User:Nick-D/sandbox

Sandbox Organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page.


 * Create a new draft: Type the name of the draft into the box and click 'Create page', you can see all your drafts of that type by clicking the title e.g 'Articles'.
 * Organise your existing drafts: Click on 'To sort' and move drafts into the correct subfolders e.g 'User:/Articles'. You can then delete the redirect by adding  to it.
 * Archive: If you want to keep drafts after you've finished working on them you can them to your 'Archive', alternatively you can delete them by added  to the page.
 * Personalise: Once you've created your sandbox organiser you can add new draft spaces, or change existing ones, comments have been added to the wikicode to explain how.


 * 1) Sort out all the existing drafts into the right sections
 * 2) Publish some of the finished draft articles


 * Add your bookmarks here

Tools and gadgets go here


 * Articles created by me
 * Pageviews of the articles I've contributed to



Random stuff
Useful links
 * Library
 * Template:Infobox Military Unit
 * Template:Infobox Government agency
 * Template:Infobox National Military
 * New articles (Australia)
 * Template:Infobox Ship Example
 * Template:Operational plan
 * Australian Wikipedians' notice board
 * Naming conventions (ships)
 * WikiProject Military history/Australian military history task force/Popular pages
 * General sanctions
 * Category:Requests for unblock
 * Reliable sources/Noticeboard
 * WikiProject Copyright Cleanup
 * User:Short Brigade Harvester Boris/A pocket guide to Arbitration - quite good
 * Possibly unfree files/2013 April 15
 * http://rushprnews.com/2010/03/31/pr-consultants-should-think-twice-before-using-wikipedia-to-promote-clients - good article
 * http://rushprnews.com/2010/03/31/pr-consultants-should-think-twice-before-using-wikipedia-to-promote-clients - good article


 * The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World

Sockpuppets
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Fonte de regaz

Dodgy IP editors' aliases

This long-running vandal edits from Israeli IP addresses, and adds fictional equipment to articles on national militaries (generally, but not always, military forces of developing countries)
 * (February 2016)
 * (July 2015)
 * (March 2015)
 * (November 2014)
 * (October 2014)
 * (October 2014)
 * (June 2014)
 * (June 2014)
 * (April 2014)
 * (June 2013)
 * (June 2013)
 * (December 2012)
 * (September 2012)
 * (July 2012)
 * (May 2012)
 * (April 2012)

This IP editor focuses on articles about the Philippines, and generally adds total fiction.
 * - December 2012
 * - 30 March 2011
 * - 21 February 2011
 * - 9 September 2010 - same contributions as
 * - exact same pattern, 27 May 2010
 * - 23 April 2010
 * - 19 April 2010
 * - 11 April 2010
 * - 13 March 2010
 * - no vandalism, but exactly the same editing pattern
 * - 22 February 2010
 * - 11 February 2010 - same pattern and unsuitable ref in the M16 article
 * - 9 February 2010
 * - 24 January - same pattern
 * - 14 January
 * - 13 January
 * } - 11 January 2010 - same pattern
 * - 31 December 2009 - new IP, but same editor as the one below
 * - 31 December 2009
 * - 28 December 2009
 * - 26 December 2009
 * - 16 December 2009
 * - 11 December 2009
 * - 24 November 2009
 * - 16 November 2009
 * - 2 November 2009
 * - 21 October 2009
 * - 12/13 October 2009
 * - 4 September 2009
 * - 30 August 2009
 * - 7 July
 * - 9 June (appears to be the same editor)
 * - 31 May, blocked
 * - 24 May, blocked
 * - 30 March, blocked
 * - 26 March, blocked
 * - 23 February, blocked
 * - 22 February, blocked
 * - 14 February, blocked
 * - 29 January (looks to be the same editor)
 * - 28 January
 * - 26 January, blocked
 * - 26 January, blocked
 * - 25 January, blocked
 * - 22 January, admitted making previous edits to Philipine articles but claimed (wrongly) that they had stopped:, blocked
 * - 18 January, blocked
 * - 18 January, blocked
 * - (9 January, blocked)
 * - (7 January, blocked)
 * - (7 January, blocked)
 * - (18 December, blocked)
 * - (17 December, blocked - same IP as the one who admitted vandalism)
 * - (15 December, blocked)
 * - (probable)
 * - (December, blocked)
 * - (December, blocked)
 * - (5 December, blocked)
 * - (5 December, blocked)
 * - (4 December, blocked)
 * - (28 November, blocked)
 * - (26 November, blocked)
 * - (25 November, blocked)
 * - (24 November, blocked)
 * - (17 November, blocked - borderline case, but clearly the same editor)
 * - (17 November, blocked)
 * - (14 November, blocked)
 * - repeat offender, blocked 14 November
 * - (14 November, blocked)
 * - looks very similar, and a repeat offender. Blocked 13 Nov.
 * - (13 November - blocked)
 * - (3 November - blocked)
 * - (3 November - blocked)
 * - (3 November - blocked)
 * has registered as  promised to stop vandalism, but this continued so blocked
 * (30 September - blocked)
 * (30 September - blocked)
 * (19 September - blocked)
 * (17 September - blocked)
 * (13 September - blocked)
 * (12 September, probable)
 * (29 August - blocked)
 * (22 August - blocked)
 * (2 August - blocked)
 * (12 July - blocked)
 * (11 July - blocked)
 * (7 July - blocked)
 * (2 July - admitted posting incorrect info at: and blocked for one week)
 * (30 June, used this IP again for vandalism in early July, blocked 6 July - posted abuse on talk page and block extended for another month, responded by stating that they will continuine vandalism once the block expires ) - may be the same as who has a very similar editing pattern (inc edits to the FARC article) - also blocked for vandalism
 * (29 June)
 * (26 June
 * (25 June)
 * (25 June)
 * (20-21 June)
 * (17 May and 19 July, probable)
 * (5-7 May)
 * (28-30 April)
 * (17 May and 19 July, probable)
 * (5-7 May)
 * (28-30 April)

may be the same editor - similar, but not identical, edit pattern

has also added similar hoaxes

Possibly relevant SPIs, etc to the above:
 * Sockpuppet investigations/JournalmanManila/Archive - maybe
 * Long-term abuse/My Royal Young - likely
 * Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Randelearcilla - almost certainly

Block evaders User:Nick Dowling/monobook.js
 * Admits editing under 119.152.x ranges:
 * Admits editing under 119.152.x ranges:
 * Admits editing under 119.152.x ranges: