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{{Short description|Historical Wikimedia project page}}
<!--DELIBERATE VANDALISM OF THIS PAGE IS LIKELY TO LEAD TO YOU BEING **BLOCKED** FROM EDITING WIKIPEDIA WITHOUT WARNING-->
{{historical|WP:RFI|WP:VIP}}
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:''This page has been '''shut down''' after [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Requests for investigation|this debate]].''
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:Please use [[Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism]] as an alternate venue for cases of simple vandalism that require an immediate block and [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents]] for cases that require further investigation.
==Current alerts==


==Old instructions for this page==
'''Please add new alerts at the top of this section.''' Please use the template below when you edit this section. Copy the template and paste it above the latest entry, change "IP" to the name or IP address, and then replace "DESCRIPTION" with a description of what the vandal did. Sign your post by appending four tildes: <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>.
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Choose one of three sections to make a report: [[Wikipedia:Requests for investigation#Watchlist|Watchlist]], [[Wikipedia:Requests for investigation#IP addresses|IP addresses]], or [[Wikipedia:Requests for investigation#Registered users|Registered users]]. Follow the recommended format for each section including the heading markup. Place the request at the top of the ''New requests'' subsection or the top of the watchlist. Provide page diffs from edit histories if appropriate and links to specific problem pages.
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==History==
<nowiki>==== IP ====</nowiki><br>
<nowiki>* {{vandal | IP}}</nowiki><br>
<nowiki>** DESCRIPTION</nowiki>


The first page used for tracking vandalism was a user subpage, [[Nost:ManningBartlett/Naughty people|ManningBartlett/Naughty people]], some time before 4 November 2001. The vandalism in progress page was established as VANDALISM IN PROGRESS [http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VANDALISM_IN_PROGRESS&oldid=53359 on 1 December 2001] - the title was upper-case to make it easily distinguishable on [[Help:Recent changes|recent changes]]). Around the same time, the Wikipedia Militia (since renamed to the [[Wikipedia:Volunteer Fire Department|Volunteer Fire Department]]) was formed to coordinate responses to press releases about Wikipedia. The "VANDALISM IN PROGRESS" page was moved to the Wikipedia namespace in August 2002 and was renamed to the current title in 2006. Its archives since 2003 may be found in [[Wikipedia:Requests for investigation/Archives]] and the talk archives since august 2002 can be found in the history of [[Wikipedia talk:Requests for investigation/Archive 4]] and in text form as subpages of [[Wikipedia talk:Requests for investigation]]. Old subpages can also be found through [[special:Prefixindex/Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress]]. the [[Wikipedia:Long-term abuse|long-term abuse]] page also grew out of "vandalism in progress". A section on the "vandalism in progress" page for persistent vandalism was added in [[special:Diff/2320532|February 2004]], later [[Special:Diff/3978249|abandoned]], and then re-created as [[special:Diff/6261911|"Ongoing alerts"]] in September 2004; in December 2004 it was [[Special:Diff/8985967|split off]] to [[special:permalink/8995625|its own page]], titled [[Special:Permalink/43183012|Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/Long term alerts]].
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===January 30===

==== 83.109.185.152, 83.109.130.54 ====

*{{vandal|83.109.185.152}} vandalized several articles. He also broked the 3 reverd rule on: [[Free City of Danzig]] (he use different IPs like [[user:83.109.130.54]])

==== 68.9.60.85 ====

* {{vandal | 68.9.60.85}}
**Deleted whole of article on "Street Prostitution" and replaced it with obscene comment - flagrant vandalism, now reverted
[[User:PatGallacher|PatGallacher]] 02:09, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

===January 29===

====12.134.212.168====
* {{vandal | 12.134.212.168}}
**User is putting nonsensical references to alchemy in various articles, and making other vandalous edits. [[User:Dglynch|Dglynch]] 16:29, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)

====Wheel on Willys====
* {{vandal | Wheel on Willys}}
** User is moving articles from X to ''X on willys!''. [[User:Rd232|Rd232]] 15:18, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
** I know adding restrictions because of one user is silly (especially as he'll do other things instead), but limiting page moves for non-admins to one per minute would slow him down without bothering anyone. [[User:Rd232|Rd232]] 15:25, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
***I agree that it would be sensible. Also, moves should be limited per IP, not per username. --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></SMALL>]] 17:50, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)
* Over two dozen articles were moved in this fashion, the last of which (that I know about) was [[Antarctica Service Medal]]. These are banning actions, in my opinion -[[User:Husnock|Husnock]] 29Jan05
** Not just yours. See [[Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#User:WoW/User:Willy on Wheels, aka many others|above]] and [[Wikipedia:List of banned users#Willy on Wheels]]. &mdash;[[User:Korath|Korath]] ([[User talk:Korath|Talk]]) 20:05, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)

