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:Please use ] as an alternate venue for cases of simple vandalism that require an immediate block and ] for cases that require further investigation.
This page helps responsible users prevent and respond to ]. List new vandals by IP or username. ''' ''Please'' add new alerts at the top of the "Current alerts" list.'''


==Two levels of urgency== ==Old instructions for this page==
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Choose one of three sections to make a report: ], ], or ]. Follow the recommended format for each section including the heading markup. Place the request at the top of the ''New requests'' subsection or the top of the watchlist. Provide page diffs from edit histories if appropriate and links to specific problem pages.
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==History==
If you want to alert '''everyone''', leave the ] option unchecked. Be careful: this is the default. If the listing doesn't require an immediate response, please be sure to check the "minor edit" option.


The first page used for tracking vandalism was a user subpage, ], some time before 4 November 2001. The vandalism in progress page was established as VANDALISM IN PROGRESS - the title was upper-case to make it easily distinguishable on ]). Around the same time, the Misplaced Pages Militia (since renamed to the ]) was formed to coordinate responses to press releases about Misplaced Pages. The "VANDALISM IN PROGRESS" page was moved to the Misplaced Pages namespace in August 2002 and was renamed to the current title in 2006. Its archives since 2003 may be found in ] and the talk archives since august 2002 can be found in the history of ] and in text form as subpages of ]. Old subpages can also be found through ]. the ] page also grew out of "vandalism in progress". A section on the "vandalism in progress" page for persistent vandalism was added in ], later ], and then re-created as ] in September 2004; in December 2004 it was ] to ], titled ].
==Format==
Use the format under the Current Alerts heading: IP address, pages touched, damage done. For a comprehensive guide for dealing with different types of vandalism, see ].

==Blocks and other tools==
For a list of blocked IPs and usernames and the reason why they were blocked, see ].
Tools for finding information on an IP number:
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== Adding someone to this page ==

When you notice what you think is an act of vandalism, note the vandal's IP number or handle. Edit this page, adding the person's IP number, and ] your edit with four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) to give the date and time.

'''Then put the person's IP or handle in the ]''' and hit save.

Vandalism appears on ], along with the id of the alleged vandal, and other wikipedians can decide whether damage has actually occurred. If there is consensus that an attack was correctly identified, everyone will help repair the damage. When the attack is finished, come back and remove the information you added.

If no attack occurred (e.g. it was just a difference of opinion about what is appropriate content or style, not intentional defacement), then the line will be removed from the vandalism in progress page. We hope cases of mistaken listing will be rare.

Please only use this page for genuine '''malicious vandalism''', and only for a '''sustained attack'''. If you make any changes to this page for other reasons, put something like "Not calling a vandalism alert" in the ], or mark it as a ].

==Cautions and '''alternatives'''==

However, please '''do not''' label isolated instances of text deletions, replacements or odd additions as VANDALISM unless they seem intentionally overly lewd or offensive. More often than not, this is just a visitor to the site experimenting (also see ]) -- labeling them as a VANDAL is a good way to ]. Only add alerts to this page of true VANDALISM such as a systematic attack on several ]. If you suspect an edit ''may'' be vandalism but are unsure, don't hesitate to list the edit on ] where it can be scrutinised by other editors. Above all, ] at first and give the person the benefit of the doubt until they prove they deserve otherwise.

If you need help or think someone else does, please leave a note at ].

''Note that deliberate '''vandalism of this page''' is likely to lead to you being blocked from editing Misplaced Pages.''

If you ''disagree'' with someone's edits, see the following pages instead:

*] to report a dispute over content
*]
*] for disputes over article bias.
*] for disputes about factual accuracy.

'''Please add new alerts''' at the top of the "Current alerts" list.'''<br/>
'''When reporting anonymous vandals, ''please'' copy and use the template which is commented out at the beginning of the next section.'''



==Current alerts==
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===81.109.164.82===

{{Vip|user=81.109.164.82}}. Vandalized , and .

