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==Current alerts==


:Please use ] as an alternate venue for cases of simple vandalism that require an immediate block and ] for cases that require further investigation.
'''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 "IPUsername" to the IP address or username of the vandal, and then replace "DESCRIPTION" with a description of what the vandal did. Sign your post by appending four tildes: <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>.


==Old instructions for this page==
'''<nowiki>==== IPUsername ====</nowiki><br />'''
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'''<nowiki>* {{User | IPUsername }} </nowiki>'''<br />
Choose one of three sections to make a report: ], ], or ]. 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==


The first page used for tracking vandalism was a user subpage, ], some time before 4 November 2001. The vandalism in progress page was established as VANDALISM IN PROGRESS - the title was upper-case to make it easily distinguishable on ]). Around the same time, the Misplaced Pages Militia (since renamed to the ]) was formed to coordinate responses to press releases about Misplaced Pages. The "VANDALISM IN PROGRESS" page was moved to the Misplaced Pages namespace in August 2002 and was renamed to the current title in 2006. Its archives since 2003 may be found in ] and the talk archives since august 2002 can be found in the history of ] and in text form as subpages of ]. Old subpages can also be found through ]. the ] page also grew out of "vandalism in progress". A section on the "vandalism in progress" page for persistent vandalism was added in ], later ], and then re-created as ] in September 2004; in December 2004 it was ] to ], titled ].
===April 30===

====213.42.2.22====
* {{vandal|213.42.2.22}}
** Infrequent but long term vandal. Blanks, puts nonsense on pages. Warned for months. ] 13:44, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
** Reported to use other IP 195.229.241.183: {{vandal|195.229.241.183}}. ] 13:48, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====211.31.77.168====
* {{vandal|211.31.77.168}}
** Raging just now. Vandalises pages related to Indonesia. Give him a pause. ] 13:18, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====212.58.199.xxx, John Nockswell, 203.185.208.168====
* {{User|212.58.199.144}} and {{User|212.58.199.150}} AND {{User|John Nockswell}} AND {{User|203.185.208.168}}
** added weight loss link spam to ] four times over the last few hours from two ips.
--] 10:03, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
** and apparently previously, two new names/ips added. --] 10:25, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====210.55.80.97====
* {{User|210.55.80.97}}
** Vandalised ]. His edit summary says "rv vandalism", but that is misleading, as '''he''' is the one who vandalised it, the previous revision was all OK. ] &mdash; <font color="#CC0000">J</font><font color="#00CC00">I</font><font color="#0000CC">P</font> | ] 08:40, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====220.253.117.193====
Long string of vandalism, including my user page after I told him politely to stop. Please see . &mdash;''']'''&nbsp;(]) 07:10, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Continuing half an hour later, with no end in sight. Vandalised pages now include:

*Josef Pilsudski
*Igloo
*Brent Bozell
*Dwayne Hickman
*This page (which I have removed with this edit)
*David Lee Roth
*Al Gore

etc. I've reverted everything thus far. &mdash;''']'''&nbsp;(]) 07:55, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

*('']'s note. The following by IP:220.253.117.193'') Come on, these are legit! What do you know about Van Halen anyway? And this page? I'm allowed my say, aren't I? Take a chill pill, dude - HappyCat
*I'm watching this IP. However, I find your linking him/her to a GNAA troll site to be childish at best, chris.lawson. ] 09:41, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

=== 69.229.213.148 ===
*{{User|69.229.213.148}}
** ] page vandal...also John Kerry.. Probably the same putz as 68.88.253.83

=== 68.88.253.83 ===
*{{User|68.88.253.83}}
** doing a string of vandalism. He made some interesting alterations to the ] page (involving some interesting graphics). Gave ] a death date of this july which I found a bit spooky. Has a strange fascination with Michael Jackson ]. He should be blocked and his changes reverted. (there are numerous http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Contributions&target=68.88.253.83)
**also Vandalized alot of the Season 4 ] contstants pages, like ], ], and ], also added death dates to ], ], and ]
** This user has also made some useful contrubutions though to some articles.
***These last two edits are by {{User|68.88.253.83}}

==== Getzolt ====
* {{User | Getzolt}}
** spamming a large number of pages with commercial external links. Can someone do a global rollback of his changes? ] 02:14, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
*** Done. Thanks. ] 02:55, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====142.161.81.200====
*{{User|142.161.81.200}}
**At ] - Multiple uses of foul language

