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October 31

148.223.48.226

  • Stupid obscenity vandalizer. Should be taken out and shod. --jpgordon{gab} 19:35, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Just vandalized my user page, too. Sweet. Should be banned. --jpgordon{gab} 20:08, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Blocked for 48 hours (not more because it is probably a static IP). Thue | talk 21:33, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

80.58.6.172

( 80.58.6.172 | talk | contributions) vandalism. Warned on talk page. Ancheta Wis 10:43, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

    • Seems to have gone away after the one incidence of vandalism. Also seems to be a dynamic IP, so not blocked. Thue | talk 21:36, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

219.88.89.133

(219.88.89.133 | talk | contributions) at Mountain bike. Warned on talk page. Ancheta Wis 09:54, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

205.188.116.70

(205.188.116.70 | talk | contributions) at Corn and Martha Stewart. IP has a history of vandalism and user was warned. Gazpacho 04:44, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 30

156.34.172.107

(156.34.172.107 | talk | contributions)

GenMay forums

  • Keep an eye on this thread on General Mayhem. Ever since our article about their forum (at General Mayhem) was protected against various IP users, a few of them have been roaming around hitting various pages such as:
  • Note that some edits are in good faith, but many are just random stupidity. -- Netoholic @ 22:18, 2004 Oct 30 (UTC)

195.93.34.14

Multiple vandalisms -- an AOL account, unfortunately. RickK 21:42, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

172.194.138.48

(172.194.138.48 | talk | contributions) Ancheta Wis 21:23, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

129.177.46.103

Making subtle and bizarre piped links in new and existing articles. Must be stopped and fixed; I'd suggest deleting everything he's done as untrustworthy. See, for example, Brazilianite. --jpgordon{gab} 16:46, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

216.153.214.94

  • Spamming comments around user and user talk pages whenever anyone removes the comments in 9/11-related articles. User has stated that he'll continue to insert the word "terrorist" no matter what happens on Talk:September 11, 2001 attacks and has done so on a few articles. Just needs watching for now, I think, but contributions to contentious issues may need to be reviewed. violet/riga (t) 12:12, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

165.21.154.9

  • Please review contributions. I have reverted the changes to Malay people thank you Ancheta Wis 12:02, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

204.108.65.10

  • The IP is from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD has the entire IP Block at 204.108.65). They seem to be doing mostly minor vandalism to LA area topics, including minor changes to the Crips and Pacific Rim and completely blanking the Long Beach, California article. Some past edits from the IP, however, do look to be valid. gK 03:32, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

24.184.61.149

  • Repeated POV edits regarding Ted Kennedy and allegations surrounding the events at Chappaquiddick Island
  • User 69.194.209.164 has vandalized several pages. Check Recent Changes for Enkyo and before and after. Fg2 02:18, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

October 29

10101

  • A ban is mentioned in the talk page. I just reverted "SEX" in big writing on the template:in the news page. violet/riga (t) 19:56, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Correction: my revert was ignored after user:Decumanus got there first
    • At [1] he indicates he will stop if told so. So just because I am a bit curious I told him I have a problem with his edits at his talk page. Thue | talk 22:09, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

24.69.255.205

  • 8 days after first being listed here (see below), the senseless edits by this user continue. A recent rapid-fire set of rude edits (and reverts) can be seen in the history of Donatella Versace. Other recent damaging edits by the user that needed to be reverted can be found in the history of Homo habilis and Flag of England. There are a few legitimate contributions. But viewing contributions shows the user continuing to make thoughtless edits to articles (sometimes rude, commonly non-encyclopaedic), despite the community quickly and repeatedly removing them. If the user is not witness to this pattern, I would be in favor of blocking this IP to save the rest of us from having to review every edit he or she makes. --Ds13 18:47, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • (previous entry from 21 Oct 2004...)Has been messing with British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Alberta, ICI programming language, Shell script, Fashion, etc. Typically adds a link to one or more vanity or commercial web sites. Sometimes mislabels the offending external link to hide its nature. These links have been removed multiple times by several different users with explanations of "vanity" and "irrelevant commercial link", yet 24.69.255.205 adds them again. 24.69.255.205 is also responsible for a blatant advertisement entry at Preest which is currently under VFD. To be fair, 24.69.255.205 also appears responsible for some legitimate articles and edits amongst the recurring theme of vandalism. IP address originates from Shaw Cable (Canada) and may be dynamic, but user has Wikipedia history for approximately 6 months at that address. --Ds13 00:20, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

69.110.2.94

205.223.222.254

66.119.34.39

  • Vandalized Template:Itn and Template:Dyk by placing an erect penis picture on them. Address resolves as proxys.ia2.marketscore.com. Banned for a week. -- The Anome 10:27, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • Marketscore is an "Internet accelerator" company. They appear to have been used as an anonymizing proxy for this attack. Should we treat their proxy servers as anonymizing proxies? -- The Anome 10:32, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

205.188.117.5

  • General stupid vandalism. Has had polite and less polite requests to stop on Talk page. Latest contrib is "fuck off fuck off"; previous "funny" misattribution of genres in Glenn Miller article. 82.35.17.203 10:17, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

200.141.76.230

  • Vandalizing, including personal attacks. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 09:31, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

TDC

  • (TDC | talk | contributions)
  • This user is currently instituting mass deletions on two Wiki-pages, and is refusing to discuss his changes on the Discussion pages despite multiple requests to do so. He has reverted pages several times in the past few minutes. See Winter Soldier Investigation and Vietnam Veterans Against the War articles. It also appears this person is now stalking me through various other articles. -Rob

203.166.96.***

  • Many other IPs
  • Vandalised many articles, including Bill Gates. --Lst27 00:30, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I had to revert Bill Gates three times in 5 minutes (edit conflicts) because of these IP's.--Lucky13pjn 00:33, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • I think they're schools in Australia. Kids. Impractical to block them all; just revert. Antandrus 00:33, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

63.246.185.100

  • Changes to over 9 articles. I try to keep him contained, but it's after 1 am in my time zone, so I am going to sleep. Please observe that user. Przepla 23:14, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 28

68.156.153.131

  • Multiple pages.
  • User claims ignorance of the English language and non-understanding of what they're doing, in spite of several contested English-language edits to pages in the three days prior to the attack (mass blanking of pages in the space of a few minutes). I've posted up a vaguely-helpful explaination anyway but it seems like a good candidate for a ban to me. Sockatume 22:47, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