===68.7.15.227===

*{{Vip|user=68.7.15.227}} Has repeatedly edited first-aid related pages to add spam links. When the pages are reverted the user adds the links again.<br/>-- ] 09:17, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===]===
Stealthy insertion of false statistics into several articles. ]'''] 06:27, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

===AdamG===

*{{Vip|user=AdamG}} Adding articles on trivia (races in Star Trek), fails to mark them as fictional, does not respond to comments on ''user:'' and ''user talk:''. <br/> ] 01:15, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
*I had added "In the ]al ] universe," to over a dozen of his articles (working from top down) when I met ] (working from bottom up) putting the copyvio notice on all his articles. Doesn't that just beat all. :-) ] | ] 07:15, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

=== 80.3.160.4 ===
Has edited ] twice with very NPOV content about dictators, assasins, anti-US claims about murdering children, etc. --] 00:39, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Those edits are still there. I personally don't see them as vandalism, but if they're inaccurate, someone should revert them. ]'''] 07:22, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

=== 62.219.120.119 ===
{{Vip|user=62.219.120.119}} Seems to be fond of adding spurious external links. ] 21:14, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

=== 194.8.54.248, 194.8.54.249, 194.8.54.250, 194.8.54.251 ===
*(] | ] | ]) - Now ''this IP is'' a vandal - arbitrary changes of film titles under certain lists, over-writing existing content. --] 15:17, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)
*(] | ] | ])
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*(] | ] | ]) - Ones I've checked for this IP <strike>(I've only checked this one)</strike> actually seem factually correct, <strike>which is a worry since, I er, reverted a few without really, cough, looking</strike> I've reverted my reverts for this IP --] 14:53, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)

::I should, perhaps, make it clear I do not have the intention of looking at the 2 IP addresses I ''haven't'' annotated - I probably gave the impression I was going through them systematically. Erm. I'm not. It's annoying. I mean, I noticed that other people had been reverting those I did look at, so I'm sure I'm being overly anxious. Which reminds me, I haven't had my tablets. --] 00:48, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

:(There seems little doubt these IPs are all one and the same person: see for instance).

::I'm not knowledgeable about these things - but having looked extensively at the edits made by the two IPs I've annotated I wondered if it was two students sitting next to each other in the same library: one of them a fairly nice chap and the other intent on being mischievous. Cos there's a definite difference in behaviour depending on the Ip you look at. --] 17:20, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)

Making extensive changes to YYYY in music, YYYY in sports, YYYY in film (where YYYY is a year). Changing lots of dates, for instance in ] and ], he insists on repeatedly changing her birth year from ] to ], although, for instance and many other sources say 1983.

Also insists on creating pages with lowercase last names, like ], which others then have to move to the uppercase version.

There are far too many changes for me to research, and this is not my area of interest anyway. I don't know if he is mixing legitimate changes with vandalism, or is just seriously misguided, or what.

This user was reported before, below, by ].

-- ] 14:16, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

::I'm not convinced it's vandalism. Looks like lot's of good faith edits in there. perhaps llisting on ] is more appropriate? ] 16:07, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===] (multiple IPs)===
: MULTIPLE IPS -- For this listing it is easier not to list the IPs, but list the problem instead. There are multiple IPs using ] as a chat room. I keep trying to revert to a good copy of the article but keep getting edit conflicts. They are reposting over each other so fast I can't even revert. I'll check this article later to see if it is possible to revert. Just wanted to let others know so they can look into it also. Thank you. ] | ] 08:21, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
**Ah, It looks like ] has been able to get in two good reverts, but they keep posting. ] | ] 08:25, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

:::I've blocked all but one IP involved (total of three IPs blocked). I would have protected, but the last time I did that without warning the users (in that case, there were five IPs doing it) I was chided in an edit summary. Heh. If it hasn't cooled down already (or if the users return), I'll protect the article. -- ] 08:29, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

::::The page has been protected for now, as the vandalism just kept coming. *sigh* -- ] 08:57, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I unprotected it seeing as they're probably not going to continue. If they do, we'll just protect it again. ]] 15:51, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

