Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2005/November

Psychonaut ( talk | email | contribs ) SEVERE VANDALIMS!!!
A number of page redirects and moving pages to "weeeeeeeee......" 158.36.140.109 09:36, 11 November 2005 (UTC) Special:Contributions/Psychonaut

High amound of vandalism - redirects and page blanking. Created New user and persormed 50+ edits that all seem to be vandalism. Have moved pages around several times so adminns be carefoul when reverting the damage so that the correct page gets restored. Oyvind 10:34, 11 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up. I'm on it --Whiteknight T C E 12:26, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I reverted everything that was left (the other admins got to the mess before i could), and I blocked the user for 1 month, with an express warning that the ban would become infinite if he did it again. --Whiteknight T C E 12:55, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

I forgot to write about it. I banned this guy indefinitely (he's also known at Wikipedia). I also protected some sites from moving (not editing); see Special:Log/block. I think this case of vandalism shows that we are not prepared to fight it properly. I will start discussion at staff lounge concerning sysops and fighting vandalism. --Derbeth 15:02, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

24.90.44.233 ( talk | email | contribs )
Page blanking, random edits, obviously wants to mess up my stuff.

After reverts, he vandalizes again.--Dragontamer 04:50, 24 November 2005 (UTC) (oops, forgot my sig)

Blocked. I checked his contributions list, and it's filled with vandalism. I blocked him for 1 month --Whiteknight T C E 06:22, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

La Hire ( talk | email | contribs )
First off, from another site/message board, the real La Hire has been helping me out with the guide, he just hasn't registered yet. This leads me to believe this is an impersonation, so that he can vandalise.

Similar to that IP address above me, page blaking, random edits... --Dragontamer 04:50, 24 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Blocked. Same as above. Blocked for 1 month for several acts of vandalism. --Whiteknight T C E 06:25, 24 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for both of them--Dragontamer 06:33, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Wow, really huge vandalism. This guy kept vandalising for near two hours - was there no admin to react? I suggest all sysops to add this page to their watchlist and stay on IRC channels when they're online. Also people who want to report vandalism should visit IRC, because they can find help quicker there. --Derbeth talk 16:35, 24 November 2005 (UTC)


 * two hours? acording to his contribs page, it looks like he was vandalizing for less then half an hour, and he only managed to vandalize 2 pages. This page is on my watchlist, and as soon as i saw it, i took action. I dont think we can fault the admins if we don't have everything monitored 100% of the time. Sometimes there are going to be gaps, simply by virtue of the low population here on wikibooks. --Whiteknight T C E 14:01, 25 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, I should have braced right there, I started advertising that guide up cause I finished another section of that guide... So I posted it up on a forum for that game. It was late at night, no one was at the IRC channel either (kinda sucked). I guess it should be expected of video game players to vandalise (or at least a few of them), sorta an immature age at that point. --Dragontamer 06:47, 26 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I mean not only vandalism by this user, but all vandalisms on that day - they lasted for nearly 2 hours continously. I'm glad you reacted properly, but I wish all admins watched this page (I'm not sure if they do) and more users attend IRC channels. BTW Dragontamer, what forum did you posted at, half of these vandals were using open proxies ;-) --Derbeth talk 10:14, 26 November 2005 (UTC)


 * GameFAQs forums for maple story... :-/ Oh, and how do you know if an IP address is an open proxy? Is there a list or something? I'm still getting used to wikibooks :-/ --Dragontamer 16:21, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

165.21.154.108 ( talk | email | contribs )
This one has a a good history so far... maybe its an open proxy or something :-/ Same page, even worse kinds of vandalisms... (Changed my "do's" into "do not" and my "do not" into "Do's")


 * I checked the history. There are several good contributions here, but there are also some vandalisms. Seems like that maple story page is just a vandal magnet. --Whiteknight T C E 16:32, 26 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Maybe it is a dynamic IP address? There are several vandalisms in the IP range 165.21.154.*** Either that or proxy...