====172.201.189.247====
*{{User|172.201.189.247}}
**At ], ], others. Warned repeatedly. ] 00:25, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

===April 29===
====Misplaced Pages Is Communism!====
*{{User | Misplaced Pages Is Communism!}}
**Page move vandal. Moved main page featured article, ]. -] 21:50, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

Moved back but an admin needs to put the history back and investigate --] 22:06, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

There is no ]. urgent attention please, --] 22:21, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
:Um, he's ]'s successor... so he is real... or is that not the point of your statement? ] 23:49, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
*Squeak, I see you've been vacationing for the last ten days or so. :) - ] 23:54, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
::What i meant is that the article had disappeared completely; the work of WC. See my User page. --] 23:57, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

====72.20.133.4====
* {{vandal|72.20.133.4}}
** Vandalized ], ], ], and ].

====199.212.250.96====
* {{vandal|199.212.250.96}}
** Warned for many months, _very_ active. Childish vandalism, though. ] 20:37, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
***Blocked for 24hrs. ] 21:23, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====129.21.107.1====
*{{User | 129.21.107.1}}
**Has just now recreated ] and ] after they were speedied just minutes ago. Prior to the speedy, user was deleting <nowiki>{{d}}</nowiki> tags. &middot; ]<sup>]</sup> 20:20, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

====70.114.9.102====
*{{User | 70.114.9.102}}
**Repeatedly vandalised articles and talk pages of ] and ], including (on several occasions) replacing them entirely with asinine reviews. These are the user's only contributions. Multiple warnings made. ]] 19:50, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== Kyle.Mullaney====
* {{User | Kyle.Mullaney}}
** The user is reversing Heretic category tags on many articles. Traditionally heretic figures are being removed from the category and popes and traditional catholic figures (including the Catholic Church) are being tagged with the Heretic category. Is there some larger issue behind this change that I haven't found in talk pages? - ]]] 19:41, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 24.2.182.96====
* {{User | 24.2.182.96}}
** On a campaign to associate the ] with Satanism and a personal friend in ] apparently. Has vandalized the DeMolay page twice, ] once and the Bristol, CT page once. Has been warned once so far. Oh, and look! He's just added a personal attack on my userpage. I'm touched. ] ] 17:51, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== ] ====
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**This user is systematically moving entries like: Grendon, Northamptonshire to Grendon and the destroying the ability to move the articles back by making a history edit. These towns and villages have been carefully tagged with their county so as to dismbiguate them and make the description more precise. Can these entries be reversed? as we can't now go back on what he has done. He has so far done about two dozen ] 16:28, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
::Can't figure out how to revert him, and I'm afraid to move the pages back using the move feauture, I guess it might screw things like history up completely. ] 17:35, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

:::I'm don't think this is vandalism at all and quite frankly is unfair to ]. How many places do you imagine there are called ] that will require disambiguation? ] 19:03, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

::::Fair point on this small village - although I have not checked what there is in the US, but the point he has systematically changed all of the clarifying names that I had set up (it looked like he was working down my contributions page)- from England and even Australia - where a local resident there had requested that we move "Snowtown" to "Snowtown, South Australia" - he clearly didn't look at the discussion page where this had been requested - and just moved it back from where it had started from. There are various Daventry's, Corby's etc. This was a systematic change - rather than a reasoned move. Northampton which was part of my scheme has about 10 places of that name in the US + the Australian place as well. ] 19:22, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

::]. You asked ] about these moves on eir talk page , then eight minutes later charged em with vandalism here. After waiting about two hours (during which the user was not active ), you left an additional message stating that you were reverting them . (I haven't looked to see whether you've actually rolled back the moves.) Speed is not an issue in this case; nothing is lost by giving the other editor a chance to respond before acting. ] 19:35, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

==== 200.222.72.18====
* {{User | 200.222.72.18}}
** Was blocked on 19 April for repeated vandalism of ]. Has returned to repeatedly vandalize.... yes, ]. Has been warned. ] ] 16:20, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 169.227.254.3 ====
* {{User | 169.227.254.3}}
** Randomly vandalising pages. See ]. ]] 14:22, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)

==== 203.147.0.x ====
* {{User | 203.147.0.9}}
* {{User | 203.147.0.42}}
* {{User | 203.147.0.44}}
** Currently inserting commercial spam for School of Audio Engineering into ] (rv'd 2x) and ] (rv'd 1x). , , , . ]] 13:06, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)
** Now visiting ] with less obvious spam. . ]] 13:19, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)

==== 67.2.15.38 ====
* {{User | 67.2.15.38 }}
** Currently vandalizing ], possibly due to a grudge from another forum being carried over to Misplaced Pages. ] 13:50, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 195.188.141.14x ====
* {{User | 195.188.141.144 }}
* {{User | 195.188.141.145 }}
** These IPs and probably others with similar addresses have been creating nonsense articles, and vandalized ] , , , . ] 12:31, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====83.30.13.208====
* {{vandal|83.30.13.208}}
** Adds link to some webcam site to countries. Quite active since yesterday. ] 09:48, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====165.139.18.248=====
*{{User | 165.139.18.248}}}
* Vandalized ] twice - ] 07:31, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====69.107.84.162=====
*{{User | 69.107.84.162}}}
* Blanked ] and vandalized ] - ] 07:31, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

**As far as I can see, he blanked ] when it was just full of nonsense. This was his very first edit on wikipedia, and I can perfectly understand it. He doesn't know about reverts. And on ] he didn't vandalise anything. He ''removed'' vandalism. ] 08:00, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====220.237.4.86=====
*{{User | 220.237.4.86}}}
Repeatedly removing illustration from ] without discussion. Also, interjecting insults into text. -- ] 03:26, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

====24.126.17.155====
*{{User | 24.126.17.155 }}
**Repeatedly blanking/removing/reverting different sections of ]. After first few acts, messages were left in the IP's talk page, requesting the person to refrain from such acts. But 24.126.17.155 deleted a large part of the article today. The user has also been invited for discussion in ]'s talk page, but has not responded at all. A temporary ban is requested. --] 03:22, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:*Note: Violation of ], 3+ reverts on ]. --] 05:26, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:*PS: Just for clarification, I am not for or against whatever the user is writing. I am not siding with the user or anyone else on the topic. I am only objecting to the user's practice of not discussing anything in the discussion page, and ignoring other's call for discussion, and even deleting any reference to the user's edits from the Talk page. If the user had justified the reason of the deletes properly over the last few days, no problem/reverts would occur. --] 06:32, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

:* Added by ] - Cann't be called Vandalism really.

====Fatpiggy====
*{{User | Fatpiggy }} / {{User | Fatpiggysfriend}}
**Vandalizing talk pages of various editors and making death threats. ] 02:55, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
***I concur with Dream, Fatpiggy should be dealt with quickly. ] ] 03:00, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
****Vandalizing other pages too as ]. ] 03:03, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
***Blocked indefinitely by ]. His friend was blocked for 24 hours by the same admin.-] 03:06, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====198.74.20.77====
*{{User | 198.74.20.77 }}
**Repeatedly vandalizing ] and ]. - ] 01:43, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
***Anon is currently discussing appropriate behaviour with ]. Probably just a newbie test.-] 02:30, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====68.36.43.166====
*{{User | 68.36.43.166 }}
**Repeatedly cuts and pastes copyvios from WCBS, specifically at ]. Today, he not only pasted the info yet again, he reverted it back to the copyvio after it was tagged and bagged! The IP resolves to Comcast Cable if this helps. - ] 00:49, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)


==== 24.226.54.179 ====
*{{User | 24.226.54.179 }}
** Mass deletion of material from ] with dismissive comment on talk page. ] 23:18, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

====203.116.61.131====
*{{User | 203.116.61.131 }}
**Added vulgar nonsense to ]. I wouldn't have reported him, but there are already several admonitions on his talk page for past vandalism, dating back more than a year. --] 02:20, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
***From looking at the past editing pattern, I would say this is likely an IP address used by a school in Singapore, and we're seeing more than one user of it. Since the address is only used every few days, any short block would likely not be seen at all, and any longer block would potentially affect an innocent user. We can't do much beyond rollback edits in this case.-] 02:41, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
****That's generous of you. There was no such voice of reason the two times my school IP was banned for the same reason. And that ''did'' affect an innocent user - me, in particular. I'm not saying I disagree; I would much rather users be presumed innocent until proven guilty instead of the other way around. Better that we wipe up seven cases of vandalism than block out a single legitimate user. Still, I would rather have a standard either way than subjective inconsistency. Haven't there been formal discussions on this sort of thing? --] 04:00, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 209.135.123.8 ====
*{{User | 209.135.123.8 }}
** Fast food pages, mostly... ], ], ] ] 19:26, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

