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This section is for pages that are the targets of persistent vandalism by multiple users (anonymous and/or logged in).

Note to system administrators: I know I'm probably going to get grilled for putting this here, but I have a suggestion. Could we please remove some of the alerts on this page? I don't know who is responsible for it, but it would help to unclutter in terms of checking for vandalism. Some of these have been resolved for days due to the vandalism coming to a hault or the page in question being protected. Thanks! Davidpdx 9/16/05 15:40 (UTC)

World Financial Group

This page is getting a variety of POV edits, apparently by one person who feels the company is entirely above-board and without fault and another who finds them to be the scum of the Earth (despite the glut of redlinked users, the edits are almost always mirror images of previous revisions). A few regular editors have hashed out what we feel is a reasonably NPOV version but I'm bumping up against 3RR on this. Various "Here's why I'm reverting, please contribute to the talk page" requests have garnered no response. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 22:04, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Stella Vine

Vandalism from several IPs (most recent to least recent):

Cdyson37 23:37, 13 September 2005 (UTC) Seems to have stopped for now. No edits since my revert of 00:33, 14 September 2005 -- Cdyson37 20:50, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fred Phelps

Can't tell if this is a case of persistant vandalism or what due to what was done. Go to that page and you get a pic of a algebraic equation. I'm not talking about it replacing the body of the entry, but saying that is ALL you get, no wikipedia sidebars, navigational tools, editing tabs or anything. Now Phelps may not be my favorite person, but somebody has nailed this page good. Donovan Ravenhull 20:56, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This page looks fine to me, and nothing in the history suggests vandalism. Perhaps it's something in your browser? moink 21:51, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Odd. I caught the weird version too (on Firefox). Then I fired up the page in Safari, and it looked fine. Then I went back to Firefox, and it looked fine when I reloaded. Someone been diddling a template or something? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 22:01, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I'm using IE. The same result came up for me for at work (where I typed up the report) and here at home. Donovan Ravenhull 22:28, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I have been having this problem on random pages too. I think it has to do with the general slowdown of wiki, it looks as if sometimes the stylesheet is not being downloaded in time to be applied to the page. --Darkfred Talk to me 09:36, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User:Splash

This user page keeps getting vandalized by different IPs. --Ixfd64 09:17, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Malcolm X

70.23.104.48 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) refuses to comply with reasonable requests that he discuss controversial edits on the article's Talk page, simply reverting over and over again. Two people (at least) have an eye on the page, but we have to sleep sometime. ;) —chris.lawson (talk) 04:41, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Erronous and overhaste entry - moved to User talk:Gmaxwell _JohJak2 11:38, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jorn Barger vandal

  • One person using several IPs, in an ongoing smear campaign against Jorn Barger:
Note Huneric (talk · contribs) also appears to have made Jorn Barger–related edits in a similar vein [1] [2], which may or may not be related. -- Curps 18:41, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Update: Huneric is almost certainly the same person, based on the Jorn Barger connection and this series of edits: [3] [4] [5] (he edited List of guitarists as Huneric, left an uncivil note on my talk page as Huneric, then reverted List of guitarists as 209.215.160.*).
Huneric has been blocked indefinitely as a self-admitted vandal [6]. The range 209.215.160.0/25 has also been temporarily blocked. -- Curps 19:37, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Articles affected by the Jorn Barger vandal include:
The change involves adding Barger's name to an irrelevant list, or adding a one-line defamatory reference about him. Vandal usually puts "minor edit" in the Edit summary, but doesn't check the "minor edit" box. Owen× ☎ 20:05, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This vandal is continuing to disrupt Wikipedia by making irrelevant page changes as noted above. All edits are originating from the 209.215.160.x range. Hall Monitor 19:13, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Political_power

Can anyone work out what has happened at this page? --Ian Pitchford 13:35, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dominion of Melchizedek

User has repeatily reverted this artical to one that has a POV even after being warned not to do this. User has also vandalized Ecclesiastical state and Bokak Atoll. Shocktm 20:51, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

