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Current alerts

User:Dyzml

• (User:Dyzml | talk | contributions)

• Vandalizing various articles, starting with Titan (moon).

User:RïckK

• Pretending to be User:RickK (identical name except for umlaut over i, identical user page), this person has attempted to stir up a fight with User:Nunh-huh, then created a nonsense redirect (Barbara Simpson) which was speedily deleted, then vandalised United States. —Stormie 03:34, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • He's blocked x 24 hrs. - Nunh-huh 03:41, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • This is a returning vandal - the same methodology was used several days ago. User was permanantly banned then - should be permanantly banned here as well. Snowspinner 05:41, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
      • Perma-blocked. →Raul654 05:47, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

User:Himself.

• (User:Himself. | talk | contributions)

Vandalised several pages, including Wikipedia:Dealing with vandalism and Wikipedia:help. Tom- 10:21, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

203.51.137.167

• (User:203.51.137.167 | talk | contributions)

-- Burgundavia 05:35, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC) - mainly on Greek mythology

User:12.203.213.190

Vandalism of several pages. RickK 01:53, Jun 6, 2004 (UTC)

User:4.228.213.*, User:4.228.90.*, User:4.227.175.*

This user has been repeatedly adding an off-topic paragraph to Anti-American sentiment, and before that was making other contested edits as well. I would ordinarily consider this to be a dispute over content, but he's taken to "disguising" his edits with misleading edit summaries or by immediately making "legitimate" edits afterward to make reversion more difficult. Also changes IPs after every edit and won't respond on the article's talk page. Seems to have an anti-Canadian and anti-immigration agenda. Bryan 01:13, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

User creating actor substubs

known as:

• User:69.37.75.93 User talk:69.37.75.93 contributions
• User:64.252.89.86 User talk:64.252.89.86 special:contributions/64.252.89.86
• User:64.252.51.173 User talk:64.252.51.173 special:contributions/64.252.51.173

and probably others refuses to answer several messages to his page, keeps creating pages regardless. Modus operandi the same. He's also using an anon IP roaming address. Not deliberate vandalism, just a pain. Dunc_Harris|☺ 21:52, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC). Move to speedy delete articles?

Could it be a bot? The substubs all seem to be the same. These aren't normally candidates for speedy deletion, but if he refuses to be talk to, that may be what we should do. Guanaco 21:58, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The edits seem to be too slow to be a bot. Guanaco 21:59, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I think this user may have acquired a username as user:TheCustomOfLife user talk:TheCustomOfLife, special:contributions/TheCustomOfLife. thank whatsit for that. Creating a lot of new pages. Trying to talk to him/her... Dunc_Harris|☺ 22:20, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

User:TheCustomOfLife denies that he/she was the substub author, sorry for the misidentification. Dunc_Harris|☺ 22:36, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

User:205.188.116.*

This is likely Michael and the same as below. IPs include User:205.188.116.75 and User:205.188.116.7. Guanaco 20:19, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

User:64.12.116.*

IPs used include User:64.12.116.195, User:64.12.116.77, User:64.12.116.141, User:64.12.116.82, User:64.12.116.8, User:64.12.116.11, User:64.12.116.69, User:64.12.116.65, User:64.12.116.19, User:64.12.116.6, User:64.12.116.9, and User:64.12.116.15. User has been adding tags such as Category:1988 albums to articles. Frequently adding two or more tags to one article, and tags are frequently wrong. Is, obviously, moving over multiple IPs so as to make it as difficult as possible to track and rollback. Snowspinner 16:19, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)

User:12.155.100.99

• (User:12.155.100.99 | talk | contributions)

-- vandalizing Nick Berg article. Conti 12:20, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

User:211.28.81.109

• (User:211.28.81.109 | talk | contributions)

-- Repeatedly vandalizing Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom over several days. RickK 06:26, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)

User:Magicpop

• Contribs I am concerned that this may be a vandal. I am especially troubled by this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion&diff=3939542&oldid=3939515. His other edits are now suspect, such as the edits to Dwight D. Eisenhower. - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:56, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • He also put fake licensing information about an image: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=People_to_People_Student_Ambassador_Program&diff=0&oldid=3879962 . ? - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 21:19, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

User:203.195.216.114

• Contribs - Vandalizing Several articles, including Wikipedia- plugging his own site - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 18:32, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

User:81.2.113.149

• Contribs - Vandalizing Bush article - He may be a "wanker" or not but we don't need graffiti. - Tεxτurε 18:26, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

User:209.162.224.62 User:209.162.235.146

• 209.162.224.62
• 209.162.235.146

-- 80.177.236.68 12:37, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC) (added by mwsealey)

Is inserting libellous statements to Pegasos entry about company and management, due to petty grudge. Not NPOV.

User:Editing Saddam Hussein

Anon User:63.230.159.235, now known as "User:Editing Saddam Hussein" is causing trouble at Saddam Hussein (see [1]) 172 04:08, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I warned him on his talk page. See User talk:Editing Saddam Hussein. Is the quickpoll policy still in effect, or did that expire? Guanaco 04:16, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Officially, I still think it's a policy. But quickpolls just seem really unpopular now. 172 04:21, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

It appears that User:219.88.160.45 is the same user as this - tried to claim that this user was Wik, and impersonated RickK to do it. I'd really like a dev to check this IP and 63.230.159.235 against the IPs recently used by Plato. Snowspinner 05:42, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

This user is potentially a sockpuppet of User:Plato. Shortly after Plato/Comrade Nick declared in IRC that he was setting the Red Faction against my nomination for admin status, this vote came in, and he noted that one of his "comrades" had voted against me. Someone with the ability to might want to check if Plato/Comrade Nick's edits come from the same IP. Snowspinner 04:33, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

Could this be the person that was doing the "I'M SNOWSPINNER.I AM GAY" vandalism? Guanaco 04:47, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Tough to tell. Can we get a dev to look into whether Plato has logged in from this IP today? Once we know that, it might be worth checking if Plato's logged in from any of the IPs that did that vandalism earlier. Snowspinner 04:55, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

deleting impersonator's false accusations RickK 05:49, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

If it's Wik, then it's extremely likely that Plato/ComradeNick is a Wik sockpuppet, as argued above. The IP in question has also been putting up edits on Plato's Red Faction page, and has generally been used as an IP for the past two days for RF "business". Snowspinner 05:04, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

Wait a minute. You're not RickK. In fact, you're probably the same person as Editing Saddam Hussein. Snowspinner 05:37, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

I blocked User:Editing Saddam Hussein for 24 hours. Guanaco 05:06, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• He has returned as User:Editing Saddam Hussein1. I blocked him. RickK 18:09, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

I also blocked User:Sad Ham indefinitely. Guanaco 05:11, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

195.116.244.114, 195.116.244.141, 195.116.244.129

Three times in three weeks the same inappropriate, malicious link has been added to KaZaA. The three IPs listed are responsible for the edits. Clearly the same person. Does anyone know if that range is safe to block (i.e. doesn't belong to a large institution)?

