Wikipedia:Requests for investigation/Archives/2003/07

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• User [1] seems to be creating intentionally POV articles at a rapid pace. RickK 00:02 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)
• I have blocked this user after he/she repeatedly vandalised the Sonia article G-Man 00:32 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

It may not be vandalism, stricta sensu, but 217.228.174.174 has interpolated confusing material in the Archived talk page on Daniel C. Boyer. --Daniel C. Boyer 17:32 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• • Actually, 217 reverted the vandalism, which was committed by Charles W. Swan before the material was moved from VfD.
    • I'm sorry; I didn't understand that this was what was happening. --Daniel C. Boyer 17:39 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• Perhaps someone from England should take a look at Glass Plate universities. IP is 203.19.70.39. --Daniel Quinlan 08:02 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• Actual vandalism is taking place at Daniel C. Boyer, not merely disagreement but intentional pov and deragatory vandalism.

• • What vandalism? This was an absolutely factual edit. Boyer can write what he wants on his user page, but his article is for anyone to edit, not just himself.
    • Exactly.
      • If anyone is saying that I ever put forward the argument that Daniel C. Boyer should only be edited by me I never said and do not believe any such thing. But when 217.85.213.254 went so far as to write, "[w]hile remaining a virtual nobody in the art world, Boyer's oversized ego led him to embark on an elaborate attempt to spread his name on the Internet, and particularly on Wikipedia, the volunteer-run online encyclopedia, where he tried to add articles about himself and his projects, while his non-self-related contributions were negligible," while I would not say this was exactly vandalism, it is an extremely biased POV against me. --Daniel C. Boyer 17:49 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• Please either protect Daniel C. Boyer or ban the anon IP attacking it. Pizza Puzzle
  • Better ban Daniel C. Boyer. He spreads irrelevant articles about himself or his personal projects all over, while making no useful contributions. Example: Idealist Press International. Google search finds only Boyer's own Wikipedia articles: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22idealist+press+international. And he even listed this under "List of American companies"!
    • Remainder of discussion moved to Talk:Daniel C. Boyer -- Tim Starling 03:03 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• 64.119.193.140 has been adding advertisements to articles. MB 20:46 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)
• [2] craeted Kirton in Lindsey, content is "you can kiss my willy". GRAHAMUK 12:43 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Blanked, should be deleted. Dysprosia 12:47 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Grahamuk, did you read the intro to this page? One edit hardly qualifies as vandalism ... -- JeLuF 13:07 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Yes I read it. But in this case it hardly qualifies as an encyclopaedia entry either, does it? Since I can't delete it myself, what am I to do? Presumably Votes for Deletion isn't appropriate either since the result of a "vote" is a foregone conclusion... Maybe we need a page to signal pages that fall between the cracks like this. GRAHAMUK

My understanding is to blank it, then wait for someone with delete priveleges to come along and delete the actual article. Dysprosia 06:08 23 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• 212.50.183.100 has been blanking pages. Keep an eye on this one -- Tarquin 10:42 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)
• User:Sir charles has been putting his own birthday in year and day articles and tried to make an article about himself claiming to be an actor who won all kinds of prizes, not to mention a knighthood. Has apparently spread this legend on many webpages too, but no evidence on any serious website.
• 202.156.2.42 just removed the External links and references from U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. Keep an eye out. MB 16:02 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
• 202.81.183.53 User:202.81.183.56 is going through the centuries, starting with 5th century and axing the decade links, internationals links, and who knows what else. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 13:56 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • 202.81.183.53 has made no contributions
    • I think you mean 202.81.183.56 :) Dysprosia 14:05 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
      • Yeah, so do I, I will watch 202.81.183.56's contibutions
        • I have IP blocked them for the time being. -- The Anome 14:14 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
          • Darn. I have it on blue and white. I actually wrote the IP-address on paper. How can I confuse 3 and 6. I guess I am just talented :) -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 16:13 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• User:66.235.39.157 has so far made malicious edits to Homosexuality and Pat Robertson. Please watch this IP address.
  • As it turns out, this is a newbie, who didn't really know the rules at all before they decided to start making changes. I have talked to them, and they understand now. MB 20:05 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• User:209.226.235.108 is on the borderline between annoying user and vandalism, in my opinion. I have reverted numerous edits. My problem with this user is not so much their apparently pro-Nazi viewpoint as the trivial factual untruth of their edits (see edits to Aryan and Master race or examples). However, since I may be biased, please will other users keep an eye on this user. -- The Anome 13:06 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • This used seems to be removing references to eugenics and Hitler's T-4 Euthanasia Program, as well. See this deletion of a paragraph, for example. I know nothing about these subjects, but removing whole paragraphs of seemingly legitimate information is vandalism in my book. Will keep an eye on them... -- Wapcaplet 14:20 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• User:Paektu has been spamming the contents of an obscure statement by Turkish/Austrlian/German communist parties (available online here, or see his user page) all over dozens of pages for the past week (quite a few have been reverted and are in his edit history; quite a few more have been deleted). --Delirium 03:19 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • He's recently created Talk:Joseph Stalin forum for contributors' analysis with the exact same content he posted at the other dozen or so pages, which I'm for now not deleting in the hopes he'll confine himself there. --Delirium 03:42 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • For what it's worth, the IP block (see below) seems to have worked; as this user is coming in from the University of Arizona, it's plausible that the IP is static as well. - Hephaestos 05:30 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
      • It didn't work because you didn't block 67.31.203.208. He just made another couple of edits and left. I'm not sure of the policy situation here. I haven't been explicitly given the right to ban logged-in users, but I have access to the server logs so effectively I can anyway. -- Tim Starling 03:59 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • He's been asked mulitple times to stop his non-NPOV additions to totally unrelated articles, and to stop his additions of copyrighted material. I think his ip is 150.135.162.84. There is no reason to let this go on any longer, please some developer ban him. MB 04:25 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • I blocked that IP; let's give it some time to see if it worked. - Hephaestos 04:35 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • If that one doesn't work you might want to try 67.31.203.208. -- Tim Starling 05:01 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • I've also put a ban talk page on in case he keeps getting on and a hard ban is called for. Its details are on the bottom of this page. FearÉIREANN 05:16 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• 4.41.252.155 is creating nonsense articles. Socio-economic, Sexual stimulation and Vladislav Ardzinba. RickK 10:31 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Blocked olivier 10:57 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• 216.135.25.184 defacing Karl Marx in the same manner as previous 216.135.25.* addresses. Can somebody just ban that whole subnet for a week or two until this person loses interest? Kwertii 09:19 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • I'll try to protect the page and ban his IP. 172

