Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2014/August

Please block User:Abelard4 and User:Abelard42 IP
Yesterday I've warned User talk:Abelard4 to stop spamming our articles, but today he's respamming: JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 08:36, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Several pages for which these URL are out of topic.
 * 2) Without any discussion.
 * 3) With a sockpuppet account User talk:Abelard42.
 * 4) It's a cross-wiki spam on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Limousine&diff=620073372&oldid=620072432 Wikipedia] and [//en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Portal%3AUnited_States&diff=2790549&oldid=2790365 Wikinews].
 * Both accounts have been locked globally by a Steward. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 07:50, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

The latest incarnation of the "mumfum" vandal. --Ixfd64 (discuss • contribs) 22:56, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked. Also .  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 03:32, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Oddly similar minor vandalism
Just noting here, in case it turns out to matter later. Two different accounts, created about a day apart around the beginning of this month, that have basically never done anything else. [], [].

It's been suggested to me this sort of thing is likely to be different people in the same class. With that in mind, I've just given each of the two accounts a 24 hour block &mdash;I hadn't bothered to block them at all, at first&mdash; to let them, and others in their class if that were to be what was going on, know they shouldn't be doing that. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 11:06, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * They are sockpuppets (confirmed by CheckUser) or possibly meatpuppets. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 11:24, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Mumfum was a vandalism spree Wikibooks went through about 6-8 years ago. It was a constant problem although I'd thought that some filter had been made to deal with the problem.--ЗAНИA [[Image:Flag_of_the_Isle_of_Mann.svg|15px]]talk 15:30, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Just did my (to the best of my memory) first indefblock on en.wb (I do 'em on en.wn all the time). Blown Fuse.  Obviously related.  They'd also vandalized one page on Wikiquote, though in a different mode, no Mumfum in evidence.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 11:10, 15 August 2014 (UTC)


 * He is the same person as the "ass pus" vandal who has been doing similar attacks on other WMF wikis. He first appeared on the English Wikipedia in late 2004 as the "pelican shit" vandal, if I remember correctly. I thought he would have grown out of it after 10 years, but I guess I was wrong. :\ --Ixfd64 (discuss • contribs) 05:32, 23 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Just because this vandal's behavior is infantile doesn't mean their age irl is low. They may have grown into this behavior.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 11:43, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Another sockpuppet of the "mumfum" vandal. --Ixfd64 (discuss • contribs) 01:48, 25 August 2014 (UTC)