Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against 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!

1. The edits of the user must be obvious vandalism or obvious spam.
2. Except for egregious cases, the user must have been given enough warning(s).
3. 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.
4. 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). ~~~~
5. Requests for further sanctions against a blocked user (e.g., talk page, e-mail blocks) should be made at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
6. 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.

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This page was last updated at 22:07 on 6 January 2025 (UTC). if it is out of date.

Alerts

Bot-reported

• 2400:1a00:baa0:8427:e1b5:9fa0:7398:7dda (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) – Tripped filter 3 five times in the last 5 minutes (New user blanking articles, details). Report false positive. DatBot (talk) 14:14, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

  No edits since being warned. Re-report if this user continues vandalising or spamming after sufficient warnings. Daniel Case (talk) 21:15, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

• Elegant 69 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) – Tripped filter 61 five times in the last 5 minutes (New user removing references, details). Report false positive. DatBot (talk) 22:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

User-reported

• Biologist Mark (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Repeated vandalism or other such unconstructive edits to Adolescence article. Previously kept putting that boys usually complete puberty by 21 or 25 years of age. After repeated warnings and explanations to him about WP:Reliable sources, he still does not seem to understand. I am at a loss of what else to do in regards to this editor, seeing as he keeps trying to add in some type of unsourced content about human males not completing puberty until over 18 or 19 years of age. Flyer22 (talk) 20:50, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Edits are not vandalism. Please ensure recent edits constitute vandalism before re-reporting. Consider making a report at WP:ANI or WP:ANEW. —DoRD (talk) 20:56, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

How are they not vandalism, when he keeps adding in dubious/unsourced content against repeated warnings? I am not seeing how this is a content dispute. Flyer22 (talk) 20:59, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh, I see. I read the link you provided, and it excuses him because it was unintentional misinformation and he does not yet understand how Wikipedia works. Hmm. I still do not fully get that, since plenty of IPs do not understand how Wikipedia works either...and yet they are not excused after repeated warnings. But oh well. Flyer22 (talk) 21:09, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

This page is, to quote from above, "for obvious and persistent vandals and spammers only," hence my suggestion of appropriate noticeboards. —DoRD (talk) 21:27, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

• 173.81.182.46 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) - vandalism after recent release of block. Straight off a three month block, this user has again gone back to their disruptive editing (for which they were blocked for in the first place). User has already gotten a Warn4IM warning (issued by me) and has received a full set of warnings prior. User hasn't learned. Requesting 6 month block.. NeutralHomer • Talk • 20:57, 9 March 2010 (UTC) 20:57, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

• Note: User is in the categories: IP addresses used for vandalism, Shared IP addresses, Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets. HBC AIV helperbot7 (talk) 20:58, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

• Continued vandalism after Warn4IM warning. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 21:07, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

• Now verging on 3RR territory on WJCL (TV) and WCHS-TV. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 21:13, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

• 217.43.101.164 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) – vandalism, including 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 – Uncle Dick (talk) 21:19, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
• 209.128.10.138 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) repeated and repeated and repeated vandalism after multiple bans and warnings - Denimadept (talk) 21:20, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

• Note: User is in the category: IP addresses used for vandalism. HBC AIV helperbot7 (talk) 21:20, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

• 69.78.70.150 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) vandalizing Recognition of same-sex unions in the District of Columbia
  Native94080 (talk) 21:22, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
• 96.241.1.155 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) vandalizing Recognition of same-sex unions in the District of Columbia
  Native94080 (talk) 21:27, 9 March 2010 (UTC)