66.30.122.120

169.244.70.148

  • User:169.244.70.148 has vandalised Zinc, Currency, BMX, Surfing and a host of other pages. Please block. jguk 18:03, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

142.22.16.51

Vandalized Video game. Taco Deposit | Talk-o Deposit 18:03, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

207.61.101.2

Ericaherb

198.163.213.19

Low-frequency vandal, but was warned multiple times. Block needed? Awolf002 15:02, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
No it's a school. Each vandalism is probably by a different kid. Just revert. Theresa Knott (Not the skater) 15:33, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

218.80.170.222, 218.80.173.214

Spamming relentlessly, and repeatedly in the same article; warned. Antandrus 03:04, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
He's back tonight, as 218.80.173.214 | talk | contributions. Shanghai, China, same spam, same MO (random page, inserting commercial links). Can someone please put the kibosh on this? Antandrus 03:01, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Punk1 and Punk2

  • Huge volume page-move vandalism; at least a few dozen in a half-hour if I count correctly, moving some high-profile pages like John Kerry to gobbledygook names like 'Sdfgsdfg' or insulting ones like 'Kerry is a queer'. -- Antaeus Feldspar 02:57, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Note that he came back yesterday as Punk2 | talk | contributions, doing the same thing. I think I fixed them all but there are still numerous garbage redirects to be deleted. Be alert for future returns. Antandrus 02:53, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 27

Haabet

  • Repeatedly creates nonsense articles about various types of corsets. In one case, when his article Health corset was listed for deletion, he moved it to Corsets by oval chest; when the same thing happened to it at the new location, he moved it to Corset for children and rewrote it (with equally bogus content). - Mike Rosoft 09:39, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Apparently mosts of the user's edits do not constitute vandalism. (He is just not very competent in English language, and obsessed with this topic.) - Mike Rosoft 12:40, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Article: OverClocked ReMix

User:Sending out an SOS and User:SOS

  • Vandalizing Larry Sanger. An anon had vandalized the article several times in the last three days. The anon stopped editing, and "Sending" took over. After "Sending" reverted four times, "SOS" appeared on-scene to revert. SWAdair | Talk 04:56, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Both accounts have been blocked, but he'll probably be back. Keep an eye out. —No-One Jones (m) 05:00, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

User:Pumpie

I hate myself for doing this. I really do. However, this well-meaning youngster is continuing to treat this site as some sort of geography text dump depite repeated pleadings from other users and a posting on RfC. He is now listing taxoboxes on regions all over Europe with virtually no information whatsoever and is leaving a hell of a mess to clean up. This isn't a personal attack. Lord knows I've tried to help and I've been as nice as can be. Others have as well. I am absolutely thrilled that such a young person would spend so much time here. Like a child, he's badly misbehaving IMO. He ignores all attempts at contact and just keeps doing his thing. I don't want him banned as a vandal but someone really should have a firm word with the lad. - Lucky 6.9 03:54, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Have you tried the suggestions at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution? Thue | talk 11:04, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Absolutely. As I said, I'm listing this in hopes that someone with authority will correct the problem. What he's doing certainly isn't vandalism in the traditional sense. Well-meaning or not, he's still making a mess. I'd like nothing more than to see this fellow come around and make some real contributions but his current behavior is out of line. - Lucky 6.9 18:38, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

66.56.107.81

  • Blocked for 24 hours

198.234.224.6

  • See "contributions" which have occurred over several weeks. From the content, the user appears to be from a high-school student who basically was warned, but who has not actually been confronted. Blocking this IP address would solve the situation, as it is a static address. Another approach might be to send an email to the parent or owner of this address. But that would keep the parent from using Wikipedia. On the other hand, it would force the parent to confront the kid. Ancheta Wis 00:31, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I checked a selection of entries, and all I found was vandalism going back to 2002(!). I blocked the IP, and if there are someone using it who has a problem with that then they are free to send an email. Thue | talk 11:14, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

203.23.253.159 and 203.23.253.10

  • These two are competing to vandalize Genghis Khan and need to be blocked immediately. — Mateo SA | talk 00:23, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

October 26

69.14.138.169

  • Replaced entire contents of PlayStation with "Sony Sucks", deleted chunks of East Cape War at random. Both around 23:35 this evening. Appreciate if someone kept an eye on this IP's contribs in case they're continuing to vandalise. Sockatume 23:22, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • That's 23:35 local time, 22:35 on universal wiki time or however you describe it. Socka. Also, I've posted up a warning on their talk page.

82.123.215.19

209.226.83.162

203.53.110.10

The Vestibule versus the Wikipedia

  • Hi. We've just deflected a momentous wave of vandalism to such articles as John Kerry and George W. Bush. In a quite nice gesture, at least one of the vandals left a calling card behind - http://boards.ign.com/The_Vestibule/b5296/ . Given the ludicrous traffic on the site, the relevant topic quickly got submerged. It appears to be "I'M ABOUT TO VANDALIZE THE WIKIPEDIA JOHN KERRY PAGE IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED" over at http://boards.ign.com/The_Vestibule/b5296/70598664/?54 . Now, are we vindictive enough to try to get back to them? We have the IGN usernames of several vandals, who have publically confessed. We could at least drop a line to the moderators to try to get the perps banned from there, if we have any reason to assume that the mods would care. Me, I'm too tired right now to succeed. -- Kizor 02:38, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Absolutely, do it. IGN is very strict about the behavior of their users, they ban on a heartbeat (I know ;-) ). Terrapin 05:05, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Go for it! -- Schnee 09:31, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 25

66.171.124.70 (HeebJeeb)

  • These look like the same person, both with vandalism of Star Trek versus Star Wars, Star Jones, Cap and Skull, and personal attacks at other uses (anon-IP version only) "(wiki name removed), you suck just like Cap and Skull sucks. C&S became inferior the moment they turned into a Phi Beta Kappa rip-off" Terrapin 20:49, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC).

