine the credibility and efforts of the serious folks who try to build Wikipedia. When I see a good portion of activity is spent in trying to fix this kind of thing, I (rightly or wrongly) imagine the snickers of a rather immature individual as he leads us all on a wild goose chase. user:Rgamble ** In addition to the above, 62.98.178.xxx/62.98.140.xxx/62.98.136.xxx has now chosen to replace the entire "Sexism" article with the entire "Diatribe against the fundamental Sexism of our society" from meta.wikipedia.com. (Naturally, it was immediately reverted - LDC and I hit it at almost the same moment. :) This is part of a larger pattern of behavior that has lasted a couple of weeks now, starting with dumps of articles from the "Household Cyclopedia" (see Wikipedia utilities/Pages needing attention, "Pages with outdated material"). The incidents described by Rgamble above, more dumps of useless material from www.publicbookshelf.com (Herotodus and Caesar inserted as modern "history" articles), and now the replacement of a factual article with a ''labeled'' Diatribe to me add up to a pattern of malicious (or invincibly ignorant) behavior that calls for an IP ban. user:-- April ***Agreed. Well, I guess it's time to try out the old IP ban function... If it doesn't work, drop a note in wikipedia:Bug reports. (Jimbo can unban an address manually in the database, if need be.) user:Brion VIBBER ** I've certainly got no problem banning vandals (I bumped the "CARROTS" guy on Friday), but this particular one does bring up the interesting case of dynamic IPs. If you do bump him, record exactly which IP you blocked, so we can check that it is temporary (since it's dynamic, it will belong to someone else tomorrow). --LDC *** Right. See wikipedia:Blocked IPs (for some reason I don't see it in the recent changes list. Hmm.) user:Brion VIBBER ---- Moved 24 vs Axel discussion to m:Systemic Bias of Wikipedia, since it has nothing to do with VANDALISM IN PROGRESS.
#REDIRECT Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
#REDIRECT Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
#REDIRECT Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
Listed articles have been vandalised numerous times recently. ----
;Archives: /\"Hangman\" in Sandbox, /Google-watch, template == Question == Does blocking an IP prevent users from viewing the site at all, or can they simply not edit? -- User:ClockworkSoulUser talk:ClockworkSoul 22:46, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC) :See MediaWiki:Blockedtext for the full version, but the short answer is that people can still read Wikipedia. - not logged in right now... ==This is probably the wrong place, but someone's up to no good (68.185.2.134)== Sorry - trying to get the hang of it (and I didn't yet hit the FAQ). Anyhow, I was just reading about abuse and then tried to check out the Wikibooks site. It was easy enough to figure out that this user - 68.185.2.134 - has been deleting a lot of stuff. Right. Revert, anyone? Thanks. [soc] 19:57, 29 Apr 2005 ==Purpose?== What is the purpose of listing something here? What happens after a listing? User:Maurreen 07:01, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Many administrators have this page bookmarked, so it's a way to draw administrator attention to vandalism so they can take action. I find that a vandalism spree often stops as soon as I post a warning message to the user's talk page, so posting a message on their talk page early is also a good idea.-User:Gadfium 07:51, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Long term alerts section == To reduce the size of this page, I moved the Long term alerts section to a subpage (Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/Long term alerts) and placed a template link to that subpage on the main Vandalism in progress page, in the form[ User talk:RoyBoy] 03:06, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
*User:Netoholic did it on the 7th. I'm not sure why you say it needs way more IP pastings; Template:User and Template:Vandal are identical except for punctuation. Theoretically, anyway, the "subst" makes it a teeny bit more efficient, perhaps? --User:JpgordonUser talk:Jpgordon 03:54, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
** Exactly, this is a "one-time use" template. There is no need for each listing to change in the future, and it adds unnecessary overhead to the system by having that template re-render each time the page is refreshed or edited. -- User:Netoholic User talk:Netoholic 05:33, 2005 Feb 8 (UTC)
Well the template commentary when editing looks like this...
:==== IP ====
:* User: IP (User talk: IP | Special:Contributions/ IP)
:** DESCRIPTION
For every IP I would need to paste, right? I assume it is meant to be this:
:==== IP ====
:*
:** DESCRIPTION
But its in the nowiki display, and not repeated below in the commentary for easy pasting. - User:RoyBoy [ User talk:RoyBoy] 07:06, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
:BTW, I know I can simply copy the display template prior to editing... it just jives with my previous method of pasting the vandal IP in the edit window then copying the commented template. - User:RoyBoy [ User talk:RoyBoy] 18:03, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
== Extremely funny, thoughtful vandal ==
Have a look @ User_talk:Sam_Spade#Template:British_Royal_Family_-_IMPORTANT and Template:British_Royal_Family. Cheers, (User:Sam Spade | user_talk:Sam Spade | Special:contributions/Sam Spade) 08:29, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
==That picture==
That is really one horrendously ugly picture. Can we get rid of it? User:RickKUser talk:RickK 21:05, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
:Its also too well thought out to be vandalism. Someone had a LOT of time, in daylight to paint that... User:Kiand 21:18, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
::How about this one instead? -- User:A D Monroe III 12:11, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
::: How about one with a big red STFU? --User:AllyUnion User talk:AllyUnion 15:43, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
::::Well, whatever, if I don't get any objections, I'm going to delete the picture tomorrow. User:RickKUser talk:RickK 06:22, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
I don't know if I get a vote, but I like the picture at right. User:harry491 User_talk:harry491 00:55, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
*It's horrendous. It's ugly. But it's still art. The definition of "art" lies in the eyes of the beholder. _JarlaxleArtemis">User:JarlaxleArtemis 02:47, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
== ISP Sharing and Vandalism ==
A number of posts from a shared ISP network were made to Wikipedia by several contributors in good faith. The newbie posts did not receive warm greeting. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=24.126.173.124 for history. Users kindly request removal of User talk history regarding 24.126.173.124. Failing removal of User Talk from special page by an administrator, removal of all postings, including contributions made in good faith, is requested. Thank you. (''User:24.126.173.124'')
:Surely you saw the notice on every editing screen saying that you release any contributions under the GNU Free Documentation License. You cannot demand that your contributions are to be removed. You can rest assured that they will be edited to conform to our standards.-User:Gadfium 06:09, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Removal is kindly requested. Request administrator assistance only. Thank you. (''User:24.126.173.124'')
:Sorry if you got some rough treatment. About your edits: It seems you mostly contributed to Jeanne Marie Spicuzza, and also to Seasons & a Muse, Inc. and Breath of God. Assuming your contribution was not a copyright violation from [http://www.seasonsandamuse.com/jeanne.html], many other users have edited the article now, so it would be unfair to them to remove it all. From the legal point of view, the comment at the bottom of the edit window clearly states "''All contributions to Wikipedia are released under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it''". By hitting "Save Page" you released your text under the GFDL. The only way it can be deleted now is if the community here considers it non-notable and votes for its deletion. On a side note, if you get confused by sharing an User talk:24.126.173.124 page, you may consider getting a login for each user (if you wish to continue to contribute). Otherwise, your only option is to ignore Wikipedia. Hope this information is helpful to you. BTW, User:Gadfium above IS an admin, as am I -- User:Chris 73 User talk:Chris 73 07:35, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you Chris. Your kindness is appreciated. We're being advised not not to contribute any further. - T
== Separate page for Current alerts? ==
Maybe the “Current alerts” section should have its own page.
The Vandalism in progress page is for example 166 Kb at the moment, and if there is intensive vandalism in progress the big size could be a problem when it’s necessary with immediate action.
I tried to report some vandalism some hours ago, but due to heavy server load the server didn’t respond when I tried to save.
The creature managed to vandalise more than twenty articles before it got IP banned, and it got banned after I yelled in #en.wikipedia on irc.
It would also make it easier for sysops to spot current vandalism which needs to be taken care of ASAP.
-- User:Sunny256 02:26, 2005 Mar 27 (UTC)
:I also tried and tried to revert several vandalisms of it, but another person in the end did it. So, yes, separation would help. Either that, or pseudo-archive the past alerts somewhere else so the core ViP is only for current risks. After all the previous alerts are kind of in archive limbo anyway. User:Master Thief Garrett 03:21, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Archived March 2005 ==
I archived all the March 2005 entries on Vandalism in Progress, except the stuff that is below the interlanguage links. User:Andrew pmk 23:07, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Archived first half of April 2005 ==
I archive first 14 days of April 2005 into Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/Archive200504 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress/Archive200504]). The original page has 604 kB and its update failed way too often to be useable.
I would like to ask someone to link the new archive above into the VIP page like other older archives. User:Pavel Vozenilek 23:19, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I think the picture on the front page is pretty.
