Wikipedia talk:Requests for investigation/Archives/2005/08

message: This page is being repeatedly vandalized by 82.153.109.156, 82.153.103.158, 207.5.192.239 et al.  The first two appear to be the same person, since the last revision/blanking said something to the effect "since I was banned I changed my IP address" Kewp 09:22, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Counter-Strike]] 

message: This page, pretty much nonsense and other speediable junk has been created four times while I have been watching. Mostly by ips starting with 62.253.128, and two of them I know were .12 and .14, though I missed the others. -Goldom 23:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[An Introduction]] 

message: Various users, or sockpuppets, are removing information, adding nonsense, and making personal attacks in the article. Almost all of the vandals are recently created users who are also participating in the articles accompanying Vote for Deletion. One of the vandals has even attempted to obtain my password. Main culprits are User:Tranquileye, User:Flaunted, User:Aquafinal - Xed 22:10, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[FilePile]] 

message: I'm not sure if this is really vandalism, or if somebody just wants to engage me in a edit/revert war over the above article. Somebody (or some people; I'm assuming the former) in the IP address range 151.44.*.* keeps adding false accusations against Scott Jarkoff (founder of deviantART) and nonsense to the page; repeated requests on talk page, as well as reminder-comment on top of page and all affected sections have been completely ignored and even mocked at. Request for protection of the above article is already up, person(s) have been warned on the 151.44.123.254 talk page (his current IP address). I have already reverted the article three times in a space of 24 hours; three revert rule seems likely to be breached soon unless action is taken. A.K.R. 15:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[DeviantART]]

message: User:Shem Daimwood repeatedly has removed the disputed indicators from the Michael Dutton Douglas article and refuses to engage in a discussion about the dispute. I believe in these circumstances, this is vandalism. I respectfully request the page be restored with dispute tags, protected so the dispute can be resolved. Coqsportif 01:30, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Note:  Please see Wikipedia:ANI#Coqsportif and Wikipedia:ANI#Coqsportif pt 2.  This user is likely a sockpuppet, and has already been blocked once since his joining. Shem(talk) 02:16, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Michael Dutton Douglas]]

message: Several users (with a full range of IP numbers) seem to be taking turns vandalizing this page faster than it can be reverted. Mel "MelSkunk" Smith 19:20, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
:Insane amounts of vandalization. Can we use that as a reason to speedy? --Habap 20:08, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Gaming Age Forums]]

message: The image of the Pope is repeatedly being replaced with the image of Star Wars Emperor Palpatine by a vandal or vandals from anonymous IP addresses.  Robert McClenon 15:18, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Pope Benedict XVI]]

message: A user (or users, but probably just one) using the IP range of 69.235.xxx.xxx keeps on removing certain links from the "P" section of the article. Recommend a block on that IP range. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 02:44, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[List of big-bust models and performers]]

message: How can I (and several others) encourage User:Silverhorse to stop misspelling Habsburg.  Also he keeps adding titles in inappropriate places.  Just look at any 'royal' page he (or his several IPs) have edited Special:Contributions/Silverhorse.  He has inappropriately changed several other 'royal' pages, some (such as the Hanovers) not being in my interest area remain for someone else to fix.  --ClemMcGann 16:01, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Charles I of England]]

message: Same person with a different IP address each day. Keeps reverting to what is now a very old joke.--JRL 13:21, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Combat ration]]

message: Not sure if this is a team of vandals, or an individual, or what.  All anonymous IP's.  Slac speak up! 02:06, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[John Howard]]

message: 83.237.230.112 has repetadly added links to Russian porn sites. Havok 19:19, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[World of Warcraft Expansion Pack]] 

message: Repeated blanking by a number of IPs that are probably the same person. Trevor macinnis 01:54, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Playstation 3]] 

message: Vandalism to Elizabeth Bentley, again. nobs 15:41, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Coqsportif]] 

message: A false cheese invented to spawn an article which isn't that funny. Is created by an unregistered user.--Klestrob44 05:44, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Swiss-Italian cheese]]

message: This article seems to be attracting attention from a number of anonymous users (may be the same person, based on the similarity of their edits) who have repeatedly blanked certain sections, added profanity on occasion and steadfastly refused to discuss the reasoning behind their edits on the talk page. Might be an idea to keep an eye on it for a while... --Kurt Shaped Box 23:53, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I linked to the wrong page - should be Pop punk. --Kurt Shaped Box 08:42, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Pop punk]]

message: This article is being continuously vandalised by the users User:69.169.161.139, User:67.180.230.164, and User:24.3.27.8 for the past hour or so. Valhallia 08:07, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Danta]]

message: this image has somehow been replaced with (porn?), but I can't find out how, or hw to revert it - Trevor macinnis 02:30, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Image:Canada_flag_large.png]]

message: This article seems to be attracting attention from a number of anonymous users (may be the same person, based on the similarity of their edits) who have repeatedly blanked certain sections, added profanity on occasion and steadfastly refused to discuss the reasoning behind their edits on the talk page. Might be an idea to keep an eye on it for a while... --Kurt Shaped Box 23:53, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Pop Punk]]

message: I recently posted a legitimate addition to the article Jesus (the one that comes up right away when you type just "jesus" into the search bar) and it's been removed.  I'm sorry I don't know how to link to the article or report the user etc., but I'm new.  It seems like when I make legitimate additions to articles people just take them off right away and revert back to the original version.  Being protective of your articles defeats the whole purpose of Wikipedia, no?  Is there a way to get back what I added? (I don't have another copy.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.34.174.183 (talk • contribs) on 07:10, 5 August 2005
* Once submitted, changes can (almost) always be retrieved from the page history (fourth tab from the left at the top).  --Alan Au 08:06, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Jesus]]

message: *The late Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, oiligarch King of Saudi Arabia is dead and featured on the main page. Thus attracting the attention of childish vandals. Klonimus 08:32, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Fahd bin Abdul Aziz]] 

message: *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is attracting attantion and could do with watching for a while, SqueakBox 23:46, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
**Yea, I'm watching it carefully. Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 23:14, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
**In particular, a variety of anons (possibly the same person) keep adding the same three-word spoiler to (usually) the top of the article.  Pakaran 01:36, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]] 

message: *Journalist's article is getting vandalized in a variety of ways by multiple users for exposing an Internet hoax ("greenlighting"). --Tysto 23:09, 2005 August 1 (UTC)
**Being vandalized repeatedly by anonymous IPs again today. Jsnell 23:27, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Cyrus Farivar]]

message: * -- Repeatedly garbles interwiki links on Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in the knowledge that he is doing so. See also Wikipedia:Requests for comment/12.144.5.2. Susvolans (pigs can fly) 08:22, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I banned him for 24 hours. --Woohookitty 00:17, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I also encoutered, and just cleaned up, a lot of crap from this guy. Deserves a ban. --DR31 (talk) 14:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

text: The user is also using an alternate IP address: 203.127.203.16 (talk • contribs • block) cheese-cube 13:47, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Blocked for 24 hours. --Woohookitty 00:20, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

text: This appears to be in connection with the Rotting squirell VfD; several of the editors of that page have had their user pages blanked from this address, and this user has added some content to the Rotting squirell page in the last few days. Vashti 07:27, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

text: Active again today (August 1st). Zerbey 12:25, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
* : warned for months, today put graffiti on planets. Pavel Vozenilek 23:23, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

text: *Vandal has returned. Only edits attributed to this IP are the removal of links to about 23 articles each time. This IP has never been blocked, despite the previous request and warnings on the user page. ∞Who?¿? 07:41, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

text: * and  seem to be alternative IP's used by the same person (they all belong to AT&T dialup nodes in Kansas, so blocking these IP's will unfortunately most likely prove futile). With the exception of one edit to Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts he sticks to the movie related votes on the CfD page, usualy removing sockpupet alerts. --Sherool 02:04, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Is the statement inaccurate? How?  It doesn't seem to violate NPOV.  Is there not a place for children to play? --Randal L. Schwartz 18:49, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: His/her statement is plain wrong:  The Discovery Bay Plaza simply does not provide a unique childminding scheme - or any childminding scheme for that matter!  The statement is really a sarcastic statement complaining about the behaviour of children in the plaza.  More such complaints can be found in external forums such as [] One might also wish to compare this type of statement to the changes that *did* violate NPOV introduced by yet another series of IP addresses between 15-20 July []; furthermore attempts to discuss with anonymous user(s) has been fruitless.  --Mintchocicecream 20:26, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: One might also wish to refer to [] where people are discussing changing articles in Wikipedia.  --Mintchocicecream 20:29, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

text: I've put him under severe, he appears to be using bots. Frenchman113 00:22, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
* Changing information/quotes and adding POV text to Ronald Reagon article and other articles. Vandalizing my user page. Voice of All(MTG) 04:59, July 27, 2005 (UTC) 
* Viennaspice linkspammer adding his site to many Bollywood-related articles. Formerly spammed from IP 62.47.152.222, may have spammed from other IPs too. Warned at old IP, returned under new IP. Please block. He hits dozens of sites at a time, and it takes too much time to remove the spam. Zora 22:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Vandal now linkspamming from . Please block. Zora 22:39, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

text: Has vandalized again. Urge a permanent block. Superm401 | Talk 04:43, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
* - puts graffiti on pages, active now, blocked only once. Pavel Vozenilek 23:08, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  As noted below, he now has the username  Mark512, and continues to revert the aforementioned VFD page, as well as vandalising Canderson7's user page. 
*213.249.214.235 (talk • contribs • block) Has vandalised various music-related articles by randomly inserting blankspaces in the middle of words. Flowerparty talk 14:43, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

text:  Please block! Vandalism continues, has been extended to Pakistan article. Today, coming from the 172.195.85.28 address. Zora 01:45, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Vandal has taken username,  Ashraydos, has returned to vandalizing Shahrukh Khan, Pakistan, Kal Penn, and Indian American. Confused desi kid. PLEASE BLOCK -- possibly for a short time. Maybe he'll get a clue? Zora 10:20, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Vandal has returned as IP 172.192.180.130, vandalizing same articles. I checked the IPs. They're all AOL. Can we contact them to stop the vandalism? Leave message on my talk page if you want me to do it. Please block again. Zora 10:58, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Vandal has returned as IP 172.192.78.211, vandalizing (blanking) same articles. PLEASE BLOCK. Zora 02:20, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Moderate

message: *  has put misinformation on one page and a stupid photo on another so far. RSpeer 19:07, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
** He's also  and . RSpeer 06:19, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
*  is back from a few months ago.
** Probably the same as  and , and possibly other user names. Track record of vandalism, latest stunt was vandalizing User:Jimbo Wales. -- Curps
***I think the editor in question has a lot to learn and is going to need a lot of guidance, but I'm not sure any of it is strictly vandalism. --fvw<SMALL>*</SMALL> 22:50, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)
****Well that's one interpretation.  Be that as it may, nearly all of his "contributions" end up needing to be deleted or reverted, so in practice the distinction is nearly moot. -- Curps 22:59, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Taken from: --Muchosucko 20:47, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Low