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This page documents vandalism in progress. Please report users engaging in vandalism at the top of the "Current alerts" list below. Please only use this page for repeated malicious vandalism, not for one-off edits, or newbie tests. If you discover newbie testing and feel like the user could use some help, please list them at Wikipedia:Clueless newbies. Except in cases of vandalbot or other rapid-fire attacks, please warn users and wait for further vandalism before listing them here. Do not list non-vandalism (see Cautions and alternatives below).

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Most vandalized pages
Long term alerts
Current alerts
(report vandalism here) User:Ravinesh rds


Please list the IP address or user name, pages touched, and damage done. Sign your name using ~~~~ after your report. Put the person's IP or username in the edit summary.

User:Ravinesh rds is delting images and text from articles relating to the human body.

Cautions and alternatives
Please do not bite the newcomers by listing newbie tests as vandalism. Instead, assume good faith and list them at Wikipedia:Clueless newbies. If you suspect an edit may be vandalism but are unsure, list the edit on RC patrol. See NPOV dispute, Accuracy dispute and Requests for comment for content disputes. Page protection may be requested. Report three revert rule violations at WP:AN/3RR.
If you come across very recent vandalism where it seems that the perpetrator should be blocked immediately (and has already been warned), try listing your report on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.
Archives and related pages
How to spot vandalism, Dealing with vandalism, /Archive 1, /Archive 2, /archive06072004, /Archive 20040724, /Archive200408, /Archive200409, /Archive200410, /Archive200411, /Archive200412, /Archive200501, /Archive200502, /Archive200503, /Archive200504, /Archive200504-1 /New Imperialism, /Mr. Treason, /Wik, Old page history (pre May 2004)
Blocks and other tools
List of blocked users, information on an IP, network tools, Whois, Meta:Finding network abuse contacts, Trace the location of an IP address

Pages suffering from repeated vandalism

See Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages.


"WP:LONG" and "WP:LONGTERM" redirect here. For article length, see Wikipedia:Article size. For article durability over time, see Wikipedia:Build content to endure.
    Requests for investigation
    Shortcuts
    This page is not a noticeboard. To report vandalism, use the administrators' vandalism noticeboard.

    This page summarises a limited number of long term abusers, to assist members of the community who believe they may have cause to report another incident. Note that this page is not a noticeboard. Names should only be added for the most egregious and well-attested cases. Most users here will have been banned, some on multiple occasions.

    Cautionary notes
    Don't provide too much info
    The text should tread a careful balance between providing useful information and providing enough to obstruct detection. In general such information should only be shared with users of a high level of reputation.
    Hints on useful info
    Consider providing just a summary of the behaviors and nature of disruption, key case pages (SPI/ANI/RFAR), and the names of current experienced users familiar with the abuser (with their "giveaways", history, behavior traits, etc.)
    Don't use LTA unless needed
    Only add vandals that have a need to be pointed out, especially ones whose contributions could be confused for good-faith edits by somebody unfamiliar with their modus operandi. This includes sneaky sockpuppeteers, prolific trolls, POV-pushers, editors who add deliberately false or biased information and promotional editors. Blatant vandals whose sockpuppet accounts would be blocked swiftly as vandalism-only even if they weren't evading a previous block usually do not need to be listed here.
    Use language carefully
    Do not use language that glorifies vandalism. Do not use relative time phrases such as "lately", "recently" without qualification (use "As of date...").

    For help, please ask on the project's talk page or contact one of the helpers. You may also be interested in the filing instructions, but again, please be mindful of DENY. If you need more information on an user listed here, your best bet would be to contact the user that submitted the report, which can be found in the page history.