== A simpler page for really current vandalism ==
I miss a page where a user can report current (as in occuring right now, not hours or days ago as many of the reports here are) in a really simple way. Just a page where users can post the ip or username of the vandal. The ip/username is really all that is needed in most cases. Everyone can then see their contributions and see what it's about.
As it is now I find it to complicated and timeconsuming to post a new listing. The page is confusingly huge and doing all the explaining with links to everything is too complicated for (often new) users who are watching repeted vandalism on some pages and just want admin attention to it right now.
It could be as simple as a basicly empty page where new IP's (nothing else) of vandals is added, preferably with the ip also in the edit summary. And when an admin sees the update in her watchlist, she handles it the usual way with warnings and maybe blockings. And then removes the ip from the list. It's all there in the history, anyway. So the list would be empty most of the time. User:Shanes 09:45, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:My suggestion is to trim or remove the Long Term Alerts section and just link the main VIP page to the Long Term Alerts page. If we trim the list, then all we have is just the name/ip of the vandal series (Willy on Wheels and Wikipedia is Communism, for example) and those names/ip's will be linked to their section in the long term alerts. User:Zscout370 User_talk:Zscout370 18:01, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:I agree, and in order to simpify this page, I suggest that (1) the long term alerts page be linked, rather than transcluded, and (2) each individual current alert be bulleted, and not placed in its own section, to reduce the length of the TOC. Unless there's any strong objection, I think I'll go ahead and make these changes, since this page is really becoming unmanageable. 16:35, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
== Apology ==
I am sorry that me and others had to use this page to sort out the problems between myself, others and User:Hamidifar. I know it made the reporting of real vandals hard yesterday, which I do apologize for. However, based on this dicussion, I was wondering if others will want to mediate in it, unless what me and others stated pretty much is enough for yall to decide. Also, can someone remind the user to not place Personal Attacks and Threats against other users. Thanks. User:Zscout370 User_talk:Zscout370 04:43, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
:I'd also like to thank the wikipedians for their patience, and ask for comments on the matter from any uninvolved users. User:SockatumeUser talk: Sockatume 20:35, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
::One more thing, do you think that if the user posts the same things again, can they be moved? We already removed it three or four times, but Hamidifar still keeps on adding it back in. The vote has been over for a few days now, and if any action against me or others were needed, it would have been done a few days ago. Can we put this subject to rest? User:Zscout370 User_talk:Zscout370 17:34, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
== removed image ==
I removed the image because it actually is quite a pretty piece of vandalism in that photo. I think it is counterproductive to place a piece of art up on page designed to fight vandalism. 20:30, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
The vandalism we have do deal with is indeed rarely, if ever, this beautiful. But that's exactly why i liked the picture, and why i think it doesn't harm us. I sometimes used to be quick to lable someone as vandal, but the little picture reminded me to take a deep breath and stay clear of Wikipedia:WikiHate. By "counterproductive", do you mean that it might encourage people to vandalize? I don't think so – the only inspiration people might get is to be a bit more creative than the most common types of vandalism. (See also meta:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles). — User:SebastianHelm User_talk:SebastianHelm 20:38, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
== WP:VIP as a first-line response to vandals ==
I've posted a suggestion for a partial replacement of WP:VIP to Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#Is_ViP_working.3F as I thought it might get more exposure there. The views of ViP-loyalists are very much welcomed. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 18:09, 2005 May 26 (UTC)
== Removing my name? ==
Seeing as how my entry on this page is a result of vadalism of my reporting another user as a vandal, would it be against regulations for me to remove it? -User:Robgea 18:21, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
== Apologies ==
I tried to update one entry and twice got back a warning that the server didn't answer. Now the revision history shows both edits went through. My attempts to see the diffs mostly time-out (plus what looked like a MySQL error and one note about the DB server shutting down), but it looks like I might have overwritten a previous edit by Alyeska, Revprez, or maybe even 24.47.98.133. Sorry, I certainly did not get a conflict warning. I may try to fix the mess — but I may well abstain because under the current conditions, chances are I'll make it worse. User:Rl 19:58, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
:Turns out my edit ''did'' remove User:Alyeska's text, and he already fixed it himself. Sorry, thanks, over and out. User:Rl 20:22, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
== Doubling of this page ==
Is it just me or does this page suffer from accidental doubling a hell of a lot? I think there's some sort of bug involved that's triggered by edit conflicts, although the huge size of the page and/or the number of headings might be involved as well. Anyway, I just fixed a duplication that happened on ''May 27'' - yes, that is almost a week ago! (Page doubled on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress&diff=14316926&oldid=14315993 this edit] - the duplicate header was removed on the next edit, but not the rest). Is there anything that can be done - perhaps splitting the page into day pages, or having a more vigorous archiving regime? Or a bot to check if the page size increases hugely overnight? Or anything? User:Sjorford User talk:Sjorford 20:44, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:Having transcluded days seems like a good idea at first, but edits to the transcluded page wouldn't show up on peoples watchlists until they watched each day specifically - and that just isn't going to happen. The only way I can think to get around this would be to transclude pages older than today and have a bot move all comments made on the main page today to a new page and then transclude that page. We could then set a bot on an archiving regeime similar to what happens with VfD and CfD. User:Thryduulf 21:38, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
::I just tried to correct that, but looking down the page, it's still a real mess. User:SockatumeUser talk: Sockatume 14:48, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:::Ach, I just fixed it again - duplicated in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress&diff=next&oldid=15115600 this edit], again it's taken a week :( BTW, in case it doesn't show up well in the diff (the last one didn't), I've removed lines 1229-1894, which were duplicates of lines 548-1224. I assume there's a bugzilla report for this? User:Sjorford User talk:Sjorford 16:02, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
::::[http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275 Yes, there is.] User:Sjorford User talk:Sjorford 16:17, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
It happened again, fixed again...Removed lines 1474-2688. i've also added an HTML comment at the top of the page, as what seems to happen quite often is that somebody will remove the duplicated header section, but not realise the rest of the page is duplicated too. User:Sjorford User talk:Sjorford 11:13, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:And again! Oh, the humanity... User:Sjorford User talk:Sjorford 13:04, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==Slanderous one timers==
A question this user
User:HardyHeaven slandarized the CARM which made the adminstrators at CARM very upset and they are requestion the user to be banned. I STRONGLY doubt that user will ever in future case produce good edits. I can explain why among other things if needed. Thx. User:Falphin 16:20, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:This seems like a POV issue. The user in question's edit to the page was a fairly ill-advised description of how the Atheist section was removed, which has since been deleted. The user's not made an attempt to re-add it since, so I'd not support a block, although of course that's up to the admins. I've since seeded a potentially NPOV version of said history. I'd be grateful if board members familiar with the actual changes and specific facts of the situation could add to it. User:SockatumeUser talk: Sockatume 16:38, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
::I personally intend to add to it but I'm not sure what I should add. CARM has views on just about every topic but I'm not sure what is most relevant since their is few articles similar to the topic. User:Falphin 19:40, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==WP:AIV==
I would like to put a link to WP:AIV, which is related to WP:VIP, but I can't seem to edit the intro section (where it should go). I tried going to the template and couldn't get to it. Thanks! User:Flcelloguy 20:12, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:Yay, people doing promo work. You probably want to edit Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress/Intro, don't know why it didn't work. I already added WP:AIV to the cautions and alternatives section a while back though, not sure if it needs further mention. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 11:00, 2005 Jun 16 (UTC)
#REDIRECT Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