====159.134.97.248====
* {{vandal | 159.134.97.248}}
** User is blanking articles and replacing with nonsense. -[[User:204.210.200.251|204.210.200.251]] 03:17, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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===January 28===
====204.109.64.2====
* {{vandal|204.109.64.2}}
** Some months ago, vandalised [[Vietnam War]], [[persistence of vision]] and [[Palestinian National Covenant]]. Today has created two articles which are on VfD now: [[Priyanka]] and [[Michelle stephens]]. [[User:JoaoRicardo|JoaoRicardo]] 23:43, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 67.52.30.218 ====
* {{vandal | 67.52.30.218}}
** Modifying [[List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks]] by placing things such as "nigger" or "you gay" in section contents, blanking the rest. -[[User:SocratesJedi|SocratesJedi]] | [[User_talk:SocratesJedi|Talk]] 21:59, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====168.190.200.39====
*{{vandal|168.190.200.39}}
**All right, so adding a giant Madagascar hissing cockroach to [[Paris Hilton]] is pretty funny, but seems NPOV somehow... Also wiped out [[Cannabis]]. [[User:Mashford|Mashford]] 19:44, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 70.60.111.10 ====
*{{vandal|70.60.111.10}}
**Probaly a kid born in 1988. Vandalising now. [[User:RHaworth|RHaworth]] 19:39, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)

==== 219.118.190.154 ====
*{{vandal|219.118.190.154}}}
**Being totally stupid! Please give him an orange box and a whack with a cluestick! [''This is by 219.118.190.154'' [[User:Jni|jni]] 17:23, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)]
***Indeed! I have reverted all your recent edits and deleted the nonsense articles. Because you were helpful in listing yourself here, I have not blocked you, although others may do that if you continue your spree. [[User:Jni|jni]] 17:23, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
*** So, you were the one that has been deleting my recent edits as far of 2004. Unrelated vandalism to the Charlie Dog page by [[Jeff schiller.]] many times, when I tried to enter new information.

[[User]]

==== 67.52.216.253====
*{{vandal| 67.52.216.253}}
**is attacking [[Government of ancient Israel]], has been warned. --[[User:Boothy443]] | [[User talk:Boothy443|comhrÚ]] 16:26, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 212.85.15.67 ====
* {{vandal | 212.85.15.67}}
** Added a stupid joke with no meaning to [[heart valve]].
--[[User:Eleassar777|Eleassar777]] 16:05, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 82.133.105.238 ====
* {{vandal | 82.133.105.238}}
** Added spam link to [[Pablo Picasso]] with misleading edit summary [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pablo_Picasso&diff=0&oldid=9733787]. -- [[User:Solipsist|Solipsist]] 13:57, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 70.88.129.205 ====
* {{vandal | 70.88.129.205}}
** Continues to vandalize [[Adolf Hitler]] and others. Has been banned for 1 week, but is now back to vandalize more. [[User:Inter|Inter]] 13:48, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 62.171.194.41 ====
* {{vandal | 62.171.194.41}}
** Over 30 edits of simple vandalism by this IP and others from 62.171.194.0/24 to [[Third Crusade]]. Bunch of school kids apparently. I did a two hour range block to entire C-class subnet, but given the long history of garbage from this network it requires constant surveillance. [[User:Jni|jni]] 10:22, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 68.6.119.54 ====
* {{vandal | 68.6.119.54}}
** Every couple of days this user replaces the redirect at [[French Caribbean]] with an advertising blurb, and has altered a compromise version of the page which describes the company he is promoting without advertising ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French_Caribbean&oldid=9438000]). --[[User:NeilTarrant|Neo]] 08:57, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 210.0.177.84 ====
* {{vandal | 210.0.177.84}}
** User has vandalism dating as far back as June 2004, but has made about 15 malicious edits in the last 30 minutes. [[User:KingTT|KingTT]] 07:14, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 64.236.208.25 ====
* {{vandal | 64.236.208.25}}
** Vandalised [[dildo]] and [[Anal sex]] [with obscene remarks]. 24 hour block enforced. My colleagues thought he was hilarious, however :-) - [[User:Ta bu shi da yu|Ta bu shi da yu]] 02:26, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
*** I guess there are a lot of sixth-graders editing those articles. [[User:Mateo SA|Mateo SA]] | [[User talk:Mateo SA|talk]] 03:23, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)