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    Reports

    Transcludes Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/List

    Report Description
    109.151.65.218 Predominantly IP-hopping user who disruptively edits reference desks and articles regarding works of fiction about rape or sexual abuse.
    2600:4040:2800::/40 Edit-warring vandal who keeps restoring bad edits to TV show articles.
    A.I.U. Vandal Repeatedly, across multiple accounts, appears to edit topics related to the credentials of Ghanian businessman Hassan Ayariga and the overall status of Atlantic International University, an institution widely reported to be a degree mill.
    Albert20009 An Indonesia-based user who mainly and frequently targets China, Malaysia, Singapore and several other countries media articles (like television/radio channels, newspaper as well television dramas/movies) with false information and WP:MOS/WP:OVERLINK related issues. The sock master has been globally blocked together with his sockpuppet accounts, but the user continues his disruptive edits through various IP numbers mostly from Medan and Stabat in North Sumatra and several other rare locations around Indonesia. He is also active in Indonesian language Wikipedia, Malay language Wikipedia, Chinese language Wikipedia and many more.
    Alec Smithson A persistent cross-wiki hoaxer and sockpuppeteer since 2014. Globally locked in 2016 for long-term and extensive cross-wiki abuse, now edits using constantly shifting IPs resolving to Milan, Italy, and surrounding towns. The primary focus is to promote obscure members of the Natoli family and to spuriously link them to various European nobility, using fake or misrepresented references. Continues to create articles on the Natoli family and related subjects on all wikis that allow article creation by unregistered users.
    Ananny A persistent cross-wiki spammer and sock-puppeteer since December 2006, Ananny's goal is to promote the work of a non-notable artist (as established in several independent AFD discussions). To this end the user has used more than a dozen socks and innumerable IPs to recreate the deleted article and add the artist's name to various lists. Although low level, the spamming has affected 19 Wikimedia wikis over a 9 year period.
    Andrew5 A persistent sockmaster in Long Island who has been active since 2019, frequently targeting 21st-century weather/baseball related articles, often making trivial edits to them and starting conflicts on sources and content. Engages in cross-wiki harassment of users who revert them or report/block their sockpuppets.
    Angela Criss Changing singers and genres for topics related to Devo, Eagles, Nickelback, and country music.
    Ararat arev An Armenian nationalist permabanned for revert-warring and sockpuppetry. His main focus is articles concerning Armenian antiquity, which he attempts to distort in accordance with certain nationalist fringe theories, mostly attributed to the www.armenianhighland.com website.
    Asdisis A Croatian nationalist banned primarily for disruption at the Nikola Tesla biography. Multiple socks and more than 200 IPs involved.
    AudiGuy-1204 Sockmaster and troll from Turkey who targets articles about cars, voice actors, VTubers, and Japanese culture by adding references to automobiles, obscenities and/or Nazi themed vandalism. Impersonates, harasses and trolls users who report them, especially Harushiga. Also impersonates other LTAs like Lithuaniaball2 and Fuerdai.
    Bambifan101 Focuses on Disney articles. Has a professed love of juvenile-themed movies (usually Disney animated features) and books.
    Benniejets Chronic sockpuppeteer who disrupts Italy, Europe and International politics & statistics related pages with a strong Italian POV.
    Bertrand101 Massive vandalism on Philippine media. After being blocked on English Wikipedia, he will continue cross-wiki vandalism.
    Best known for IP IP editor, regularly engaged in edit warring and personal attacks, particularly over the phrase "best known for".
    Belteshazzar Persistent sockpuppeteer who most frequently edits articles related to the Bates method and Charles Ingram.
    Billy Hathorn Chronic copyright violations and trivia.
    Billy North Adds fictitious individual "Clutch Kahn" to associated acts or former member fields of infoboxes for alternative rock and blues artists. Once created accounts, now an IP hopping vandal.
    Blue Barette Bam Repeatedly attacks and harasses editors with disruptive edit summaries, and occasionally posts personal information on certain pages.
    BMX on WheeIs, AKA Fuerdai Vandalizes articles related to Fuerdai, technology and China with the words/phrases "fuerdai", "on wheels", "testicles going up and down" or variations. Usernames and edits can often be derogatory to minority groups or editors who revert their edits. Occasionally uploads vandalism images on Commons as well.