== Long term alerts == Please see Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/Long term alerts. ==Current alerts== ''Current date is , ; place new alerts on top.'' === June 23, 2005 === === User:Nat Krause === This guy is coping his POV-version into Anarcho-capitalism since days. --User:Alfrem 09:50, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) :Content disputes and edit-warring don't constitute vandalism. Your own complete blanking of the introductory paragraph to the article ''might'', however. User:Dtobias 12:13, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC) :: You tell nonsense. I deleted POV. Everybody knew it. Blanking is then something to what one can agree. --User:Alfrem 12:29, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) :::The above is generally worth ignoring, but I would like to point out for the benefit of anyone who may be confused, that this matter is unrelated to the long-running series of edit wars and POV conflicts on anarchism, anarcho-capitalism, and related pages. - User:Nat KrauseUser_Talk:Nat Krause 13:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:69.179.137.178 ==== Vandalising the Terri Schiavo and Talk:Terri Schiavo pages, and the GameFAQs message boards page. User:Proto 09:00, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:213.249.155.233 ==== Persistent vandal, frequently blocked. Wiped all of Ayodhya article and replaced it with "Hi, it's me, Vishal!". User:Zora 08:50, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:Zell Miller==== Vandalising my user page. Appears to be a sockpuppet of User:WeKnowItsYou. User:-Ril- 07:05, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:24.186.137.160 ==== Vandalising largely conservative politics-related pages [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=24.186.137.160], such as changing "dropped" to "increased," and "fall" to "gain." See also: POV "Hollywood was full of Commie sympathizer" remarks at Joseph McCarthy, and historical "'Jap' wasn't a derogatory name" denial at Franklin Delano Roosevelt. User:Shem DaimwoodUser talk:Shem Daimwood 06:21, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:69.192.103.183 ==== Vandalizing pages, adding obscenities (racist remarks), has begun a flame war at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_warez_groups&action=history Users Gooba/Ted Bunddy also rv'ing pages to vandalized state (same person?). Vandalism includes flames directed at individuals (referring to other people as child pornographers, whores, etc). ==== User:69.248.91.119 ==== Obscene remarks on this article: John Kowal User:69.248.92.200 03:18, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) User:JK1150 :Warned for now. User:Markalexander100User talk:Markalexander100 03:25, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:70.146.5.87 ==== Has been recreating speedy deleted pages, ignored requests to stop, and vandalized my user page. — User:Bcat (User talk:Bcat | Special:Emailuser/Bcat) 03:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:202.154.104.141 ==== Brief but rapid vandalism spree. Blocked. User:Markalexander100User talk:Markalexander100 03:00, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:Zell Miller ==== user Zell miller redirected both User:-Ril-'s page and Ril's talk page to point to User:Lir. Suspicion that same user went on earlier using the username "WeKnowItsYou" on various other pages insinuation that Ril == Lir. Someone ban his ass already. thanks :) User:Project2501a 01:44, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ===June 22, 2005=== ====User:TaiwanBot==== * *Vandal pretending it's a bot. Contribs are all replacing occurences of China with Republic of China. User:SchmuckyTheCat 00:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====Asian Tsunami==== Page about Asian Tsunami has been vandalised - can someone please fix it as I can't work out how to revert. Thanks *It looks like the page has been fixed now. For instructions on how to revert a page, you may find the Wikipedia:Revert article helpful. --User:Alan Au 01:23, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====VandaI==== * * Just vandalized User talk:RickK. -- User:Mike Garcia | User talk:Mike Garcia 22:54, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) **Already blocked. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 22:57, 2005 Jun 22 (UTC) ====216.76.218.217==== * * 216.76.218.217 and simlar IP addresses have been repeatedly vandalizing the Talk:Christina Aguilera and related pages. Mostly by removing other people's statements and half-blanking the page. --User:Lbmixpro(Speak_on_it!)">User talk:Lbmixpro 21:56, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====204.110.228.254==== * * mostly talk show hosts and pages of people who revert his vandalism User:Billhpike 22:13, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====WeKnowItsYou==== * *user has just vandalised my user page. User:-Ril- 20:04, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====81.156.211.66==== * *User is spamming articles relating to members of the British RESPECT Unity Coalition political party with links to his own website. Articles affected are Nick Wrack, Lindsey German and George Galloway. Also involved in revert war on Urban75. Hides bad edits under the edit summary "rv vandalism" or similar. - User:Smileyrepublic 19:34, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) *User is now adding obscenity to my personal user page. - User:Smileyrepublic 20:19, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====139.55.48.12==== * * 139.55.48.12 is repeatedly vandalizing the George W. Bush article. --User:Alabamaboy 19:20, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) * 139.55.48.12 responded to the last revert by saying "I AM BACK 2 VANDALISE" [sic] -- User:Nis81 19:25, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====169.199.30.254==== * * 169.199.30.254 is currently vandalising a number of pages, including Korean name , Martin Luther, and Karl Marx. --User:Alabamaboy 17:53, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====63.83.35.3==== * *63.83.35.3 has been vandalizing Justin Hall in small increments. User:Anarchivist — User:Anarchivist | User talk:Anarchivist 17:38, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====213.249.155.237==== * has a history *[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=213.249.155.237] of very many vandalisms and very few legitimate edits. Many are simply pages wholly deleted except for taunt, some others are small personal jeers buried within the article. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 15:43, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====81.180.4.224==== * *81.180.4.224 has put "THE WORST BAND IN THE WORLD" four times into Dream Theater. Has been warned (and is currently on test4). User:Nis81 15:29, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====68.225.171.78==== * *68.225.171.78 keeps putting an erroneous song entry into Electric Cafe ''unsigned comment from 12:43, 22 Jun 2005 by User:Feline1'' ** I have left a note for User:Feline1 asking him/her to discuss it on anon's talk page. User:FreplySpang User talk:FreplySpang 14:18, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====Gabrichidze==== * *Persistently inserting copyvio images to Plato, Mermaid, Geopolitics and other locations, and removing copyvio notices from such images. User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 11:37, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====68.164.69.181==== * *Repeatedly blanked part, or all, of Talk:Pontiac Trans Am. User:JIP — JIP | User talk:JIP 06:58, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ===June 21, 2005=== ====65.1.129.149==== * This individual deleted all the text on Charlotte Bobcats and Website (two pages on the same day), and in both cases he/she posted a link to some ForumOwners message-board. posted by: User:Wayfarer-User talk:Wayfarer, regards reported on: June 22, 2005 at 2:10 GMT ====68.198.14.212==== * *Insists on adding profaine album titles to Ringo Starr discography. Three times today thus far. User:Cburnett 05:30, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====68.55.66.57==== * *all this bored person has done is vandalise articles :please consider blocking. ====195.144.131.12==== * *Has been vandalising Wikipedia for at least six months (!) and IMHO, has been allowed to get away with it for ''far'' too long, only receiving temporary bans and countless warnings. Many of his edits are often of a racist or homophobic nature. --User:Hn 21:53, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC) ====12.9.33.203==== * *Repeated vandalism over the past month of Justin Hall and, previously, Talk:Justin Hall. Page blanking, vile language, page filled with obscenities, you know the drill. Immediate block requested. Thank you. --User:NightMonkey 21:47, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC) ====134.161.244.202==== * *Reported to me by ghost since I had reverted this a few times. Its edit history suggests its being used by a bot to edit the Creationism article and articles related to it. Immediete block requested. --User:Chanting Fox 20:52, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ** It might not be a bot after all. Ghost may have made that assumption (as I did) based on the edit history... but the IP address traces back to the "University of Northern Iowa," and I have doubts as to whether somebody would be able to run a bot on such an IP without being caught. Still better keep an eye on it though... the edits that were made were POV and/or nonsensical enough to cause edit/revert wars. --User:Chanting Fox 21:02, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====65.66.13.188, 65.66.18.44, 65.70.119.151==== *, , * This user has changed the controversial Benny Hinn article and Alva, Oklahoma article multiple times over the past month, each time adding terms such as "religious nutcase". He has been warned repeatedly at all of the IP talk pages, yet has not showed signs of stopping. Reported by User:Flcelloguy | User talk:Flcelloguy| User:Flcelloguy/Desk 20:49, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== Bijee ==== Please remove the user User:Bijee or at least talk to him. I have run into him on numerous occasions on articles related to Indian and Chinese history and martial arts history. I have a Ph.D in history and his corrections to the articles are outright fabrications. He has changed the kalaripayattu article multiple times to reflect his point of view (South Indian) and is fabricating history. When asked in the discussion section to back up his history viewpoints he does not reply with any serious remarks. The user has changed articles to my knowledge relating to : tea (states the word is indoaryan), chinese chess (states that it came from chatarunga), acupuncture (states that India had acupuncture), Buddhism (states that it is from India and not Nepal), and kalaripayattu (states that it is the origin of all martial arts and that Bodhidharma was a kalaripayattu practioner who mastered the northern and southern styles in India) . I have run into similar individuals like him in conferences. Usually they are followers of a quasi-political organization called Hindutva and unfortunately are extremely biased in their views of India and its role in history. Kennethtennyson * Here we go again... this appears to be a content dispute, NOT vandalism. Take it up on RFC if its that big a deal. This is NOT the place for resolving this situation. --User:Chanting Fox 21:20, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) : User:Kennethtennyson did many anonymous edits from IP Address User:24.69.255.205, User:68.14.62.73, User:136.142.21.236. He Even did a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buddhism&diff=15548075&oldid=15548029 vulgar post] at Buddhism : On Xiangqi his vandalism was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Xiangqi&diff=15544214&oldid=15535460 first reverted] by author User:Gwalla I only repeated the same. I am not an expert on Tea, Kalaripayattu, Origins of chess or Xiangqi, but when followed his edits I found his edits made a big change in article without any discuss on the Talk pages, so I revered it back. If he is interested in discussion he could do that with other authors on those topics. :One again I dont have any problem in what he changed, but only how he changed, so no issue of content dispute -User:Bijee 23:05, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) I am most emphatically not the IP addresses that you have placed above and I most certainly do not go around placing vulgar comments in articles on Buddhism when I am a practicing buddhist. kennethtennyson ====66.27.52.190==== * *Vandalized The Golden Girls User:Anarchivist — User:Anarchivist | User talk:Anarchivist 19:43, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====212.85.1.1==== * *Repeated vandalism (obscenities) of Somalia article. Lots of previous complaints on talk page. -- User:Gyrofrog User_talk:Gyrofrog 17:41, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====130.207.176.113, 83.131.95.93 and 216.78.98.241==== * * * *Repeated vandalisms of Wanderlei Silva and other Mixed Martial Arts articles --User:Malathion 17:27, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Added 216.78.98.241; also participating in this vandalism User:Anarchivist — User:Anarchivist | User