• (User:195.116.244.114 | talk | contributions)

• (User:195.116.244.141 | talk | contributions)

• (User:195.116.244.129 | talk | contributions)

-- SWAdair | Talk 03:28, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

It's something called m-ar.cps.pl, in Poland. Don't know what sort of institution that is. RickK 18:15, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

User:203.134.87.144

• (User:203.134.87.144 | talk | contributions)

Continued to re-add his web site spam to articles after they were removed. - blocked for 24 hours. - Tεxτurε 22:23, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

User:Lulubutterfingers

• (User:Lulubutterfingers | talk | contributions)

Has blanked and replaced with graffiti the following articles on Jun 1st and 3rd: Chocolate, Capron, Oklahoma, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Willow River (Minnesota). Most of these were two days ago and never noticed. I have reverted the vandalism. - Tεxτurε 19:33, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

207.43.175.16

• (User:207.43.175.16 | talk | contributions)

(Possibly other IPs also). Repeatedly replacing Wiki with an advert for his web design business.
-- DrBob 17:59, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

An anon user, 192.115.62.132

Contributions - seems to be adding a link to an online casinos site to tons of articles, most relating to gambling. Cloudy today, with a 90% chance of SPAM. Meelar 15:16, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

167.206.112.85

• (User:167.206.112.85 | talk | contributions)

Adding nonsense and blanking articles Nilmerg 12:21, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

208.51.30.118

• (User: 208.51.30.118 | talk | contributions)

Childishly adding articles such as Shite, Shitebag, Jobby, etc. I've blanked them, if someone would please delete them. Apart from being infantile, they are just dicdefs.
-- Graham 06:53, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

207.216.2.153

• (User:207.216.2.153 | talk | contributions)

Repeated vandalized Mumia Abu-Jamal page. 2 reverts required in 5 minutes. Ongoing.
-- Bk0 22:50, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

24.186.123.225

• (User:24.186.123.225 | talk | contributions) Repeatedly vandalising Harvard University, George Bush, and George Bush Campaign. Other edits are suspect.

-- DropDeadGorgias (talk) 18:56, Jun 1, 2004 (UTC)

24.24.9.78

Deleting the contents of the Equilibrium page, repeatedly. David Remahl 18:47, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

64.247.205.130

• (User:64.247.205.130 | talk | contributions)

Blanking general interest articles (countries mostly) Architeuthis 18:12, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

209.146.26.209

• *(User:209.146.26.209 | talk | contributions) Seems to have a problem with Mayflower Compact
  -- Penfold 14:48, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

80.139.19.145

• (User:80.139.19.145 | talk | contributions)

Has been repeatedly vandalising Nicolaus Copernicus since having a controversial change reverted. Also numerous other IP addresses in the 80.139.n.n range, such as 80.139.19.154, 80.139.0.9, 80.139.16.5, 80.139.13.153 -- Stormie 12:06, Jun 1, 2004 (UTC)

Timwi

• (Timwi | talk | contributions)

Has been removing Toki Pona interwiki links. --Eequor 23:46, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

This is not vandalism. It was decided that there should be no inter-wiki links to controversial languages that have not (yet) shown to have a large enough active user-base to keep a Wikipedia project going. This currently includes Toki Pona and Klingon. See m:Artificial languages for more infomation on this topic. -- BCorr|Брайен 00:18, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Policy changes need to be made public so this sort of thing doesn't happen. I checked en and meta before posting here; neither of them had anything to say on the subject. --Eequor 01:21, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

There is no such policy that languages Timwi doesn't like are not allowed interlanguage links! There was a compromise when Klingon was set up that no links would be made to it. This does not apply to toki pona. Having said that, it's probably not something which should be on this page. WP:RFC would be more appropriate. Angela. 11:27, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

User:205.157.110.11

talk - contribs

Has vandalised Hollywood Jam and others again with fictional (as in patent nonsensical made up ones cartoons. Dunc Harris | Talk 23:18, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

User:172.148.233.138

(talk)

Deliberate deletion of all text from Grudge Match entry. Moriori 21:54, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

• Did the same to Stem cell too, and left the message "It's Satan's work, and you're going to hell! -Kirk Cameron". Definitely needs a rev from an admin. Moriori 00:27, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

24.11.119.33

(contribs | talk)

Blanked Wiki 3 times (once replacing it with GoatseGoatseGoatse...), blanked Damar and removed content from my talk page. Has been warned. Tom- 20:59, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

User:66.2.146.89

talk contribs)

Has just created Why Canada Sucks. Dunc Harris | Talk 12:31, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

• Also Rise of Hitler - copyvio, and others... Dunc Harris | Talk 12:33, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
• Howard Stern, POV edits.
• and The Legacy, copyvio.
• and nonsensical edits to supernatural.

User has been warned, repeatedly. Someone please ban. Dunc Harris | Talk 12:36, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Has he made any vandal edits since i last warned him? I am watching him at the moment. If he makes another vandal edit I'll block him. No need to fret.theresa knott 12:53, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

yep, to George H.W. Bush 31 May Dunc Harris | Talk 11:33, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Nope I don't call that vandalism. Newbies add copyrighted material to articles all the time. I'm going to assume good faith for the moment. theresa knott 19:42, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

User:172.145.2.41 and WikiMD.org

User:172.145.2.41 | talk | contribs

User:172.145.2.41 has added to various medical-related Wikipages an external link to WikiMD.org, A new wiki project for building an open source Medical Encyclopedia. Is this ad-placement considered "vandalism" ? Some of these changes have already been reverted by User:Wyllium, who labelled the changes "minor" and "rv spamlink". PFHLai 00:13, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

It's linkspam. He didn't even link pages with the same subject together, he just linked to the main page of that Wiki all the time (same cut/paste on every article). Plus, he was anonymous, and the only edits he made were the addition of those links to a lot of articles. Wyllium 02:51, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

The Main Page of WikiMD.org looks like our Main_Page (I mean, yesterday's). Would the links be okay if the two organizations are related ? Still advertisements, or not ? -- PFHLai 03:23, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

That Wiki comprises the entire medical field, does that mean we should add that link to every single medical article? Wyllium 03:37, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

IMO, if a Wikipedian is writing a medical-related article in Wikipedia.org and finds a more detailed page at WikiMD.org a good reference, then an external link there would be fine. The links placed by User:172.145.2.41 earlier today looks more like advertisements, which should not be allowed. But, are the two organizations related ? If so, should these links be tolerated ? -- PFHLai 03:59, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

The hell with linking - it's released under the GFDL. If a Wikipedian is writing a medical-related article here and finds a more detailed page at WikiMD.org that's a good reference, they should copy the content and take it over here. Snowspinner 19:33, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Probably unrelated. Similar look just means that they use the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia (yesterday's version). Andris 04:39, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

They're not related, they just use the same software. Wyllium 05:23, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

User:IndigoGenius

User:IndigoGenius has threatened on Template:VfD-Juscerebrielectronici to vandalize both the Italian and the English Wikipedias. Has not performed any vandalism yet, but this is a heads up. RickK 22:45, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

212.219.56.244

User:212.219.56.244 | talk | contribs

Repeatedly blanking copyright problems page, and potentially others (investigating...) Dunc Harris | Talk 11:18, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

In apparent revenge for his copyvio'ed Lancia Y10

It was User:Gazwim logged out. He has uploaded other copyrighted photos [2]. He has also tried to put blame on me. I reverted the page and then he put a personal attack in as response [3]. Krik 12:53, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

Wik

Moved to Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/Wik.