    Boy band vandal IP-hopping user from Alberta, blocked more than 30 times since 2013 for disruptively adding categories such as "boy band" and "girl group".
    Brad Watson, Miami Once spammed pseudoscience on talk pages, now adds cryptic rants centered around the number 7 to pages related to the Bible and ancient Egypt.
    Brianmagallano Vandal primarily targeting video game articles, Philippine media articles and Football articles, introducing false information, active for years even after blocks. Dozens and dozens of suspected socks from the same IP range.
    Bucharest Wild Kratts and horror film vandal Adding false information, section blanking, and edit warring, most often on pages relating to Wild Kratts and The Conjuring Universe.
    Caidin-Johnson Nonsense edits at television shows for young children, Looney Tunes articles, and topics related to Happy Tree Friends; also known for hoaxing at List of Crayola crayon colors. Obsessed with inflatable, bursting, popping, and bouncing objects.
    CalebHughes Adds defamatory content toward actors, actresses, and politics. Frequently vandalizes hurricane-related pages.
    Cambridge Canada vandal Unreferenced trivia, genres, and analysis to film and music articles. Also known as the "box office bomb vandal".
    CaMI!oWave2015 Genre warring from Colombia IPs, starting in 2013 to change genres without discussion or references.
    Caribbean music vandal Copyright violations, misrepresented sources, original research, and promotion of several bands.
    Catcreekcitycouncil Prolific sockpuppeter with over 500 socks which inserts hoaxes about lions existing in Montana.
    Cause of death vandal UK-based user blocked many times for disruption at biographies, changing to false dates or adding irrelevant information.
    Cebr1979 Personal attacks, harassment, and a generally combative attitude toward other editors.
    Chicago Happy Tree Friends vandal Adding the adult-animated show Happy Tree Friends to Cartoonito USA-related pages and claims that it is airing there in 2022, other edits on pages relating to laptops and disambiguation pages.
    Chipmunks vandal Adding trivial details about covers by fictional bands, especially Alvin and the Chipmunks, as well as Glee TV performances.
    Christian2941 Known for adding deliberate factual errors on Philippine-related articles, and for persistent sockpuppetry. Usernames typically follow a predictable pattern, such as RMxxxx or Southern Wear 201.
    Cruizir Vandalism across a wide range of topics, likely engaging in meatpuppetry with BMX/Fuerdai.
    Country music category vandal from Tennessee Uses primarily Tennessee IPs to target country music topics, adding inappropriate categories, usually to biographies.
    Cow cleaner 5000 Targets articles related to Weekly Shōnen Jump and Justin Knapp. Seems to have a fixation on linking these to terrorist groups or finding ways to link them to non-existent controversies.
    Date-changing vandal from Guatemala Frequently changes release dates and track lengths or albums and singles without a reliable source, and ignores the manual of style regarding music.
    Date-changing vandal from Malaysia Long-term Malaysian date vandal mainly active on biographies of government officials.
    Date-changing vandal from Poland IP editor from Poland, who changes dates in music articles. Also active at Polish Wikipedia.
    De la lombertie Disruptive editing, mostly about France or art; poor machine translations from French. Also active on French Wikipedia.
    Denver LTA Blanking Denver radio stations, Chili's, Bennigan's, other.
    DiscoveryTeenHD Primarily IP-using from Bulgaria who vandalizes or adds unsourced informations to TV related articles and engages in cross wiki harassment of users who report them. Also uploads copyvios on Commons.
    Dolby–Blob–Cars vandal False credits on articles relating to film and music, especially Thomas Dolby, The Blob and the Cars.
    Dog and rapper vandal General disruption on articles relating to dogs and rappers.
    Dusty8686 Numerical changes on various articles (mainly relating to puzzles, video games, science, and transportation) from various proxies, VPNs, and IPs in Florida. Is aware of how to game autoconfirmed, and has also harassed various users.
    Eagles hard rock vandal Genre-warring in music articles from a combination of sockpuppets and IPs primarily from Rhode Island.
    Europeanhematology WP:REFSPAM: IPs geolocating to Czech Republic or Slovakia adding references using {{PMID}} with no author information; once expanded the references are always to Mraz, M and/or Pospisilova, S.
    Fangusu Ongoing copyright violations and violations of the image use policy, frivolous WP:ANI complaints against users who revert her, and repeated unblock requests.