==== MikeFox ====
* {{vandal | MikeFox}}
** Vandalized several articles, including the featured article, with pornography. His images are not work safe, to say the least; can someone speedy delete the images he included? [[User:Cdc|Cdc]] 00:21, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
**:Blocked indefinitely. One image is used legitimately in articles, the other is on the commons, where it has been nominated for deletion.-[[User:Gadfium|gadfium]] 00:33, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====68.10.118.157====
* {{vandal|68.10.118.157}}
** Over the past few months this user has been introducing occasional pieces of misinformation and errors into articles, adding inappropriate <nowiki>{{NPOV}}</nowiki> tags into articles and so on. User has been asked to stop twice, and I think somebody should review whether a ban is in order. Additionally his contributions to [[Hans Rousing]] and [[Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi]] need to be checked for factual accuracy. [[User:Steinsky|Joe D]] [[User talk:Steinsky|(t)]] 00:05, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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===January 27===
====149.99.45.38====
* {{vandal |149.99.45.38}}
** This is the second time in a couple of days that this person has vandalized the [[Meles Zenawi]] article. The IP address, according to ARIN, is a Sprint user in Toronto. Please ban. (FWIW, I suspect that the same person has also used [[Special:Contributions/192.30.202.9|192.30.202.9]], which is a public library in Toronto.) [[User:Gyrofrog|Gyrofrog]] 23:59, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 65.117.156.222 ====
* {{vandal | 65.117.156.222}}
** This guy has been hitting all sorts of pages today, including my user page and some of the normal targets (Bush, bin Laden, etc). Please ban. --[[User:Woohookitty|Woohookitty]] 21:16, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
*::Blocked for 24 hours by [[User:Postdlf]].-[[User:Gadfium|gadfium]] 21:30, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====24.119.40.226====
*{{vandal|24.119.40.226}}
**This guy is attacking various article, [[Wendy's]] in particular. He is leaving obscene messages after his vandalism is reverted. --[[User:Rje|Rje]] 17:46, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)
**:Blocked for 24 hours.-[[User:Gadfium|gadfium]] 18:25, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====[[User:OneGay]] (not [[User:OneGuy]])====
*{{vandal | OneGay}}
**Impersonating OneGuy, already vandalism to [[Zionism]].--[[User:Pharos|Pharos]] 11:36, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
***And blocked already indefinitely. [[User:Lupo|Lupo]] 11:41, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
****And now... [[User:OneGoy]]. How far can this nonsense go?--[[User:Pharos|Pharos]] 12:29, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
*****Yeah, got him already. [[User:Lupo|Lupo]] 12:34, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====Abelincoln98====
*{{vandal|Abelincoln98}}
**There has been an ongoing edit/revert war at [[Abraham Lincoln]] that has resulted in the page being protected. [[User:Abelincoln98|Abelincoln98]] has specifically been modifying/deleting text that had been voted as the "chosen" text for the article. Since the page has been protected, he has started deleting content on the talk page, including his comments and the comments of others. I doubt a 24 hour ban will do anything. --[[User:Brian0918|<font color="#BA0000">brian0918</font>]][[User talk:Brian0918|<font color="#BA0000">&#153;</font>]] 04:07, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====63.203.101.122====
*{{vandal | 63.203.101.122}}
**Inserted obscene material in [[high school]] - [[User:Aequo|Aequo]] 03:42, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====66.193.231.176====
*{{vandal|66.193.231.176}}
**Repeated racist vandalism in [[African American]]. -- [[User:Hoary|Hoary]] 11:16, 2005 Jan 27 (UTC)

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===January 26===
==== 84.66.151.113 ====
* {{vandal | 84.66.151.113}}
** Blanked [[Robert Hooke]] and [[Talk:Robert Hooke]] - [[User:Solipsist|Solipsist]] 21:18, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 198.81.26.72 ====
* {{vandal | 198.81.26.72}}
** Repeat offended (talk page has warnings against adding nonsense from several months ago. A very long edit history, what a mess to weed out. Please block, we have enough slowness without wasting the resources for serving the vandals like that and then cleaning up after them. [[User:BACbKA|BACbKA]] 20:55, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
**P.S. the history has a lot of good-faith edits, just occasionally peppered with nonsense, mostly seeming intentionally misspelling-related. Some edits were a bit POVish to my taste, but quickly tackled by other editors. Could this be a shared IP? [[User:BACbKA|BACbKA]] 21:17, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====Stirling Newberry====
* [[User:Stirling Newberry]]
** broke 3RR against multiple editors without a single comment on the talkpage to justify the edits. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intelligent_design&curid=15313&action=history]] [[User:Ungtss|Ungtss]] 16:11, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
::* Please report 3RR violations at [[WP:AN]] [[User:Mateo SA|Mateo SA]] | [[User talk:Mateo SA|talk]] 19:24, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)