• 216.135.25.186 currently defacing Karl Marx the same way as previous 216.135.25.* addresses were. Kwertii 07:00 8 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• [195.29.48.16] Might need checking for neutrality. Removed Serbo-Croatian language. كسيپ Cyp 04:04 8 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• Karl Marx vandalized by 216.135.25.186

• User:210.10.189.155 zapped the entire contents of Welcome, newcomers. Reverted. -- The Anome 11:42 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• RickK delete informations on 1945, and terrorism article about how many citizen were killed in dresden , Tokyo, hiroshima and nagasaki by united states bombing, and ethymological information on the terrorism word. 62.212.110.113 00:58 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Wow, my first edit war. I'm not deleting any information from article pages that discuss these items. If you want to include the numbers of deaths on pages about Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden, please do so, but to put them on the Terrorism page is to attempt to push agenda. And disagreements are not vandalism. RickK 01:01 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • USER 62.212... make an identity please -- theres no good reason not to, and there are dozens of reason for it, like having a talk page where people can respond to you. I take issue with both parties here -- both are making a polarist issue out of something, and both are representing their pov as npov. Neither one of the two is NPOV. I do not oppose including these figures as a *comparison within a terrism article -- it would be POV to state that only certain events fall under the category of terrorism, while others do not.-豎&#30505sv

• User:157.157.127.14 is systematically blanking several pages. RickK 00:53 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• User:Tesskrose is adding a lot of copyrighted articles on castles, see pages linked from Castles in England -- JeLuF 19:03 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• "24" appears to be back, at 142.177.92.205 and 142.177.112.81: same /16, similar interests and editing style. Blocked, rolled back. -- The Anome 18:29 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)

No. Please. See Maverick on the topic. User:Anthere. Unblock.

• 217.35.44.233 has made vandalistic edits to VW Golf and Sodium hypochlorite, in both mentioning one "Oliver R. Lawson". Google search for that name shows that 217.36.8.204 has vandalised Vehicle back in April. Looks like a cluster of vandal IPs need to be checked.145.254.43.14 17:52 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• 216.135.25.xxx trashing Karl Marx and complaining about reversions to proper article see. Trelvis 18:15 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • I have blocked two of the 216.135.25.xxx ip's already (obviosly the same person) G-Man 18:24 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • So have I JHK 18:26 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • Looks like saddo Michael's style to me jimfbleak
    • There are definitely similarities. -- Anon
    • I don't think so. His threats to go to authority are similar, but his grasp of English is different (and he hasn't threatened to fire anyone). Politics isn't M's usual area of interest either. -- sannse 10:22 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• 149.99.162.182 is cutting out large amounts of content from Stockwell Day and Canadian Alliance. SimonP 20:23 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Could someone please help me with this individual (now at 149.99.164.172), I have no experience dealing with trolls who are trying to spark an edit war. SimonP 02:09 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• 80.93.228.129 just trashed the entry for Penis. -- Viajero 00:50 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)~
  • I fixed it. RickK 00:54 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• I am curious about the information being added to articles by 24.132.21.163. He is adding essentially the same information to several articles. His contributions are worth looking at. -- goatasaur
  • His latest contributions look fine, altough they may be inaccurate, I have no idea. MB 03:18 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • His additions to the September 11th pages are okay. He did, however, plagiarize a large amount of material from http://www.fas.org in another article. -- goatasaur
    • • Yes, his George Bush diary entry was quite interesting. Arno 06:29 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Well, then you should delete it [ie the FAS stuff] (I assume you already have, and put the reason on the talk page. This really isn't vandalism. MB 04:01 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• • • • September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Back history doesn't seem particularly NPOV. RickK 04:09 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • I thought FAS was a place that was OK to copy from, to start an article off, much like the CIA Factbook or EB 1911? I haven't used it that way myself, but I believe a few aircraft articles were originally pretty much lifted from FAS. -- John Owens 04:45 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Levinson recursion is being used as a chat page again by Indian(?) vandals. IP bans requested.
  • Same IP addresses as last time. I have banned both ends of the conversation. Can someone tell what language they are using? -- The Anome 10:56 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • See also: lamer ;) -- Rotem Dan