    Folkestone music vandal User who edits from Folkestone IPs and makes minor changes to music articles violating WP:MOS.
    Frenchie vandal Disruptive changes to rapper biographies, especially Frenchie (rapper), general music articles, and film articles.
    Friends vandal Vandalism on articles related to the television show Friends. Persistently introduces factual errors regarding the relationship statuses of the characters.
    Gabriella~four.3-6 Edits in anime, manga, Monster High, and TV show topics, as well as WP:NOTAFORUM violations
    Gabucho181 Block evasion and persistent vandalism to television network and programme-related articles and harassment/trolling.
    Geraldine Edwards hoax from San Diego Perpetrating a hoax, both on- and off-wiki, that the last girlfriend of singer Robert Palmer was someone named Geraldine Edwards.
    German reference desk troll Frequents reference desks as an anonymous user from 84.* or 88.* range (geolocated in Essen and Bochum, Germany), and asks fairly difficult open-ended questions, targeted to waste other people's time. Also, creates or requests creation of implausible redirects, usually with vulgar or double entendre meanings.
    Gsthae with tempo! Editor who uses both accounts and IPs from France to create patent nonsense drafts.
    Guangzhou IP vandal Creates articles with administrator/rollbacker's usernames in Chinese Wikipedia and redirects many pages to Main Page.
    Hanoi vandal Fabricates musical collaborations between targets of interest.
    Hanover Research For-profit organization from the Greater Washington, D.C., area who posts biased poltical analyses.
    HarveyCarter Long term persistent sockpuppeteer, edit warrior, vandal.
    HarveyTeenager Hoax information about Harvey Girls Forever! returning, as well as hoaxes about a long-form Elinor Wonders Why special and hoax episode information.
    Hassan Guy Chronic sockpuppeteer out of Oman & Libya who disrupts articles related to Pakistan Armed Forces with Pro Pakistani bias
    HENRY APPLEGATE Cross-wiki sockpuppeteer known for writing nonsense attack pages in userspace, alluding to Philippine celebrities or local insurgent and/or organised crime groups.
    Honduras200010 Honduras-based editor hopping between registered accounts and IP use, focused on climate classifications, adding photos of skylines, and divas. History of lengthy account names.
    Hong Kong geography warrior IP-hopping editor from Hong Kong who adds obscure Hong Kong geographic place names, obscure land lot numbers, obscure names of physical features and infrastructure, and other uncited geographic trivia against consensus.
    I B Wright Creating false consensus; POV-pushing about railways.
    Iloveartrock Changing genres and categories at rock music articles, and extensive edit warring.
    Ineedtostopforgetting Puffery, POV pushing, and edit warring on subjects related to Singapore.
    ItsLassieTime This user has been banned from editing Wikipedia, with over 150 sockpuppet accounts and a CCI that encompassed over 700 articles. Edits a wide range of articles, but ones on children's literature and TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s in particular. Also has an interest in topics related to the American West. Has a penchant for being quick to attack anyone who disagrees with their edits and editing pattern is a problem due to frequent copyvio, close-paraphrasing and other misuse of source material. Tends to create usernames related to topics that account is editing and claim a different, often sympathy-invoking, persona for each. Recent socking has focused on making dozens of accounts with a few edits each and trolling, personal attacks, and harassment. Sockpuppets have been blocked in 2009–2018.
    Jermboy27 Vandal attacking road sign and TV-related articles. Vandalism scheme involves abusive use of multiple accounts and IP vandalism.
    John Daker Hoaxing and impersonation.
    Jurisdrew Cross wiki vandalism targeting flags, particularly from the Middle East and inserts images of fictional flags in articles as well in random user's sandboxes if it contains content anything related to flags. Also an IP hopping vandal from the Philippines. Edit summaries are always "scobedos"
    Karmaisking This user has been indefinitely blocked for vandalism, personal attacks, soapboxing, and sockpuppeteering. He often uses multiple sockpuppets. Aliases have included User:Lagrandebanquesucre, User:KeynesianCounterfeiters, User:KarmasBlackSwan, User:Rememberkarma, User:Timothymak, User:TimothyDon-HughMak. Edits pages related to fractional reserve banking, Austrian school of economics, and libertarian-related issues. Often leaves insulting or misleading edit summaries, and sometimes claims to be a new user.
    Kenny Loggins vandal This person puts false material into music articles, targeting mostly artists who were first active in the 1960s through the 1970s.