====70.88.129.205====
*{{vandal|70.88.129.205}}
**Vandalising [[Homosexuality]] and other pages. Was blocked for 7 days on Jan 18 and is out again now. [[User:Shanes|Shanes]] 14:01, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====204.193.6.90====
*{{vandal|204.193.6.90}}
**4 vandalisms and counting... --[[User:Brian0918|<font color="#BA0000">brian0918</font>]][[User talk:Brian0918|<font color="#BA0000">&#153;</font>]] 13:39, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====195.144.131.4====
*{{vandal|195.144.131.4}}
**hitting French related articles, has been warned. --[[User:Boothy443|Boothy443]] 12:30, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 213.142.24.146====
*{{vandal| 213.142.24.146}}
**hitting [[Julius Caesar]], has been warned. --[[User:Boothy443|Boothy443]] 12:21, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 131.111.244.170 ====
* {{vandal|131.111.244.170}}
** [[Islam]] page. [[User:OneGuy|OneGuy]] 12:05, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====195.188.250.140====
*{{vandal|195.188.250.140}}
**General vandalism, has been warned and continues. --[[User:Boothy443|Boothy443]] 11:53, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
====131.111.244.170====
*{{vandal|131.111.244.170}}
**is hitting [[Islam]]. Has been warned. --[[User:Boothy443|Boothy443]] 12:02, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====SKAZNBOI====
* {{vandal | SKAZNBOI}}
** Vandalized 6 different articles today alone. --[[User:Brian0918|<font color="#BA0000">brian0918</font>]][[User talk:Brian0918|<font color="#BA0000">&#153;</font>]] 03:04, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
***I warned him once and he stopped after that, so all is well. --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></SMALL>]] 03:08, 2005 Jan 26 (UTC)
****Either that or tomorrow's a school day and he had to get to bed.... --[[User:Brian0918|<font color="#BA0000">brian0918</font>]][[User talk:Brian0918|<font color="#BA0000">&#153;</font>]] 03:14, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====81.178.123.33====
* {{vandal | 81.178.123.33}}
:* Insult-editing on [[Fat_Bastard]]
:* Not sure if the same person in the history at 84.65.34.188
:* Content change is "Also known as Jamie Farquhar of Scotland.", and obvious reference to the character for whom the wiki page has been created. - [[User:Kickstart70|Kickstart70]] 01:59, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC) (hope I did this entry correctly)

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===January 25===
==== 205.200.236.19 ====
* {{vandal | 205.200.236.19}}
:* Numerous pages vandalized day after day.
:[[User:Jok2000|Jok2000]] 21:56, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
::*Contributed by anonymous IP <s>''deleted IP address''</s>, but for the record, [[Special:Contributions/205.200.236.19|205.200.236.19]] really '''is''' a vandal. --[[User:Deathphoenix|Death]][[User_talk:Deathphoenix|'''phoenix''']] 21:36, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) (Deleted IP address now that it's been signed).

==== 151.188.16.20 ====
* {{vandal | 151.188.16.20}}
** Vandalized over a dozen pages in the last half hour, and shows no signs of slowing down. Vandalism usually consists of "(something) can suck a big toe". --[[User:InShaneee|InShaneee]] 20:06, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
***I'll take care of this one. -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee]]|[[User talk:Frazzydee|&#9997;]] 20:45, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
****Seems to have stopped for now. -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee]]|[[User talk:Frazzydee|&#9997;]] 21:56, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 202.131.134.195 / Subash1 ====
* {{vandal | 202.131.134.195}}
* {{vandal | Subash1}}
** has added to [[Cherrapunjee]] with copywritten content multiple times. He claims that he owns it (found on a cjb.net website), but it's also on the Cherrapunjee website. They are the same person (the IP has edited Subash1's website, and they both seem to have the same style of cutting and pasting). Also has had a few edits reverted on [[2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake]]. [[User:Ral315|ral315]] 19:38, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

====152.163.101.10====
*{{vandal|152.163.101.10}}
*is attacking the [[Wikipedia:About]] page, has been warned. --[[User:Boothy443|Boothy443]] 18:58, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
**This is an AOL account, so any bans should be temporary ones. I'd imagine a lot of talk pages for AOL IP addresses get messages from people wondering why people think they are vandalising pages. --[[User:Deathphoenix|Death]][[User_talk:Deathphoenix|'''phoenix''']] 19:14, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====68.52.195.192====
*{{vandal|68.52.195.192}}
**is attacking [[Jesus]]. --[[User:Boothy443|Boothy443]] 18:24, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 144.32.128.75 ====
* {{vandal | 144.32.128.75}}
** Ongoing apparent link spam to *.pagina.nl --[[User:Zigger|Zigger]] 15:58, 2005 Jan 25 (UTC)
** more spam links on Jan 29, had repeated warnings so now blocked 24hrs. -- [[User:Solipsist|Solipsist]] 14:19, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== BIlly on Bills ====
* {{vandal | BIlly on Bills}}
** repeatedly moving pages from (article name) to (article name)'s a bastard! S/He is also impersonating [[User:David Gerard|David Gerard]] --[[User:Lachatdelarue|Lachatdelarue]] [[User_talk:Lachatdelarue|(talk)]] 14:11, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
***I've undone quite a lot (more than 50) of these types of page moves by this user; I don't know if anybody else also undid some. Their work seems to be undone now. It seems possible this is the same person as [[User:WoW]], mentioned above. --[[User:Camembert|Camembert]] 14:48, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 64.88.86.3 ====
* {{vandal | 64.88.86.3}}
** Repeated vandalism of various pages for at least a couple of months. --[[User:Zigger|Zigger]] 13:58, 2005 Jan 25 (UTC)
**IP comes up as Macomb Intermediate School District (from Clinton Township, MI, USA), so any blocks should be short term ones (for several acts of recent vandalism). --[[User:Deathphoenix|Death]][[User_talk:Deathphoenix|'''phoenix''']] 14:26, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== Brother Larry ====
* {{vandal | Brother Larry}}
** Repeated vandalism of [[Brunette]] and [[Mooning]] and creation of [[Diaper Exposure]].