talk:Anarchivist 19:33, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====68.60.166.76==== * *Has vandalized Kevin Pereira four times in the last month by adding false statements that he is a homosexual. Previously used the IP address in which he also vandalized many pages relating to and including G4 (television). User:Salvag 17:20, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====169.229.82.106==== * *Probably nothing, but has been vandalizing UC Berkeley and John Kerry, plus some others. Makes numerous references to someone named "Ben". IP address traces to UC Berkeley. User:Zellin 05:57, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC) *I mentioned what was happening to abuse at berkeley.edu last night, I hope that was an appropriate action - the vandalism from this address appears to have begun again about an hour ago. User:Sirmob 03:26, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====RMS Titanic==== *This page has been the target of a number of attacks on June 19 and June 20. The June 19 attacks came from the IP which is an AOL proxy. Following my tackling this vandalism (including a 24 hour block on this IP) my userpage and a number of pages that I have contributed to have been attacked by a number of different IP addresses—all AOL proxies, and the nature of the vandalism suggesting that it is the same (or a related) user. The most concerted attack came from , an AOL proxy which I also blocked for 24 hours. The June 20 vandalism of RMS Titanic has been of a similar nature and has come from and both of which are AOL proxies, and again editors who reverted the vandalism have had their userpages vandalised from AOL proxies. User:JeremyA 03:20, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====152.163.101.13==== * *Repeatedly has vandalized User:MechBrowman, six times this past weekend. User:MechBrowman 02:07, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC) ====Jake007==== * Brand new account, , single edit so far, states he wants to "do some more mischief and mayhem on your nice little project". [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:RickK&curid=1146475&diff=0&oldid=0 RickK's talk page] * I saw that threat when I went to RickK's talk page. Just as I'm coming back, he's leaving. If this clown is responsible for putting Rick over the edge based on both his past behavior and current rash of edits, this account should be blocked for good. Damn the luck, anyway. - User:Lucky 6.9 04:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ::Based on user's current behaviour, request they be set on fire, launched into space, or permanently banned at the discretion of the admin. User:SockatumeUser talk: Sockatume 08:21, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====212.56.128.186==== * *Obscenity in most sites, especially poltical related sites. This appears to be a schoolboy who is making foal play because the comment's also appeared on article by his school. Immediate attention required. ===June 20, 2005=== ====129.44.238.198==== * * User persists in creating articles about his teachers. Every one has been placed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Bob Burns. He has been asked multiple times to stop. --User:Xcali 21:22, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====Lothar==== The entry Lothar was vandalized: I was reading a section about the agreement of Strassbourg and when I clicked on the link for Lothar I got this: :''For other uses of this name, see Lothair'' Lothar is a fictional robot in the Metabarons universe. He is presented firstly being in service of the Metabaron (the Nameless), who asks Tonto to narrate to him of his master's history. Tonto who has been served the Metabarons for decades, unlike Lothar who is relatively new in the Metabaron's ownership, tells the saga to him, being thus the main narrator of the comic book series. During the main story (outside of the narative), Lothar loses his body and a new one is constructed for him. It is revealed in the process that he in fact is Steelhead, the Metabaron's grandfather, who returned to reclaim his office. The Metabaron however managed to erase his memory and transform him into a robot, serving him. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>What has this got to do with the Franks?!!! *To my untrained eye, this does not appear to be repeated, malicious vandalism. If you are knowledgeable in this area, I encourage you to add appropriate content, or start a discussion on the Talk:Lothar page. --User:Alan Au 18:12, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
**On further investigation, this seems to have originated from a redirect and subsequent disambiguation. Probably this should be nominated for cleanup. --User:Alan Au 18:20, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
***Okay, fixed. --User:Alan Au 18:37, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====Iglesia ni Cristo====
To keep the 'Dispute Tag' on page. A lot of new materials were added, and I needed time to check accuracy, but User:Onlytofind keeps on removing it. Here's a sample of the history:
*(cur) (last) 14:26, 19 Jun 2005 Onlytofind (Emico, you're skating on thin ice here...)
*(cur) (last) 14:21, 19 Jun 2005 Emico m (added dispute tag. detractor added a lot of stuff.)
*(cur) (last) 14:18, 19 Jun 2005 Onlytofind (Emico, you are not the judge on factuality for this article. Why not let Ealva and Glenn take a look at this? Also removed turkey accusation for lack of proof and dubious necessity.)
*(cur) (last) 14:08, 19 Jun 2005 Onlytofind (Revert to original edit by Raygirvan)
*(cur) (last) 07:58, 19 Jun 2005 Emico m (Too much info. need time to check veracity)
--User:Emico 13:49, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Note to administrators: see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#User:Emico. This is primarily a content dispute, not vandalism. This user, User:Emico, is currently the subject of arbitration on grounds including abuse of other editors and NPOV violation. In my view, these reports of vandalism are bogus, and directed at editors who refuse to abide by his attempt to be the sole (and religiously biased) arbiter of edits on Iglesia ni Cristo topics. User:Raygirvan 19:39, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:I was left with no recourse but to ask for help. I felt you and Onlytofind were abusing wikipedia's ''freedom to edit'' to stifle my freedom to edit. All I asked was for the both of you to cite sources. As of this writing, you removed the item because you did'nt have a source and is probably just an invention. --User:Emico 23:32, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====User:212.219.82.37 and User:212.219.82.36====
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Vandalized water pump 6 times today and 6 times on June 16. Also just attacked 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica and :Category:History. Has previously received warnings and a block. -User:Splash 13:16, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
====User:195.188.173.2====
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Probably a UK secondary school, plenty of defamatroy articles coming up during the lunch break. User:Physchim62 11:57, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====User:211.30.236.184====
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Repeatedly vandalizing Michael Jackson
*User:Preacher King of Mao 11:24, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*Did not edit after been given a final warning. - User:MacGyverMagic|User talk:MacGyverMagic 12:34, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
====User:203.36.44.14====
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**Repeat offender promised a one week ban after the last spate, recent attack on Alloy and Electronic technician
--User:Rjstott 07:11, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
***Blocked for another week.-User:Gadfium 09:17, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====User:Emico====
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User vandalising Felix Manalo,Eduardo V. Manalo,Erano G. Manalo,Erano de Guzman Manalo and related site. User:192.55.40.96 10:54, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*You two seem to disagree over content. That's not what this page is for. - User:MacGyverMagic|User talk:MacGyverMagic 12:36, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
=== June 19, 2005===
====User:207.200.116.201====
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**Repeated vandalism at List of Jewish American show business figures (replacing numerous surnames with a stereotype name, etc.), plus sporadic vandalism at other pages. --User:Freakofnurture 04:40, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
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** Right now he is busily adding dozens of external links to rotten.com to various articles. These links show nothing new compared to Wikipedia, what I could check. User:Pavel Vozenilek 02:27, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
***I am adding links to fleshed out articles, which Pavel failed to check before he posted this VIP. None of these articles simply rehash information, violate Wikipolicy on external links or constitute anything close to vandalism.--User:TheGrzaGrza">User Talk:TheGrza 02:43, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
:This is an edit dispute. Therefore it does ''not'' belong on VIP. Take it to WP:RFC if need be. User:SockatumeUser talk: Sockatume 04:02, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====141.152.218.124====
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**Spamming creation related pages. - User:RoyBoyUser talk:RoyBoy User:RoyBoy/The 800 Club 01:42, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====203.166.96.236, 203.166.96.239, 203.166.99.252====
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**Shared IPs from the same scholl, prefered target seems to be . --User:CesarB 00:22, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
***See also the listing on Long Term Alerts: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress/Long_term_alerts#User:203.166.96.235_et_al.]. They're back almost every day, sometime between about 2300 UTC and 0500 UTC, vandalising as a group. It's a bunch of kids who just do this whenever they have some free time; unfortunately, I have gotten e-mails from legitimate users every time I block for longer than a few hours. We might try just slapping a half-hour block on them every time they vandalise, since it's obviously the same kids every time and they've received dozens of warnings. User:Antandrus User_talk:Antandrus 21:01, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====User:212.138.47.14 actually 212.138.47.*====
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**Repeatedly blanking Talk:Rohingya by blanking comments, vandalized the page 6+ times. No reply to repeated calls to discuss. Used several IP's in the range of 212.138.47.* . --User:Ragib 22:35, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
**Will admins please take notice? The whole block of IPs 212.138.47.* is vandalizing the talk page, 7 times in last 20 minutes [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Rohingya&action=history as seen here]. --User:Ragib 22:49, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
** Make that 8 times. Please block the IP. Thanks. --User:Ragib 22:50, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
** IP blocks from the range 212.138.47.* has vandalized this page 10 times, and has responded to calls for stopping vandalism with "block me???". --User:Ragib 22:57, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====User:Max Mosley and User:12.47.252.66====
Presumably the same user, repeatedly vandalized Max Mosley.