It's the same pro-DoM contributor that has been revert and/or POV warring for the last few weeks in a host of articles, including Antartica, Rotuma, Microstate, Micronation, Fictional country, etc. Attempts to reason with the anonymous contributor thus far prove unproductive. El_C 00:52, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The following user has again reverted the articles Dominion of Melchizedek. The IP address is: 67.124.49.20 I do not know how to revert and won't try for fear of making it worse. Will someone fix them when they have a chance? He also changed Ecclesiastical state and Bokak Atoll again, I reverted both of them. Davidpdx 9/12/05 12:22 KST

Thanks for the notice, Davidpdx. El_C 23:40, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This person has again been at it changing Bokak Atoll & Ecclesiastical state Please ban this person again. 67.124.49.20 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Davidpdx 9/14/00 10:15 (UTC)
I have offered a truce in terms of getting into an edit war with this person. I told him I would offer to look at any proof he has, if he would sign up for an ID and not revert those pages for a week. I thought maybe this might help settle things down for a bit. We'll see if it works. Davidpdx 9/16/05 9:43 (UTC)

September 11, 2001 attacks

Please ban immediately these vandals. --ThomasK 09:08, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Done. El_C 00:32, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism with the nastiest edit summaries I have ever seen on Wikipedia, obviously the same person or closely coordinated on multiple IPs. This is one of the few times I think it would be worth someone going in and removing edit summaries. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:14, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

I now see that each of these IPs did multiple vandalisms (various articles) before they were stopped, equally nasty edit summaries. Same comment about removing edit summaries applies. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:16, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

The vile edit summaries by these sockpuppets are addressed against a particular Wiki admin, who may have blocked other IP addresses used by the same anon. Robert McClenon 14:31, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Orbiter (sim)

'Clan' repeatedly defacing article after one of them was banned from our forum for post flooding. Defacements by multiple IPs.

WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006

Anon users have been regularly vandalising the place, mostly the "Legends" section which should be TBC

--Oakster 17:31, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


William Rehnquist

Blocked this entire range (70.197.0.0/16) for one hour to stop persistent removal of the vandalism warning. Antandrus (talk) 18:37, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Buqsha

Looks like a penis pic has been inserted into the Asian Currencies tag at the bottom... Not sure how to get to wherever this tag's content is to edit it. --Cheese Sandwich 03:56, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ray Nagin

Vandal calling himself 'Long John Silver', keeps reverting entire article to a highly POV version mostly consisting of conspiracy theories found on blogs. The vandal appears to come from behing a NAT box and so the IP address changes, often with each post. The vandal has also converted certain redirect articles into his own personal platform for a highly POV article. See [7]. The same poster has also repeatedly violated WP:NPA in the talk for Able Danger under the names 'Honest Abe' and 'Swamp Fox' calling those with contrary views 'liars' and 'National Socialists'. 

   * 138.162.0.38/28
   * 209.247.222.92/28

Oh more charming edits, 209.247.222.87 adding 'white power' to the MLK article. [8] And using the N. word on the Danny Glover article. [9] --Gorgonzilla 04:45, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Conestoga_wagon

I'm not entirely sure if I'm being had, or if others are having this problem, but everytime I click on a link going to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_wagon, I get redirected to the French wikipedia's article on Islam. The appropriate URL is retained in the address bar of my browser. There is nothing you can do with this page (edit, history, etc.) without typing the URL's into the address bar. However, the current real version shows up quite well if you click on its entry in the History page. This has to be vandalism--I could spend a half hour clicking on Random article without getting a topic I recognized, but this sucker redirects to a big fish of an article. Thanks for the help! --Adamrush 15:35, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Obesity (Image:Fatmouse.jpg)

The article's main image of two fat mice has been replaced with an image of an obscene nature which looks questionable. --82.42.151.164 13:34, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This didn't happen just once. This happened three times, from three different users, all of which have been warned for vandalism before. Raven4x4x 09:42, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Specifically, it's the image that's being vandalised, not the article. If it continues, it could be protected. — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 18:14, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

New Orleans, Louisiana

Hurricane Katrina

Effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans

Thomas Jefferson

Somethings going on here but I don't have time to follow through.

