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Hi. Over at WP:F1 we are having some problems with a persistent IP vandal. Unfortunately, their list of IP addresses used is longer than your arm, covers an extremely wide range, and never seems to be repeated twice. However, almost all of them trace back to Plusnet Technologies Ltd. in the UK (see most recent: User:46.208.151.111). Having had quite a few of the used addresses blocked it rapidly became clear that this was wasting our time, as they would be back within minutes using a different IP. Obviously, they had worked out that logging off and logging on again was enough to evade any block that we could impose. We were hoping that they would get bored, but this doesn't seem to be the case. I have a hunch that this may be the place to bring this issue, but I thought I'd check first. Any ideas on how to proceed from people with more experience than us, please? Many thanks. Pyrop e 13:05, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
{od} I wasn't thinking of a graphic, so much as a table with sortable columns: IP, datetime (UTC), target page, difflink. Easy in a spreadsheet, not so easy in wiki syntax. Could include convenience links to whois, RDNS etc. LeadSongDog come howl! 18:59, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
For the information of all who have contributed to this discussion, this matter is now the subject of a formal report: Wikipedia:Abuse response/2.30.196.109. Thanks for your input so far. Pyrop e 15:10, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Is there still value in us continuing to update the list of IPs at
User:Ebe123/F1 Vandal? I don't mind continuing if it's adding value, but I'm happy to stop if it's not (there are about half a dozen new addresses each day).
DH85868993 (
talk) 02:37, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Apologies if I have not done this right, this is my first time using this section of Wikipedia. I need clarification on what way I should go about a user abuse, or whether that even needs to be handled that way. A user is frequently editing a page and deleting all content except for barebones claiming the original page is not allowed, however the Wikipedia rules clearly state the innoculous page is not in violation and linking to the section of the rules in the page edit comments section, doesn't stop the user from doing the same thing again & again. A standard Wikipedia person such as myself would find a violation ,fix it and go about their business, but this user keeps coming back repeatedly, every day; there's some kind of grudge going on here. The Abuse page of Wikipedia suggested it was not hte appropriate place for reporting a user in this regard, and it directed me to the "Long-term abuse" page, but on that page the criteria suggests this isn't Long-term abuse report material. How should I handle this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.223.38 ( talk)
Thanks for the prompt reply. I would liek to note that I must not have clarified: user is not reverting my edits, user is reverting an entire page edited by multiple people over time, back to their preference. Is it common for a user to taget a certain page in claims unfounded, meanwhile multiple pages linked on the page do the exact same thing, yet user ignores all those? Something smells fishy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.223.38 ( talk) 23:19, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
A request has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy#Proposal: third party request for unblock Should the proposed change, "A third party may request the review of a block at the Administrators' noticeboard," or some variation of that change, be added to the unblocking policy. Penyulap ☏ 23:11, 27 Jun 2012 (UTC) An IP-hopping vandal from ISP Bezeq International in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel decided to repeatedly vandalize Jimbo's talk page, along with many other targets. There is a list of the known IPs the vandal has used at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Nenpog/Archive#21_July_2012. As a result of this abuse, Jimbo's talk page was semi-protected and 109.65.192.0/18 and 79.182.192.0/18 were rangeblocked for two weeks. The semiprotection of Jimbo's talk page is especially significant -- a lot of newbie IP editors end up asking questions there. I am thinking that perhaps someone should contact them (abuse@bezeqint.net) and tell them that abuse by one of their users just got 32,768 of their IP addresses blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 10:48, 23 July 2012 (UTC) May I ask someone to review the nomination please? There are 2 waiting response. Mdann52 ( talk) 06:40, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