==== 219.93.174.102 ====
* {{vandal | 219.93.174.102}}
** Repeated vandalism of Yasar Arafat article. For previous offences see [[Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress#219.93.174.96.2F28 | January 8th under similar IP]] (only last digit different).

==== 66.157.118.52 ====
* {{vandal | 66.157.118.52}}
** Blanked out links in [[Full Faith and Credit Clause]]. - [[User:RoyBoy|RoyBoy]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:RoyBoy|&#8734;]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> 05:18, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 210.0.177.84 ====
* {{vandal|210.0.177.84}}
** Vandalized three articles today. No big deal, except every single contribution by this IP (dating back to June 2004) is vandalism. The only possible exception is [[Qoo]], where it seems he accidentally fixed incorrect information (!) in the very same minute that he vandalized [[Oreo]]. Blocked many times in the past. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 04:00, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 207.191.177.130 / 68.19.242.24 ====
* {{vandal|207.191.177.130}}
* {{vandal|68.19.242.24}}
** Vandalised [[Star Wars]] today, first IP belongs to Education Networks of America, Nashville, TN, second belongs to [[BellSouth]]; smells like a student vandalising from school then going home and continuing. First IP was also responsible for wholesale blanking of [[Star Wars]] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star_Wars&diff=prev&oldid=9508066 January 20]. &mdash;[[User:Neuropedia|Neuropedia]] 00:52, 2005 Jan 25 (UTC)

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===January 24===
==== 209.165.134.49 ====
* {{vandal|209.165.134.49}}
** Vandalised [[Selenium]], [[Caesium]] and [[Calcium]] today. Been warned before. -- [[User:Solipsist|Solipsist]] 20:37, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
** Minor vandalism of [[Noble gas]] and [[Periodic table]] on the 25th. -- [[User:Solipsist|Solipsist]] 14:03, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 165.24.5.66 ====
* {{vandal|165.24.5.66}}
** Vandalised the page [[Unmanned space mission]], after being warned multiple times before. Needs a 24 hour ban? [[User:Awolf002|Awolf002]] 20:41, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 164.104.1.36 ====
* {{vandal|164.104.1.36}}
** Blanked [[Second Polish Republic]] and several days ago heavily vandalized [[George W. Bush]] [[User:Xyzzyva|Xyzzyva]] 20:04, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

==== 204.187.140.114 ====
* {{vandal|204.187.140.114}}
** Today vandalised Sarah Bernhardt, and other articles. All contributions are vandalism. Was warned before and was banned for week. I recommend lifetime ban. [[User:Pavel Vozenilek|Pavel Vozenilek]] 19:58, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 198.54.202.115 ====
{{vandal|198.54.202.115}}
Adding references to various pages under zarcoins.com to South Africa-related topics. I have logged my removals of this URL at [[User:Dewet/zarcoins.com]]. Can we get this URL blacklisted, since the IP is a transparent proxy of the biggest ISP in South Africa? This user has also been doing the same on the [[Afrikaans]] wikipedia. --[[User:Dewet|Dewet]] 19:02, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====220.227.152.36====
{{vandal|220.227.152.36}}
Adding commercial spam to random pages (always starts with "The changing faces of Technology:")

====70.243.36.248====
{{vandal|70.243.36.248}}
*user is a Napolean dynamite vandal hitting pages concerning greek mythology.--[[User:Boothy443|Boothy443]] 05:23, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