209.250.190.1 et al

  • Mucking around with Phosphoric acid. Probably just a few kids in their elementary class having fun. But keep an eye. --jpgordon{gab} 18:37, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Appears to be an a block of addresses at 209.250.190.* and .188.* -- Canada, I think. Annoying little brats. With a fetish for phosphoric acid. Go figure. --jpgordon{gab} 15:40, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
ARIN says the block belongs to Halton Catholic District School Board. We can block the whole 209.250.160.0/19 range for a bit, if this goes on. -- The Anome 22:57, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

144.136.14.140

216.93.230.36

  • Vandalising articles on different languages, occasionally making valid edits. -- Sundar 10:34, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)

203.10.110.142

  • Public school terminal, presumably in Buenos Aires, that has added a number of recent bizarre edits and a few sneaky ones. Warnings date back two weeks. There's at least one more IP in the range doing much the same thing. - Lucky 6.9 05:15, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I blocked 203.10.110.142 and 203.10.110.144 for 48 hours so that they hopefully get the message. Thue | talk 08:46, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

63.87.241.187

October 24

24.13.247.113

  • user is screwing around with Karl Dönitz page.
    • Blocked for 48 hours. Thue | talk 08:35, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

24.1.151.35

24.119.184.85

  • I left a warning at his talk page. Thue | talk 14:00, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Zizban

  • Has been reverting any criticism of several minority OS's, also has vandalised my user page - Kiand 10:38, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I recommend trying trying to talk a bit more to him to find an agreement, and then maybe Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. The edits I reviewed doesn't fit the vandalism label. Thue | talk 11:41, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • He's been at my user page again, BTW. Kiand 17:19, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

82.123.213.220

  • 82.123.213.220 (talk · contribs) is now smashing throuh pages he doesn't like....This is more like a hate crime in progress. - IZAK 10:30, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Word. I've been tracking him and reverting, like in that cartoon where one man digs a series of holes and another comes after him and fills them up. 82 considers both judaism and islam diseases and is making this known. He's winding down, but I do hope he notices what I've done and vandalises my user page before he's banned. You don't know you're really a Wikipedian before a foiled vandal starts screaming at you. -- Kizor 10:42, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Blocked for a week - wow, blocking was an easy decision in this case. :) Thue | talk 11:28, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 23

80.129.42.73

  • Blanking Bahai articles. RickK 23:13, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Seems to have gone away, all edits are reverted. BLocked him for a little while in case he comes back. Thue | talk 11:31, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

User:Alberuni

  • I am not sure if Alberuni's recent edits in Jew qualify as vandalism, but I assume those who monitor this page understand the rules better than I do. He has now twice indicated a passage citing Holocaust denials into the page. I have reverted him twice. As I understand it, I am allowed to revert him once more, and having become an involved party by reverting him, I can do no more. I am requesting help in this matter. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:04, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • I added Jew to my watchlist and will keep an eye on this. Thanks. -- Schnee 23:25, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

24.178.82.194

  • One edit dares people to block the person. Should we oblige? Mateo SA | talk 05:50, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
Heh. He's now blocked for 24 hours. -- Hadal 05:53, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

24.254.56.98

  • Continues to vandalize the redirect Subgenius, despite being reverted several times. -- [[User:Bobdoe|BobDoe]] 03:38, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 22

24.151.174.154

Willy On Wheels!!

  • Rapid-fire page-move vandalism, requiring significant effort to mop up. This is the latest of a number of similar user names for this vandal, all with the same modus operandi. -- The Anome 14:19, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I blocked the open proxy IP used by this account for 3 months. By then we should tools making this as easy to deal with as anything else. Jamesday 15:02, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

216.208.8.227

  • Repeated rapidfire vandalism of Ottawa, as well as editting of other users' comments on Talk:Ottawa -- Kaszeta 13:12, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • There is vandalism from this IP going back at least a month, and nothing but vandalism. Blocked for 2 months. Thue | talk 11:48, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

203.166.96.234 thru 203.166.96.240

  • Persistent, child-like vandalism from this anon. Especially fond of Eminem and Hacker. .239 made a good edit to Man About the House earlier in the day. ISP: Uunet Australia Limited func(talk) 01:37, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • I blocked 203.166.96.234/30 for 2 days. This may block a few legitimate edits, but I hope we can live with that. Thue | talk 14:22, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

65.64.92.40

  • Repeatedly adding patent nonsense articles about non-existent Nintendo games and characters. Has been politely warned, but continues to add some really strange stuff. Someone might want to check the other cartoon-related contribs. - Lucky 6.9 01:19, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 21

66.185.84.208

156.34.55.232

  • Blocked for a week. Thue | talk 11:57, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hemanshu

  • Rogue user of abt 1 yr's tenure & K's of edits (and admin but not known to me to abuse admin-specific powers).
  • Note that User:Ardonik seems to report counseling him on IRC (AFAIK), & partially reverted him (Lea thru Moz), 1 month ago in response to my listing him here for systematically killing many hdgs per page within LoPbN.
  • See:
  • my unanswered appeal in last 12 to repair his status as colleague on LoPbN before working further on its structure,
  • our whole near-monologue on headings, and
  • as context, my and Angela's totally unsuccessful attempts 10 months ago to get him to discuss his early blundering damage to this complex data structure.
  • He
  • went thru the alphabet, a month ago, in a 6-hour marathon of editing nothing else (with one 35-minute break from editing and maybe a couple of 8 minute breaks), continuing to destroy hdgs for at least 54 minutes after Ardonik reported to me that they were IRCing;
  • seemed to be forgoing anything beyond sporadic removals of one or a few pages at one sitting for several weeks;
  • spent 3 hrs. 8 min. ending near 18:00 (UTC) yesterday removing on Ab thru Her
  • spent 2 hrs. 25 min. near noon (UTC) today doing likewise on Her thru Miz; these included what are, AFAIK, his first destruction of structure that Ardonik had restored by reverting his; but in one such (i.e., Ardonik-involved) case among my spot-checks, whereas he changed the number of headings, the first time, from 33 to 27 (reduced by 6), this time he changed the identical file's headings from 33 to 14 in number (total reduction by 16 -- more than by half (58%)).
  • has resumed since i started composing this, but i haven't time to inspect, or for that matter ensure that i copied all my links right.
  • Comment: User has a history of making edits of mass destruction and ignoring all comments on his talk page to stop. A few months ago, I had to clean up the utter mess he had created by plugging random categories on random articles—literally hundreds of redundant and uselessly subdivided categories had to be edited off of articles and listed for deletion. Many of these were duplicates of heavily populated categories that could have easily been found with minimal effort, and the useless ones included a category specifically for cities in one texas county that only had one city, period. See his talk page for the repeated attempts[2] I made to get him to think about what he was doing—he never posted a response to any of them. I'm disappointed to see that he has continued failing to respond to the wikipedia community and has persisted in making reckless edits. A lengthy ban at the very least may be in order. Postdlf 18:56, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