A registered user is reverting to the old version with distorted citation in an article. I think this is an abuse of the article. What should I do? ĶŞĶ-ŴĀŘ ( talk) 19:10, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Special:Contributions/79.106.109.221 this IP-adress, and tens of other adresses in this range have around 10 edits. So that's like a thousand edits. A lot of edits I've checked are data vandalism. The user changes charts on songs to position 1 (when this is not the case). The user is active on soccer topics and on music topics. It's quite a lot and I'm not a regular here on Wikipedia so I'm not planning on reverting or checking all these edits. There's still a lot of vandalism not reverted yet. There are also edits which seem to be correct. But if there's vandalism it's pretty sneaky so it's hard to differ between the correct and incorrect edits. The edits from this user will need quite some attention, much more then I can give them with my bad knowledge of how the English wiki works. I know this is not the exact perfect place for this. But I couldn't find the place where I can ask help with a very big vandalist with more edits than I can deal with myself. Please make sure these hunderds of vandalism edits will get reverted. It would be a shame if my lack of understanding from the English wiki will keep all this vandalism alive in the articles. Mvg, Basvb ( talk) 22:35, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Should new nominations go at the top or the bottom of the list? Scrolling through the existing ones, I don't see any particular order, nor do I see any explicit instructions at the top of the page or in the editnotice. ⁓ Hello 71 02:54, 31 October 2012 (UTC) Help requested by User:MomsHugsI don't know anything about editing Wiki, which I use all the time for quick research into a lot of topics ranging from history, science (biology & botony), etc. Right after looking something up this morning, the next access showed a warning that an EDIT of mine was reversed by something called Cluebot (whatever), and referred to "Anonymou" as my Username & an IP# 70.#.#.# as my IP address, which was dated last Sept. 2012. The edit referred to was NOT done by me! I don't even know how to edit & would not be editing something about South American, which I know nothing about! Has my IP address been "grabbed" for vandalism or what? I did purchase a "refurbished" MiFi (JetPac) from Verizon in Jan. 2013, which is my IP address, but perhaps it belonged to a previous owner. In any event, how can I get rid of that editing message & how can my IP address be removed from whatever database is doing this? Thank you so very much for whatever help you can give! MomsHugs ( talk) 14:54, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Help request by User:Sb101Could someone please help with misconduct from an IP account on Talk:Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act? See: recent edits by User:71.32.122.15 (ignoring policy, verbal abuse in edit summaries). Also, personal attacks on my User page. Thank you. Sb101 ( talk| contribs) 07:39, 1 October 2013 (UTC) Wikipedia:Abuse response/Nominate has a massive backlog. Is this project even active anymore, or has the lure of new people to help worn off? -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 12:41, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Help requested by User:AlexyflemmingThere is a complete disastrous damages to " Trikomo, Cyprus" article. User Trikomitis deletes almost all the data about the town: "Population", "Mayor's name", "municipality's website", "Sister cities", "Skyline image of town", other specific info relevant to town ("Bafra Tourism Region", "Karpas peninsula" etc.). See the huge difference via this disruption:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Trikomo,_Cyprus&diff=592145576&oldid=592141875 became So, I request from the wiki authorities to reply properly to the user Trikomitis if repeating the same deletions. Alexyflemming ( talk) 23:58, 26 January 2014 (UTC) Once more, Trikomitis damaged hugely the "
Trikomo, Cyprus" article: Wikipedia authorities should do something. I am an ordinary wiki user and having no ability to prevent this disruption. Alexyflemming ( talk) 11:29, 28 January 2014 (UTC) Help requested by User:TrikomitisThere is a complete disastrous damages to " Trikomo, Cyprus" article. User Alexyflemming deletes all data relating to the true history of the town. You cannot possibly delete a people from the history books or indeed Wikipedia. I would ask that you respect the legal owners and occupiers of the town and stop posting regarding an internationally recognised illegal occupation.