====24.228.89.194====
{{vandal|24.228.89.194}}
*user is blanking the article [[Bethany]] --[[User:Boothy443|Boothy443]] 05:17, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 65.121.13.2 ====
* {{vandal | 65.121.13.2}}
** replacing all content on the [[Tsunami Relief Cardiff]] article with the word "nigger". The IP looks similar to others mentioned on this page for similar vandalism. [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] 02:03, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== Thingery ====
* {{vandal | Thingery}}
** Vandalism of [[:Image:Carson.JPG]] ([[Johnny Carson]]). I don't see a contribution history for this user, so something weird seems to be going on. He also made changes by saying they were reverting vandalism (untrue). [[User:Mulad|<nowiki></nowiki>]] &mdash;[[User:Mulad]] [[User talk:Mulad|(talk)]] 00:15, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)
***Yeah, wikipedia doesn't handle contribution and watchlists in combination with image changes very well, they don't show up. I've protected the image and will keep an eye on the upload log. --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></SMALL>]] 00:27, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)

==== [[User:Rahulnirmal2000|Rahulnirmal2000]] ====
* This user removed a message from my talk page, changed my mini-bio and ICQ number on my user page (along with deleting random links), deleted the entirety of [[User:Lupo|Lupo]]'s user page and talk page, added unecessary profanity to [[Rin (InuYasha)]], and probably a lot more. -- [[User:Khym Chanur|Khym Chanur]] 05:24, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

==== 168.8.84.2 ====
*{{vandal|168.8.84.2}}
** vandalism and reverting of [[History of United States imperialism]]. Seems to have a history of this behaviour sporadically. -- [[User:San de Berg|San de Berg]] 16:10, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

===January 23===
==== 68.97.130.92 ====
* {{vandal | 68.97.130.92}}
** Blanking some 10 pages in 5 mins, along with other stuff [[User:Phaunt|Phaunt]] 23:16, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
*** Could he be a Sollog puppet? He keeps saying "Wikipedia Sucks" in his summary. [[User:Bart133|Bart133]] 01:27, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
**** Sorry about that - would it be possible to remove this?

==== 24.164.145.156 ====
* {{vandal | 24.164.145.156}}
** Repeatedly destroying the entire [[Abraham Lincoln]] article [[User:Jliberty|Jliberty]] 21:27, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

==== 24.103.16.183 ====
* {{vandal | 24.103.16.183}}
** A few nonsense inserts in [[photosynthesis]]. - [[User:RoyBoy|RoyBoy]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:RoyBoy|&#8734;]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> 20:26, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== Co-ordinated vandalism of [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]] ====
*Heads-up that the Democratic Underground forums have "discovered" Wikipedia and been discussing vandalising the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]] article [http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2994204#2994204 here]. So far today there have been 8 vandalism attacks on this article, in the style described here, and all have been reverted in a maximum of 6 minutes (mostly 2-3 minutes). Please keep an eye on this article, people! -- [[User:Arwel Parry|Arwel]] 16:12, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== Wacky vandalism of [[Christian]] etc.====
*repeated "creative" vandalism to [[Christian]] over the last two days by multiple anons, including: 195.169.149.55, 63.85.194.6, 65.254.45.209, 64.115.210.23, (maybe 199.126.35.88), 69.36.241.33, 216.207.1.130, 194.109.206.210, 62.75.222.213, 217.37.190.226, 195.229.241.186, 66.178.21.203, 213.249.236.146, 213.11.11.229, 85.33.179.171. Still ongoing as I type, with new ips all the time, rarely reusing older ones. Some other vandalism by user of other pages evident on contributions page. Please help stop this Wacky Vandal.--[[User:Pharos|Pharos]] 06:11, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) Hitting [[Zionism]] as well in the last few minutes.--[[User:Pharos|Pharos]] 06:42, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

::Many (all?) of these IPs appear to be open proxies, so in theory the person(s) responsible could continue this indefinitely, or until s/e/they exhaust the proxy list being used; page protection seems to be the only effective measure, but of course, that's only temporary. There used to be a mechanism that'd autoblock proxies when a user tried to edit with one, but that was soon disabled. I'm not sure why, but it probably had to do with AOL and other legitimate proxy-utilising ISPs. Wish I could help more. -- [[User:Hadal|Hadal]] 06:30, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
:::Yeah, the proxy-blocker scanned everyone editing, and got some (rather silly) complaints from ISPs. There is talk of bringing it back on a limited scale though. The way I see it this is going fine though, there aren't that many open proxies, eventually we'll have the majority of them blocked. Make sure to check for proxies when blocking though! (just plugging the ip surrounded by quotes into google is enough to find out of it's an open proxy in 90% of the cases). --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></SMALL>]] 06:37, 2005 Jan 23 (UTC)

==== 209.30.94.201 ====
* {{vandal | 209.30.94.201}}
**Vandalized at least 3 pages in the last half hour including [[George Washington]] repeatedly. --[[User:InShaneee|InShaneee]] 04:43, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 68.72.124.166 ====
* {{vandal | 68.72.124.166}}
** Edited the article [[South Korea]]. He/She/They said that its national motto was ''None is Nothing, Nothing is None.'' on 01:31, 23 Jan 2005. [[User:68.72.124.166|68.72.124.166]] 01:39, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
*** Uh, thanks for reporting yourself. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress&diff=next&oldid=9571524] If only all vandals were so thoughtful.