66.155.200.129

  • Has vandalised John Kerry three times today, has in the past vandalised other pages. - Kiand 17:56, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

66.4.125.11 and 208.182.75.11

  • Apparently the same user. 208.182.75.11 vandalized Current events, then 66.4.125.11 vandalized the page twice, the second time replacing the page with an obscene message. — Mateo SA | talk 17:46, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)

212.127.195.136

  • Repeatedly reverting SkyOS to a version written by the OS's creators, and hence not NPOV.
  • Has now reverted for the fifth time. Appears to be working in collaboration with the OS's creators. - Kiand 17:56, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

64.12.116.201

  • either a vandal or well-meaning but very cranky indeed. IP probably short-lived (aol.com) dab 08:59, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

24.69.255.205

  • Has been messing with British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Alberta, ICI programming language, Shell script, Fashion, etc. Typically adds a link to one or more vanity or commercial web sites. Sometimes mislabels the offending external link to hide its nature. These links have been removed multiple times by several different users with explanations of "vanity" and "irrelevant commercial link", yet 24.69.255.205 adds them again. 24.69.255.205 is also responsible for a blatant advertisement entry at Preest which is currently under VFD. To be fair, 24.69.255.205 also appears responsible for some legitimate articles and edits amongst the recurring theme of vandalism. IP address originates from Shaw Cable (Canada) and may be dynamic, but user has Wikipedia history for approximately 6 months at that address. --Ds13 00:20, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

210.54.53.14

  • Has been messing with New Zealand, China, Tumbleweed etc. Typically replaces whole page with one nonsense sentence or inserts a nonsense phrase somewhere. All the edits I checked from this address have been vandalism. I didn't check every single one though. In my opinion a candidate for blocking. --Thorsten Loehndorf

October 20

38.118.12.78

  • Back again today, vandalizing John Lott(mass deletion), was warned once again (2nd time), deleted everything again. That makes two warnings and three vandalizations, counting all the individual deletions between each warning as one. Gzuckier 20:24, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

65.126.141.254

165.234.181.165

  • Has been making a huge amount of 'vandalistic' edits to Jew, has been reverting the reverts made by Mirv and I. One of the ones I reverted was racist: changed 'some Jews change religion to become a non-Jew' to 'some Jews change religion to become an anti-Jew'. Please block him/her.

38.118.12.78

  • vandalized John Lott 12 times yesterday (mass deletion), was warned but replied that he was John Lott and deleted everything again. Doesn't seem to be John Lott, address resolves to
OrgName: Performance Systems International Inc. OrgID: PSI Address: 1015 31st Street, NW City: Washington StateProv: DC PostalCode: 20007 Country: US
NetRange: 38.112.0.0 - 38.119.255.255 CIDR: 38.112.0.0/13 NetName: COGENT-NB-0002 NetHandle: NET-38-112-0-0-1 Parent: NET-38-0-0-0-1 NetType: Reallocated NameServer: AUTH1.DNS.COGENTCO.COM NameServer: AUTH2.DNS.COGENTCO.COM Comment: ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.cogentco.com:4321/ RegDate: 2003-08-20 Updated: 2004-03-11
OrgAbuseHandle: COGEN-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Cogent Abuse OrgAbusePhone: +1-877-875-4311 OrgAbuseEmail: ******@cogentco.com
OrgNOCHandle: ZC108-ARIN OrgNOCName: Cogent Communications OrgNOCPhone: +1-877-875-4311 OrgNOCEmail: ****@cogentco.com
OrgTechHandle: IPALL-ARIN OrgTechName: IP Allocation OrgTechPhone: +1-877-875-4311 OrgTechEmail: ********@cogentco.com
Gzuckier 15:03, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Oh, it's John Lott all right. The IP belongs to the American Enterprise Institute. I can even find Mary Rosh postings with that IP. --TimLambert 14:04, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
oops. I looked up johnlott.org and johnlott.com but not aei, so I assumed he was a usenetcrank and added gratuitous insults and sarcasm and now I'm sorry and have to apologize to salve my conscience. there's a lesson there, I guess. Gzuckier 14:38, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

198.81.26.12

128.196.106.167

Users harassing Chuck F

  • This is not a standard VIP listing. About 10 users, most likely the same person, have been harassing User:Chuck F. I'm requesting that they be immediately blocked for vandalism such as moving Libertarianism to Libertarian capitalism, picking fights, and generally acting in bad faith. Their sole purpose is to annoy users here.

142.173.69.142

  • The user is making subtle edits that don't appear true to the facts. -- Taku 03:28, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

24.151.174.154 and 69.138.144.59

  • (24.151.174.154 | talk | contributions)
  • (69.138.144.59 | talk | contributions)
    • Repeatedly vandalising articles about PBS and Pokémon by inserting information that is patently false. Much of the work has been reverted since. kelvSYC 01:14, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
      • Could you point out the exact material that is false? It could be a good-faith edit that's badly researched, in which case a warning will most likely suffice. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:36, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
        • The user has, on different occasions, claimed that there existed a separate British version, with separate (Cockney-like) titles, and with Daniel Radcliffe and Halle Berry, of all people, performing some of the lesser roles. The user has also claimed that there was a new series regular appearing after the seventh Pokémon movie (not true), and claimed that Pokémon appeared on PBS (unlikely given the educational programming on PBS), and also had English (and "British") episode titles for an 8th season (Advanced Challenge, the latest English incarnation, is currently the seventh season). At one point, this user tried to create an article full of this false information, which has since been speedily deleted. kelvSYC 03:36, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Continues to vandalise Pokémon (anime) and creating article List of PBS episodes, both with false information. kelvSYC 01:27, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

203.109.192.243

203.53.110.10

October 19

62.253.64.12

  • (62.253.64.12 | talk | contributions)
    • Persists in removing a {{delete}} tag from Opwtn despite a warning. Same IP vandalized this page a few days ago, saying he wanted to know what being banned was like. —Triskaideka 22:36, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
      • The article was speedily deleted. I am talking with the user now. Action may not be necessary. —Triskaideka 23:09, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

202.184.252.5

24.68.16.247

FeelsBetter and MyPetGoat

193.119.54.2 and 193.119.54.5

Hi332211-

82.76.41.24

198.81.26.*

  • (Using several IP addresses in the above range) Is going around replacing random words with Buddha. —No-One Jones (m) 17:59, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Known problem. See also underneath at October 11 section 66.210.50.50 (seems to be his fixed IP address) --French Tourist 18:25, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

212.219.207...