=== 200.42.95.188 ===

*(] | ] | ])
Spamming with those amazon referer pages. Every page in its history. Going on right now.
<br/>-- ] 02:34, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===]===
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(Note the accented "i". This is not the same person as ]).
Replaced article ], no other vandalism yet but has copied the real Jiang's user and user talk pages, just like the other pseudo-users that have been around recently.
<br/>-- ] 02:19, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
**Has been blocked. ] 16:30, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===]===
] | ] | ])

The user is threatening on ] to go to a white nationalist board and suggest that members there come to Misplaced Pages to edit the ] article to their preferred POV. Has not committed vandalism per se, although has added extensive pro-white nationalist external links to the article which I have run out of reverts to change for the next 24 hours or so. ]'''] 23:44, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)


===]===
Vandalised the featured article page by switching ] to ]. I switched it back but be on the lookout. ] | ] 22:18, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===]===
Has blanked my user page and ]. (Furthermore, he edits, such as at ], to remove any rejoinder to what he says.) I reluctantly add to this page. --] 18:48, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===]===

Vandalized ], may be more to come. Already reverted changes. ] 18:44, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Has vandalized ] several times. Also various requests for blocking -] 12:14, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===]===

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Recently added a bunch of nonsense to ]. Had previously vandalized ] and ].
] 05:45, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)

===]===

This is likely Michael and the same as below. IPs include ] and ]. ]] 20:19, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
:Michael is at it again. Revert all edits by these IPs. ]] 23:49, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===]===

IPs used include ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. 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. ] 16:19, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)

===]===

I have blocked ] for 24 hours for vandalism. He has mirrored Maximus Rex's user page and created a ] to add to articles. I thought it was the real Max Rex until I looked at his contributions. It is clear from copying the real Max's user page that the intent is to create confusion while vandalising articles. - ]]] 22:32, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)


===169.204.230.146===

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<br/>Random vandalism about some guy named James. -- ] ] 17:10, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

===67.78.3.122===

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<br/>Has been adding offtopic commercial external links to several articles, over the past few days. -- ] 14:10, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)


===]===
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<br/> adding false information to articles, starting articles with false information. -- ] 11:13, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===]===
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*Vandalizing various articles, starting with ].

===]===
*Pretending to be ] (identical name except for umlaut over i, identical user page), this person has attempted to stir up a fight with ], then created a nonsense redirect (]) which was speedily deleted, then vandalised ]. &mdash;] 03:34, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
**He's blocked x 24 hrs. - ] 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. ] 05:41, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
****Perma-blocked. ] 05:47, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

===]===
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Vandalised several pages, including ] and ]. ] 10:21, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===203.51.137.167===

*(] | ] | ])
<br/>-- ] 05:35, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- mainly on ]

=== ] ===
Vandalism of several pages. ]'''] 01:53, Jun 6, 2004 (UTC)

=== ], ], ] ===
This user has been repeatedly adding an off-topic paragraph to ], 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. ] 01:13, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

=== User creating actor substubs ===

known as:

* ] ] ]
* ] ] ]
* ] ] ]

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. ]|] 21:52, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC). Move to speedy delete articles?

:<s>Could it be a bot?</s> 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. ]] 21:58, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
:The edits seem to be too slow to be a bot. ]] 21:59, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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

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

===]===

*(] | ] | ])
<br/>-- vandalizing ] article. ] 12:20, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

=== ] ===
*(] | ] | ])
<br/>-- Repeatedly vandalizing ] over several days. ]'''] 06:26, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)


===]===
* ] I am concerned that this may be a vandal. I am especially troubled by this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Misplaced Pages:Votes_for_deletion&diff=3939542&oldid=3939515. His other edits are now suspect, such as the edits to ]. - ] ] 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 . ? - ] ] 21:19, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

===]===

* ] - Vandalizing Several articles, including ]- plugging his own site - ] ] 18:32, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

===]===

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


===] ]===

* ]
* ]
<br/>-- ] 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.

===]===

Anon ], now known as "]" is causing trouble at ] (see ) ] 04:08, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
:I warned him on his talk page. See ]. Is the quickpoll policy still in effect, or did that expire? ]] 04:16, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
::Officially, I still think it's a policy. But quickpolls just seem really unpopular now. ] 04:21, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
:It appears that ] 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. ] 05:42, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)
::This user is potentially a sockpuppet of ]. 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. ] 04:33, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)
:Could this be the person that was doing the "I'M SNOWSPINNER.I AM GAY" vandalism? ]] 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. ] 04:55, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)
::deleting impersonator's false accusations ]'''] 05:49, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)
:::<s>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". ] 05:04, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)</s>
:::Wait a minute. You're not RickK. In fact, you're probably the same person as Editing Saddam Hussein. ] 05:37, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)
:I blocked ] for 24 hours. ]] 05:06, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
*He has returned as ]. I blocked him. ]'''] 18:09, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)
:I also blocked ] indefinitely. ]] 05:11, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===], ], ]===
Three times in three weeks the same inappropriate, malicious link has been added to ]. 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)?
*(] | ] | ])
<br/>
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<br/>
*(] | ] | ])
<br/>-- ] | ] 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. ]'''] 18:15, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

===]===
*(] | ] | ])

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

===]===
*(] | ] | ])

Has blanked and replaced with graffiti the following articles on Jun 1st and 3rd: ], ], ], ]. Most of these were two days ago and never noticed. I have reverted the vandalism. - ]]] 19:33, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===207.43.175.16===
*(] | ] | ])
(Possibly other IPs also). Repeatedly replacing ] with an advert for his web design business.
<br/>-- ] 17:59, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===An anon user, 192.115.62.132===

] -
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. ] 15:16, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===167.206.112.85===
*(] | ] | ])
Adding nonsense and blanking articles ] 12:21, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===208.51.30.118===

*(] | ] | ])
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.
<br/>-- ] 06:53, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)


===207.216.2.153===

*(] | ] | ])
Repeated vandalized Mumia Abu-Jamal page. 2 reverts required in 5 minutes. Ongoing.
<br/>-- ] 22:50, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===24.186.123.225===

*(] | ] | ]) Repeatedly vandalising Harvard University, George Bush, and George Bush Campaign. Other edits are suspect.
-- ] ] 18:56, Jun 1, 2004 (UTC)

===24.24.9.78===
Deleting the contents of the Equilibrium page, repeatedly.
] 18:47, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
===64.247.205.130===
*(] | ] | ])
Blanking general interest articles (countries mostly) ] 18:12, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===209.146.26.209===

* *(] | ] | ]) Seems to have a problem with ]<br/>-- ] 14:48, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===80.139.19.145===

*(] | ] | ])

Has been repeatedly vandalising ] 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 -- ] 12:06, Jun 1, 2004 (UTC)

===]===

*(] | ] | ])

Has been removing ] interwiki links. --] 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 Misplaced Pages project going. This currently includes Toki Pona and Klingon. See ] for more infomation on this topic. -- ]<font color=chartreuse>|</font>] 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. --] 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. ] would be more appropriate. ]] 11:27, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

=== ] ===

] - ]

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

===]===
(])

Deliberate deletion of all text from ] entry. ] 21:54, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
* Did the same to ] 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. ] 00:27, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===]===
(] | ])

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

===]===

] ])

Has just created ]. ] | ] 12:31, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
* Also ] - copyvio, and others... ] | ] 12:33, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
* ], POV edits.
* and ], copyvio.
* and nonsensical edits to ].

