Wikipedia talk:Requests for investigation/Archives/2003/09

message: *User:12.65.66.228 is replacing random pages with giberish about LeAnn Rimes. - Efghij 05:31, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text:  I blocked the ip (he vandalised a couple pages).  I left a message on his talk page telling him to contact me if he wants unbanned.  { MB | マイカル } 21:51, Aug 18, 2003 (UTC)
* Michael is back as  User:24.130.213.242 (Michael). 
*User:JoeM is back and inserting POV rants into Homelessness (calling it a "fraud") and Al Gore, can a developer ban this repeat offender or put his stuff on auto-revert. M123 17:39, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)

text: He just exposed his IP address (172.166.103.110) and I was able to ban him. Let's hope that he doesn't have a shifting IP!!!! 172 06:56, 15 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: That's an AOL address range. 
*User:Michael aka User:Banned User Addition is now doing his game of moving pages to abusive titles. Please can a developer ban this username ASAP. -- The Anome 21:31, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)

text: The troll has been blocked. 172 20:53, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: 200.37.30.142 is the same user as above and continues to vandalize the Fujimori article. Vancouverguy 21:19, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Damn shifting IP addresses! Oh well, I protected the Fujimori and Toledo pages. I'd rather ban the IP if that could work though. Some contributors don't have sysop status and won't be able to edit the pages now.  172 22:41, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)

text: Am I the only one who suspects that this Kenneth is Lir? First, he made his debut after Lir's latest persona, Pizza Puzzle, left the scene. Second, Kenneth seems to know his way around the site too well for a new user. Third and moreover, his crusade seems to coincide with Lir's over-arching battle against the "totalitarian cabal" that runs this website. Kenneth's edit description "no more vigilante dictatorship of a free website" (see his user contributions) stuck out right away as a possible clue linking this vandal, more overtly hostile and angry than one we have ever dealt with before (most vandals, such as Michael, are more or less good-natured immature pranksters), to a user with a professed desire to overthrow the Wiki "cabal." I think that perhaps the fall of the latest Lir identity pushed Adam off the edge. 172 13:24, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps. Kenne%F0 was on 68.0.148.119 which is at cox.net, browsing from Konqueror 3. I can't remember Lir using that ISP, but I'm not a Lir expert. Kenne%F0's interests are different: he claims to be into the history of Sweden, which is more like user:Viking than Lir. Plus PP didn't leave vowing revenge, he left vowing to secretly contribute, in an attempt to avoid some sort of stigma. I'm not convinced. -- Tim Starling 00:33, Aug 15, 2003 (UTC)
*User:204.17.16.253 vandalized Statistics and Computer science; also deleted Raccoon and added annoying javascript code and an image of a hitler animation to that article. Furthermore replaced User talk:Wakka with a 140k Shakespeare transcript, made a bogus addition to Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination, deleted alerts about himself and User:Wakka from this page (four times) and also removed the *entire* list of current alerts later on. *And* on top of all that, vandalized Law by replacing it with the (by now well-known) 140k Shakespeare transcript. I'd suggest banning this one outright. -- Schnee 19:29, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)

text: His scatological rhetoric would be appalling even to Michael. Ban immediately. 172 09:12, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)