Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/Old alerts

This page is an archive of abuse on Wikipedia originally reported on VANDALISM IN PROGRESS.


 * 203.166.96.234 defacing several pages -- Zoe 23:28 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)
 * I blocked that at the third offense, but I just now nslookedup it and it's called cache0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net, which sounds like a squid. The actual perp AFAICT could be any UU customer in Australia or Japan. I can't even tell from whois where the squid is. Should this IP be unblocked? -phma
 * 12.39.89.31 added nonsense to Joseph Nathan Kane, Rose Kennedy, Adolph Zukor, Eubie Blake, Nicolas Slonimsky, Irving Rapper, and Grandma Moses. IP is blocked. IP is a dialup line at madbbs.com and is likely to change. It may reappear at anywhere in 12.38.88/19. -phma 2002-10-17
 * This person has been adding sloppy short bios of people who lived to be over 100 years, with comments like "WOW THAT'S REALLY REALLY OLD!!"; may be more clueless than a deliberate vandal. -- Infrogmation
 * 66.108.48.88 was mucking around the hermeneutics page Slrubenstein


 * 209.189.128.78 Completely rewrote 2 articles and wrote 1 from scratch, all nonsensical and obscene. Quite funny, though, I have to admit, but still, absolutely not in line with the 'pedia. -User:Olivier
 * Blocked at your request, although we could be losing a talented contributor. --Ed Poor 16:42 Oct 16, 2002 (UTC)
 * I agree with you, I would be in favor of deblocking this contributor quickly and letting him/her know that he/she could better use his/her creativity. -User:Olivier
 * I think you guys have low standards for "talent" and "creativity" but... This IP belongs to a public school in Albuquerque; probably a library or classroom machine, which more intelligent students might stumble across. Unblocked. --Brion 11:04 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)
 * 195.93.32.9 Another vandal that deleted the Warsaw Pact article. Damage undone, but this is the third vandal (going by IP) in a few days to have done this. Scipius 20:11 Oct 10, 2002 (UTC)


 * 203.37.199.36 carved his initialis in Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes 09:49 . . 203.37.199.36 dml
 * Thanks for erasing the graffiti, David. --Ed Poor
 * 64.28.97.70 deleted entire text of Mohammed Atta --Ed Poor 21:00 Oct 17, 2002 (UTC)
 * 64.169.5.77adding political rants to Genocide
 * That's not vandalism, just idiocy. They've been editing their little rant in Talk:Genocide for some time, but haven't bothered to actually work on the article. --Brion 01:16 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)
 * 196.2.20.25 added and removed graffiti to Israeli-Palestinian conflict --Ed Poor 15:23 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)
 * 164.116.79.90, 164.116.79.139, and 164.116.79.56: page deletions. -User:Olivier
 * Thanks to Dachshund and another for restoring. --Ed Poor


 * 24.201.235.57 vandalised a number of pages including Current events and World Trade Center; blanked some, put Nazi ASCII art in a couple. IP banned and changes reverted. --Brion 12:28 Oct 14, 2002 (UTC)
 * 63.231.52.76 is repeatedly removing balance from Jehovah's Witnesses - Khendon 17:28 Oct 12, 2002 (UTC)
 * This was more a POV squabble than vandalism -- Thanks to Quintessent, Modemac, Ram-Man, Maveric149, Wesley, et al., for helping to work this out with Clutch. --Ed Poor


 * 128.193.88.224 inserting random obscenities in multiple articles. --Ed Poor
 * damage undone -- 128.193.88.224
 * yes, good job of cleaning up. An amazing example of visitor to the site experimenting with how to use it And you've picked up on our formatting conventions rather quickly, too :-) --Ed Poor


 * My software accidentally deleted Talk:List_of_famous_Canadians --Ed Poor
 * Fixed (see talk:Opera browser) --Ed Poor 15:00 Oct 15, 2002 (UTC)


 * 64.8.139.61 wrote graffiti in Great Depression; reverted; no other user contributions. --Ed Poor 13:19 Oct 15, 2002 (UTC)


