Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism

"WP:RVAN" redirects here. For information on how to respond to vandalism, see Wikipedia:Vandalism § How to respond to vandalism.

Report active, obvious, and persistent vandals and spammers here.

Before reporting, read the spam and vandalism pages, as well as the AIV guide. To submit, edit this page and follow the instructions at the top of the "User-reported" section. For other issues, file a request for administrator attention. Important! The edits of the user must be obvious vandalism or obvious spam. Except for egregious cases, the user must have been given enough warning(s). The warning(s) must have been given recently and there must be reasonable grounds to believe the user(s) will further disrupt the site in the immediate future. If you decide that a report should be filed place the following template at the bottom of the User-reported section: * {{Vandal|Example user or IP}} Your concise reason (e.g. vandalised past 4th warning). ~~~~ Requests for further sanctions against a blocked user (e.g., talk page, e-mail blocks) should be made at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Reports of sockpuppetry should be made at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations unless the connection between the accounts is obvious and disruption is recent and ongoing. This noticeboard can grow and become backlogged. Stale reports are automatically cleared by MDanielsBot after 4–8 hours with no action. You can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

This page was last updated at 21:25 on 15 November 2024 (UTC). if it is out of date.

Reports

Bot-reported

• 206.188.241.40 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) – Tripped filter 30 five times in the last 5 minutes (Large deletion from article by new editors, details). Report false positive. DatBot (talk) 20:28, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

  False positive. Edits are not vandalism. Editor does show competence issues. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:12, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

• 50.81.237.112 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) – Tripped disruption-catching filters five times in the last 5 minutes (details). Report false positive. DatBot (talk) 20:51, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

  False positive. Edits are not vandalism.— rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:10, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

User-reported

• SameboyA (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) – Persistent copyright violations after numerous warnings. Majora (talk) 20:44, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

@Majora: This noticeboard is for obvious vandals and spammers only. Consider taking this report to Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. This is more complicated than vandalism/spamming since it may require administrator action beyond a block and may require a CCI. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 21:38, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

@Ks0stm: Persistent copyvios after warnings is a type of vandalism per WP:VANDTYPES. I reported numerous people here before for persistent copyvios without issue. Was that wrong? --Majora (talk) 21:48, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

@Majora: To be honest, probably not...just as a matter of personal preference I tend to only block for the simpler cases off this board and refer the ones that involve issues other than straight vandalism or spamming to the other relevant noticeboards. I'll leave the report up and another admin can block if they desire, though I would recommend filing either a WP:CCI or WP:ANI post so that the copyvios can be handled by admins as necessary (deletion, etc). Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 21:57, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

• 81.129.40.79 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Sole purpose is adding unsourced trivia, much of it WP:BLP violations, birthdays and birthplaces. 2601:188:1:AEA0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 20:55, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Edits are not vandalism. Please ensure recent edits constitute vandalism before re-reporting. Adding information without adding a source is not itself vandalism, neither is adding trivia. Recommend you attempt to start a discussion on the user's talk page (no templating... Actually start a real discussion like a real person engaging another real person) to express your concerns and try to educate them on the need to provide sources for birthdates and birth places. Jayron32 00:56, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

• • • I'm sure that would be a more civil approach. I also began on that path, and the account ignored the attempt to discuss and proceeded to make their point by adding a bunch more unsourced content. So, it's not vandalism nor a BLP violation, then my interference is unnecessary. Good luck to those who want to edit in that fashion, I won't attempt to dissuade them. 2601:188:1:AEA0:3946:8D55:35B4:1C (talk) 01:29, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
• Maverickindian (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) this account is being used for self promotional spamming and making destructive edits to articles of Indian colleges. Recently notable alumni section was add to page Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science without any significant notability. This spammer also operates other accounts and sockpuppets including User:Sakthi swaroop and User:Ramsinghdeena QuattroAWD (talk) 23:39, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Edits are not vandalism. Please ensure recent edits constitute vandalism before re-reporting. I don't see any intent to ruin Wikipedia articles on the part of this user, which is what vandalism is. I would try to engage and discuss the matter with the user. If there are sockpuppet concerns, try WP:SPI instead. --Jayron32 00:58, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

• 99.194.52.254 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Unexplained removals, vandalism 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jim1138 (talk) 00:26, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Edits are not vandalism. Please ensure recent edits constitute vandalism before re-reporting. I don't see any obvious vandalism, merely some editorial changes to articles; some remove text, some add text, and some change a few words around, some adding sources, etc. There's no vandalism here, this is what normal editing looks like. At worst, he's not using edit summaries, which is not in any way vandalism. --Jayron32 01:01, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

• 199.189.108.73 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Troll, ANI disruption, most likely Vote (X) for Change. Maybe not Vote (X), but still clearly WP:NOTHERE. 2601:1C0:4401:F360:901C:10B8:EB70:E1DB (talk) 02:33, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
• Williamjohnson (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) – account is being used only for promotional purposes. Cahk (talk) 07:14, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

User has been incorrectly or insufficiently warned. Re-report if the user resumes vandalising after being warned sufficiently. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:22, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

• Asipulako (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Account is being used for self promotional spamming to articles of Litfire Publishing. Unexplained removals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awareauthors (talk • contribs) 10:04, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) Why did you use User has been insufficiently warned. as your edit summary when filing this report...? 2601:1C0:4401:F360:901C:10B8:EB70:E1DB (talk) 10:14, 31 October 2016 (UTC)