John G. Roberts, Jr.

U.S. Highway 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Highway_1 some one put dongs on the bottom of the page.

It was a template that got defaced. It lasted only a minute, and if the vandalism is still visible for you, it's an old cache you're seing. Should be fine for everyone soon. Shanes 07:33, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Geraldo Rivera

Placed a stupid remark that Geraldo Rivera went by "Jerry Rivers" --Aranda56 04:41, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Little Bayou

A number of anon vandals.[10] Borisblue 04:31, 5 September 2005 (UTC) This one in particular: 192.133.129.161[reply]

Yep, you've got a persistent vandalism problem. But that's not the only problem with the article; it looks like it needs a lot of work. It's not even very clear just what it's about; apparently a movie, but IMDB has no entry for it. *Dan* 05:04, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

User talk:Arwel Parry

See User talk:205.188.116.73 continual vandalism of this page. Please block indefinately. Jooler 18:01, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Great Depression in the United States

I don't really understand how to revet pages. Could someone fix it for me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.111.2 (talk • contribs) 03:44, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Kanye West

IP Address continually vandalizing in the past few minutes: 24.33.151.62

Article is repeatedly vandalized with racist comments, slurs, and other nonsense. Other users and I have reverted vandalism several times today. Psy guy (talk) 22:37, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jack Thompson (attorney)

Many anonymous users post insults or nonsense. Article is reverted at least once a day. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 21:41, 2005 September 3 (UTC)

List of Nintendo Revolution games

Multiple anonymous users repeatedly add bogus entries like "Mario: Pimpin' Time". I'm guessing somebody linked here from GameFAQs. Nifboy 19:35, 3 September 2005 (UTC) Multiple users from the Gamefaqs message boards are constantly making vulgar posts.[reply]


IP addresses

Please report vandals who are operating under anonymous IP addresses under the appropriate severity level.

IP Severe

Warned for the last time. If he vandalizes again I will block him. Please report here if that happens. · Katefan0(scribble) 22:45, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


IP Moderate

Gave user first warning. Nandesuka 12:25, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

in the last two weeks. Very insistent, persists despite multiple warnings, will not engage in Talk. Why are we allowing these proxy edits, anyway?—chris.lawson (talk) 20:04, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I too will vouch that this user's only contributions are disruptive. He has also appeared from other IPs on the same range in order to avoid 3RR violation. Indef block recommended. Erwin
I'm sorry, as a relativly new user I had difficulty understanding that user:mongo wasn't violating any of those with this little comment "I CAN contact AOL and they CAN track your IP based on your posts and they CAN remove your memebership, and if you do something really stupid, an easy task for you I'm sure, maybe you can spend a few nights in a jail with the butt pirates..." I guess this is just user:mongo's way of making new people feel welcome, by threatening them with sodomy--172.156.178.23 05:51, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You also might want to check out Erwin_Walsh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), but socks are neither here nor there, as they seem to have their own section--172.156.178.23 05:55, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
He'll probably get busted for violating 3RR himself. But please, stop the nonsense and stop the personal attacks. --Titoxd 06:04, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I doubt very much that anything would ever happen to mongo, either way, I don't much care.. good luck dealing with Walsh and the 8x.x.x.x anons--172.156.178.23 06:44, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You provided an unprovoked personal attack here right after vandalizing this touchy subject matter of all things and you expect civility from me. Sure, that's likely.--MONGO 08:05, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
Why would I expect civility from you? I would expect trolling and petty vandalism from you, and behold.. to be fair I would have expected it from one of your sockpuppets, not you, but it looks like you've been at it for a while --172.156.178.23 14:10, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I don't use sockpuppets, and the other comment isn't vandalism in any twisted vision you may have as a definition, nor is it a personal attack...is was in response to a real troll insulting the U.S. in the Hurricane Katrina articles talk page...bye.--MONGO 19:22, September 3, 2005 (UTC)