 * Anti-Defamation League and Holocaust created and vandalized respectively by 205.201.40.214 (the first needs editing or deletion, the 2nd was reverted) Someone else 22:39 Oct 13, 2002 (UTC)
 * Thanks to Tokerboy for fixing Anti-Defamation League. --Ed Poor
 * 136.227.80.171 put a joke in line, then immediately removed it himself.
 * Archived in bad jokes and other deleted nonsense --Ed Poor 13:24 Oct 10, 2002 (UTC)
 * 168.212.148 ws inserting homophobic comments in articles (such as Adolf Hitler, Make Yourself, Saturated -- Sam 17:39 Oct 9, 2002 (UTC))
 * Thanks to Sam for the alert and to Gareth & Tzartzam for clean-up. --Ed Poor
 * Gareth actually reported it the second before I did. Nice job all round.. -- Sam


 * 65.170.132.162 had Francisco Franco born in Cheeseville - sounds like a prank
 * fixed by Gareth -- no other action needed --Ed Poor
 * 172.183.243.170 vandalised Warsaw Pact (not yet blocked though). Let's hope he's not the same as 212.219.207.7/5.
 * fixed by Scipius - no other action needed
 * 24.61.1.121 deleting entire pages. Working on reverting.  -- Zoe 23:09 Oct 8, 2002 (UTC)
 * All changes reverted, IP blocked. --Brion 23:10 Oct 8, 2002 (UTC)
 * 131.230.74.136 is vandalizing Shimon Peres - twice so far. -- Zoe 22:47 Oct 8, 2002 (UTC)


 * October 8, 2002: 24.151.44.245 Set up pages at Natural catastrophe and Ignatius Donnelly with nonsense on them.
 * Just a kid fooling around. I deleted the pages; if he comes back, we can consider a block.
 * October 8, 2002: Several pages by 165.139.124.250, mostly full text deletions - IP blocked by popular demand --Ed Poor. Damages have all been reverted --FvdP
 * October 7, 2002: 208.155.3.133-- changed Mac OS to gibberish, then to graffiti; started Jef Raskin with jazz scat (so I morphed it into a stub) --Ed Poor
 * October 7, 2002: Cotton, Unix, World War II by 208.182.75.4 on Oct. 7, Taliban on September 25. --KQ
 * Book on Oct. 17 --Mrwojo
 * October 7, 2002: Windows Me, Unix by 208.182.75.3 on Oct. 7, Lycopene on September 25. --KQ
 * October 7, 2002: Several articles, by 12.235.190.90 IP blocked (see User contributions list for this user) (changes are often often commented as "Spelling correction" -- noted by 200.165.239.234
 * October 5, 2002: Mythology of demons by 139.134.64.153 -- noted by 200.165.239.234
 * October 4, 2002: 68.113.98.254 - looks inactive right now (for the last 1/2 hour [he ought to be: I banned him 20 minutes ago --Ed Poor ;) -- Of course; but I had not read your message at the time of my writing ;-) FvdP ] also stroke Talk:History of computing on 20:12 Sep 20, 2002. Never contributed content. Damage reverted.
 * October 3, 2002: 66.144.13.254 has been vandalizing several pages today, all of which have been reverted.  -- Zoe
 * October 3, 2002: Vandalism of Connecticut by 164.83.4.85
 * Asked him to contribute or be blocked, same as 216. --Ed Poor
 * October 3, 2002: Vandalism of Great Sandy desert by 216.174.135.53, several times after 15:20. Cordyph 15:36 Oct 3, 2002 (UTC)
 * Protected Sandy Desert and 2 Scottish articles; tried to start dialogue with 216.174. I'll give him one more chance, then I say we use the "block" feature. --Ed Poor
 * Okay, 20 minutes of peace having passed since my message to 216, I have unprotected the 3 pages in question. --Ed Poor
 * October 1, 2002: Vandalism of Roman Colosseum by 65.199.239.171 between 19:01 and 19:05. Bernfarr
 * Anonymous user from dynamic IP 128.193.xxx.xxx has refused several attempts to move rational discussion of his entries from the Talk:Wikipedic page to the meta pages. Yes, he's made a few useful contributions too, but he has also edited comments made by others to make them look like they said something different; that alone shows a complete lack of personal integrity incompatible with a collaborative project, and I for one will not consider lifting his block until he apologizes for that. --LDC
 * I could just as well say that you have refused several attempts to keep rational discussion of my entries in the Talk:Wikipedic page. As for editing comments made by others, I'm continually finding my comments changed as well.
 * Give me a page title, date, and time where someone has edited one of your comments to make it appear you said something you didn't, and I will block that person's access as well. Many different things are welcome or at least tolerated here: dissent, zeal, bias, odd ideas, rudeness, etc.; those are all just part of what makes us a diverse community. But honesty is not negotiable.