• User:204.112.11.111 is vandalizing articles. See Steve Kerr for his latest vandalization. —Frecklefoot 18:04 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• 217.215.25.79 seems to be trying to use the Wikipedia to advertise an internet firewall product of no encyclopedic interest. Kat 15:51 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• 24.34.38.186 is editing various things to do with Quebec, deleting huge chunks out of the articles. Adam Bishop 00:41 19 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• 68.4.122.197 is blanking articles at random. Damage so far: 11 articles. -- Heron 20:35 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• 24.210.44.203 IP blocked based after this edit: "This is a test to find out if they're really so stupid as to let the general public update a web-page with any info they want.WANKERS!" -- The Anome 22:35 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • I cannot see why such an edit should justify a user being blocked. The quantifier of persistent vandalism is the number of repetitive malicious edits, not the content. There have been arguably repetitive edits that are considered much more offensive but didn't get an immediate block as in this case. -- Rotem Dan 12:34 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • This should probably be unblocked now, it's a day later, and this looks like drive-by vandalism.
  • Someone has unblocked 24.210.44.203 now. Thanks. The Anome 14:53 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Questionable edit or vandalism: I'm not sure what to make of this but the article Gerbil has an odd paragraph which was inserted 22:49 18 Mar 2003 by Rlandmann. His contribution list isn't short. Usedbook 14:05 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Taken care of. ManicGypsy 14:20 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• (I hope I'm doing this right) 209.130.147.214 has vandalized 3 pages, 1 of which he has vandalized twice. He seems to find it funny to repeatedly change The Wind Waker to Wanker. u_u;

• 67.122.114.153 appears to be Michael, and has made a lot of changes that have gone unnoticed. Could someone else confirm that this is him? MB 21:34 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • I can´t prove that it was him, but the pattern is highly suspicious. Reverted his contributions. Also, another anonymous user 207.103.58.54 tried to insert a false date in Van Halen (a hallmark of michaelism). Kosebamse 06:43 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Someone is editing out the duress the USA applied to Denmark to sell the Virgin Islands. I shall again try to restate it as impartially as possible. PML.

• Spectral envelope keeps on being re-created, even though repeatedly deleted for lack of encyclopedic content. Someone appears to be using it as a "chat page"... The Anome 09:39 9 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• User:213.122.214.120 has replaced the entire current contents of Communist Party of Great Britain with a history from the CPGB website. User:Wapcaplet has raised a copyright query on this user's talk page -- Arwel 00:34 9 Jun 2003 (UTC)
• 208.22.104.18 is vandalizing oral sex. --Dante Alighieri 21:46 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• 137.222.10.58 adds insulting text in articels like Bill Gates andy 16:29 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)
• 216.20.1.214 and 216.20.1.218 created a gibberish vandal page. Keep an eye out. MB 16:08 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• In Satellite, various IPs in the 213.249.155.xxx range have been making trivial page defacements (examples: "SCHOOL IS CRAP", "I CAN SEE WHAT YOURE DOING KATIE"). Children? The Anome 10:43 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• User:149.101.1.119 had been adding in dodgy and blatently POV rubbish to articles. For example, they wrote in Patrick Pearse Pearse was educated by the Christian Brothers, and it is unlikely he would have become as zealously unhinged a nationalist had he attended a non-Catholic shool. While some of their additions are OK, some beggar belief. I have had to do a couple of revertions of changes they have made, as have other Irish users. This person needs to have a very close eye kept on their work. FearÉIREANN 19:43 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • I think it was just a temporary burst of enthusiasm and not understanding the concept of NPOV. I left a message on their talk page and while there still are some problems (over wrong capitalisation, etc), the POV additions have ceased. But it is still worth keeping an eye on their work, not for deliberate vandalism but for misguided changes, a couple of which I have reverted, with a message on their talk page explaining why and how their changes (probably innocently) went against naming conventions and agreed methods of working. FearÉIREANN 23:54 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• User:Administration has vandalised many pages. See Contributions

• User:203.97.2.242 has flipped from making earnest contributions to vandalizing several articles related to New Zealand. -- Heron