==== [[User:Superking|Superking]] ====
* {{vandal | Superking}}
** Edited several pages, inserting false information about a livestock shortage in Russia in 1872. Among the vandalized pages was an image of several versions of the USS Enterprise. The user dismisses his act as harmful because "It's not MY fault they let any idiot edit any page."
*** The above was added by ([[User:67.138.164.62|67.138.164.62]] | [[User talk:67.138.164.62|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/67.138.164.62|contributions]]), presumably on the basis of this: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:ENTERPRISE.JPG&diff=prev&oldid=9570001] I only see this one page, not "several pages", and I don't see any contribution or talk page where Superking allegedly wrote "It's not MY fault they let any idiot edit any page", nor do there seem to be any prior instances of vandalism by Superking. There's something odd about this and the reporting of it. Temporary hijacking of Superking's account? -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 07:11, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
**** Nah, Superking has been making most of his edits anonymously, he is a problem user. The vandalism report was lacking some information though yes. --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></SMALL>]] 07:20, 2005 Jan 23 (UTC)

==== 222.126.69.190 ====
*{{vandal | 222.126.69.190}}
**Blanked part of this page - I believe this falls under, "DELIBERATE VANDALISM OF THIS PAGE IS LIKELY TO LEAD TO YOU BEING **BLOCKED** FROM EDITING WIKIPEDIA WITHOUT WARNING", a comment at the top of the page. Could someone do this? [[User:Smoddy|Smoddy]] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[User_talk:Smoddy|&epsilon;&iota;&pi;&epsilon;&tau;&epsilon;]] 01:08, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
***Warned and eventually blocked. --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></SMALL>]] 01:35, 2005 Jan 23 (UTC)

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===January 22===
==== 210.54.197.212 ====
* {{vandal|210.54.197.212}}
** Created a bogus new speedy deletion template {{Template:Childish}} and appended it to several UK children's television series. All reverted and a message left on his talk page. [[User:Dbiv|Dbiv]] 22:32, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
** Update. Has just vandalized my user page (bad move on his part) and will be blocked for 24 hours. [[User:Dbiv|Dbiv]] 22:37, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== Potatoeman57 ====
* {{vandal|Potatoeman57}}
** Probably the same as {{vandal|24.166.6.140}} and {{vandal|Potatoeman56}}, and possibly other user names. Track record of vandalism, latest stunt was vandalizing [[User:Jimbo Wales]]. -- [[User:Curps|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. --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></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. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 22:59, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
*****The clueless can be educated, vandals cannot (well, they can, but it doesn't help). --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></SMALL>]] 23:06, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)
*****I'm sorry about the thing on Jimbo's page, I'm going to quit. sorry. please don't ban me, i'll only make good edits from now on. --[[user:potatoeman57|potatoeman57]]

==== 210.86.122.5 ====
* {{vandal | 210.86.122.5}}
** Created questionable charity [[Unity Foundation Trust|entry]] then added that charity to the [[Donations for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]] and [[List_of_charities]]. - [[User:RoyBoy|RoyBoy]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:RoyBoy|&#8734;]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> 07:04, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
** Blocked and reverted. -- [[User:The Anome|The Anome]] 11:10, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)

====[[User:Paulzakaria|Paulzakaria]]====
{{vandal|Paulzakaria}}
{{vandal|213.42.2.22}}
{{vandal|213.42.2.21}}
:* Constantly adding his singature to [[Great Railroad Strike]] from his user acct and anon sockpuppets and blanking my talk page.--[[User:Boothy443|Boothy443]] 06:16, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
:::I've set a two hour range block covering 213.42.0.0/16, which should take care of both the anons and the user account, for now. -- [[User:Hadal|Hadal]] 06:44, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 69.162.158.161 ====
* {{vandal | 69.162.158.161}}
** Disrupting vfd on [[List of people named bill]] and using abusive language [[User:TigerShark|TigerShark]] 02:12, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
** Previously did the same thing to [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of Republican celebrities]] on Dec 8th. [[User:TigerShark|TigerShark]] 02:20, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
** And [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/50 things to do in an elevator]] earlier today. [[User:TigerShark|TigerShark]] 02:22, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
** Has also been warned (and blocked) for this behaviour before, see [[User talk:69.162.158.161]] [[User:TigerShark|TigerShark]] 02:25, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
::* Blocked for 24 hours for tampering with other users' votes on [[Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/List_of_people_named_bill]]. I think this is a sufficiently serious offence that no warning was needed.-[[User:Gadfium|gadfium]] 04:13, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== Streetcar445 ====
* {{vandal | Streetcar445}}
** Creating nonsense pages and recreating them after they are deleted.
***Warned repeatedly and eventually blocked. --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></SMALL>]] 01:31, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)