    Kingshowman A frequent sockmaster who makes personal attacks against other users as well as defamatory statements relating to supposed controversies about Donald Trump. This user usually exhibits a grandiose tone in usernames and edit summaries.
    Krisdegioia Edits relating to Kris Degioia and related topic areas: cyberstalking, cyberbullying, cyber crimes, etc. krisdegioia (talk · contribs) has been banned by the Wikimedia Foundation from editing Wikimedia sites consistent with the Terms of Use. Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to SPI for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. Notify the Trust & Safety team regarding any incidents at ca@wikimedia.org.
    KurdîmHeval Sockpuppeteer initially blocked for nationalist edit-warring and personal attacks. Mainly makes disruptive unsourced changes on pages related to the Middle East, especially biographies of celebrities and historical figures. This includes adding Kurdish ethnic origins to such articles by falsifying, removing, or not providing a source.
    Lagoo sab Attacks and reports editors who work in the India–Pakistan–Afghanistan topic area.
    Lpkids2006 Massive vandalism on Philippine media.
    Lithuaniaball2 Persistent cross-wiki vandalism and sockpuppetry on articles about cars, gender, sexuality and dates in December. Edits often consist of unwikifying text or replacing article text with content from other articles and/or text in Lithuanian. Also disrupts GENSEX-related articles with homophobic/transphobic vandalism. In addition to enwiki, vandalizes Lithuanian, Samogitian and Western Armenian Wikipedias.
    Mangoeater1000 A vandal who moved pages to inappropriate names. After getting indefinitely blocked for fourth-offense sockpuppetry, he continued to edit using many sockpuppets. His contributions typically focus on tendentious editing regarding NYU Poly and Cal Poly Pomona.
    MariaJaydHicky Persistent sockpuppeteer and banned editor that adds unsourced/poorly sourced content.
    Martial arts vandal Disrupts martial arts-related films, especially (but not limited to) Hong Kong action films. Engages in genre warring, extensive edit warring, sock puppetry, and block evasion.
    Master12112wp Repeatedly spams disruptive text in Hindi or Odia on articles.
    Mattisse Contributor who had difficult interactions with several other established users. Has regularly resorted to socking to evade scrutiny and carry on grudges with other editors.
    Meena Kurian Addition of poorly sourced information and indiscriminate listcruft of animals to articles about zoos, Planet Zoo or animals, broadly construed.
    Michigan IP Overlinking in articles, especially in the topic area of climate change.
    Mikemikev Frequent vandalism of and POV-pushing on race-related articles for over 13 years. When one doesn't agree with his viewpoint, he will call them names, such as "Anti-White", and frequently harasses users with racial slurs.
    Mikequfv Originally indeffed in 2016 for disruptive color changes in climate boxes including turning the precipitation box blue and snow box green. Now uses IPs geolocating to Canada to continue these disruptive edits.
    Montreal music vandal Wrong songwriting credits.
    Motorsports and Japan LTA Pro-Japanese, anti-Korean edits in the topic area of motorsports; edit warring and disparaging others' knowledge of English.
    Muhammad Samiuddin Qazi Chronic sockpuppeteer (including IPs), Urdu/Pakistan POVPUSHING on a multitude of articles, templates, cats etc. especially language (Hindustani, Urdu, Hindi etc.) and Indian/Pakistan entertainment related articles.
    Muppets LTA Two users from the United States, (one from Indiana typically on Frontier, one from California typically on Comcast) persistently adding indiscriminate lists focused on "Background Muppets" or "Background characters" or "Muppet cameos" or "Not Featured Muppets" across a wide variety of articles related to The Muppets. Active circa mid-2015 to present (2017).
    MusicLover650 Disruption to music related articles.
    My Royal Young Massive vandalism on US Navy ships, Encantadia articles and some talk pages. After being blocked on English Wikipedia, he continues to do cross-wiki vandalism.
    Nangparbat Chronic sockpuppeteer who primarily attacks and disrupts articles on India-Pakistan-Afghanistan Military History with a Pro-Pakistani bias.
    Nate Speed Long-term sockpuppeteer known for treating Wikipedia as his own sandbox for which to preserve his version of articles on studios and entertainment that he targets. Slings semi-censored expletives and insults at anyone who gets in his way in messages and email, even if it's by reverting his edits, and will demand said editors put his version back. Notorious for writing out Internet "punches" as well as a bunch of exclamation points in his messages and emails.