Wow, Wik is so active that he gets his own page? No comment. Rickyrab 19:23, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

Maybe I missed something, but he/she always looked like a normal person. Why the sudden outburst of vandalism? Wyllium 22:54, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

See User talk:UninvitedCompany#Special characters for what Wik has to say about it - the bottom line is that s/me wants Quagga banned and is threatening to attack Wikipedia repeatedly until that happens. It won't, of course, as that would amount to giving in to blackmail. -- ChrisO 08:16, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

User:24.147.18.186

Vandalised several pages today, including Adolf Hitler and United States. Was warned before for vandalism on Jan 28.

User:210.11.188.20

Repeatedly vandalizing and creating joke/junk articles. One such article got changed into a real article and he proceeded to vandalize the real article. Blocked for 24 hours. - Tεxτurε 00:00, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

User:67.161.15.61

I don't know who this is but they have a beef against Wik and keep creating subpages under User:Wik with angry messages. I have blocked this user for 24 hours. - Tεxτurε 22:49, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

211.28.5.96

211.28.5.96 Wax Tablet reported by Scout32 19:46, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

Energybone

• (User:Energybone | talk | contributions)

-- RickK 03:15, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

• • Making personal attacks, threatening to vandalize articles if he doesn't get his way. RickK 03:15, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
  • Energybone's vandalism is getting out of hand. He is blanking articles and replacing them with nonsense such as at September 11, 2001 attacks where he removed the text and replaced it with a claim that it was an insurance fraud by the owners of the twin towers. I warned him that he will be blocked if he continues his vandalism of articles. - Tεxτurε 17:13, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

82.82.140.79

• (User:82.82.140.79 | User talk:82.82.140.79 | contributions) has been attempting to conceal porno links within other links. S/he has done so at Gardening, Economics, and Film.
  -- ~~#~~ (remove #)

194.8.54.248

• (User:194.8.54.248 | talk | contributions)

Appears to be adding incorrect information regarding the birthdates of celebrities. -- Seth Ilys 17:09, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

AnonymousPerson

• User:AnonymousPerson has displayed his password on his page, saying "Password is 'anon', have fun". Which perhaps is an invitation for vandalism. He edited the Zoroastrianism page with a sparse entry that removes a lot of the useful info that was there before. Check this [4] -- KB 16:59, 2004 May 25 (UTC)
  • Their password is no longer "anon". RickK 23:00, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
• This is pretty interesting though - is there any guideline on whether a password should be kept secret? What about role accounts? Why is it more harmful to have anonymous named accounts than ips? Mark Richards 23:06, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
• This is no different than any other security hole announced by a hacker. Close the hole or you will not be able to respond with certainty to any attack. - Tεxτurε 23:12, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
  • Why? There isn't much that a user with an account can do that an anon IP can't, I don't see the vulnerability. Block the IP range if there is vandalism from the account. Mark Richards 23:56, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
• My concern here is that this user follows a very subtle form of Vandalism. He made the article on Zoroasteriansim much shorter with fewer info than it had. Is this deliberate? Is this a new trend? He only did that to that page. So he could only be a new user who does not know the rules. Yet again, why publish the password with "have fun!" as a comment? Giving the password to anyone invites others to misuses it in your name. Why? -- KB 15:21, 2004 May 26 (UTC)

65.64.92.200 (and others)

• (User:65.64.92.200 | talk | contributions)
  

Same user shows up off and on adding fiction to articles (or adding new fictional articles) pertaining to a number of subjects: The Simpsons, Sailor Moon, SpongeBob SquarePants and others. List of characters from The Simpsons seems to be a personal favorite to vandalize of this user; he/she adds fictional fictional characters to the list that look legitimate but aren't. Has been warned many, many times.
-- RADICALBENDER★ 15:44, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

User:Jensu

Shawn Mikula once again, this time contenting himself to edit Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense/The Shawn Mikula Files with headers accusing the page of being defamation of character/slander/libel. These headers are more suited to the talk page, as has been explained to him. Shockingly, this has not stopped him from continually re-updating it, in excess of the three revert rule. Snowspinner 15:25, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Now appears to have adopted the username User:Jimbo Wales and has blanked the page. Dunc Harris | Talk 18:11, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

lol! No, Jimbo is the guy who runs Wikipedia - very, very unlikely that he's Shawn Mikula, since I've seen photos of both. Snowspinner 20:21, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

203.135.0.66

• (User:203.135.0.66 | talk | contributions)

-3 contribs, the latest, just recopied the copy vio text- Burgundavia 07:51, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

66.2.146.153

User deleted Michael Moore, American author and film director and replaced it with bad content.

User:67.15.42.16, User:17.255.240.174

User vandalized Oscar_Goodman deleting text and images, Rearranging text and placing inaccurate or false information. Misterrick 23:42, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
User vandalized Philadelphia, Pennsylvania deleting names under Famous Philadelphians and leaving a comment of Garbage. Misterrick 16:19, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
More Vandalism by 67.15.42.16. This time they re-reverted the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania wikipage and in their comments under 'Page History' they became verbally abusive including using foul language. Can someone please put a temporary ban on this ip address. Misterrick 16:41, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
On 16 May 2004 at 20:15 this person completely erased Oscar Goodman and replaced it with a notice that states "(Wikipedia does not have an article on this topic yet. To start the article, click Edit this page.)" Further they state in their Edit summary that it was an Administrative edit, This person is obviously not a Wiki admin but nothing more then a vandal. Based on their record of vandalism can I suggest that disciplinary action be taken in the form of a permanent ban. Misterrick 21:28, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
More vandalisming by User:67.15.42.16 again on Oscar Goodman. I don't understand why they keep deleting this Wikipedia entry. Misterrick 02:41, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
User:67.15.42.16 has now resorted to making threatening remarks (See User Talk:Misterrick). I am really getting sick and tired of this person, Especially when they curse and make threats. I am on the verge of resigning my Wikipedia account. Misterrick 03:01, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

24 hour block put in place by RickK. Expires at 02:12 UTC, May 20. -- Cyrius|&#9998 02:53, May 19, 2004 (UTC)

Vandalized Oscar Goodman again, This time replacing the text with a picture of a Penis with the words "this is what I think of all of you wikipedia users.". Under Oscar Goodman see Page history, 01:04, 21 May 2004 for an example of this vandal's work. Misterrick 06:27, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

It would seem that User:67.15.42.16 has moved to a different ISP and is now vandalizing under the guise of User:17.255.240.174, As was previously indicated they again removed all of the text in Oscar Goodman and replaced it with a picture of a Penis and the same text as before. I think a special Wikipedia page needs to be established to list this person's vandalisms and suggestions from the Wikipedia community on what exactly should be done. Misterrick 19:36, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

202.156.2.59

• (User:202.156.2.59 | talk |contributions) - This user is vandalizing our featured page, --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:08, 2004 May 22 (UTC)

141.168.112.211

• (User:141.168.112.211 | talk |

contributions)
-- gadfium 07:06, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

212.143.156.94

• (User:212.143.156.94 | talk | contributions)

-- ~~#~~ (remove #)

Looks like pov vandalism in progress. Someone with knowledge of Isael/Palestine situation and without POV, please look into this.