====152.163.101.13====
*User has three times vandalized User:MechBrowman page. It also appears, from a different location, has vandalised all pages linked from there. vadalized RMS Titanic, vandalized Weird NJ, vandalized LOVE Park, vandalized User talk:MechBrowman. User:MechBrowman 22:21, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
*Update: has contiuned to vandalize User page. User:MechBrowman 01:53, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
*Update: appears to be the same user. Vandalising user pages, etc.—:Clawson (User_talk:Clawson) 02:23, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====210.54.120.116====
Revert war brewing at Caesar Augustus; they're vandalizing, I'm fixing. Mindful of the 3‑revert rule as it applies to ''me'', I'm dumping it here.... User:Bill Thayer 21:23, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*Bill, the 3RR rule DOES NOT apply to reverting vandalism to an article if it is a clear case of vandalism and not a case of being at odds over the point of view of the editor you're reverting. (That doesn't apply if their point of view has no factual basis.) --User:Chanting Fox 21:41, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:Thanks for the clarification Foxy; especially since our anonymous just started up again a few minutes ago. User:Bill Thayer 22:14, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==== 212.156.193.116 ====
Posting one-line articles in Turkish which seem to be contact requests. User:Physchim62 15:50, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:User:212.156.193.116 has no edits. Did you get the wrong IP? User:Kelly Martin 23:38, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
====Drowtales article====
*Several anons and one-time editors, apparently using Wikipedia as a "staging ground" of an off-Wikipedia conflict with the article's subject. User:Shem DaimwoodUser talk:Shem Daimwood 11:09, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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*User:Fonzie Fan SUCKS - Inappropriate user name. Sorry, I don't know if this is the right place to report it. - User:MPF 10:59, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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**Vandalized the following pages: Talk:Pakistan (blanking of talk page sections completely without any discussion), India (replaced/blanked entire page with "Shame on India"). After I reverted the edits and put a warning on the users talk page, vandalized my user page User:Ragib with blanking and the comment "Shame on Bangladesh". --User:Ragib 10:30, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:*Update: The user has vandalized the Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Bangladesh/Intro by replacing "Bangladesh is a country in South Asia" with "Bangladesh is a country in a sewer", and hid the vandalism through an edit summary "spelling correction". A speedy ban is requested. --User:Ragib 17:12, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====68.32.159.227====
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**This user is the same as Shrek32, and 216.83.121.194. He continues to add entries in various lists of video games, based on what seems to be his own fanfiction (he also adds entries for his own fanfictions - "Amber Sparks," "Brooke Fox," and "Kara Monichetti". I'm getting tired with having to revert seemingly endless lists of Playstation Portable, 2, and 3, Nintendo GameCube, Gameboy, and DS, and various movie studio entries. The below entry is my first ViP complaint about this anonIP.
**This user's nonsense entries are generally about 4-8 year-old female antiheroes who live in the Marvel universe. He often describes his heroes as "a parody of [Marvel comics superhero]". They are ALL FICTIONAL and he has added entries for them and their video games into pretty much every single Video Game list. He has also added false entries for their movies in several lists of movies. I have been tracking this user, and his logins all seem to come from IPs in South New Jersey. It's very annoying - he is very persistent; all of the articles he has created were speedied or VfD'd. User:jasonglchu | User talk:Jasonglchu | Special:Contributions/Jasonglchu 04:04, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
***I am nearly certain that this is the same person who was previously using the User:Shrek32 account: In the last day, he has added titles of video games ''not'' scheduled for release to every single List of Video Games for every modern system (including List of Nintendo 64 games, List of GameCube games, List of PlayStation 3 games, List of Xbox 360 games, List of PlayStation Portable games, List of PlayStation 2 games, List of PlayStation Portable movies, List of Game Boy Advance games, and List of Nintendo DS games). In each case, the user added listings for video games that are neither in development nor on the release schedule. He also added false release data to Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, Eurocom, and LucasArts adventure games. The common link, in most of these cases, was that he added listings for games or movies supposedly about "Amber Sparks" or "Brooke Fox" - both fictional fictional characters. He was already warned about this behaviour by User:Raul654, when previously he was acting under the name User:Shrek32. User:jasonglchu | User talk:Jasonglchu | Special:Contributions/Jasonglchu 14:13, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=81.152.134.234 81.152.134.234]====
'nuff said. User:Trey Stone 02:39, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====69.241.26.165====
Seems to be a pattern of vandalism (along with some serious edits) coming from , eg List of dog breeds. I see there was a "final warning" on his/her Talk page on 6 June; time to block? The genuine user(s), assuming there are such sharing the IP with this vandal, can always get an account. User:Flapdragon 16:22, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==== 24.98.201.118====
Repeated nonsense vandalism of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and other Nintendo related articles from
===June 18, 2005===
====203.194.16.198====
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**This user has has vandalised the article: Bohr Model
====145.254.59.26====
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**This user vandalised a number of pages and responded abusively to added a joke image to a page,[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Boogerd&diff=prev&oldid=15370257], etc. Given one warning so far. -User:Willmcw 23:55, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
**More warnings and more vandalism. - User:Willmcw 23:57, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
**Added misc. pictures not directly related to articles, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Boogerd&diff=prev&oldid=15370257] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barry_Island_railway_station&diff=prev&oldid=15370537]. Erased vandalism warnings from talk page,[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Poetatoe&diff=prev&oldid=15370208] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Poetatoe&diff=prev&oldid=15370938], deleted material without a reason, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MPPC&diff=prev&oldid=15370831] -User:Willmcw 00:04, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
: My edits were legitimate. This is a content dispute. See his talk page. He calls everyone who with a different opinion a vandal. Also I did not add inappopriate pictures to articles. One was a train and I put a picture of a train. Another was a bicyclist and I added a picture of a bicycle. THAT IS NOT VANDALISM! Adding a picture of a penis to either would be vandalism. Screwing around with someone's talk page like you did mine was vandalism. Content disputes are not vandalism. User:Poetatoe 00:07, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
**Apparent sockpuppet of user:Thodin. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress&diff=15371316&oldid=15371289] -User:Willmcw 00:07, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
***Wikipedia's official guidelines dictate that we Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith. This guideline also explicitly directs editors to do so when it can be reasonably inferred "that something is a well-intentioned error," enjoining then against simply labelling such incidents as vandalism, which Willmcw did on the Eric Foner article. Based upon his comment above and elsewhere, including his own talk page, it appears to me that Poetatoe has a difference with Willmcw over the content of this article, in which case the proper good faith response would have been to invite him to discuss this difference at Talk:Eric Foner (and indeed I hope that he will do so as I am interested in what he has to say). Furthermore, I am not aware that User:Willmcw has the authority to issue "warnings" against other editors and in following Poetatoe around Wikipedia, as also appears to have occurred, he has behaved contrary to the spirit of Wikipedia:Don%27t_bite_the_newcomers, prompting Poetatoe to respond with a not-so-far-fetched allegation of stalking. In the interest of full disclosure, I have had similar problems of my own with this same editor's lack of the good faith assumption and behavior towards me that could be described as wiki-stalking of my edits, thus I can sympathize with Poetatoe's rather rude welcoming to wikipedia given by this same editor and hope that the latter will take a moment to remind himself that we operate on good faith assumptions around here absent legitimate cause for doubt. User:Rangerdude 04:29, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
***Who is "wiki-stalking" whom? -User:Willmcw 04:55, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
****19:00 6/17/05 I make a minor edit to the [Eric Foner] page consisting of a new fact and a neutral point of view wording change.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eric_Foner&oldid=15363813] 21:04 6/17/05 you show up, begin deleting material in the article that was there months before I even joined wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eric_Foner&direction=next&oldid=15363813] and demand I provide a source for it on the talk page as if it were somehow my own and as if you could not be troubled to do so. So you tell me. User:Rangerdude 05:52, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
****User:Poetatoe has been blocked indefinitely as a disruptive sockpuppet of User:Thodin. User:SlimVirgin User_talk:SlimVirgin 05:14, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
===June 17, 2005===
====63.197.115.201====
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** Old vandal, puts grafitti on pages. Blocked 3x, e.g just week ago, today played on Wheel. User:Pavel Vozenilek 20:04, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====67.70.37.253====
This user has added ''(i like kittys)'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RuneScape_economy&diff=15319313&oldid=15319237] to the RuneScape economy page. No major vandalism..
