Wikipedia:Abuse response

Wikipedia:Abuse reports is a centralized forum for the reporting and investigation of abuse complaints, related to IP-specific vandalism, to be reported to service providers, particularly schools and universities. Please be aware that this is not an official contact system put in place by the Wikimedia Foundation, but a volunteer-run process to counter vandalism.

Recently actioned

Rejected requests (since Nov 2006)

Please note: You cannot report user accounts here (they'll be removed on sight)! For persistent logged-in vandals, please go to Wikipedia:Long term abuse. Because the purpose of this is to report violators to their ISPs, usernames cannot be traced back to their providers and so will not work.

DO NOT LIST IP ADDRESSES WITHOUT A SIGNIFICANT HISTORY OF VANDALISM! We will not go through with these requests. Make sure that the IP in question has been blocked at least five times in recent history, or the request will be rejected. Please do not clog up this board with such requests; the report will not go through. For vandalism that is occurring now, please visit Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.

Process

AR cases are a three step process:

• Alert: An attentive user notices a trend of vandalism from a given IP, runs a whois, determines that the IP is registered to a school, a government agency, or other body that is likely to respond to an abuse report, and reports the IP here.

• Under investigation: Once made, an alert is picked up by an investigator, who begins an investigation and compiles a report.

• In Contact: Once a case has been investigated and a report prepared, the case is passed to a contactor. The contactor then attempts to contact the provider or organization responsible for the IP address. The contactor explains the situation to the organization and points them to the prepared report. The contact remains in contact with the organization, most likely by email, to answer any further questions or provide other requested information.

Once the contactor has made contact with the provider, the case remains open as long as contact continues. If the provider successfully resolves the complaint, then the contactor closes the case, with a summary of the result. If the provider is unwilling to cooperate, the contactor notes the case, and closes it with a summary.

Volunteering

For a list of current Abuse Reports volunteers, or for information on how you can help with the Abuse Reports project, please see the volunteers page. This process depends on helping hands just like you - and no administrator powers are required! A detailed guide for volunteers is also available.

New Alerts

Please follow the instructions below. Please do not list IPs that have only made a few edits (unless they are part of a bigger case), as only severe, continuing vandalism should be listed here.

To report an IP address

1. In the text box below, replace IP with the IP address you are reporting and click the Report IP button. For a range of IP addresses, use the format 127.0.0.x Range and for two or more ranges use the format 127.0.0.x and 192.168.0.x Ranges. When reporting ranges, please replace the digits that are different with an x in the title of your report. There's no need to report different ranges if the IP addresses are sufficiently similar or run consecutively, 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.10.1 as an example (these could be reported as 192.168.x.x Range).
2. Edit the resulting page, including entering the IP number in the {{IPvandal}} template and provide a summary of why you believe the IP address(es) requires attention. Please use an {{IPvandal}} template for each IP address you are reporting (this is especially important when reporting a range), list the name of the provider (from the whois report), and briefly summarize the situation. Sign your comments with ~~~~ in case the investigator needs to contact you for clarification, and save the page.
3. Edit this page, adding the following text above the most recent nomination (replacing IP with the IP address you're reporting):

   *[[Wikipedia:Abuse reports/IP]]

• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/IP/85.133.156.x
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/IP/79.x.x.x
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/71.x.x.x
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/74.64.124.160
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/96.234.59.44
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/122.104.x.x
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/38.116.200.64
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/70.241.x.x Range‎
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/JPS stalker
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/201.9.x.x Range
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/67.212.12.67
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/82.110.35.114

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Open Cases

Under Investigation

Please do not move alerts into this section unless you are the investigator opening a new case.

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• Wikipedia:Abuse_reports/64.2.200.91
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/164.58.28.74
• WIkipedia:Abuse reports/216.20.84.250

Investigation Complete/In Contact

Contactor Needed

Please do not move alerts into this section unless you are the investigator passing the case on to a contactor and do not intend to make contact yourself.

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Spanish

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• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/TV Cable S.A

Norwegian

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• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/85.19.179.69

Contactor Assigned

Please do not move alerts into this section unless you are the investigator continuing the case as a contactor, or a contactor taking a completed investigation.

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• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/bezeq
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/218.185.79.222
• Wikipedia:Abuse reports/66.99.52.162

Rejected requests

All rejected requests are now archived for easy retrieval as necessary. Please see Wikipedia:Abuse reports/Rejected.

See also

• Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
• Wikipedia:Vandalism