User:193.255.207.252, User: 218.145.25.80

Editing this very page to alter or delete vandalism alerts. [5] - David Gerard 21:18, May 21, 2004 (UTC)

And now joined by 218.145.25.80 and 66.119.34.60. All were prominent on the Shawn Mikula VfD. - David Gerard 21:54, May 21, 2004 (UTC)

I have reasonable suspicion that this user is now User:Jensu, a new user on the 23rd, who has a similar lack of libel and slander laws, and knows things that I think only Mr Mikula would know. He appears to be behaving himself at the moment though, but should be watched. Duncharris 10:48, May 24, 2004 (UTC). Further note: it appears that User:Hephaestos and User:Snowspinner beat me to this deduction. see User_talk:Jensu. Duncharris 10:56, May 24, 2004 (UTC)

User:80.58.34.237

Has defaced numerous articles in the span of several minutes. Apparently has a vendetta against Snowspinner. I do admire his 21-vandalizations-a-minute - pace a bit, though. --Kizor 15:36, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

User:200.69.192.49 and User:199.72.233.250 have also done this. Can an admin please rollback these edits to delete the comment text visible in these pages history?? --Starx 19:04, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

User:168.190.200.34 vandalising various. Poss ...33 too? (William M. Connolley 12:22, 2004 May 21 (UTC)).

64.110.74.244 is at it posting the same "gay" text we just saw. --Juuitchan

This user has also been targetting Starx. I suspect it to be Shawn Mikula, therefore, since Starx and I were the two people involved in arguing with his idiocy prior to deleting his undeletion request. Snowspinner 20:36, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

User:204.95.209.84

Blanking lots of page, replacing with profanity vandalism. Squash with as much haste as can be managed. Snowspinner 19:39, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Blocked for 24 hours due to persistent vandalism. -- Seth Ilys 19:48, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

My friend did not use profanity. Really. Honest. (Added by User:65.29.156.92)

128.220.29.140

This user has been repeatedly recreating Shawn Mikula despite the VfD vote that deleted it and warnings not to recreate the article. I have blocked User:128.220.29.140 for 24 hours after I and others have been unable to stop him from recreating his self-named article and creating links to it from other articles that have no relation. - Tεxτurε 17:09, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

The effort continues under other IPs. Rather than block IP after IP I have protected an empty verion of Shawn Mikula. - Tεxτurε 17:10, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Texture, unless you have evidence implicating Shawn Mikula in these activities, then what you posted above amounts to slander, which is illegal. Just thought you should know. 193.255.207.252 20:40, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

"Who's your lawyer?" "193.255.207.252, that's who!" "What a strange name. Is it American?" - David Gerard 21:20, May 21, 2004 (UTC)

User:216.56.27.130

Vandalizing two JFK articles despite warnings. Blocked for 24 hours. - Tεxτurε 16:48, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

===User:12.37.189.90=== is having a fine old time it seems, but perhaps someone should send him to bed? Kurohone 01:54, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

User:81.152.53.247 and User:213.228.213.160

Blanking articles. Have been blocked. Seem to have a common M.O. RickK 22:51, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

User:81.137.77.250

Adding nonsense to Elvis Presley and 4 other pages, most of that in the last hour, one page 10 hours ago. Appears to be gone now and I reverted everything but it might be worth to check contributions [6] by this IP later, in case if he returns again. Andris 15:25, May 19, 2004 (UTC)

24.118.242.230

This user created nonsense. --Lst27 23:31, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

24.229.216.128

• (User:24.229.216.128 | talk | contributions)

Vandalized 10 pages from 80 to 50 minutes ago, replacing text with similar-looking or sounding text. On a Class B network: "PENTELEDATA INC. - CABLE" --NealMcB 18:52, 2004 May 18 (UTC)

212.85.7.12

• (User:212.85.7.12 | talk | contributions)

Has recently vandalized Thomas Bayes and Talk:Thomas Bayes, replacing the text of the pages with a nonsense phrase in each case. Hasn't touched any other articles yet. I'll go revert those articles. FWIW, Wile E. Heresiarch 13:30, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

209.23.32.130

• (User:209.23.32.130 | talk | contributions)

Vandalized 5 pages in the past 15 minutes, but may have moved on now. -- UtherSRG 13:01, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

User:218.185.69.66

Slow vandal hit Clock today, already warned by Raul654; whois placed at User talk:218.185.69.66. -Wikibob | Talk 09:11, 2004 May 18 (UTC)

User:68.160.9.246

Has been having a bit of a busy night. Began with insertion of test edits on to articles, moved on to making edits attacking other contributers to Catholic, is now repeatedly editing Marriage to eliminate any mentions of same-sex marriage, referring to the term as "orwellian newspeak" in the text of the article. Snowspinner 04:08, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Blocked for 24 hours. RickK 04:14, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

User:66.20.28.21

• (User:66.20.28.21 | talk | contributions)

Was vandalizing so many pages so quickly that we were having trouble keeping up with him. Blocked for 24 hours. See contributions. - Tεxτurε 00:16, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

• • It really seemed like more than one person, unless they were just reverting to earlier versions of articles. Some of the material was not only well-written, but worth keeping, but then some of it was illiterate. RickK 00:18, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
    • Everything from May 17 appeared to have the same style and theme. Here's an example:

      Douglas Feith, Defense Undersecretary for Policy. (Described by General Tommy Franks as the "fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth" according to Bob Woodward in Plan of Attack page 281.)

    • He was moving at such a fast rate making smacks at everyone on his list that I'm sure this is a returning grudge of some kind. - Tεxτurε 00:20, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
      • But see his "contributions" at Eisenhower and German POWs, which are enitrely different in grammar and spelling. RickK 00:24, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
        • Like "Patriotic apologetics for Eisenhower"? He had a clear agenda. I never said he wasn't able to write. - Tεxτurε 00:34, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

129.188.33.221

• (User:129.188.33.221 | talk | contributions)

Has vandalised affirmative action several times with offensive NPOV material Gwimpey 23:21, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

User:Stargate fan 14

added nonsense stuff to Star Wars Episode III, Stargate, Harry Potter and Cat. I reverted the vandalism. Conti 19:00, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

146.95.224.173

Special:contributions/146.95.224.173)

has just deleted most of Minoan civilization and added the comment "yoyoyoyo. you smeell" . Have restored to last good edit. Lumos3 12:46, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

194.207.237.27

is active in Simple for the last half an hour deleting, putting in obscenity etc. I have reverted the main page but please can someone block them--I cannot (as far as I know) delete abusive new pages "arse" "newspaper" "Daily Mirror" etc BozMo 11:24, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

===User:Serps=== a.k.a: User:195.92.194.12

Has vandalized multiple wikipedia pages (see also [7] )with links to his website, to try to win the nigritude ultramarine SEO challenge (the objective of which is to subvert google). Kim Bruning 22:42, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

User:209.222.212.42

Persistantly adding stupid comments to pages recently. Deus Ex 17:32, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

User [[8]]

Persistant and repeated vandalism of Chen Shui-bian. Changes text to:

"Abian" -- president in Taiwan who cheated all the way thru his ministry as well as on winning his 2nd presidential election with forging a fake assassination (the so called "bulletgate" scandal) the day before polling day. "Abian" has then become a common usage in everyday language, such as, verb: do not "abian" on your test, otherwise the score will not be recorded; noun: my goodness, you shoe is so "abian", it makes me sick!; adjective: "abian" on you! ("abian" is used to subsitute the word "same".)

and replaces the portrait with Image:20031229 domnocn 192959.jpg which is a picture of Hitler.