Trikomitis deleted almost everything in "
Trikomo, Cyprus" article: Trikomitis' abuse already declared by me in this abuse declarations page on 26.01.2014. See above. Alexyflemming ( talk) 11:40, 28 January 2014 (UTC) AR didn't fail because ISPs wouldn't work with us, AR failed because it seems the vast majority of Wikipedians are clueless as to how the internet works. For example, if I call a school district with 50,000 and tell them someone wrote "hi my name is amber" on an article, the fact that someone wrote "penis" on a different article a week later doesn't mean they didn't discipline the girl, it just means a boy at an entirely different school using the same IP address messed with Wikipedia. The same thing applies to companies like Hospital Corporation of America and AutoZone that have thousands of employees at multiple locations piped through one IP. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages)Have a blessed day. 23:46, 12 April 2018 (UTC) |
This page is now inactive. Please consider reporting vandals to WP:AIV, and long cases at WP:LTA |
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Hi. Over at WP:F1 we are having some problems with a persistent IP vandal. Unfortunately, their list of IP addresses used is longer than your arm, covers an extremely wide range, and never seems to be repeated twice. However, almost all of them trace back to Plusnet Technologies Ltd. in the UK (see most recent: User:46.208.151.111). Having had quite a few of the used addresses blocked it rapidly became clear that this was wasting our time, as they would be back within minutes using a different IP. Obviously, they had worked out that logging off and logging on again was enough to evade any block that we could impose. We were hoping that they would get bored, but this doesn't seem to be the case. I have a hunch that this may be the place to bring this issue, but I thought I'd check first. Any ideas on how to proceed from people with more experience than us, please? Many thanks. Pyrop e 13:05, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
{od} I wasn't thinking of a graphic, so much as a table with sortable columns: IP, datetime (UTC), target page, difflink. Easy in a spreadsheet, not so easy in wiki syntax. Could include convenience links to whois, RDNS etc. LeadSongDog come howl! 18:59, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
For the information of all who have contributed to this discussion, this matter is now the subject of a formal report: Wikipedia:Abuse response/2.30.196.109. Thanks for your input so far. Pyrop e 15:10, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Is there still value in us continuing to update the list of IPs at
User:Ebe123/F1 Vandal? I don't mind continuing if it's adding value, but I'm happy to stop if it's not (there are about half a dozen new addresses each day).
DH85868993 (
talk) 02:37, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Apologies if I have not done this right, this is my first time using this section of Wikipedia. I need clarification on what way I should go about a user abuse, or whether that even needs to be handled that way. A user is frequently editing a page and deleting all content except for barebones claiming the original page is not allowed, however the Wikipedia rules clearly state the innoculous page is not in violation and linking to the section of the rules in the page edit comments section, doesn't stop the user from doing the same thing again & again. A standard Wikipedia person such as myself would find a violation ,fix it and go about their business, but this user keeps coming back repeatedly, every day; there's some kind of grudge going on here. The Abuse page of Wikipedia suggested it was not hte appropriate place for reporting a user in this regard, and it directed me to the "Long-term abuse" page, but on that page the criteria suggests this isn't Long-term abuse report material. How should I handle this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.223.38 ( talk)
Thanks for the prompt reply. I would liek to note that I must not have clarified: user is not reverting my edits, user is reverting an entire page edited by multiple people over time, back to their preference. Is it common for a user to taget a certain page in claims unfounded, meanwhile multiple pages linked on the page do the exact same thing, yet user ignores all those? Something smells fishy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.223.38 ( talk) 23:19, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
A request has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy#Proposal: third party request for unblock Should the proposed change, "A third party may request the review of a block at the Administrators' noticeboard," or some variation of that change, be added to the unblocking policy. Penyulap ☏ 23:11, 27 Jun 2012 (UTC) An IP-hopping vandal from ISP Bezeq International in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel decided to repeatedly vandalize Jimbo's talk page, along with many other targets. There is a list of the known IPs the vandal has used at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Nenpog/Archive#21_July_2012. As a result of this abuse, Jimbo's talk page was semi-protected and 109.65.192.0/18 and 79.182.192.0/18 were rangeblocked for two weeks. The semiprotection of Jimbo's talk page is especially significant -- a lot of newbie IP editors end up asking questions there. I am thinking that perhaps someone should contact them (abuse@bezeqint.net) and tell them that abuse by one of their users just got 32,768 of their IP addresses blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 10:48, 23 July 2012 (UTC) May I ask someone to review the nomination please? There are 2 waiting response. Mdann52 ( talk) 06:40, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