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===January 21===
==== 66.154.184.34 ====
* {{vandal | 66.154.184.34}}
** Most edits seem to be plain vandalism. Was creating new pages with random names and links to porn. Only expection seems to be edits to Harry Potter related pages, which seem to be OK. [[User:Jp347|John]] 23:25, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
**Was warned on January 11 too. [[User:Jp347|John]] 23:34, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
***It's a school proxy (proxy2.beavton.k12.or.us) which explains why the edit quality is a bit of a mixed bag. Probably best to just keep an eye on their contributions and if the situation gets really bad, ask their network people to do something about it. --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></SMALL>]] 23:52, 2005 Jan 21 (UTC)

==== 166.127.1.36 ====
* {{vandal | 166.127.1.36 }}
** Hit the Science category among others [[User:Ancheta Wis|Ancheta Wis]] 21:46, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 207.97.185.102 ====
* {{vandal | 207.97.185.102}}
** Co-worker who is intentionally blanking pages to annoy me... --{{User:Sgeo/sig}} 21:19, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

==== 193.1.216.99 ====
* {{vandal | 193.1.216.99}}
** So far has only added heavy POV to the [[Stuckism]] article, and vandalised the talk page today. Scope is probably narrow and only related to specific art movements. -- [[User:Solipsist|Solipsist]] 19:32, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 67.149.77.77 ====
* {{vandal | 67.149.77.77}}
** Not sure if this qualifies as vandalism, or simply POV in [[Abortion]], but I reverted it. - [[User:RoyBoy|RoyBoy]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:RoyBoy|&#8734;]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> 18:47, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
***The edit on [[Abortion]] doesn't look like vandalism to me at all, just POV. I find it is better to argue rationally for NPOV than report an apparently earnest edit as vandalism.--[[User:Pharos|Pharos]] 19:36, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
****I know what it is, but given the context I'm not inclined to assume good faith in this instance. - [[User:RoyBoy|RoyBoy]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:RoyBoy|&#8734;]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> 07:13, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 205.173.169.253 ====
* {{vandal | 205.173.169.253}}
**[[nickname]] vandalised twice today. He appears to have a history of vandalism.--[[User:192.203.136.254|192.203.136.254]] 16:53, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==== 209.142.37.21 ====
* {{vandal | 209.142.37.21}}
* {{vandal | 128.39.243.220}}
* {{vandal | 195.169.149.55}}
* {{vandal | 207.36.86.132}}
** [[Judaism]] vandalised by this IP and these IPs, which have v. similar edit histories: 128.39.243.220 195.169.149.55; should this be protected?? [[User:Sc147|Sc147]] 02:24, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
** just vandalised again with same text by 207.36.86.132 - again, similar edit history to the others. [[User:Sc147|Sc147]] 02:25, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)#
**Hm. 207.36.86.132 is an anoymizing proxy. I'll block it. -- [[User:The Anome|The Anome]] 11:34, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
***Oops, I forgot to post it here, but I'd already blocked it for being an open proxy. I've also sent an email to the 195.169.149.55 operator as I suspect that's a case of trojaning. The other two I'm not so sure about what's going on yet. --[[User:fvw|fvw]][[User talk:Fvw|<SMALL><FONT COLOR="green">*</FONT></SMALL>]] 12:29, 2005 Jan 21 (UTC)

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Old instructions for this page[edit]

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History[edit]

The first page used for tracking vandalism was a user subpage, ManningBartlett/Naughty people, some time before 4 November 2001. The vandalism in progress page was established as VANDALISM IN PROGRESS on 1 December 2001 - the title was upper-case to make it easily distinguishable on recent changes). Around the same time, the Wikipedia Militia (since renamed to the Volunteer Fire Department) was formed to coordinate responses to press releases about Wikipedia. The "VANDALISM IN PROGRESS" page was moved to the Wikipedia namespace in August 2002 and was renamed to the current title in 2006. Its archives since 2003 may be found in Wikipedia:Requests for investigation/Archives and the talk archives since august 2002 can be found in the history of Wikipedia talk:Requests for investigation/Archive 4 and in text form as subpages of Wikipedia talk:Requests for investigation. Old subpages can also be found through special:Prefixindex/Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress. the long-term abuse page also grew out of "vandalism in progress". A section on the "vandalism in progress" page for persistent vandalism was added in February 2004, later abandoned, and then re-created as "Ongoing alerts" in September 2004; in December 2004 it was split off to its own page, titled Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/Long term alerts.

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