User:81.101.230.21

User created page after page of nonsense articles. Blocked user for 24 hours. - Tεxτurε 21:23, 16 May 2004 (UTC) THAT'S RIGHT

User:66.119.34.57, User:66.119.34.60, User:66.119.34.59, User:66.119.34.58

Listing massive amounts of articles on Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion in a fit of pique because his Shawn Mikula article is being voted against. RickK

Logging in and out rapidly and adding VfD tags on all the articles he listed on VfD. All say "delete vanity" and are famous individuals. - Tεxτurε 20:25, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

Is using the above IP's as sockpuppets for casting additional votes in MediaWiki talk:VfD-Shawn Mikula as well as using IP's 128.220.29.140, 70.16.2.172, 66.162.147.1, possibly 218.145.25.80, possibly 193.255.207.252, 62.168.43.84, 200.73.172.196, 68.162.212.205, 80.58.33.172, 208.183.105.4; and usernames Mikula, Janus san, Kanjiish, Shawn314, and Rajesh918. All of the preceeding have edit histories that reflect their status as an obvious sockpuppet, additional edits beyond the Mikula issue are (with few exceptions) vandalism. In addition all of the above approach the debate with a single mind, revising comments made by another, following one line of debate with serveral IP's, etc. When (if) the Mikula vanity page is deleted I would not be surprised if it appears again quickly authored by one of those IP's. User does not care about the vfd process, only wants to preserve his vanity. --Starx 16:07, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Sometimes I have one of these IPs, though I've never vandalized a page (logged in or otherwise) nor made any spurious VfD votes. I think that has to do with the Marketscore proxy server; I have one of the offending IP addresses this very minute (at least occuring to Wikipedia when I tried to post to User_talk:Furrykef) while using MSIE, but I switched from MSIE to Mozilla FireFox and can post, as I'm doing now. I've been trying to get rid of this Marketscore thing for ages but so far nothing has worked...I've done the uninstall thing many times, I've done AdAware, I've changed MSIE's proxy settings, and I've even tried registry hacking to no avail. --Furrykef 04:31, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

User:Bluelion

• User:Bluelion is moving city pages to non-standard names to prove some ridiculous point. RickK 00:28, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

magazinesfinder.com spammer 67.71.87.220 (prev 69.156.14.249)

Has been hitting Current events and past Current Events pages. There may be other IPs on pages I'm not watching. The spam is always for http://www.magazinesfinder.com (Magazine Subscriptions).

81.86.186.31

Vandalises Rikardos and TomD666 articles and removes msg:delete from them. Betelgeuse 13:29, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

204.249.125.199

Replacing all text in articles with junk text. Had slipped three by before I noticed him and reverted. Final warning just given. Meelar 19:17, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

This looks like 64.247.205.130 (below) who I blocked before he started on the articles you saw. Same MO. - Tεxτurε 21:11, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

64.247.205.130

• (User:64.247.205.130 | talk | contributions)

User going from article to article blanking and replacing with junk. Every variation on "feces". Banned IP for 24 hours. - Tεxτurε 18:33, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

162.84.159.98

• (User:162.84.159.98 | talk | contributions)

Created nonsense articles at Danish monarchy and Nepalese monarchy -- both deleted. Vandalism warning issued. -- Arwel 16:32, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

68.232.36.61

• (User:68.232.36.61 | talk | contributions)

Has vandalised Ligonier, Pennsylvania 12 times so far.. also some vandalism done to that page from other IP addresses in the same block. -- Stormie 02:08, May 14, 2004 (UTC)

User:65.110.141.29

• Classic RISC pipeline
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Sex in science fiction
• The vandal has promised to stop now; bless. He or she was inserting links to an offensive website. (well, unless you like scatology, in which case it would not be in the least offensive :) --Tagishsimon

198.70.42.52

Seems to have spent the last 20 minutes messing up Bataan Death March. - Tobin Richard 13:26, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

213.249.155.235

Has graffited various pages in the last couple months and blanked out the community portal page (now reverted) an hour or two ago. ( contributions ) --DomCleal 12:42, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

User:Oklonia

Every posting has been vandalism or nonsense which has been reverted or deleted. RickK 04:14, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

I must say that I sincerely sorry for my vandalism, and having everybody put up with my immaturity. I'm sorry if I caused you any trouble, and apologize for any inconvenience, and I'm not just saying this. From now on, I'll only add meaningful things.

                                      Oklonia

User:Cosmic disaster - 7, User:Cosmic disaster - 8 et al

This user is continually, and under different accounts, moving Wik's User Page. --Cantus 19:38, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

This user appears to be opening accounts in sequence - I've also found User:Cosmic disaster - 3, User:Cosmic disaster - 4, User:Cosmic disaster - 9, and there are probably more but it's too pathetic to waste too much time looking for them all. -- ChrisO 19:45, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Actually my user page and my user talk are his favourite target, since I protected Joschka Fischer which he apparently insists to be at Joschka Fischers official name - after about 10 reversions back-and-forth of his moving by copy-and-paste and attempt to make him discuss the topic, but instead of discussions he went haywire. I worry we have to block a whole IP range to get rid of this maniac. andy 19:46, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

User:Catastrophe cosmique has again moved Wik's User page. It seems to be the same person. --Cantus 20:01, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Notice of forthcoming vandalism

I know it's a little unusual to address vandalism before it happens, but bear with me. ;-)

The following articles are likely to be vandalised tonight and subsequent nights between approximately 2200-0200 UTC:

• Alarodian languages
• Caucasian
• Culture of Georgia
• Hurrians
• Hurro-Urartian languages
• Iberian-Caucasian languages
• Laz language
• Megrelian language
• Nino Burjanadze
• South Caucasian languages
• Svan language
• Zviad Gamsakhurdia

(Added Culture of Georgia -- ChrisO 22:11, 13 May 2004 (UTC) )

The vandalism will occur from anonymous proxies at 213.157.209.*, 213.157.202.* and 213.157.194.*. This is the former User:Levzur (contribs / talk), who has resigned his account ahead of an Arbitration Committee decision and embarked on a series of daily reversion wars. His motives are unclear, but appear to be a combination of imposing nationalist POVs and preventing anyone else from editing the articles. Users and sysops are requested to watch the pages in question and take action as necessary. Blocking individual IP addresses will be ineffective, as he is using multiple proxies across his ISP's three /24s. -- ChrisO 19:16, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