--User:MathiasRav 19:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:''Please only use this page for repeated malicious vandalism, not for one-off edits''.
:As a first contibution, maybe you should just send a message to the talk page. User:Sonic Mew 19:11, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
::Sorry. Just read the WP:DWV page, and I was actually about to delete my entry again. User:MathiasRav 19:13, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
::Maybe a bit late, but I just added a ) on his user page. User:Flcelloguy User talk:Flcelloguy User:Flcelloguy/Desk 17:09, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====205.188.116.14====
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**marking intelligent design article for deletion [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intelligent_design&diff=15257283&oldid=15257274] User:FuelWagon 23:19, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
**twice [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intelligent_design&diff=next&oldid=15257301] User:FuelWagon 23:24, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
**with the comment "LIBERAL FREAKS". User:FuelWagon 23:24, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====205.188.116.201====
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**Creating lots of pages with "YOU CAN NEVER BEAT ME SICKO!" in it. User:NSR 23:11, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====131.111.8.97====
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** Madly creating towers articles and corrseponding categories. User:Physchim62 21:36, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*** I'm not quite sure I see what the problem is here. Doesn't sound like vandalism to me. User:JYolkowski // User talk:JYolkowski 22:27, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
****I have looked as some of the madly created articles and they look ok. It looks like the user is trying to bring some order to articles in his/her area of interest - bridges, towers and other large civil projects. Although there has been intermittant vandalism from several of the ip's assigned to the University of Cambridge Web Cache Servers like this one, there are a huge lot of good edits, which these appear to be. User should be encouraged to register, if there is a way beyond what is already on the user page. -- User:WCFrancis 23:27, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====152.163.100.8====
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**Has hit Chemical reaction for no obvious reason... User:Physchim62 21:32, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
***There were a large number of AOL IPs engaging in "liberal"-related vandalism. A short block seems to have done the trick. User:JYolkowski // User talk:JYolkowski 22:25, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====Water turbine====
*Water turbine has been being hit by various IPs .. might need locking at some point unless this jerk finally gives up.
====212.219.82.36====
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** Active last days. Puts childish nonsense on pages like [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Xenophobia&diff=prev&oldid=15226738] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feck&diff=prev&oldid=15115420]. Quite annoying as he always makse several separate changes on page and something may be left forgotten. User:Pavel Vozenilek 20:34, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
====198.74.20.73====
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**This user has been impersonating other users by "signing" posts using other user names. Read his old talk page and you can see many people complaining of his impersonations; currently in a battle with another user over rascism- see the current talk page. 198.74.20.73 insists on changing u
VANDALISM IN PROGRESS
To user:Greg Lindahl: A disagreement about capitalization is not what the VANDALISM IN PROGRESS page is for. user:Vicki Rosenzweig, Saturday, June 8, 2002 Wikipedia as a community has limited feedback forums; if you have a more clever idea how to discuss this, please suggest it, but this was the best one I could think of. GregLindahl ---- What are you doing, 203.109.250.xxx? :If we are going to move :Christian Mythology to :The stories of Christianity, fairness dictates that we must move :Greek mythology to :The stories of the Greek religion, and so on. I agree with 203.109.250.xxx... one suggestion: could you log in under a name so we don't have to type the full IP address? ;) --User:KA :Sure -- User:SJK But some of the stories in these sections are cultural rather than religious, and cannot be described as associated with the group's religion, these stories should be distinguished. (On a side note I think it is also important that we distinguish between the stories of the ancient Greek religion and any stories the modern Greek Orthodox religion has.) -- SimonP :Well, the same thing could be said about some of the stories of the Bible, that they are cultural rather than religion. As to the distinction between Greek Orthodox religion and Greek religion, I think thats a fair criticism -- maybe we should rename it to :The stories of the ancient Greek religion to avoid confusion. But the thing I don't like is Ed Poor labelling all my changes as vandalism, and seeking to undo them all, without even discussing them first. -- User:SJK ==== What can (or will) this page do? ==== Inevitably I suspect someone will complain that this page will only encourage trolls. However this page has now existed for several days, and I quite like it. It's attention getting, and will quickly recruit a number of people to stem the damage. Even the most diehard troll will give up fairly quickly when their vandalism gets erased by the combined effort of 30+ people. ---- Actually, I'm the person who orignally objected to your naughty person list, and I started this page. :) If everyone starts using this page, I suspect most vandalism will have a total existance time of about 30 seconds. --User:Stephen Gilbert Actually I think they both work - this page won't catch the "insidious" miscreants, the ones who edit only occasionally to try and promote a particlar viewpoint. My page is not realy useful for large-scale vandalism. Agreed. --User:Stephen Gilbert ==== Automatic procedures ==== There is also opposite scenario available: Even the most diehard wikipedians will give up fairly quickly when a single perlscript will start vandaling. --User:Taw OK - Taw, I agree that this page does not solve that problem. So what do we do then? - User:MMGB Give short-term-IP-ban (like 30 minutes) rights to enough people, so that at least one of them is usually on wikipedia. Or rights of turning wikipedia into :War Mode for a short time (this will also work against distributed vandalism attack). During war mode all changes would be enqueued onto :War Mode/Proposed Changes Queue and could be accepted only by selected users. Of course this shouldn't be done unless somebody really attacks us with a perl script. Too much paranoia isn't really good. --User:Taw I like Taw's idea of a short-term-IP-ban facility. There should probably be some restriction to prevent a person using it more than once in any 24-hour period (say), just in case someone decided to misuse it. I was intending to write an anti-vandalism perl script, but never got around to doing it. The idea would be that as soon as a vandal is spotted, the script could be run to undo all his vandalism. --user:Zundark, 2001 Dec 2 Sounds excellent - who's got the coding chops to pull it off? (BTW this discussion about the Short-term ban facility SHOULD be moved to Meta) - User:MMGB Because we're changing software anyway, such thing should be coded into PHPWiki. Try contacting user:Magnus Manske. --User:Taw PHPWiki, I believe, is the name of a different PHP-based Wiki script. This script doesn't really have any name other than "Wikipedia PHP script" or "Magnus Manske's PHP script". --TheCunctator ==== Meta & OBTRUSIVENESS ==== Move this to http://meta.wikipedia.com and then we'd be talking. If my blatherings shouldn't fill up the Recent Changes page, neither should this. It belongs in a separate namespace from the main encyclopedia (thus if not meta, then at least a subpage under Wikipedia. The ALL CAPS TITLE is a little much, too. --TheCunctator I disagree - the purpose of this page is to catch everyone's attention. Hence it belongs on Recent Changes (where we spend a lot more time than on Meta), and needs the ALL CAPS, to stand out. - User:MMGB You're missing the point, C. The page isn't commentary, it's a utility to bring attention to a sustained vandalism attack. The ALL CAPS TITLE fits perfectly with this purpose, and if I could, I'd make the title red too. ;-) --User:Stephen Gilbert Stephen, I'm not missing the point. Meta is for pages ''about'' Wikipedia. It's what ''meta'' means. (I know that some people are restricting it to "unofficial" meta-pages.) This is a meta-page. I understand ''why'' you used the ALL CAPS TITLE, but I think that you should be more polite to people who don't care about this; meta was created so that people who don't want to see discussion on the Recent Changes page don't have to; similarly, the VANDALISM IN PROGRESS announcement, whether you consider it "commentary" or "utility", shouldn't be so obtrusive. Note: I'm not complaining about the idea; I just think it doesn't have to be so loud to work; and if it doesn't ''have'' to be, then it shouldn't be. Please don't tell me that I'm missing the point. --TheCunctator :It's not meant to be an insult, but I'm afraid I still think you're missing the point as far as the meta site is concerned. The meta site is for extended discussion and commentary about Wikipedia, not for all pages that aren't encyclopedia articles. If it were for all non-article pages, all the Talk pages, personal pages, utility pages, FAQs, writing guides, help pages, announcement pages and policy pages would be over at meta.wikipedia.com. :Regarding this page specifically, I'm more than willing to change the name to be less obtrusive
\"Name\" :''What is being done'' :''Why it is vandalism'' :''Disagreements'' *To summarize why I feel that 62.98.136.xxx is a vandal (it has also used 62.98.140.xxx). My view of vandalism is anything that undermines the credibility of the wikipedia. It started with the "Penis Bird" 'joke' including references to it in other pages. Then it moved to dumping old Household cyclopedia articles which tell ways to make break, how to make fertilizer, etc with methods that are long out of date. It then started inserting "Our savior", "Our lord", "Our Christ" references into gospel articles. It then started the whole scientology/Xenu thing (with an apparent agenda). It then started extending inifinite sequences of numbers to multiple lines (like about 20). It even 'translated' Bruno's comment on Talk:Artificial intelligence into french. Any one of the above could be considered a 'joke'. But each individual one added useless (in the form it was put in), outdated, and even potentially damaging information. It has not responded directly to why it does such things even though it obviously sees such questions. In my mind, these actions undermine the credibility and efforts of the serious folks who try to build Wikipedia. When I see a good portion of activity is spent in trying to fix this kind of thing, I (rightly or wrongly) imagine the snickers of a rather immature individual as he leads us all on a wild goose chase. user:Rgamble ** In addition to the above, 62.98.178.xxx/62.98.140.xxx/62.98.136.xxx has now chosen to replace the entire "Sexism" article with the entire "Diatribe against the fundamental Sexism of our society" from meta.wikipedia.com. (Naturally, it was immediately reverted - LDC and I hit it at almost the same moment. :) This is part of a larger pattern of behavior that has lasted a couple of weeks now, starting with dumps of articles from the "Household Cyclopedia" (see Wikipedia utilities/Pages needing attention, "Pages with outdated material"). The incidents described by Rgamble above, more dumps of useless material from www.publicbookshelf.com (Herotodus and Caesar inserted as modern "history" articles), and now the replacement of a factual article with a ''labeled'' Diatribe to me add up to a pattern of malicious (or invincibly ignorant) behavior that calls for an IP ban. user:-- April ***Agreed. Well, I guess it's time to try out the old IP ban function... If it doesn't work, drop a note in wikipedia:Bug reports. (Jimbo can unban an address manually in the database, if need be.) user:Brion VIBBER ** I've certainly got no problem banning vandals (I bumped the "CARROTS" guy on Friday), but this particular one does bring up the interesting case of dynamic IPs. If you do bump him, record exactly which IP you blocked, so we can check that it is temporary (since it's dynamic, it will belong to someone else tomorrow). --LDC *** Right. See wikipedia:Blocked IPs (for some reason I don't see it in the recent changes list. Hmm.) user:Brion VIBBER ---- Moved 24 vs Axel discussion to m:Systemic Bias of Wikipedia, since it has nothing to do with VANDALISM IN PROGRESS.