    New Order vandal IP-hopping editor from Japan who primarily vandalizes New Order- and 808 State- related articles. This vandal mostly engages in genre warring, extensive edit warring, opinion pushing, personal attacks and spamming on talk pages. Also occasionally interchanges article contents and pictures.
    Nikita Persistent edits and edit requests related to certification and sales inflation of Green Day and The Who articles and other abuse by globally blocked and locally banned user Никита-Родин-2002.
    Nipponese Dog Calvero Trolling, personal attacks, harassment, creating attacking or confusing accounts and pages. He is more active on east Asian projects, such as Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese Wikipedia.
    NoCal100 Anti-Muslim, antisemitic edit warrior who edits mostly about cinema and Middle Eastern international politics.
    Nsmutte Personal attacks, impersonating other editors, community banned
    Orangemoody 381 sockpuppet accounts blocked, mostly undisclosed paid editors, and 210 articles deleted in late August 2015. Received media attention.
    Otto4711 Block evader who edits primarily in LGBT and American television topics, and their categories.
    Philm540 Adding unreferenced information to articles about military aircraft.
    Piermark Spamming and POV-pushing on articles related to religion.
    Pinkalicious vandal Adding false and unsubstantiated information to Pinkalicious & Peterrific, and occasionally also Donkey Hodie (TV series). Additional behavior includes date changing.
    Pioneercourthouse Many years, many sockpuppets, has resulted in indefinite bans and his very own abusefilter.
    Projects (GRP) On- and off-wiki harassment, email abuse, threats; multiple topic areas including chess, martial arts, mysterious deaths; self-promotion.
    ProTaylorCraft, a.k.a. Cody Taylor Perennial sockmaster who repeatedly adds poorly- or un-sourced information to a wide variety of pages, often inserting the name Cody Taylor into band lineups, TV casts, and hockey rosters. Has published or attempted to publish numerous hoax articles on songs, albums, shows, and hockey teams that don't exist, as well as himself.
    Richard Daft Personal attacks, harassment, legal threats, vandalism to WP:CRICKET, prolific sockpuppetry with 120 socks to date. Modus operandi:- targeting mostly cricket articles edited primarily by three members of the cricket project, often vandalising the page with personal attacks or replacing words with immature alternatives. Often has several socks set up at once, with many more in reserve. In 2012 Daft became the subject of a site ban, having been causing disruption since 2008.
    Ron liebman A vandal operating primarily out of the New York City public library open computer terminals, this user has impersonated members of baseball statistics organizations and inserted unsourced and false information into numerous baseball-related articles.
    Royer2356 Adding profanity to change the meaning of sentences in articles, "good hand/bad hand" sockpuppetry.
    Russian politics IP vandal This vandal is using dynamical IP addresses in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, to introduce obscenites (in Russian, transliterated Russian, and English) into articles on Russian politicians, as well as using obscene edit summaries to these edits.
    Sandbox troll Disruptive editing at sandbox pages; hostility toward users who act against them.
    Satt 2 Tendentious editing about Georgia (country), especially its geographic location and placement.
    Scottish12345678 Reverts foreign relations articles to fit their preferred version.
    Slowking4 Determined to "set things right", focusing on adding images to biographies and participating in editing drives. Edits are regularly poor in attribution, and has historically been violating our non-free content policy. Uses strong language and personal attacks when being confronted.
    Stubes99 Copyright violations and harassment of other editors, especially regarding the history of Hungary.
    Supreme Genghis Khan Persistent trolling and large-scale vandalism, often referencing Genghis Khan and on articles related to Mongolia or Mongols.
    Szm020730 Image flag vandal, adding hoax flags to articles about places. Mostly edits from IP addresses.
    Taiki0409 Massive vandalism on articles about beauty pageants, anime and tokusatsu, and Philippine media.
    Techno genre warrior from Greece This is a genre warrior from Greece who concentrates on music articles that are related to EDM, house, big beat, breakbeat, Eurodance, trance, etc. Without ever referencing a published source, the person frequently adds "techno" to the genre parameter of an infobox, or replaces existing genres with "techno".