===April 28===

==== 128.61.79.26 ====
*{{User | 128.61.79.26 }}
**Repeated vandalism and blanking of the ] page, among others. - ] 20:07, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

====198.236.13.33====
* {{vandal|198.236.13.33}}
** Long term vandal. Puts nonsense on pages. Warned many times. ] 20:09, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

====205.196.188.100====
* {{vandal|205.196.188.100}}
** Long term vandal, quite active now. He has some problem with homosexuality and expresses it all over articles. ] 20:09, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 207.157.136.2====
* {{User | 207.157.136.2 }}
** I've had to revert ] 3 times now. Anti-semitic, highly offensive vandalism. ] 18:45, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 168.8.171.101 ====
* {{User | 168.8.171.101 }}
** Multiple vandalism on ], ], ], and ]. Long history of vandalism. This user was blocked for a week but is back.

==== 67.50.10.234 ====

* {{User | 67.50.10.234}}
* Multiple vandalism on ] in the past half hour. Is also reverting attempts to change the article back to normal, so is in violation of the ]. -] 18:09, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 207.63.143.71 ====
* {{User | 207.63.143.71}}
** Removed all content from ] and replaced with, "This is god. do not even try to put this page back up." Has previous history of vandalism, mostly profanity. Does anyone know an easy way to revert back to a previous version? -- ] 17:24, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)


==== 81.178.122.197 ====
* {{User | 81.178.122.197 }}
** Repeated vandalism and blanking of ] by this and several other IPs. {{User| 212.219.207.42}}, {{User| 81.159.178.200}}, {{User| 213.18.248.20}} - ] 16:43, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)


==== 199.190.225.45 ====
* {{User | 199.190.225.45}}
** Adding nonsense to various articles, some of it offensive and some just silly. Comments on talk page describe a history of vandalism. Today, vandalized ], ] and ], yesterday did ]. Has been warned. ] ] 14:10, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
**Blocked for 24hrs. ] 16:37, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 62.171.198.37 ====
* {{User | 62.171.198.37 }}
** Repeated vandalism of ] and ]. ]<sup>]</sup> 13:51, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 217.206.230.2 ====
* {{User | 217.206.230.2 }}
** Vandalized ] and ] . ] 13:32, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 208.198.210.253 ====
* {{User | 208.198.210.253 }}
** This IP has previously been blocked. Today has (so far) vandalised ], ], ] and created the nonsense articles ] and ]. Having trouble keeping up fixing these... ] | ] 13:10, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 213.249.155.237 ====
* {{User|213.249.155.237}}
** Long history of vandalizing, blocked in February but came back. Currently vandalized ] ] 12:55, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== 212.219.82.35 ====
* {{User|212.219.82.35}}
** Vandalised ]. ] &mdash; <font color="#CC0000">J</font><font color="#00CC00">I</font><font color="#0000CC">P</font> | ] 11:14, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
***I have now administered a test3 template ("Please stop"). We'll see if he listens. (That was ] as well)
***Test4 administered, ("This is your final warning"), but as a non-admin, I fear that's an empty threat. Admins, just block him if he stirs up more trouble. ] 11:22, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
***I'll be keeping an eye (or two) on him. ] 11:38, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==== Wonderalp ====
* ] (] &middot; ])
** This user (and several others such as ] and ]) have been vandalising ] and ], apparently for policitcal reasons.

==== 82.211.102.159 ====
* {{User | 82.211.102.159 }}
** Various acts of vandalism, mostly on articles about Portugese socialism. Probably the same person as ] below.

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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 Misplaced Pages Militia (since renamed to the Volunteer Fire Department) was formed to coordinate responses to press releases about Misplaced Pages. The "VANDALISM IN PROGRESS" page was moved to the Misplaced Pages namespace in August 2002 and was renamed to the current title in 2006. Its archives since 2003 may be found in Misplaced Pages:Requests for investigation/Archives and the talk archives since august 2002 can be found in the history of Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for investigation/Archive 4 and in text form as subpages of Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages:Vandalism in progress/Long term alerts.

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