• Indeed, this happened. And beyond that, it went for hours before anyone got to it. Which is just depressing. I mean, come on. We had prior warning that this was going to happen, and we... didn't fix it. Yay. Can the AC at least get together and rehear this? Please? Snowspinner 02:20, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
  • I see that RickK has blocked 213.157.209.0/24 until 20 May to choke off the vandalism from that /24 at least. Levzur will probably return tonight from one of his ISP's other /24s. But I agree, the AC really needs to get on with this - it's been going on for far too long and it isn't exactly a complex issue to deal with. If those /24s need to be blocked it's better for the AC to approve this in advance, rather than sysops having to impose blocks as they go along. -- ChrisO 07:33, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Today's attack from Levzur is now underway. -- ChrisO 21:53, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

• I'm disappointed to see that some admins have responded by protecting all of the articles on the list above. This is simply not a viable solution. Levzur has been at this in one form or another since December. He is simply trying to make us give up and go away. Zviad Gamsakhurdia, for instance, has already been protected at least six times over the past few months and Levzur has resumed attacking it within hours or days at the most after protection is lifted. Protection will achieve nothing except blocking anyone from editing the articles, which is apparently his aim - he does not debate or discuss his edits except to insist that he is right and everyone else is wrong (that is, when he bothers to explain his edits at all; he's not done this for some time). We can't leave articles protected indefinitely, which is what would be necessary if we were solely reliant on protection. In my view, blocking his IP addresses is the only solution to this persistent vandalism. -- ChrisO 22:03, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

User:212.219.92.98

This fellow is back and is (again) vandalizing sites repeatedly. An Adim warned him a month ago. Is it time to act? [[PaulinSaudi 10:49, 12 May 2004 (UTC)]]

User:66.185.84.80

This is still a problem user. Has begun updating articles with links to [www.benbest.com], which is in no way a noteworthy site. There's a long pattern of behavior here. Can someone please put a stop to it? Snowspinner 05:05, 17 May 2004 (UTC) Has been making troll/anti-Semitic edits to Whites, Heteronormativity, Jews, and Zionism. Has been abusive in his comments, suggesting a general vendetta aganst me. Violated three revert rule on Zionism with four attempts to add a link to Bias into the article. Snowspinner 06:49, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

• He has also violated Wikipedia:No Personal Attacks - c.f. "I had also become accustomed to your ravings containing one to two lies per sentence." from further down in this discussion.
• Has continued personal attacks into today - c.f. Talk:Caucasian race, specifically "you unfortunately being highly biased against White people and all" towards the bottom of the page.

I have not "continued" anything "into today." You being biased was highly relevant to the topic at hand. Also, you have admitted your bias against White people on several pages, so this is like a person saying to a child that he/she is a "young one." Specifically, you proved your bias against White people by saying that anti-White sentiment didn't exist whatsoever. Your trolling display is tiring, to say the least, Snowspinner. - 66.185.84.80

You are lying, mister.

1. I have not made any trolling or anti-semitic edits. I am trying to preserve objectivity and fairness, and you, with your clear bias for your people (as can be expected, but does not belong on Wikipedia), will not have any of that.

I'm sorry, who do you think my people are? Snowspinner 07:03, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

2. I do not have a vendetta against you, stop thinking so highly of yourself. I am watching the Recent Changes page and you happen to be involved in a lot of the POV edits while I have been on the last two hours or so.

"We are several people here who don't appreciate your bias. Stop attacking articles, Snowspinner." - You, editing Heteronormativity

3. Where do I flatly lie? You flatly lie yourself, even in this very complaint. For example, in addition to previously pointed out lies,

4. I have not said anywhere that Bias is references Zionism. I said that because you disallow that article to be NPOV, the article is relevant to Bias. Therefore I added the Bias link to the Relevant Articles section under the article itself.

I confess on this one. I misread one of your edit comments as saying that Bias links back into Zionism. My apologies. I retract that section of my complaint. Snowspinner 07:03, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for playing, but truth is not so easily obscurated.

Indeed, one need only consult the edit history on the pages. Snowspinner 07:03, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

5. Also, you accused me of breaking the three-revert rule, when you have done the exact same thing. Consult the history pages. Luckily you are unable to fold your black wings of bias over them.

As I have said, my actions were not a violation of the three revert rule - I reverted two unrelated edits of yours - one three times, one two. That said, if you feel my actions are vandalism, you may feel free to list me on this page, and we'll see how it plays out. Snowspinner 07:23, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Now you are blatantly lying again.

EVIDENCE OF LIE - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Zionism&action=history

• 06:16, 12 May 2004 . . Snowspinner (Well, if anti-white sentiment exists (As you claim it does), NPOV demands that an article on it exist as well. And if it's relevent to a topic, as anti-semitism is to this, sense demands linking.)
• 06:09, 12 May 2004 . . Snowspinner (Because no article on anti-white sentiment, europhobia, or anything else exists that I can find, I imagine.)
• 06:03, 12 May 2004 . . Snowspinner (Considering the usage of "Zionism" by anti-Semitic groups, I think a link to the article on anti-Semitism is reasonable. The articles are on related subjects - this is enough to justify a see also.)

These three reverts are in sequence, and about the same thing, namely whether Zionism should contain links to Anti-Semitism when White nationalism does not have any such sympathetic links. So, I have uncovered yet another lie by you.

- 66.185.84.80

Which would be relevent, if it weren't for the fact that the rule is against more than three reversions. Regardless, my revert history is immaterial here - if you want to accuse me of vandalism, do so. But whether or not I have broken rules does not affect whether you have. Snowspinner 07:38, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

I am sorry, that was a mistake of mine then. Entirely mine, indeed, and I read your post all too quickly. See? I can admit to my mistakes. Can you?

Again, excuse my false accusation. I am new to Wikipedia and its rules, and I had also become accustomed to your ravings containing one to two lies per sentence. - 66.185.84.80

Mr. 66.185.84.80, might I suggest that you explain your edits on the relevant talk pages rather than simply making them again and again when people revert them? I see a lot of edit warring on controversial pages going on, but virtually nothing posted to any Talk pages by you. Just a thought - might make people less quick to shout "vandal". --Stormie 07:04, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

Won't take no for an answer on zionism no matter what reality says. His motives are rather suspicious and he is clearly trolling the page. GrazingshipIV 06:59, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

Exactly which reality says that the zionism article is not related to bias? Your personal reality of emotionally motivated opinions? If anybody's motives are suspicious it is the people who blatantly refuse to have the same standards of objectivity in politically correct and politically incorrect articlees just because they feel like it. Also, you just violated the personal attacks rule Snowspinner is on about. - 66.185.84.80

I fail to see any personal attack in GrazingshipIV's post there - he said you were trolling. This is a judgment of action, not of character. By the same token, am I violating personal attacks by listing you as vandalizing pages? Snowspinner 21:46, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Wasn't Paul Vogel banned from posting to Wikipedia? Why, then, is this address still posting here? RickK 14:07, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