    Teenage Fairytale Dropouts vandal A frequent vandaliser of Wikipedia for several years. Most of their edits involve adding false, unsourced and/or dubious information about the children's television program Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. They predominantly target the articles So Fresh and So Random! as well as the associated pages of these articles.
    Television vandal from Tunisia IP-hopper from Tunisia who adds or removes content from television related articles without any sources or communication.
    Thai gun hoaxster The Thai gun hoaxster is an IP editor that adds user entries in firearm articles usually with false references taken from legitimate entries in the same or other articles. Sometimes, he just makes up ref names. He uses IP addresses from Thailand and has been active since at least 2017.
    Tim Zukas Poor copyediting attempts at articles about rail or air transportation. Often edits logged out.
    Tirgil34 Fringe editing about Central Asian history, Proto-Indo-European culture, and the Turkic peoples, and personal attacks.
    Tokyo Metro 6000 series Massive vandalism related to public transport (buses and trains) on articles, including Ralph Breaks the Internet. After being blocked on English Wikipedia, he continues to do cross-wiki vandalism.
    TV5Ozamiz Persistent addition of hoaxes pertaining to Filipino media, malls, and films.
    TyrusThomas4lyf This user is a persistent sock-puppeteer who had his account blocked indefinitely in May 2007 for repeated personal attacks and edit warring on NBA-related articles, despite numerous warnings and attempts to mediate. For a summary of this user's past behavior, see the RFC and his talk page User talk:TyrusThomas4lyf. Since his block, he has repeatedly attempted to subvert the block by resorting to sock-puppetry.
    UK Kennedy–Lincoln–Titanic IP Conspiracy stuff, violations of WP:No original research.
    UnderArmourKid Vandalizes Aflac, Office Depot, Under Armour. Themes include 9/11, aviation, cyclones, moon landing conspiracies, Geometry Dash, NASCAR, Santiago (Chile).
    Urbanuntil Persistent sockpuppeteer on Mexico-related pages.
    The UPN Vandal Adds hoax information to articles pertaining to television and film, especially children's media.
    Voice Cast Vandal Adds hoax information to film and television articles and their associated actors with cross-referencing.
    Vote (X) for Change Trolls user and project talk pages, superficial discussion disputes but with incorrect and misleading information.
    Weathereditor Made unsourced changes to articles relating to weather and locations in the United Kingdom. Once other editors started reverting the unsourced changes made by the user, sockpuppets will undo those reversions.
    Wickwack Trolling and impersonation at reference desks.
    Wikidestruction vandal British Wikipedia vandal who constantly vandalizes articles relying on Now! That's What I Call Music, a large number of different musical artists, and some video game articles. User tends to "identify" the edits they reverse as "good faith edits", despite often being constructive contributions to the article.[1][2] The user occasionally pleads for other editors who repeatedly revert their nonconstructive edits, via edit summaries.[3][4]
    WikiExperts Service that protects other businesses' interests on Wikipedia.
    Wikiexplorer13 Chronic sockpuppeteer who particularly engages in the pursuit and harassment of a number of users (Capitals00, D4iNa4, Razer2115, Raymond3023, MBlaze Lightning and Adamgerber80—to name a few) by reverting any edits that they have made until he gets blocked.
    Wikinger Adds false information related to the Greek alphabet and to its related minor characters. Also impersonates other LTAs and sockmasters.
    WorldCreaterFighter Mainly attacks articles within the realms of history, genetics, and linguistics as it concerns nations and ethnic groups throughout Asia, with a particular emphasis on topics that concern Turkey, Korea, and Japan.
    Xayahrainie43 Adds fancruft and original research related to mathematics, especially number theory.
    Yaysmay15 Targets Philippine history timeline articles, adds non-notable sensationalist events (and created articles for some of them), plus edit-warring, sockpuppetry and (at one instance) threats. Originally used the user name "Vince daryl falcunitin", he was soon blocked in 2016. Was the subject of complaints by Tambayan Philippines members, especially Hariboneagle927 and Blake Gripling (Blakegripling ph). Inactive since 2019, but still likely to be editing through IPs.
    Youngstown music vandal Wrong dates, wrong facts in hip-hop music articles.
    Zhoban Adds unreliable sources to Islamic terrorism articles, while acting in an uncivil manner towards other editors. Abuses multiple accounts and IP addresses.
    Zhmailik Creates hoaxes and adds false information to music-related pages.

    Full list

    For a full list of all the vandals (where all of the entries are shown on one page), please click here. Note that some usernames will appear as "Full" until clicking the [edit] link which leads to the individual subpage.

    Current alerts

    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: ~~~~.

    ==== IP ====
    * {{vandal | IP}}
    ** DESCRIPTION


    January 30

    83.109.185.152, 83.109.130.54

    68.9.60.85

    PatGallacher 02:09, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

    January 29

    12.134.212.168

    Wheel on Willys

    159.134.97.248

    January 28

    204.109.64.2

    67.52.30.218

    168.190.200.39

    70.60.111.10

    219.118.190.154

    • 219.118.190.154 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)}
      • Being totally stupid! Please give him an orange box and a whack with a cluestick! [This is by 219.118.190.154 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. 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

    212.85.15.67

    --Eleassar777 16:05, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

    82.133.105.238

    70.88.129.205

    62.171.194.41

    68.6.119.54

    210.0.177.84

    64.236.208.25

    MikeFox

    • MikeFox (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
      • 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? 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.-gadfium 00:33, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

    68.10.118.157

    January 27

    149.99.45.38

    65.117.156.222

    24.119.40.226

    User:OneGay (not User:OneGuy)

    Abelincoln98

    63.203.101.122

    66.193.231.176

    January 26

    84.66.151.113

    198.81.26.72

    • 198.81.26.72 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
      • 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. 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? 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. [[7]] Ungtss 16:11, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

    70.88.129.205

    204.193.6.90

    195.144.131.4

    213.142.24.146

    131.111.244.170

    195.188.250.140

    131.111.244.170

    SKAZNBOI

    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. - Kickstart70 01:59, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC) (hope I did this entry correctly)

    January 25

    205.200.236.19

    • Numerous pages vandalized day after day.
    Jok2000 21:56, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • Contributed by anonymous IP deleted IP address, but for the record, 205.200.236.19 really is a vandal. --Deathphoenix 21:36, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) (Deleted IP address now that it's been signed).

    151.188.16.20

    202.131.134.195 / Subash1

    152.163.101.10

    68.52.195.192

    144.32.128.75

    BIlly on Bills

    64.88.86.3

    Brother Larry

    219.93.174.102

    66.157.118.52

    210.0.177.84

    207.191.177.130 / 68.19.242.24

    January 24

    209.165.134.49

    165.24.5.66

    164.104.1.36

    204.187.140.114

    198.54.202.115

    198.54.202.115 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) 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. --Dewet 19:02, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

    220.227.152.36

    220.227.152.36 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Adding commercial spam to random pages (always starts with "The changing faces of Technology:")

    70.243.36.248

    70.243.36.248 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

    • user is a Napolean dynamite vandal hitting pages concerning greek mythology.--Boothy443 05:23, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

    24.228.89.194

    24.228.89.194 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

    65.121.13.2

    Thingery

    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 Lupo's user page and talk page, added unecessary profanity to Rin (InuYasha), and probably a lot more. -- Khym Chanur 05:24, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

    168.8.84.2

    January 23

    68.97.130.92

    24.164.145.156

    24.103.16.183

    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 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! -- 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.--Pharos 06:11, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) Hitting Zionism as well in the last few minutes.--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. -- 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). --fvw* 06:37, 2005 Jan 23 (UTC)

    209.30.94.201

    68.72.124.166

    Superking

    • Superking (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
      • 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 (67.138.164.62 | talk | contributions), presumably on the basis of this: [9] 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? -- 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. --fvw* 07:20, 2005 Jan 23 (UTC)

    222.126.69.190

    January 22

    210.54.197.212

    Potatoeman57

    210.86.122.5

    Paulzakaria

    Paulzakaria (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 213.42.2.22 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) 213.42.2.21 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

    • Constantly adding his singature to Great Railroad Strike from his user acct and anon sockpuppets and blanking my talk page.--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. -- Hadal 06:44, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

    69.162.158.161

    Streetcar445

    January 21

    66.154.184.34

    • 66.154.184.34 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
      • 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. John 23:25, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
      • Was warned on January 11 too. 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. --fvw* 23:52, 2005 Jan 21 (UTC)

    166.127.1.36

    207.97.185.102

    193.1.216.99

    67.149.77.77

    205.173.169.253

    209.142.37.21

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