209.29.107.53

  • Vandalized cytology with some obscene anti-gay statement. I reverted it back to previous good source. Hope I did the form right. – srlasky 05:45, 2004 Oct 19 (UTC)

24.123.221.4

208.190.210.177

203.25.140.97

68.41.67.159

24.29.6.115

October 18

68.227.206.41

69.152.240.64

204.38.32.6

  • Juvenile vandalism. Rhobite 21:02, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)

216.20.1.211

  • Actually only made one edit to John Kerry, and a few older ones to other articles. Blocked for 24 hours. Thue | talk 17:32, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Several closely related IPs at Merrimack Education Center (216.20.1.211, 212, 214 etc.) Seems to have departed anyway. Antandrus 01:13, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

213.232.79.238

  • Looking at User:Arwel Parry, the same person also vandalized with the IPs .237 and .240. I blocked 213.232.79.255/27 (which should cover .224-.255 if I calculated correctly) for a week. Thue | talk 17:46, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

69.139.27.157

  • I only see one comment at the users talk page. Doesn't seem obvious upon quick inspection that any problem can't be solved with constructive criticism. Not blocked. Thue | talk 17:56, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

213.132.207.99

203.109.192.243

User:AxSkov

  • Repeatedly changing from American to British spellings, despite being asked not to do so. RickK 07:33, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • Seems to be capable of reason by looking at the discussion at his user page. Don't bite the newbies (too much). Thue | talk 18:26, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Get over yourself, this isn't vandalism... keep in mind that most of his spelling changes have been to European articles, where I would imagine that British spelling is preferred. Whatever the protocol is for American/British spelling on european articles, he seems to be acting in good faith. StuartH 12:15, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I agree, it's not vandalism, but he should show constraint. Editing for British Spelling over American for European articles is reasonable. However, he's also an advocate of moving articles, (He's advocated Tire and Harbor, but not done a move), which is generally more destructiv. But this is nothing that we can't discuss with the user. -- Kaszeta 13:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 17

M00zilla

81.131.82.13

66.130.96.224

Ihatepotsmokinghippies

213.91.217.15

October 16

81.249.253.101

  • Edits to Zazie reverted, blocked for 24 hours. Thue | talk 23:56, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

210.55.39.254

  • Is vandalising numerous pages with fart jokes etc. --nixie 23:15, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • All has been reverted as of now. Blocked as a gesture. Thue | talk 23:52, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

195.57.165.180

  • His edits don't make sense. -- Taku 22:45, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Link spam bot already blocked by Neutrality. Thue | talk 23:59, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

65.200.64.211

  • Spammer. Added empty article on 'PMP Certification' with only links to www.certgear.com... also adding same link to any certification related page. No other contributions.
  • All reverted and user long gone - will block if he comes back. Thue | talk 00:21, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

24.19.167.184

  • Due to the vandalism on several dates from one IP it seems to be a static IP. -- Deleteme42 17:52, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Blocked IP for one week. Thue | talk 00:02, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

24.87.101.192 again

  • Has added swear word to Pencil and his talk page shows that Hadal has 'had a word with him' aswell. He is also listed further down this page.--Honeycake 17:31, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • The edit history has a number of questionable edits, all of which has been reverted. Thue | talk 00:11, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Heartyheart/Grandnexus

  • These two seem to be the same vandal. Vandalized Community portal and Current events, including moving the pages. I moved Current events back, but Community portal was moved to an inaccessible page. Mateo SA | talk 05:49, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC), 06:04, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Both had only vandalised, and are blocked infinitely. Thue | talk 00:15, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Socalcutie2006

  • Appears to be editing George III of the United Kingdom, today's featured article, listed for deletion, can someone put this article back? I don't know enough to find the original content. Pschemp 05:46, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Blocked infinitely by Raul654. Thue | talk 00:17, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

24.16.226.59

  • Repeated vandalization. - [[User:Davodd|DAVODD «TALK»]] 01:40, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • All reverted. Thue | talk 00:19, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

61.113.110.18

October 15

203.10.121.89

  • User has been vandalising since August. - Duk 23:26, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Bbbbbbbbb

  • This user apparently using various IPs keeps vandalizing ks.wikipedia.org and keeps replacing text with meaningless words and keeps redirecting the pages. Devnagari and Nastaleeq are simultaneously used for writing Kashmiri language, but this person keeps converting my Unicode Devnagari contributions to Roman script and the converted text makes no sense.

66.74.164.172

  • blanked Whale and other articles

210.23.137.110

Mogrady

68.163.45.72

  • Repeated vandalism this afternoon, replacing entries or sections with goatse links. Zachlipton 01:17, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 14

209.5.63.178

  • Blanking bios of historical figures, replacing them with "bum tit fart"-style phrasing. - jredmond 17:32, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

82.32.34.144

  • return vandal. repeatedly warned. messing with the John Kerry page again. Wolfman 17:18, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

User:John Kerry's Willy on Wheels!

  • Page moving vandal. Susvolans 15:41, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • This guy pops up every couple weeks; does the same high-speed page-move/page-creation vandalism spree. Permanently blocked. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 01:26, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

83.104.108.235/237

  • User with an apparently dynamic IP added a link to a local comercial directory to Dorset which I moved to near the bottom of the links list when ordering the links in order of relevance/usefulness because it's of limited usefulness to our readers. Since then the user has been daily (or more regularly) adding the link back to the top of the list and througout the article which I've been reverting and have now taken to removing the link from the page altogether as it's clear that it's here for their purpose and not our readers. I've added all the spam templates to the user pages (ignored) but it's a dynamic IP, so repeated 2 hr temp bans are the only solution I can see... --Joe D 11:19, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

4.23.83.100

  • The user has been writing POV informations mainly on Korea and its relationship to Japan since October 2, 2004 without any discussions on talk pages or any verifiable claims. The user has been reverted multiple times. Revth 09:41, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

198.82.71.55

  • Vandalising user pages ([4]) and articles ([5]).