A registered user is reverting to the old version with distorted citation in an article. I think this is an abuse of the article. What should I do? ĶŞĶ-ŴĀŘ ( talk) 19:10, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Special:Contributions/79.106.109.221 this IP-adress, and tens of other adresses in this range have around 10 edits. So that's like a thousand edits. A lot of edits I've checked are data vandalism. The user changes charts on songs to position 1 (when this is not the case). The user is active on soccer topics and on music topics. It's quite a lot and I'm not a regular here on Wikipedia so I'm not planning on reverting or checking all these edits. There's still a lot of vandalism not reverted yet. There are also edits which seem to be correct. But if there's vandalism it's pretty sneaky so it's hard to differ between the correct and incorrect edits. The edits from this user will need quite some attention, much more then I can give them with my bad knowledge of how the English wiki works. I know this is not the exact perfect place for this. But I couldn't find the place where I can ask help with a very big vandalist with more edits than I can deal with myself. Please make sure these hunderds of vandalism edits will get reverted. It would be a shame if my lack of understanding from the English wiki will keep all this vandalism alive in the articles. Mvg, Basvb ( talk) 22:35, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Should new nominations go at the top or the bottom of the list? Scrolling through the existing ones, I don't see any particular order, nor do I see any explicit instructions at the top of the page or in the editnotice. ⁓ Hello 71 02:54, 31 October 2012 (UTC) Help requested by User:MomsHugsI don't know anything about editing Wiki, which I use all the time for quick research into a lot of topics ranging from history, science (biology & botony), etc. Right after looking something up this morning, the next access showed a warning that an EDIT of mine was reversed by something called Cluebot (whatever), and referred to "Anonymou" as my Username & an IP# 70.#.#.# as my IP address, which was dated last Sept. 2012. The edit referred to was NOT done by me! I don't even know how to edit & would not be editing something about South American, which I know nothing about! Has my IP address been "grabbed" for vandalism or what? I did purchase a "refurbished" MiFi (JetPac) from Verizon in Jan. 2013, which is my IP address, but perhaps it belonged to a previous owner. In any event, how can I get rid of that editing message & how can my IP address be removed from whatever database is doing this? Thank you so very much for whatever help you can give! MomsHugs ( talk) 14:54, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Help request by User:Sb101Could someone please help with misconduct from an IP account on Talk:Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act? See: recent edits by User:71.32.122.15 (ignoring policy, verbal abuse in edit summaries). Also, personal attacks on my User page. Thank you. Sb101 ( talk| contribs) 07:39, 1 October 2013 (UTC) Wikipedia:Abuse response/Nominate has a massive backlog. Is this project even active anymore, or has the lure of new people to help worn off? -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 12:41, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Help requested by User:AlexyflemmingThere is a complete disastrous damages to " Trikomo, Cyprus" article. User Trikomitis deletes almost all the data about the town: "Population", "Mayor's name", "municipality's website", "Sister cities", "Skyline image of town", other specific info relevant to town ("Bafra Tourism Region", "Karpas peninsula" etc.). See the huge difference via this disruption:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Trikomo,_Cyprus&diff=592145576&oldid=592141875 became So, I request from the wiki authorities to reply properly to the user Trikomitis if repeating the same deletions. Alexyflemming ( talk) 23:58, 26 January 2014 (UTC) Once more, Trikomitis damaged hugely the "
Trikomo, Cyprus" article: Wikipedia authorities should do something. I am an ordinary wiki user and having no ability to prevent this disruption. Alexyflemming ( talk) 11:29, 28 January 2014 (UTC) Help requested by User:TrikomitisThere is a complete disastrous damages to " Trikomo, Cyprus" article. User Alexyflemming deletes all data relating to the true history of the town. You cannot possibly delete a people from the history books or indeed Wikipedia. I would ask that you respect the legal owners and occupiers of the town and stop posting regarding an internationally recognised illegal occupation.
Trikomitis deleted almost everything in "
Trikomo, Cyprus" article: Trikomitis' abuse already declared by me in this abuse declarations page on 26.01.2014. See above. Alexyflemming ( talk) 11:40, 28 January 2014 (UTC) AR didn't fail because ISPs wouldn't work with us, AR failed because it seems the vast majority of Wikipedians are clueless as to how the internet works. For example, if I call a school district with 50,000 and tell them someone wrote "hi my name is amber" on an article, the fact that someone wrote "penis" on a different article a week later doesn't mean they didn't discipline the girl, it just means a boy at an entirely different school using the same IP address messed with Wikipedia. The same thing applies to companies like Hospital Corporation of America and AutoZone that have thousands of employees at multiple locations piped through one IP. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages)Have a blessed day. 23:46, 12 April 2018 (UTC) |