User has been warned, repeatedly. Someone please ban. ] | ] 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.] 12:53, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

::yep, to ] 31 May ] | ] 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. ] 19:42, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

=== User:172.145.2.41 and WikiMD.org ===
] | ] | ]

'''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 ], who labelled the changes "minor" and "rv spamlink". ] 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. ] 02:51, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

::The looks like our ] (I mean, yesterday's). Would the links be okay if the two organizations are related ? Still advertisements, or not ? -- ] 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? ] 03:37, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

:::: IMO, if a Wikipedian is writing a medical-related article in Misplaced Pages.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 ? -- ] 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. ] 19:33, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

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

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

=== ] ===
] has threatened on ] to vandalize both the Italian and the English Wikipedias. Has not performed any vandalism yet, but this is a heads up. ]'''] 22:45, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

=== 212.219.56.244 ===
] | ] | ]

Repeatedly blanking ] page, and potentially others (investigating...) ] | ] 11:18, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
: In apparent revenge for his copyvio'ed ]
: It was ] logged out. He has uploaded other copyrighted photos . He has also tried to put blame on me. I reverted the page and then he put a personal attack in as response . ] 12:53, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

===Wik===

'''Moved to ].'''

Wow, Wik is so active that he gets his own page? No comment. ] 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? ] 22:54, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

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

===]===

Vandalised several pages today, including ] and ]. Was warned before for vandalism on Jan 28.

===]===

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. - ]]] 00:00, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

===]===

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. - ]]] 22:49, 27 May 2004 (UTC)


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] ] reported by ] 19:46, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

===Energybone===
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<br/>-- ]'''] 03:15, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
**Making personal attacks, threatening to vandalize articles if he doesn't get his way. ]'''] 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 ] 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. - ]]] 17:13, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

===82.82.140.79===

*(] | ] | ]) has been attempting to conceal porno links within other links. S/he has done so at ], ], and ]. <br/>-- ~~#~~ (remove #)

===194.8.54.248 ===

*(] | ] | ])
<br/> Appears to be adding incorrect information regarding the birthdates of celebrities. -- ] 17:09, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

:He's doing it again, re-reported above. Also using .249, .250, .251 IP address. -- ] 14:12, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===AnonymousPerson===

*] has displayed his password on his page, saying "Password is 'anon', have fun". Which perhaps is an invitation for vandalism. He edited the ] page with a sparse entry that removes a lot of the useful info that was there before. Check this -- ] 16:59, 2004 May 25 (UTC)
**Their password is no longer "anon". ]'''] 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 ]? Why is it more harmful to have anonymous named accounts than ips? ] 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. - ]]] 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. ] 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? -- ] 15:21, 2004 May 26 (UTC)

===65.64.92.200 (and others)===

*(] | ] | ])<br/>
Same user shows up off and on adding fiction to articles (or adding new fictional articles) pertaining to a number of subjects: '']'', '']'', '']'' and others. ] 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.
<br/>-- ]] 15:44, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

===]===

Shawn Mikula once again, this time contenting himself to edit ] 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. ] 15:25, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

:Now appears to have adopted the username ] and has blanked the page. ] | ] 18:11, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

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



===203.135.0.66===

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<br/>-3 contribs, the latest, just recopied the copy vio text- ] 07:51, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

===]===
User deleted ]
and replaced it with bad content.

===], ]===
User vandalized ] deleting text and images, Rearranging text and placing inaccurate or false information. ] 23:42, 12 May 2004 (UTC)<br/>
User vandalized ] deleting names under Famous Philadelphians and leaving a comment of Garbage. ] 16:19, 13 May 2004 (UTC)<br/>
More Vandalism by 67.15.42.16. This time they re-reverted the ] 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. ] 16:41, 13 May 2004 (UTC)<br/>
On 16 May 2004 at 20:15 this person completely erased ] and replaced it with a notice that states "(Misplaced Pages 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. ] 21:28, 16 May 2004 (UTC)<br/>
More vandalisming by ] again on ]. I don't understand why they keep deleting this Misplaced Pages entry. ] 02:41, 18 May 2004 (UTC)<br/>
] has now resorted to making threatening remarks (See ]). 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 Misplaced Pages account. ] 03:01, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
:24 hour block put in place by RickK. Expires at 02:12 UTC, May 20. -- ]|] 02:53, May 19, 2004 (UTC)

Vandalized ] 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 ] see Page history, 01:04, 21 May 2004 for an example of this vandal's work. ] 06:27, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

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

===202.156.2.59===
*(] | ] |]) - This user is vandalizing our featured page, --] 17:08, 2004 May 22 (UTC)