 * Sept. 28, 2002: 210.22.168.10 has repeatedly replaced the redirect in PKZIP with a vacuous announcement of who he is.
 * Repeatedly? This only shows up once in the history, and PKZIP appears nowhere in the deletion log. Unless I'm missing something, I don't think that this is a vandal. &mdash; Toby
 * 198.74.20.78 has done Harmonica and Hasbro's Game of Life
 * Sep 26, 2002: 205.213.111.50 has been repeatedly vandalizing pages with their own comments. Looks like just a kid having a laugh; he seems to have even cleaned up after himself on a few pages. I won't block unless he comes back and does more damage.  --LDC
 * Sep 25, 2002: 216.229.90.232 is uploading several copyrighted music articles. I already blocked him, but don't have time to revert all his changes and list them on Deletion page. Might be the same as another vandal I blocked yesterday around the same time, who was also uploading music articles. --Jeronimo
 * 198.81.18.166 is creating many nonsense articles. Not exactly vandalism, but the articles aren't worth having.  -- Zoe 05:42 Sep 22, 2002 (UTC)
 * Sept 19 2002 - 64.163.38.122 replacing Israeli-Palestinian conflict articles w/slogans -- Already blocked
 * Sept 19 2002 - 207.75.101.98 (Dave's Good Stuff) vandalised Television
 * Sept 17 2002 - 66.157.7.121 random obscenity - IP blocked
 * Sept 15 2002 - 199.217.189.57 is deleting all Yugoslavia entries! -- Zoe
 * Sept 16 2002: 67.248.54.146 is making inane changes to sexuality related articles.
 * Sept 10 2002 vandalism of 204.38.95.3 on Cepheus!
 * Sept 1 2002 ... 6 pm CDT: 24.101.23.144 is conflating Simpson's characters with Pooh characters. Carl Carlson was reverted, see Homer Simpson and Marvin Monroe
 * I've banned the IP -- Tarquin
 * 62.252.0.5 infantile vandalism on Battle of Mons Badonicus
 * 152.163.201.199 vandalized Pluto (dog), Pluto (god), and Talk:Pluto (dog): 20:50 Aug 14, 2002.
 * That nslooksup to spider-tr054.proxy.aol.com. Blocking that probably won't accomplish anything besides annoying some AOLers. -phma
 * 203.24.137.196 vandalized Australian House of Representatives
 * 66.108.155.126 is inputting garbage into varius articles. Alert over, "damage" fixed" -- IP blocked
 * 68.40.58.103 is mostly contributing small abusive snippets -- Annoying yes, vandal, probably not (see above explanatory statement)
 * 216.238.177.114 is another alias of. Repeated incidents to the User:Rlee0001 page.IP blocked
 * 66.24.199.223 keeps posting nasty comments on User:Rlee0001's page. IP blocked
 * 148.77.38.178 has vandalised the University of Northern Iowa page, the Remembrance Day page, and the Council Bluffs, Iowa page.
 * I have blocked this IP address; now need to fix these pages. Vicki Rosenzweig