66.229.241.211

  • Clueless newbie anon from the San Fernando Valley who insists on posting vanity articles. Has a long history of same. An article called Angela Cisneros was speed-deleted last week as I recall, but it's back on VfD. Probably the contributor herself. - Lucky 6.9 00:53, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • More cluelessness. Same anon is wrapping his/herself in the First Amendment on the Angela Cisneros talk page. Sheesh. - Lucky 6.9 01:11, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Here's a transcript (italics mine). Lucky 6.9 01:16, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC):
To all Wikipedia Editors, leave this site alone. It should not be voted for deletion just because she did not get famous. Have you all forgotten about the 1st Amendment. Free Speech includes written speech. To many of you that say you respect other's people Point-of-View. I do not believe many of you, since this statement is overused and has no real meaning. If you all vote for its deletion then you are just as terrible as Al Qaida and the Taliban. I will say you are all DIP-DIP's. You figure out the meaning, fargin, cork sucking iceholes, and bastages.
Sincerely, GOS uss_abraham_lincon@yahoo.com
Post Script: If you do not like go visit another site.

October 13

User:Reithy

  • On an anti-Libertarian rampage. Deleting valid information, listing valid articles for VfD. His User page has an anti-Libertarian comment that shows what his agenda is. RickK 23:43, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • He seems to have stopped, but I'd still keep an eye on him... his abuse of wikipedia deserves a banning, IMO. StuartH 14:07, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

24.49.222.22

  • Erased all stories five times and added "y0u i$ @n #$$" and other various text to Current events. -- Dejitarob 23:00, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Moving this guy back up to the top again. He's at it again today, just vandalized [[Wikipedia::Recent changes]] and more. Zachlipton 00:31, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

81.192.196.25

24.87.101.192

  • 24.87.101.192 has made some bad contributions including some subtle one-word errors. Have reverted a couple of these but all contributions should be checked Dze27 16:43, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

62.171.194.43

  • (62.171.194.43 | talk | contributions) is adding patent nonsense articles such as trench cruelties; I've been adding speedy deletion messages, but wanted to give a heads-up before I start ignoring the Wikipedia in favour of real work. Note that this user's list of contributions seems to mainly consist of valid additions to the Wikipedia. Katherine Shaw 14:41, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

12.10.219.37

213.249.155.231

  • This guy has repeatedly vandalized the Stephen Hawking, despite a warning. Please block him. Sietse 13:07, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Probably same as yesterday's 213.249.155.235 - same East Midlands school ISP; I listed him yesterday but the entry was apparently removed. - Skysmith 07:53, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

138.23.67.153

  • Vandalized a number of political and pop.-cultural pages (e.g. GWB, Donald Trump, etc.) by adding various offensive/insulting phrases. Not sure whether he/she/it'll come back, but thought I'd put this up. I've reverted all the changes h/s/i's made thus far. --24.103.207.38 10:54, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

83.103.235.115 and 80.96.96.80

200.203.28.25=

70.25.198.51

68.147.13.196

202.79.54.50

  • - Used profane and completely counterproductive language in talk page of Jaish Ansar al-Sunna article.

64.136.27.229

  • Keeps vandalizing the Kenya entry with misinformation.
  • A number of other "contributions" have also been reverted as vandalism. Ray Dassen 09:08, 2004 Oct 13 (UTC)

October 12

68.55.134.242

  • Replaced multiple pictures vandalizing the pages after warnings.Awolf002 21:22, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

69.182.5.150

  • Repeat vandalism of "fuck." Ntk 19:38, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

12.177.42.2

  • Vandalised several pages, including a user's talk page, warned twice. -- Solitude 15:13, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

212.219.7.20 (Christopher Reeve)

212.238.191.138

  • This user has vandalized the England article and my user page multiple times.

205.188.116.132

  • Extreme coincidence leads me to believe that this proxy may be in cahoots with the B-Movie Bandit. Soon after an article on Gina Tognoni appeared, so too did an substub via this proxy about Miss Rhode Island Teen and Ms. Tognoni's having won the pageant in 1992. Attempts to redirect to the beauty pageant article have been vigorously and quickly reverted, so I've left a number of polite words on the talk page and have even added to the article myself. So, what should appear not two minutes after my last edit than a new article on Gina Tognoni by the B-Movie Bandit himself after the original had been speedy deleted earlier today. I smell rodent. - Lucky 6.9 01:51, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Same proxy also put a spurious speedy delete notice on Medjel. No answer from the party responsible for this. - Lucky 6.9 01:57, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 11

Reithy

  • See also Talk:Michael Badnarik. Reithy was responsible for firing the first shot in the current edit war, and I'm confident that as soon as the page is unprotected he will continue to insert his anti-libertarian POV. Rhobite 00:22, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
  • This is beyond inserting POV. He is vandalizing user pages (e.g., User:Pstudier) and inserting random flippant statements into articles (e.g., "The Libertarian Party was formed in the home of Richard Nixon on 11 December 1971" and "The Libertarian Party is a United States political party created in 1971 in the home of Pablo Escobar").Simoes 21:30, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

66.210.50.50

  • "Contributions" are highschool student jokes. The first ones were easy to spot (replacing "Constantinople" by "Buddhala" in Istambul entry), writing an article locating some mystical Buddhist location in the Bahamas ; now tries to write total bullshit sounding real (see at Buddhala). Not at its first appearance here according to his contribs history. --French Tourist 19:03, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Spotted again two days later, this time using an AOL IP address ; (vandalism on Harrison Bergeron - same game : replacing words in the article by "Buddha"). --French Tourist 13:48, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Is still active today, again under AOL IP address. Has added links to his spurious in Buddha article, and is now spotted doing some more hidden vandalism (see this diff page : links to the spurious Buddhagouda page). --French Tourist 19:36, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I think it may be time to start a page on the Buddha Bandit:
  • 198.81.26.71
  • 198.81.26.41
func(talk) 01:05, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Hmm... there is/was an actual User:Buddha, who did a little trolling before. His last edit was 6 Apr 2004. func(talk) 01:23, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Last news :
  • Many examples on 18 Oct
(I did not check further) -- French Tourist 18:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Haydes

  • Vandalised Fluffer several times now. --Lst27 20:04, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Continues to create absolutely contentless substubs (e.g. Tom King (actor)) as well as spam-like entries (e.g. Brigsoft) despite being asked several times to stop. Note the edit history of his talk page. This user apparently does not want to discuss anything, just insists on his nanostubs. andy 20:11, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • He has made articles that in a category called "Guys named Kelly" (which does not exist). Is this "bio-stub" that he is replacing on articles an accepted thing? This is going to take some watching. - Tεxτurε 21:12, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • A lot of this is becoming stupid. Here's his latest new article: "Partialism has two parts to it. One of them is sexual. It means being obsessed with someones parts. The other is religious. It means thinking about part of the religion." - Tεxτurε 21:14, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Here is a quote from one of his many articles: "SAVE THIS ARTICLE... ITS ALL TRUE!!!! AND THEYRE MY ANESCESTORS Please don't delete this...I need something in my life" - Tεxτurε 21:18, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I am trying to suggest that he use his untouched user page to work on his ancestor information but he keeps blanking it and doesn't appear to be reading new entries. - Tεxτurε 21:21, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Looks like he's back as User:Noieleted with the "Tom King" BS. The page is blank since it appears to be protected. No prior edit history. What a loser. - Lucky 6.9 03:53, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Has a looooooooooong history of trolling. RickK 06:41, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

User:Grick

  • Has repeatedly edited to say that the United States Constitution was amended 18 times after the bill of rights, not the correct 17. Erased a note left on his talk page. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 05:17, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
    • No, actually he's editing it to say that it was amended 18 times since 1789. Which is true, because the Bill of Rights was adopted in 1791 so that's an extra time. —Blotwell 05:29, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

70.177.170.196

  • This moron deleted the entire "Hebrew Calendar" page and replaced it with a tubgirl reference.

66.119.34.39

  • Anon abuses articles for rightwing-extremist propaganda, vandalizing neutral articles and trolling. User has long history of inflammatory contributions, vandalizing and propaganda edits. Reverts articles to own propaganda edits.
  • Should get banned immediatley. (Phil)203.116.61.131 16:54, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
still here; now vandalising Humpback Whale and Rondane National Park among others. has been warned. Whosyourjudas (talk) 02:19, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 10

24.103.90.87

  • There are a number of people vandalizing the Protest Warrior page. This is the most recent and most persistent. It appears to be an anonymous proxy IP. This user uses deceptive edit summaries to make it look like he is adding good information to the article. In fact, two users reverted my reverts of his vandalism because they thought he had the good edit. Other IPs will be posted as soon as they become a problem.

Gordy / 62.252.128.16

  • Can someone please do something about this guy? He's now continuing this behavior after nearly a dozen reversions across several articles, and after several warnings to both of his talk pages. He clearly has no intent of stopping. See [6], in particular. He's replacing links to the murder/plea videos with links to his(?) site goregod.com, which does not contain easily accessible videos, and requires registration. See User_talk:Gordy for a discussion asking him to stop. - MattTM 22:28, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • He's already stated this is his site, and his intentions are clear (example). He is also posting legal threats against other Wikipedia users (example).
  • I've blcked him indefinately and his IP for a month. He claims his IP must be being used by another person - personally i don't believe him, but it is a NTL proxy so an indefinite block of the proxy is not onTheresa Knott (The torn steak) 07:29, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • He's just come back as 62.252.128.17 and threatened me on my talk page because i blocked him. I've blocked this IP for a month too Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 08:56, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Apart from the disputes documented above, as 62.252.128.16 he also vandalised the Rangers F.C. article, see [7].
  • I've unblocked the IPAs as they are NTL proxies that serve several legit wikipedians. We need to treat this like AOL. Check and revert. Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 10:44, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 9

80.201.232.97

  • User replaced the text for the Beavis and Butthead episode list with some crude comment (yeah, I know ... redundant). Found by OrbitalBundle's SO.

82.39.115.87

  • I blocked him for 24 hours just prior to this notice. — David Remahl 21:30, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • It surprises me that you consider this to be vandalism, when the actual original piece of vandalism was this ridiculous vanity entry by the falsely-named "Gay Nigger Association of America". How can this be justified as being reasonable encyclopedia material? -- 82.39.115.87 / 81.152.67.218
  • 81.152.67.218 has also been blocked (24 h) after three vandalisms to the same page and two warnings. — David Remahl 16:09, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

User:Cirzis

  • this article was today's article of the day. It looks as though it's been moved by User:Cirzis, but I'll be damned if i can figure out where it's been moved to, or how to move it back. As this is linked from the front page as the article of the day, i think it's pretty urgent that it be restored quickly. It would appear this user is doing the same thing to a few other pages as well, including the Wikipedia:Community Portal -Lethe | Talk

65.96.129.119

  • Possible vandal bot repeatedly posting nonsense substubs each titled ReykjavikUniversity (no space). Has been warned. - Lucky 6.9 05:06, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Apollocn

October 8

68.232.143.13

User has blanked pages and sections and replaced them by the text "Don't like it?". Have now reverted all the damage found and warned user on talk page. Should be banned with next offense.[[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:41, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

200.69.231.181

  • Vandalizing dozens of new anon talk pages with an insulting message and a photograph of an erect penis. He also is signing it "From RickK." [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 20:56, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • The talk pages he created have been deleted (see the deletion log), but he's still going at it. Please block him. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 20:57, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • I show no edits on that address since Grunt blocked him and the two of us started deleting his work. -- Cyrius|✎ 20:59, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

148.136.141.172

212.85.5.19

  • (212.85.5.19 | talk | contributions)
    • "Contributions" exist of adding grafitti to articles and blanking articles. Vandalised Sodium chloride several times in a row. Please ban. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 12:25, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
      • No need as vandalism has stopped. We only block as a last resort. Reverting usually does the trick as most vandals get bored when they see their "work" reverted with seconds. Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 13:08, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
        • User has started again three days later, this time childish/attention seeking on Lulworth Cove --Steinsky 14:20, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
          • It's a school. I'm still not convinced that blocking is actually necessary at the moment. Let's keep an eye on things for a bit and see if revering does the job Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 15:07, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
            • Has continued, and moved on to doing user pages. --Joe D 20:48, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

204.184.16.85

67.82.197.109 and 67.82.30.198

October 7

24.233.50.179

  • (24.233.50.179 | talk | contributions)
    • Mass adding subpages of one (his?) website to articles. Actually I'm not sure if this is vandalism, the webpages are actually on topic, but it seems to me the content should be added in the text and not google-bombed as external links. What to do? -- Solitude 23:54, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • This was also brought up on RC patrol, along with another IP that was doing the same. I've checked all contributions of both IPs. Where the links were directly (not merely tangentially) on-topic and added significantly to the article, I kept them. Most were reverted. SWAdair | Talk 04:25, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Update -- I just discovered a third IP doing the same. I have left "Do not spam" messages on all talk pages and am now reverting on-sight. SWAdair | Talk 05:01, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • The webmaster for that site has now created an account and understands why we don't allow linkspam. He has agreed to link sparingly and only from the most-relevant articles. SWAdair | Talk 06:03, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

200.14.206.166

24.166.218.150

218.111.222.38

  • Has been warned thrice for vandalism; second warning intentionally covered more than one case of vandalism in hopes user would reform. Has been rotating IPs; latest one is 218.111.10.62. Johnleemk | Talk 16:30, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • User has continued spate of vandalism on Malaysia. User's edits aren't strictly vandalism, as he seems to be more of a POV warrior, but they have been reverted unequivocally, with nobody except this user adding the information back. Nobody has defended the inclusion of the material, nor argued for rephrasing them. Johnleemk | Talk 06:56, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

204.63.136.150

  • Has been warned four times about repeated vandalism; should be blocked if he/she does it again.

66.167.46.241

  • (66.167.46.241 | talk | contributions)
    • Vandalized United States Democratic Party. It looks like the article was reverted to some quite old version; this looks similar to the previous vandalism at the same page by 68.184.56.232 below; might be the same person. Fpahl 01:57, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
      • Further vandalism from the same address later Fpahl 16:17, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Christopher Columbus

  • Christopher Columbus was vandalized (or at least sandbox-used) three times from three different IPs in the last two days. Please protect this page. Gadykozma 01:25, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

68.184.56.232

Ute Oronto

  • (Ute Oronto | talk | contributions)
    • Nothing but vandalism, including twice of my user page. Already warned. Request urgent block. Gzornenplatz 23:28, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
      • Repeatedly adding the same, obviously POV sentence to Nietzsche, talking of an "absurd and childish hatred for women". Also stuck a 'thanks for experimenting...' message on my userpage after I reverted the change. - Shikasta 08:47, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
      • By my count, the sentence he has added has been reverted 12 times by several different Wikipedians, and he reverts it back each time. It has been a couple of weeks now since the first reversion, and he still has not provided any substantive backing for the statement. Steve Casburn 18:41, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 6

68.152.80.196

208.223.206.230

209.216.94.74

  • Appears to be young, female, bored and a slow typer. Warned by her talk page, albeit somewhat crudely - Kiand 18:19, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

203.116.61.131

Ralphy

  • Blanking articles. Has been warned by andy but has failed to heed warning. --Phil | Talk 12:10, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

195.175.152.99

  • Yesterday, this user vandalized the main help pages of several Wikipedias (e.g., English, German, Arab, French) in an effort to retaliate against chongqed.org and other wikis that have blacklisted links to hukuki.net. I apologize for the inconvenience this must have caused and I'm glad that the wiki system works that well that most of the vandalized pages were already reverted again when I took a look. --Manni, 6 Oct 2004

203.144.20.17

Turrican

October 5

199.190.225.45

Sneaky vandalism is all this guy/gal does. Check his contributions.

--NightDragon 22:42, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

149.99.165.117

On going vandalism to articles Prem Rawat and Criticism of Prem Rawat See also http://www.forum8.org/forum8/posts/7065.html Andries 17:52, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 4

Hgdh

  • Move-vandalizing User:Postdlf's User and Talk pages and creating nonsense redirects with titles consisting of "|" repeated over and over. --Slowking Man 07:35, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

LinuxNUTS

65.13.148.223

  • Rapidly vandalizing pages, creating nonsense pages. Blanked this page, too. - MattTM 02:31, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

213.232.79.240

  • This is the genious behind a page called 'Germany sucks', which lasted roughly thirty seconds before it disappeared, possibly do to the intervention of an admin. This user (or possibly users; it could be a library computer somewhere) has a long edit history; I'm still looking it over.
He (she?) has made such brilliant contributions to the Wikipedia such as "Im addicted to marajuwana, i smoke weed every day" to drug addiction, "The term disability means you are a spastic. you will never have a good life shame on you" to disability, and who could forget his timeless contribution to breakfast cereals?
This guy is dedicated.
-Litefantastic 11:33, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 3

Glogger

  • Please see Talk:Steve Mann. This person is not only creating vanity articles about himself, he is also creating nonsense terms and then pointing to Wikipedia as examples of the usage of his made-up words. RickK 23:43, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

209.6.127.13

Rocray

  • Messing around with images. Was warned.
  • Has been blocked for a 24 hour period, though may consider longer as I have since discovered they vandalised my user page and other links from it. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 01:31, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I would also consider speedily deleting the images they uploaded, but the database is being slow and hasn't caught up with their user contributions yet. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 01:46, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 2

203.112.19.195

  • I've put a very strong warning on the user talk page saying we will block for a week if he touches another person's vote again. Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 13:19, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 1

Guitar 01

  • Guitar 01 has openly stated on his user page that he will vandalize Wilipedia. When asked to stop, he threatened another user with sending a computer virus. He is responsible for vandalizing several pages, the most recent of which is Moff. This kind of behavior cannot be tolerated. Block this user! - Husnock 1 Oct 2004

192.195.64.72

  • The "Bun Boy Vandal" is back. I stumbled on a brand-new article about Baker, California, went to add some info to Bun Boy and found the "performance art" paragraph was added again by the same idiot responsi

ble in the first place. All contributions via this IP seem to be vandalic. Can this be permanently blocked? - Lucky 6.9 22:16, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

213.122.120.149

  • (213.122.120.149 | talk | contributions)
    • The car overwriting (sub?) vandal again. This individual, who shows up regularly, completely replaces the text of existing articles on cars with their own, unwikified text. The overwritten text IS seemingly correct and accurate, but no attempt is made to integrate with existing articles or collaborate with anyone else. My suspicion is that the text is cut and pasted from somewhere, and they may indeed be violations of copyright. The odd thing is the way they operate: showing up every week or so, spitting out about ten of these, then vanishing. Like a bot. —Morven 21:36, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

RON01

152.31.32.65

213.224.83...

24.64.223.203

  • Appears to be a dynamic ip, multiple users. Several warnings on talk page. Latest vandalism in Horizontal.
  • This is on Shaw Cable: px1cv.gv.shawcable.net. Does 'px1' mean 'proxy 1'? -- Anon.

205.213.111.52

  • and just vandalized my talk page.... - --Cyprus2k1 20:05, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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