===141.168.112.211===
*(] | ] |
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<br/>-- ] 07:06, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

===212.143.156.94===

*(] | ] | ])
<br/>-- ~~#~~ (remove #)

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

===], ]===

Editing this very page to alter or delete vandalism alerts. - ] 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. - ] 21:54, May 21, 2004 (UTC)

::I have reasonable suspicion that this user is now ], 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. ] 10:48, May 24, 2004 (UTC). Further note: it appears that ] and ] beat me to this deduction. see ]. ] 10:56, May 24, 2004 (UTC)

===]===
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. --] 15:36, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

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

] vandalising various. Poss ...33 too? (] 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. ] 20:36, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

===]===

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

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

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

===128.220.29.140===
This user has been repeatedly recreating ] despite the VfD vote that deleted it and warnings not to recreate the article. I have blocked ] 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. - ]]] 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. - ]]] 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. ] 20:40, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

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

===]===

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

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

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

===]===

Adding nonsense to ] 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 by this IP later, in case if he returns again. ] 15:25, May 19, 2004 (UTC)

===24.118.242.230===

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

===24.229.216.128===

*(] | ] | ])
<br/>
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" --] 18:52, 2004 May 18 (UTC)

===212.85.7.12===

*(] | ] | ])

Has recently vandalized ] and ], 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, ] 13:30, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

===209.23.32.130 ===

*(] | ] | ])

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



===]===

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

===]===

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 ], is now repeatedly editing ] to eliminate any mentions of same-sex marriage, referring to the term as "orwellian newspeak" in the text of the article. ] 04:08, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

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

===]===
*(] | ] | ])
Was vandalizing so many pages so quickly that we were having trouble keeping up with him. Blocked for 24 hours. See contributions. - ]]] 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. ]'''] 00:18, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
***Everything from May 17 appeared to have the same style and theme. Here's an example:
***:'' ], 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. - ]]] 00:20, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
****But see his "contributions" at ], which are enitrely different in grammar and spelling. ]'''] 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. - ]]] 00:34, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

===129.188.33.221===

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

===]===
added nonsense stuff to ], ], ] and ]. I reverted the vandalism. ] 19:00, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

===146.95.224.173===

])

has just deleted most of ] and added the comment "yoyoyoyo. you smeell" . Have restored to last good edit.
] 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 ] 11:24, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

<s>===]===
a.k.a: ]


Has vandalized multiple wikipedia pages (see also )with links to his website, to try to win the ] ] challenge (the objective of which is to subvert google). ] 22:42, 17 May 2004 (UTC) </s>

===]===

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

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

===], ], ], ]===
Listing massive amounts of articles on ] in a fit of pique because his ] article is being voted against. ]''']

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. - ]]] 20:25, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

Is using the above IP's as sockpuppets for casting additional votes in ] as well as using IP's ], ], ], possibly ], possibly ], ], ], ], ], ]; and usernames ], ], ], ], and ]. 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. --] 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 Misplaced Pages when I tried to post to ]) 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. --] 04:31, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

===]===
*] is moving city pages to non-standard names to prove some ridiculous point. ]'''] 00:28, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

===magazinesfinder.com spammer 67.71.87.220 (prev 69.156.14.249)===

Has been hitting ] 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 ] and ] articles and removes msg:delete from them. ] 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. ] 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. - ]]] 21:11, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

===64.247.205.130===

*(] | ] | ])

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


===162.84.159.98===

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

===68.232.36.61===

*(] | ] | ])

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

===]===
*]
*]
*]
*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 :) --]

=== 198.70.42.52 ===
Seems to have spent the last 20 minutes messing up ]. - ] 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. ( ) --] 12:42, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

===]===
Every posting has been vandalism or nonsense which has been reverted or deleted. ]'''] 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

===], ] et al===
This user is continually, and under different accounts, moving Wik's ]. --] 19:38, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

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

:Actually my user page and my user talk are his favourite target, since I protected ] 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. ] 19:46, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

] has again moved Wik's User page. It seems to be the same person. --] 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:

* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]

:(Added ] -- ] 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 ] ( / ]), who has resigned his account ahead of an ] and embarked on a series of daily . 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. -- ] 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? ] 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. -- ] 07:33, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Today's attack from Levzur is now underway. -- ] 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. ], 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. -- ] 22:03, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

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


===]===

'''This is still a problem user. Has begun updating articles with links to , which is in no way a noteworthy site. There's a long pattern of behavior here. Can someone please put a stop to it?''' ] 05:05, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
Has been making troll/anti-Semitic edits to ], ], ], and ]. Has been abusive in his comments, suggesting a general vendetta aganst me. Violated three revert rule on ] with four attempts to add a link to ] into the article. ] 06:49, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
*He has also violated ] - 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. ], 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 Misplaced Pages), will not have any of that.
::I'm sorry, who do you think my people are? ] 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 ]
: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 ] links back into ]. My apologies. I retract that section of my complaint. ] 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. ] 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. ] 07:23, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
:::Now you are blatantly ''']''' 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. ] 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 Misplaced Pages 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 &quot;vandal&quot;. --] 07:04, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

Won't take no for an answer on ] no matter what reality says. His motives are rather suspicious and he is clearly trolling the page. ] 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 ''in''correct 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? ] 21:46, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Wasn't Paul Vogel banned from posting to Misplaced Pages? Why, then, is this address still posting here? ]'''] 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 Misplaced Pages 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. - ]]] 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
:::<s>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 ]. Indeed, he appears to be in New York, not in Canada. Where am I missing evidence that Vogel ever used this IP or ISP? ] 20:11, 14 May 2004 (UTC)</s>

::::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. ] 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 ] 05:57, May 17, 2004 (UTC)

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

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Has been involved in lengthy edit war on ], 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. ] 19:48, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
*Edit war is over ] as well. ] 23:56, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

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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 Misplaced Pages, but someone with more strength than a normal user could do better than I can. ] 17:46, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

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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. - ]]] 16:38, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

===199.67.138.20===

*(] | ] | ]) - Looks to be a concerted nonsense-creating campaign, cutting & pasting text from job ads into new articles., 14 so far! --] 06:20, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
**21 so far.. can someone block this idiot? --] 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. ] 06:29, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
****<strike>Hmm, I think it is extremely '''un'''likely that this is anything other than wilful vandalism</strike> 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. --] 06:35, May 11, 2004 (UTC)

===172.195.239.108===

*(] | ] | ]) - Has been inserting meaningless links to www.dictionarybarn.com into various articles, 4 so far. --] 05:13, May 11, 2004 (UTC)

===63.197.115.201===

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<br/>--Repeat offender, most recent action was to blank ] ] 22:16, 10 May 2004 (UTC)



===165.139.171.10===
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:Vandalizing ], ] and more.

===81.99.250.101===

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:Appears to be a new user who's been messing around with ] (a nice inconspicuous article!) and ]. Sandbox warning issued -- please keep an eye open on future activities. -- ] 22:24, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
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:Seems to be continuly vandlizing ] and some other pages.



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Multiple, high-speed vandalism, replacing entire entry text with 'Nice work!' - including ], ], ] and many others. -- ] 17:28, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

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wannabe h4x0R, vandalism in ]

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Has also vandalised ] and ], also ]. Looks related to ]. --] 04:52, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

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

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Has vandalised ], ] and ] so far, doesn't look like he's about to stop. --] 04:45, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

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

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Adding nonsense to ] and ]. ] 00:44, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

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This person committed acts of vandalism to ] by removing a legitimate image and then claiming on ] and ] that these were stolen images from a ] 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 Misplaced Pages? ] 06:57, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

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Vandalism to various articles, including ], ], ], and ]. ] 00:49, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

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

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Blanking ], ] and other pages. ] 22:00, May 7, 2004 (UTC)
*Vandalism warning issued -- ] 22:24, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
*FYI correlation: ] & ] vandalized the same set of articles yesterday, which I have reported. Also, today Schadenfreude targeted my page. --]|] 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! ] has also issued a warning to this user about abusing other users. -- ] 22:40, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