I am not Paul Vogel, I don't even know who he is. Before a week ago, I rarely ever visited Wikipedia beyond random reads on topics of interest during surfing. I think it shows bad judgement of Bcorr to ban me for unfounded suspicions of being another user, and right as I was in the middle of a debate too. I demand an apology, and I'd like to warn you all against the injustice of spreading malicious rumours that aren't even founded. - 66.185.84.80

This is clearly Paul Vogel using a new tactic to make the same changes to the same pages with the same extremist comments. The chances of two people using the same IP with the same exact views on the same articles is improbable. The only other possibility is that Paul has put someone on his own account to harrass as his proxy. Either way I see this as an attempt to circumvent the ban and continue his crusade. This IP needs to be blocked for attempting to get around the ban. - Tεxτurε 18:50, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

No, nothing is clear here, and I still don't know - much less *is* - Paul Vogel. Tell me exactly what has transcribed, beyond downright 1984 censorship. Where did he do edits with my IP? My contributions page shows only my work this latest week. Before that (its an old IP) some assorted people with the same IP has edited at various times in various topics of no interest to me. - 66.185.84.80

Also, what "extremist" comments would that be? The kind that doesn't exist, but looks nice on a complaint? I dare you to show us these "extremist comments," liar. If you think it is extremist to make note that racism is also commited against Whites, then I am afraid that you are biased against Whites and give different treatment based on race - a racist in other words. - 66.185.84.80

Although I think this user should be banned, I am not sure why we think it's PV. Vogel has never used IPs beginning in 66.185 so far as I can tell from User:Paul Vogel. Indeed, he appears to be in New York, not in Canada. Where am I missing evidence that Vogel ever used this IP or ISP? Snowspinner 20:11, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

Ah, the heck with it, he's now lying and saying I've admitted to bias against whites, and I don't care anymore. If you want to make him go away because he's Vogel, be my guest. If you want to do so because he engages in personal attacks, all the better. Either way, one less user contribution list I have to regularly check to see what needs reverted. Snowspinner 17:20, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

addition of ext links to own site continues. reversion of such edits is suggested. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=66.185.84.80 Badanedwa 05:57, May 17, 2004 (UTC)

User:24.91.40.11

Creating a series of either false or vanity articles, and seeding Wikipedia with large numbers of links to them. RickK 05:20, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

User:Avala

Has been involved in lengthy edit war on Janez Drnovsek, adding in material that has been fairly conclusively shown to be unnoteworthy. Consensus in the talk page is obviously against these edits, and user has been becoming increasingly abusive in his or her reverts. Furthermore, he or she has begun reverting useful edits along with edits that were simple reverts of his or her posts. Snowspinner 19:48, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

• Edit war is over Milan Kucan as well. Snowspinner 23:56, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

User:24.92.25.45

Wealth of Engrish articles being created. I'm tagging for speedily deletion as fast as I can, and I suggested that, if English is not his first language, he might be better served on a foreign language Wikipedia, but someone with more strength than a normal user could do better than I can. Snowspinner 17:46, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

209.56.250.*

• (User:209.56.250.45 | talk | contributions)

• (User:209.56.250.44 | talk | contributions)

Not much to see at any one IP since they are being deleted quickly. This seems to be one or more users creating quick vandalism. I plan to block the IPs for a day or two if they continue. - Tεxτurε 16:38, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

199.67.138.20

• (User:199.67.138.20 | talk | contributions) - Looks to be a concerted nonsense-creating campaign, cutting & pasting text from job ads into new articles., 14 so far! --Stormie 06:20, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • 21 so far.. can someone block this idiot? --Stormie 06:26, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
    • I do not think ViP is the appropriate place for this - it's very likely that this is a naive new user. Until some more good faith efforts are made to contact the user, they should get the benefit of the doubt. Which does not mean that these articles shouldn't be listed for deletion - they should, and they should be listed en masse. But I'm not willing to call it vandalism yet - it could be naivete. Snowspinner 06:29, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
      • Hmm, I think it is extremely unlikely that this is anything other than wilful vandalism OK, watching his further efforts, I am now willing to concede that this user may be naive (or insane), rather than an active vandal, but what "good faith" efforts can you make with an anonymous user who shows up and creates dozens of nonsense articles? You posted something on his talk page (far more politely than I would have I must say!), he has ignored it - I say block him and see if that makes him slow down and read your message. --Stormie 06:35, May 11, 2004 (UTC)

172.195.239.108

• (User:172.195.239.108 | talk | contributions) - Has been inserting meaningless links to www.dictionarybarn.com into various articles, 4 so far. --Stormie 05:13, May 11, 2004 (UTC)

63.197.115.201

• (User:63.197.115.201 | talk | contributions)

--Repeat offender, most recent action was to blank mesosphere Ellsworth 22:16, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

165.139.171.10

• (User:165.139.171.10 | talk | contributions)

Vandalizing chess, World War II and more.

81.99.250.101

• (User:81.99.250.101 | talk | contributions)

Appears to be a new user who's been messing around with Football (soccer) (a nice inconspicuous article!) and Juggling. Sandbox warning issued -- please keep an eye open on future activities. -- Arwel 22:24, 9 May 2004 (UTC)

68.93.154.150

• (User:68.93.154.150 | talk |

Seems to be continuly vandlizing chess and some other pages.

User:128.235.242.52

Multiple, high-speed vandalism, replacing entire entry text with 'Nice work!' - including Starship Troopers, Tru Calling, User talk:Camembert and many others. -- Michael Warren 17:28, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

User:145.253.2.232

wannabe h4x0R, vandalism in Winny

User:4.16.225.107

Has also vandalised Gunpowder Plot and List of terrorist incidents, also Oklahoma City bombing. Looks related to User:24.1.124.128. --Stormie 04:52, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

They've both been blocked for 24 hours. RickK 04:54, 9 May 2004 (UTC)

User:24.1.124.128

Has vandalised AMIA Bombing, Gunpowder Plot and List of terrorist incidents so far, doesn't look like he's about to stop. --Stormie 04:45, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

User:69.196.28.153

Intent on inserting a very anti-Curtis Joseph POV in Curtis Joseph; ends with a plea for someone to injure said player. I've reverted him 3x today (Contributions). - jredmond 04:02, 9 May 2004 (UTC)

User:68.251.113.43

Adding nonsense to American Idol and Leonardo da Vinci. Andris 00:44, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

User:216.127.82.97

This person committed acts of vandalism to Oscar Goodman by removing a legitimate image and then claiming on Oscar Goodman and Wikipedia:Copyright problems that these were stolen images from a Las Vegas based newspaper. They also maybe using a non-registered username. After careful investigation I found out that this person was making their posts from an Anonymous Web Browsing Service called Guardster.com. I thought AWBS's are a big NO! NO! on Wikipedia? Misterrick 06:57, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

User:68.54.148.47

Vandalism to various articles, including Condoleezza Rice, Sexual Intercourse, Dildo, and Transsexual. Snowspinner 00:49, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

216.239.x.x

Repeated addition of controversial material to Paul Newman and Concordia University without citing respectable sources, as well as various minor vandalisms. -- Kimiko 00:42, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

User:Schadenfreude | talk | contributions

Blanking Five-Year Plan, Joseph Stalin and other pages. Andris 22:00, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

• Vandalism warning issued -- Arwel 22:24, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
• FYI correlation: User:Schroeder & User:SchroedingersCat vandalized the same set of articles yesterday, which I have reported. Also, today Schadenfreude targeted my page. --Humus sapiens|Talk 22:37, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
  • Yes, I'd noticed it was probably the same person, and was trying to annotate your warning when Andris created this entry! The Anome has also issued a warning to this user about abusing other users. -- Arwel 22:40, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

User:66.153.67.173

Vandalizing Lila Kedrova. Andris 21:57, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

User:Hephaestos

User:Hephaestos blanked my user page. pooya 16:42 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Here is the "attack" in question - David Gerard 21:15, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

User:Schroeder

Is on the rampage vandalizing/erasing a series of historical articles: (User:Schroeder | talk | contributions). Left him a msg:tst. --Humus sapiens|Talk 05:53, 7 May 2004 (UTC) Addition: User:SchroedingersCat is focusing his/its vandalism on the same series of articles. --Humus sapiens|Talk 05:57, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Unnamed

Unnamed user seems to have vandalised Bognor Regis probably for the 2nd time. Andycjp

User:64.12.116.83 and other addresses in 62.12.*

Blanking random pages, especially User:Maximus Rex's talk and user pages. Knows that he/she/it is vandalizing (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:64.12.116.83&curid=639693&diff=0&oldid=0). Maybe User:CoolDude from below? Paullusmagnus 02:06, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

213.157.194.83, 213.157.194.115, 213.157.209.203, 213.157.209.217, 213.157.209.234

These IPs have been apparently used by the same person to make similar "corrections" into several pages related to Caucasian languages, e.g. Laz language, Svan language, Megrelian language, South Caucasian languages, Iberian-Caucasian languages, and Caucasian. According to all the sources I have seen the "corrections" are incorrect and misleading, apparently attempts to present a distorted view of the linguistic situation of the Caucasus for political purposes. This person also insist on adding (suspect) ethnic classification comments to articles that are strictly about language.
Unfortunately the person refuses to cite his sources or provide any comment or justification whatsoever.
It is very likely that the person is this user who withdrew from Wikipedia a few days ago after having become the subject of several complaints.
Jorge Stolfi 06:05, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

• Also Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Nino Burjanadze, Hurrians, Hurro-Urartian languages, Languages of the Caucasus and probably others. This is likely to go on indefinitely, unfortunately, given Levzur's track record. He seems to be trying to evade censure and the current arbitration procedings against him. I propose to ban Levzur's anon proxies to force him to edit under his own username. -- ChrisO 17:26, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

User:24.19.6.250

Update: User is back at work in the past few days. Still reverting existant pages to junk pages on Xena characters. Snowspinner 03:40, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

Long history of junk updates about characters who may be minor characters on Xena. Seems to overwrite legitimate mythological entries with them. Possible that updates are not even characters in Xena, but characters from an online RPG - see Template:VfD-Saraphine for discussion and evidence of this. Snowspinner 23:01, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

• I agree...the user has even been contacted numerous times on his talk page, but has persisted without responding or adapting. Postdlf 3:26 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
• Not just mythological entries. See the history of Shasta. RickK 03:36, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
• I'll see if I can make an afternoon of reverting any entries by this user to older forms then. /sigh. And I'd so much rather be talking about Kant or videogames, too. Snowspinner 05:56, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
• I've looked into this a bit further, and after a random sampling, I am reasonably convinced that few of the characters user has added are actually characters in Xena - I feel that all articles contributed by user ought be deleted. Snowspinner 16:02, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • I agree with Snowspinner, except that care must be taken in deleting, to ensure that overwritten valid content is restored. Recent examples, where I restored the former contents, are Beth and Misery. In both cases I left in the Xena content but without trying to verify that the characters are "real" as opposed to coming from a Xena-themed RPG or fanfic. Deleting them all seems reasonable even if a few babies get tossed out with the bathwater. JamesMLane 06:53, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

User:7fex5q2ek

Has vandalized User:Adam Bishop and moved it, and has also vandalized vandalism appropriately enough. Snowspinner 22:29, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

-He/She probably is new to Wikipedia and doesn't know how things work sometimes, so he/she just post messages in articles. If we tell him/her what to do, he/she would probably do the right thing. --Lst27 22:52, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

I would agree, were it not for the moving of Adam's userpage, which suggests both a level of competency and an ignoring of the large warning sign on the Move this page option. Snowspinner 22:54, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

Currently a little ways into a 24-hour block. If user has good intentions, user will be back and be more reasonable about doing things properly. Otherwise user may be blocked again as necessary. - Fennec 23:00, May 5, 2004 (UTC)

68.47.114.230, 68.192.76.120

Someone is assaulting the article on anime, reverting to last reasonable version. - Gwimpey 21:02, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

Same user is attacking Faggot amongst others. Warned once. DJ Clayworth 21:24, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

69.106.5.22, 69.106.200.207, and 69.106.202.69

Has made five reverts to Deconstruction today. Frequently edits own comments on talk pages, making discussion difficult. Has admitted to not being interested in larger context of deconstructive philosophy, and refuses to accept answers to his objections based on it. Snowspinner 20:42, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

216.191.145.196

Sexual graffiti & article defacement on 5 may 2004. This IP was also a vandal on 4 march 2004 (Kiefer Sutherland) --FvdP 18:53, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

129.96.142.16

Habitual vandal, back again. Cribcage 05:30, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

172.186.34.187 and 80.5.160.4

Mounted an attack for me listing Mal ed as a slang dic.def for deletion. Is now attacking my previous articles Diane Chambers and Spangles Is also attacking my previous articles Spangles and Plop! --bodnotbod 17:08, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

Quote: This page is as useful as a chocolate teapot..." I quite like them. But they have to go. --bodnotbod 17:17, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

• See also, histories for skoda,Ryan Giggs, Fallowfield, Withington -- verify accuracy of Alexandre Julliard, feminism et al. contribs. All contributions need to be looked at systematically I feel. This has been going on for weeks. --bodnotbod 17:43, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

User: 24.0.231.214

Has vandalized "Swishahouse" numerous times in a row now. BrandonR 05:53, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

User:24.122.3.194

Guy Andre has already been deleted twice today but this user has come back with it again -- in French.

User:67.71.178.214

Adding links that link back to the commerial (and much reviled in gaming) mysupersales.com page. Sneaky vadalism. Dominick 23:35, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

69.192.223.99

Vandalised Pickering and House of Windsor. I have reverted the articles and placed a note on the User's talk page. Rjstott 08:00, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

User:Ezra

is repeatedly vandalizing Holocaust revisionism with reverts to copyrighted POV material. --Samuel J. Howard 00:32, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

is also vandalizing Holocaust denial and created a POV Holocaust Revision to circumvent protection of Holocaust revisionism--Samuel J. Howard 01:14, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

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