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;Archives: /\"Hangman\" in Sandbox, /Google-watch, template == Question == Does blocking an IP prevent users from viewing the site at all, or can they simply not edit? -- User:ClockworkSoulUser talk:ClockworkSoul 22:46, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC) :See MediaWiki:Blockedtext for the full version, but the short answer is that people can still read Wikipedia. - not logged in right now... ==This is probably the wrong place, but someone's up to no good (68.185.2.134)== Sorry - trying to get the hang of it (and I didn't yet hit the FAQ). Anyhow, I was just reading about abuse and then tried to check out the Wikibooks site. It was easy enough to figure out that this user - 68.185.2.134 - has been deleting a lot of stuff. Right. Revert, anyone? Thanks. [soc] 19:57, 29 Apr 2005 ==Purpose?== What is the purpose of listing something here? What happens after a listing? User:Maurreen 07:01, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Many administrators have this page bookmarked, so it's a way to draw administrator attention to vandalism so they can take action. I find that a vandalism spree often stops as soon as I post a warning message to the user's talk page, so posting a message on their talk page early is also a good idea.-User:Gadfium 07:51, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Long term alerts section == To reduce the size of this page, I moved the Long term alerts section to a subpage (Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/Long term alerts) and placed a template link to that subpage on the main Vandalism in progress page, in the form
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== Long term alerts == Please see Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/Long term alerts. ==Current alerts== ''Current date is , ; place new alerts on top.'' === June 23, 2005 === === User:Nat Krause === This guy is coping his POV-version into Anarcho-capitalism since days. --User:Alfrem 09:50, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) :Content disputes and edit-warring don't constitute vandalism. Your own complete blanking of the introductory paragraph to the article ''might'', however. User:Dtobias 12:13, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC) :: You tell nonsense. I deleted POV. Everybody knew it. Blanking is then something to what one can agree. --User:Alfrem 12:29, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) :::The above is generally worth ignoring, but I would like to point out for the benefit of anyone who may be confused, that this matter is unrelated to the long-running series of edit wars and POV conflicts on anarchism, anarcho-capitalism, and related pages. - User:Nat KrauseUser_Talk:Nat Krause 13:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:69.179.137.178 ==== Vandalising the Terri Schiavo and Talk:Terri Schiavo pages, and the GameFAQs message boards page. User:Proto 09:00, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:213.249.155.233 ==== Persistent vandal, frequently blocked. Wiped all of Ayodhya article and replaced it with "Hi, it's me, Vishal!". User:Zora 08:50, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:Zell Miller==== Vandalising my user page. Appears to be a sockpuppet of User:WeKnowItsYou. User:-Ril- 07:05, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:24.186.137.160 ==== Vandalising largely conservative politics-related pages [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=24.186.137.160], such as changing "dropped" to "increased," and "fall" to "gain." See also: POV "Hollywood was full of Commie sympathizer" remarks at Joseph McCarthy, and historical "'Jap' wasn't a derogatory name" denial at Franklin Delano Roosevelt. User:Shem DaimwoodUser talk:Shem Daimwood 06:21, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:69.192.103.183 ==== Vandalizing pages, adding obscenities (racist remarks), has begun a flame war at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_warez_groups&action=history Users Gooba/Ted Bunddy also rv'ing pages to vandalized state (same person?). Vandalism includes flames directed at individuals (referring to other people as child pornographers, whores, etc). ==== User:69.248.91.119 ==== Obscene remarks on this article: John Kowal User:69.248.92.200 03:18, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) User:JK1150 :Warned for now. User:Markalexander100User talk:Markalexander100 03:25, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:70.146.5.87 ==== Has been recreating speedy deleted pages, ignored requests to stop, and vandalized my user page. — User:Bcat (User talk:Bcat | Special:Emailuser/Bcat) 03:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:202.154.104.141 ==== Brief but rapid vandalism spree. Blocked. User:Markalexander100User talk:Markalexander100 03:00, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== User:Zell Miller ==== user Zell miller redirected both User:-Ril-'s page and Ril's talk page to point to User:Lir. Suspicion that same user went on earlier using the username "WeKnowItsYou" on various other pages insinuation that Ril == Lir. Someone ban his ass already. thanks :) User:Project2501a 01:44, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ===June 22, 2005=== ====User:TaiwanBot==== * *Vandal pretending it's a bot. Contribs are all replacing occurences of China with Republic of China. User:SchmuckyTheCat 00:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====Asian Tsunami==== Page about Asian Tsunami has been vandalised - can someone please fix it as I can't work out how to revert. Thanks *It looks like the page has been fixed now. For instructions on how to revert a page, you may find the Wikipedia:Revert article helpful. --User:Alan Au 01:23, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====VandaI==== * * Just vandalized User talk:RickK. -- User:Mike Garcia | User talk:Mike Garcia 22:54, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) **Already blocked. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 22:57, 2005 Jun 22 (UTC) ====216.76.218.217==== * * 216.76.218.217 and simlar IP addresses have been repeatedly vandalizing the Talk:Christina Aguilera and related pages. Mostly by removing other people's statements and half-blanking the page. --User:Lbmixpro(Speak_on_it!)">User talk:Lbmixpro 21:56, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====204.110.228.254==== * * mostly talk show hosts and pages of people who revert his vandalism User:Billhpike 22:13, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====WeKnowItsYou==== * *user has just vandalised my user page. User:-Ril- 20:04, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====81.156.211.66==== * *User is spamming articles relating to members of the British RESPECT Unity Coalition political party with links to his own website. Articles affected are Nick Wrack, Lindsey German and George Galloway. Also involved in revert war on Urban75. Hides bad edits under the edit summary "rv vandalism" or similar. - User:Smileyrepublic 19:34, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) *User is now adding obscenity to my personal user page. - User:Smileyrepublic 20:19, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====139.55.48.12==== * * 139.55.48.12 is repeatedly vandalizing the George W. Bush article. --User:Alabamaboy 19:20, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) * 139.55.48.12 responded to the last revert by saying "I AM BACK 2 VANDALISE" [sic] -- User:Nis81 19:25, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====169.199.30.254==== * * 169.199.30.254 is currently vandalising a number of pages, including Korean name , Martin Luther, and Karl Marx. --User:Alabamaboy 17:53, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====63.83.35.3==== * *63.83.35.3 has been vandalizing Justin Hall in small increments. User:Anarchivist — User:Anarchivist | User talk:Anarchivist 17:38, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====213.249.155.237==== * has a history *[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=213.249.155.237] of very many vandalisms and very few legitimate edits. Many are simply pages wholly deleted except for taunt, some others are small personal jeers buried within the article. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 15:43, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====81.180.4.224==== * *81.180.4.224 has put "THE WORST BAND IN THE WORLD" four times into Dream Theater. Has been warned (and is currently on test4). User:Nis81 15:29, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====68.225.171.78==== * *68.225.171.78 keeps putting an erroneous song entry into Electric Cafe ''unsigned comment from 12:43, 22 Jun 2005 by User:Feline1'' ** I have left a note for User:Feline1 asking him/her to discuss it on anon's talk page. User:FreplySpang User talk:FreplySpang 14:18, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====Gabrichidze==== * *Persistently inserting copyvio images to Plato, Mermaid, Geopolitics and other locations, and removing copyvio notices from such images. User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 11:37, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====68.164.69.181==== * *Repeatedly blanked part, or all, of Talk:Pontiac Trans Am. User:JIP — JIP | User talk:JIP 06:58, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ===June 21, 2005=== ====65.1.129.149==== * This individual deleted all the text on Charlotte Bobcats and Website (two pages on the same day), and in both cases he/she posted a link to some ForumOwners message-board. posted by: User:Wayfarer-User talk:Wayfarer, regards reported on: June 22, 2005 at 2:10 GMT ====68.198.14.212==== * *Insists on adding profaine album titles to Ringo Starr discography. Three times today thus far. User:Cburnett 05:30, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ====68.55.66.57==== * *all this bored person has done is vandalise articles :please consider blocking. ====195.144.131.12==== * *Has been vandalising Wikipedia for at least six months (!) and IMHO, has been allowed to get away with it for ''far'' too long, only receiving temporary bans and countless warnings. Many of his edits are often of a racist or homophobic nature. --User:Hn 21:53, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC) ====12.9.33.203==== * *Repeated vandalism over the past month of Justin Hall and, previously, Talk:Justin Hall. Page blanking, vile language, page filled with obscenities, you know the drill. Immediate block requested. Thank you. --User:NightMonkey 21:47, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC) ====134.161.244.202==== * *Reported to me by ghost since I had reverted this a few times. Its edit history suggests its being used by a bot to edit the Creationism article and articles related to it. Immediete block requested. --User:Chanting Fox 20:52, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ** It might not be a bot after all. Ghost may have made that assumption (as I did) based on the edit history... but the IP address traces back to the "University of Northern Iowa," and I have doubts as to whether somebody would be able to run a bot on such an IP without being caught. Still better keep an eye on it though... the edits that were made were POV and/or nonsensical enough to cause edit/revert wars. --User:Chanting Fox 21:02, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====65.66.13.188, 65.66.18.44, 65.70.119.151==== *, , * This user has changed the controversial Benny Hinn article and Alva, Oklahoma article multiple times over the past month, each time adding terms such as "religious nutcase". He has been warned repeatedly at all of the IP talk pages, yet has not showed signs of stopping. Reported by User:Flcelloguy | User talk:Flcelloguy| User:Flcelloguy/Desk 20:49, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==== Bijee ==== Please remove the user User:Bijee or at least talk to him. I have run into him on numerous occasions on articles related to Indian and Chinese history and martial arts history. I have a Ph.D in history and his corrections to the articles are outright fabrications. He has changed the kalaripayattu article multiple times to reflect his point of view (South Indian) and is fabricating history. When asked in the discussion section to back up his history viewpoints he does not reply with any serious remarks. The user has changed articles to my knowledge relating to : tea (states the word is indoaryan), chinese chess (states that it came from chatarunga), acupuncture (states that India had acupuncture), Buddhism (states that it is from India and not Nepal), and kalaripayattu (states that it is the origin of all martial arts and that Bodhidharma was a kalaripayattu practioner who mastered the northern and southern styles in India) . I have run into similar individuals like him in conferences. Usually they are followers of a quasi-political organization called Hindutva and unfortunately are extremely biased in their views of India and its role in history. Kennethtennyson * Here we go again... this appears to be a content dispute, NOT vandalism. Take it up on RFC if its that big a deal. This is NOT the place for resolving this situation. --User:Chanting Fox 21:20, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) : User:Kennethtennyson did many anonymous edits from IP Address User:24.69.255.205, User:68.14.62.73, User:136.142.21.236. He Even did a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buddhism&diff=15548075&oldid=15548029 vulgar post] at Buddhism : On Xiangqi his vandalism was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Xiangqi&diff=15544214&oldid=15535460 first reverted] by author User:Gwalla I only repeated the same. I am not an expert on Tea, Kalaripayattu, Origins of chess or Xiangqi, but when followed his edits I found his edits made a big change in article without any discuss on the Talk pages, so I revered it back. If he is interested in discussion he could do that with other authors on those topics. :One again I dont have any problem in what he changed, but only how he changed, so no issue of content dispute -User:Bijee 23:05, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) I am most emphatically not the IP addresses that you have placed above and I most certainly do not go around placing vulgar comments in articles on Buddhism when I am a practicing buddhist. kennethtennyson ====66.27.52.190==== * *Vandalized The Golden Girls User:Anarchivist — User:Anarchivist | User talk:Anarchivist 19:43, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====212.85.1.1==== * *Repeated vandalism (obscenities) of Somalia article. Lots of previous complaints on talk page. -- User:Gyrofrog User_talk:Gyrofrog 17:41, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====130.207.176.113, 83.131.95.93 and 216.78.98.241==== * * * *Repeated vandalisms of Wanderlei Silva and other Mixed Martial Arts articles --User:Malathion 17:27, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Added 216.78.98.241; also participating in this vandalism User:Anarchivist — User:Anarchivist | User talk:Anarchivist 19:33, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====68.60.166.76==== * *Has vandalized Kevin Pereira four times in the last month by adding false statements that he is a homosexual. Previously used the IP address in which he also vandalized many pages relating to and including G4 (television). User:Salvag 17:20, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====169.229.82.106==== * *Probably nothing, but has been vandalizing UC Berkeley and John Kerry, plus some others. Makes numerous references to someone named "Ben". IP address traces to UC Berkeley. User:Zellin 05:57, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC) *I mentioned what was happening to abuse at berkeley.edu last night, I hope that was an appropriate action - the vandalism from this address appears to have begun again about an hour ago. User:Sirmob 03:26, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====RMS Titanic==== *This page has been the target of a number of attacks on June 19 and June 20. The June 19 attacks came from the IP which is an AOL proxy. Following my tackling this vandalism (including a 24 hour block on this IP) my userpage and a number of pages that I have contributed to have been attacked by a number of different IP addresses—all AOL proxies, and the nature of the vandalism suggesting that it is the same (or a related) user. The most concerted attack came from , an AOL proxy which I also blocked for 24 hours. The June 20 vandalism of RMS Titanic has been of a similar nature and has come from and both of which are AOL proxies, and again editors who reverted the vandalism have had their userpages vandalised from AOL proxies. User:JeremyA 03:20, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====152.163.101.13==== * *Repeatedly has vandalized User:MechBrowman, six times this past weekend. User:MechBrowman 02:07, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC) ====Jake007==== * Brand new account, , single edit so far, states he wants to "do some more mischief and mayhem on your nice little project". [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:RickK&curid=1146475&diff=0&oldid=0 RickK's talk page] * I saw that threat when I went to RickK's talk page. Just as I'm coming back, he's leaving. If this clown is responsible for putting Rick over the edge based on both his past behavior and current rash of edits, this account should be blocked for good. Damn the luck, anyway. - User:Lucky 6.9 04:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ::Based on user's current behaviour, request they be set on fire, launched into space, or permanently banned at the discretion of the admin. User:SockatumeUser talk: Sockatume 08:21, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====212.56.128.186==== * *Obscenity in most sites, especially poltical related sites. This appears to be a schoolboy who is making foal play because the comment's also appeared on article by his school. Immediate attention required. ===June 20, 2005=== ====129.44.238.198==== * * User persists in creating articles about his teachers. Every one has been placed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Bob Burns. He has been asked multiple times to stop. --User:Xcali 21:22, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) ====Lothar==== The entry Lothar was vandalized: I was reading a section about the agreement of Strassbourg and when I clicked on the link for Lothar I got this: :''For other uses of this name, see Lothair'' Lothar is a fictional robot in the Metabarons universe. He is presented firstly being in service of the Metabaron (the Nameless), who asks Tonto to narrate to him of his master's history. Tonto who has been served the Metabarons for decades, unlike Lothar who is relatively new in the Metabaron's ownership, tells the saga to him, being thus the main narrator of the comic book series. During the main story (outside of the narative), Lothar loses his body and a new one is constructed for him. It is revealed in the process that he in fact is Steelhead, the Metabaron's grandfather, who returned to reclaim his office. The Metabaron however managed to erase his memory and transform him into a robot, serving him. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>What has this got to do with the Franks?!!! *