 * 24.200.80.95 -- Not really vandalizing, but creating odd stubs at a phenomenal rate. Would like a block until he/she slows down and reads the welcome pack???J Hofmann Kemp
 * Today's seem to be a reasonable breakdown of the formerly unordered Companies list. Yesterday there were some odd lists of Canadian hockey players (with badly broken links) and Massachussets counties (with only lists of cities and no links). Seems to me to be improving, then... --Brion
 * still, it might be good to encourage people to think about what they want from the page before creating it? J Hofmann Kemp
 * 195.235.92.254 has vandalised the Watergate scandal page and the Stellar astronomy page
 * 203.97.2.243 is vandalizing major wikipedia pages with phone numbers date 5.30.02 10:20 CDT
 * (Alert over, IP blocked temporarily) 131.191.39.149 seems to insist on putting copyrighted text in Sufi Order International, I need to check 131's other "contribs" to make sure there aren't any other problems.
 * 147.251.62.62 vandalised the George Washington page - had to repair it - whoever it was had replaced "President" with "Penguin" and Washington's name with "George Pittsburgh".
 * Uriyan and i (62.140.77.xxx) have a conflict in terms of definition of palestinians .. are they terrorists or freedom fighters? uriyan has refused to compromise on this page Palestinian terrorism
 * 62.140.77.165 has been excessively assertive about his version of Palestinian terrorism.
 * 209.177.1.132 has been making some rather odd repeated additions to various articles and vandalizing the Michael Gross article again.
 * 172.148.19.211 and 209.255.69.195 keep creating an article called Opera Buffa, which consists of nothing but silliness and insults. It has been deleted several times, always to be re-created.
 * 142.150.49.xxx and 142.150.48.xxx have been adding members of various houses at the University of Toronto, generally to call them homosexuals, insane, etc. They haven't shown much desire to listen to comments to ask them to stop.  I vote for an IP ban.
 * 194.117.133.xxx deleted Alleanza Nazionale, is promoting his website ukonline.gov.uk, and a variety of other things that need watching - doesn't look like it's outright vandalism, though, I may be jumping the gun. Bryan Derksen Between the attacks on the UK site he didn't like, and the deletion of all content on Wikipedians:Italy, I decided enough was enough, and have blocked this user. Vicki Rosenzweig
 * 65.56.45.xxx While an edit of Ed was merely humor that was inapproriate for Wikipedia, the user then added a derogatory, angry comment to the user page of -- April including swearing in the summary and in the comment itself. IP ban in order? A: Only if it happens again.
 * 67.114.47.xxx vandalism of half-life
 * 62.254.0.xxx is adding loads of exclamation points and extraneous ranting to the Physics page.
 * 62.98.247.192 has gotten a new IP (love dial-up, don't you?) and created an interesting little article called Scott Brown.
 * 62.98.178.xxx, in a burst of spite, also placed a big "Your edit will not be saved" on meta.wikipedia.com's main page. Whatta w- nevermind.
 * 62.98.178.xxx, also known as 62.98.140.xxx and 62.98.136.xxx, replaced "Sexism" article with the "Diatribe Against Sexism"  from meta. This is part of a long patter (see below and talk page).
 * 62.98.136.xxx is doing a wide variety of things that border on vandalism. It started with the "Penis Bird", then he dumped a ton of Household cyclopedia articles on here that are hopelessly out of date, he's extending Pi and other mathematical constants of a like type to page length strings of numbers, and finally he posts a purported piece of Scientology's teachings (as seen in another person's leaflet) immediately after the qualification that people have been sued for posting such things.  I'm not a particularly active participant, but seems he needs a ban...
 * 193.133.134.178 is replacing and/or deleting NPOV text and adding Turkish POV text to Cyprus and related pages.
 * 212.77.213.55 is replacing and/or deleting NPOV text and adding his/her own non-NPOV statements in Islam-related artcles. March 3, 15:01
 * 24.49.192.xxx is adding "LaFache" to random names (thus far, to Albert Einstein and Thomas Mifflin), and changed George Washington to "twenty-third president"
 * 168.170.212.xxx is adding someone named 'Scott Brown' to many entries.
 * 130.94.122.xxx on Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (and Homepage of Sampath Suranga)
 * 206.230.0.xxx on the Main Page Can we get that locked??
 * 130.94.122.xxx again, this time on Napoleonic Code
 * 130.94.122.xxx garbage on Beast of Bodmin
 * 169.227.254.xxx does not like Rasputin, Dick Cheney and Kornilov
 * 205.197.108.xxx garbage on The Simpsons pages
 * 62.171.198.xxx scatology added to Mahayana Buddhism
 * 216.37.157.xxx and 63.203.101.xxx love Chinese numerals and Richard Bachman/The Running Man
 * 213.67.126.xxx is back, 15:15 UTC 2001-01-14
 * 213.67.126.xxx seems not to like San Francisco Bay. Shakespeare. Socialism. Communism. Karl Marx.
 * 203.170.3.xxx vandalising Keanu Reeves, 14:46 UTC 2001-01-14
 * 24.44.211.xxx copy-pasting and overwriting article, mostly on actresses, 01:21 UTC 2002-01-13
 * Newfers: just vandalised Yasser Arafat, 2:19 UTC 2002-01-10
 * Newfers: 67.208.237.xxx January 2, 2002, ca. 4:00 am UTC
 * 209.240.222.xxx December 31, 2001 2:18 pm (server time)