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Vandalizing ]. ] 21:57, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

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] blanked my user page. ] 16:42 7 May 2004 (UTC)
: is the "attack" in question - ] 21:15, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

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

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Unnamed user seems to have vandalised ] probably for the 2nd time. ]

===] and other addresses in 62.12.*===
Blanking random pages, especially ]'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 ] from below? ] 02:06, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

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These IPs have been apparently used by the same person to make similar "corrections" into several pages related to Caucasian languages, e.g. ], ], ], ], ], and ]. 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.<br/>Unfortunately the person refuses to cite his sources or provide any comment or justification whatsoever.<br/>It is very likely that the person is ] who withdrew from Misplaced Pages a few days ago after having become the subject of several complaints.<br/>] 06:05, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

* Also ], ], ], ], ] 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. -- ] 17:26, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

He appears to be back in action again, now under 213.157.193.211. Some of the articles were unprotected recently and he's reverting to his old versions. ] 01:11, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

:I just reprotected the articles he was warring over this time. Didn't block him since he seems fixated on just those limited set of articles and because he obviously has the ability to change IPs. ] 01:34, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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'''Update: User is back at work in the past few days. Still reverting existant pages to junk pages on Xena characters.''' ] 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 ] for discussion and evidence of this. ] 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. ] 3:26 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
*Not just mythological entries. See the history of ]. ]'''] 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. ] 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. ] 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 ] and ]. 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. ] 06:53, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

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Has vandalized ] and moved it, and has also vandalized ] appropriately enough. ] 22:29, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

-He/She probably is new to Misplaced Pages 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. --]] 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. ] 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. - ] 23:00, May 5, 2004 (UTC)


===68.47.114.230, 68.192.76.120===

Someone is assaulting the article on ], reverting to last reasonable version. - ] 21:02, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
:Same user is attacking ] amongst others. Warned once. ] 21:24, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

===69.106.5.22, 69.106.200.207, and 69.106.202.69===

Has made five reverts to ] 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. ] 20:42, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

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


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

===172.186.34.187 and 80.5.160.4 ===

Mounted an attack for me listing ] as a slang dic.def for deletion. Is now attacking my previous articles ] and ]
Is also attacking my previous articles ] and ] --] 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. --] 17:17, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

* See also, histories for ],], ], ] -- verify accuracy of ], ] et al. contribs. All contributions need to be looked at systematically I feel. This has been going on for weeks. --] 17:43, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

===User: 24.0.231.214===
Has vandalized "Swishahouse" numerous times in a row now.
] 05:53, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

===User:24.122.3.194===

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

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



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

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is repeatedly vandalizing ] with reverts to copyrighted POV material. --] 00:32, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

is also vandalizing ] and created a POV ] to circumvent protection of ]--] 01:14, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

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The first page used for tracking vandalism was a user subpage, ManningBartlett/Naughty people, some time before 4 November 2001. The vandalism in progress page was established as VANDALISM IN PROGRESS on 1 December 2001 - the title was upper-case to make it easily distinguishable on recent changes). Around the same time, the Misplaced Pages Militia (since renamed to the Volunteer Fire Department) was formed to coordinate responses to press releases about Misplaced Pages. The "VANDALISM IN PROGRESS" page was moved to the Misplaced Pages namespace in August 2002 and was renamed to the current title in 2006. Its archives since 2003 may be found in Misplaced Pages:Requests for investigation/Archives and the talk archives since august 2002 can be found in the history of Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for investigation/Archive 4 and in text form as subpages of Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for investigation. Old subpages can also be found through special:Prefixindex/Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress. the long-term abuse page also grew out of "vandalism in progress". A section on the "vandalism in progress" page for persistent vandalism was added in February 2004, later abandoned, and then re-created as "Ongoing alerts" in September 2004; in December 2004 it was split off to its own page, titled Misplaced Pages:Vandalism in progress/Long term alerts.

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