IP Low

(159.191.12.24 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) has been vandalizing Aquaponics quite frequently with "stupid" edits, such as changing references to "aquaponics" to "farting", adding "fart fart fart fart", and the like. I've warned this user twice. Please block this user if they continue to vandalize this or any other pages. A 24-hour block should be sufficient. --Idont Havaname 21:52, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Appears to have given up vandalism judging by comments on their talk page. --Astwell1986 11:13, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • 210.11.188.30 (talk • contribs • block) Adds bizarre and offensive text to various articles, usually involving a friend's name and some obscene phrase; moderators keep having to revert. Has at least 40 edits to the address, and so far as I can tell all have been rubbish... a repeat vandal. I'm asking for at least a block here, maybe even a ban. -- Davis21Wylie 12:17, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • 4.152.165.245 (talk • contribs • block) keeps adding "She is also a former WWE Tag Team Champion along with Tina Fey." and "She is also a former WWE Heavyweight Champion and Tag Team Champion along with Amy Poehler." to their respective pages. Along with "*Chicken Fries RULE!", "*Matt thinks Tina Fey is the greatest WWE Champion ever, and laughs at all her jokes", and "*"You don't like Chicken Fries? Whazzup wit dat?"" Same user as the below.-- pmam21talkarticles 23:04, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
  • 221.134.224.183 (talk • contribs • block) yesterday; 221.134.225.188 (talk • contribs • block) today, has been reverting to a version of the Mumbai article [15] which has possible unfree images. I've warned him three times, told him that such an action is considered vandalism, and posted the relavent links to my talk. User refuses to respond. I've blocked his current IP address, but he may appear under another IP. User:Nichalp/sg 08:29, September 5, 2005 (UTC)


Registered Users

Please report vandals who are operating under registered usernames under the appropriate severity level.

RU Severe

...who may all be sockpuppets of the same anonymous user, and:

They have collectively caused a total meltdown of this article. THIS MUST BE DEALT WITH NOW, PLEASE!!! 206.114.20.121 18:54, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Salt Lake City IP-addresses are Barbara Schwarz herself, who posts from three SLC locations (a library, a university and an LDS access place). The Lily Firered (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) user is ab austrian troll who supports her. Tilman 22:18, 8 September 2005 (UTC)Tilman[reply]
I protected the article, that should slow things down for now. Sasquatch讲看 04:47, September 9, 2005 (UTC)


RU Moderate

Permablocked as impostor. Fernando Rizo T/C 22:16, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I would like any moderators to please ban this user as soon as possible with an expiry time of indefinite. -- Mike Garcia | talk 15:36, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like more of a content dispute than vandalism. *Dan* 04:13, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
This is one of Wikipedia's most persistent, long-term vandals. You can find his "contributions" going back to at least May under numerous aliases, including IP addresses in the 63.19.*.* range. More recently he's been registering throw-away user names. His MO is falsifying data in geographic articles in north central North Carolina, and occasionally vandalizing other things. Look at the history of Stokes County, North Carolina to see some of his typical edits. Blocking 63.19.0.0/16 usually shuts him down, though he has also used 65.54.*.*. Antandrus (talk) 15:00, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


RU Low

I have refused to accept your use of an outdated Wikipedia mirror site (nationmaster.com) as a reference for statistical information. That can't be called vandalism by any means so please stop abusing this page, and instead use the talkpage and discuss these issues with me there. -- Karl Meier 10:49, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jedi Master Davideus (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Vandalized Sir Francis Drake High School and Muhammad. Most changes were controversial, though I can't say about the Coruscant ones. --Fabiob 10:37, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Possible Sockpuppets

209.247.222.89 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) blocked for vandalism is now revert warring under the IP address 66.43.173.74, comments on reverts and reverted material is same as performed by banned user. I have also filed a 3RR for 9 reverts in 24 hours. --Gorgonzilla 01:15, 14 September 2005 (UTC) Via Egnatia (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) resumed (see VIP archive) his ethnic cleansing campaign. MATIA 09:39, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


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