Wowpedia:Violations

Found a vandal on wowwiki? List them here, and we'll clean up their work regularly, and perhaps (in severe cases) ban them by IP.

WHAT CAN I DO? See below how to add a vandal to the list.

UPDATE: Please also look out for "fake spam cleaners" (also called "sneaky bots" by CJ)! These are users who pretend to clean spam by removing a few lines of spam of many and then add an edit comment like "removed unrelated links" or "darn spammers". These folks should be listed as vandals also. See Identifying Fake Spam Cleaners below for steps how to identify them.

NOTE: Please review the Vandalism policy as the criteria for blocks has become stricter for non-bots. 20 or more acts of vandalism by anyone will result in a permanent ban.

NOTE: Since the Vandalism policy has been ratified, bots will be blocked for a time period of 1 year. Before this, they were being blocked only for 1 month. Administrators: If you click on the block link, it will default to a 1-year block, so if the vandal is not a bot, then you'll need to change this.

BEFORE YOU START REVERTING VANDALISM: Please read "About reverting vandalism" below.

See also

• WoWWiki:Vandal
• WoWWiki:Vandalism
• WoWWiki:Policy/Vandalism
• WoWWiki:Block log (Currently broken, see MediaWiki Quirks for status. --Fandyllic)
• General IP block list
• Administrator use only – Special:Blockip

Vandals List

April 2006

1144638247	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – Bot?
Lolfanboy	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – Vandal, various. World of Warcraft API
BLOCKED Kakakaka	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Gnome and Tauren; 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Syroco	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Worgen and Worgen Rumor; 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Netropa	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	1 anti-semitic comment on someone else's user page, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Sir	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Bot.
BLOCKED Kram3r	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized World of Warcraft API twice by removing content, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Jesus101	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Primarily vandalized Server:Hellscream as well as several Element Zero related pages; 7 acts, 1 month ban.

March 2006

BLOCKED Gasper	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Bot.
BLOCKED Mikejames	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Twink page again; 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Testie	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandal, deleted content 4 times. 1 week, according to policy (expires 09:19, 3 April 2006).
BLOCKED Abraxas	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Ogre Rumor. 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Doomdaymassacre	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Bot. -- I had already blocked him. :-) Schmidt 09:34, 24 March 2006 (EST)
BLOCKED Frumpleisaqueer	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	1 derogatory, unnecessary comment. 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Emperor of Duma	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandal user, several vandalous edits and explicit content; reviewed and found only 2 acts (mucking with your own fanfic is okay). 1 week ban. --Fandyllic

Many blocked users moved to March 2006 section of WoWWiki:Known vandals/Archive1.

Erncen	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – questionable
sniper	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – Asian characters / text in FlexBar. Nothing really major. --CJ 02:24, 9 Mar 2006; Hard to tell if it's intentional, since some changes were undone. Did leave 2 acts uncleaned, though. --Fandyllic 11:50 AM PST 9 Mar 2006
Sonshenlong	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – Moved Talk:Main Page to Community portal for no apparent reason. --Fandyllic 12:07 PM PST 8 Mar 2006

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February 2006

BLUEBERRYMUFFIN12749146517026	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – back in February vandalized one page. 2006; Vandalized World of Warcraft, botlike behavior. Schmidt 11:27, 23 Feb 2006 (EST)
HoFChaos	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – Vandalized Tolerance. Alt of TardPoster below. --Fandyllic 5:03 PM PST 21 Feb 2006
TardPoster	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – Vandalized Tolerance. --Fandyllic 5:03 PM PST 21 Feb 2006
Zalmoxes	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – Another reason to make policy more strict. 2 acts so far. --Fandyllic 11:24 AM PST 15 Feb 2006
Leo	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – Only one act so far. But we may have to make the policy more strict. --Fandyllic 12:42 PM PST 13 Feb 2006
VovaKar	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – obvious bot; 4 acts
BLOCKED Nata52	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	for 1 year starting 3 Mar 2006as an obvious bot. --Fandyllic 7:27 PM PST 3 Mar 2006; bot
BLOCKED Guamnoid2	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	for 1 year starting 24 Feb 2006 as an obvious bot. --Fandyllic 11:55 AM PST 24 Feb
BLOCKED Manyucheng	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	1 week starting 13 Feb 2006 for more than 5 acts of vandalism. --Fandyllic 12:42 PM PST 13 Feb 2006
BLOCKED Ptiz65	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	for 1 year starting 10 Feb 2006 as an obvious bot. --Fandyllic 1:20 PM PST 10 Feb 2006
BLOCKED ShizoDic	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	for 1 year starting 1 Feb 2006 as an obvious bot. --Fandyllic 1 PM PST 1 Feb 2006

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Archives

• Other bots have been archived to: WoWWiki:Known vandals/Archive1

Identifying Fake Spam Cleaners

Thanks to CJ for noticing these "sneaky bots".

Here are easy steps to identify fake spam cleaners:

1. Go to the history page of the article that was supposedly cleaned.
2. Click the left radio button next to the entry you think was the last non-spam edit (spammers usually have red user links, since they're not real users).
3. Click the right radio button next to the entry of the "fake spam cleaner" edit.
4. Click the "Compare selected versions" button.

If you see lots of spam remaining, this user is probably a "fake spam cleaner".

Put them on the vandals list!

Adding Stuff

About reverting vandalism

It is worth noting that admins can quickly revert a bot's changes with one click, but only the last edit. If you have better things to do than to simply undo their edits, you can just add the vandal's name here and we will block them. It goes without saying that their "contributions" appear, so we'll have a list of their contributions. In that case we can shift-click (to view in a new window – or with Firefox, ctrl-click to open in a new tab in the same window) to open each revert link and thereby revert all their edits in one fell swoop. But this is only if they've made the last edit. So unless it gets really bad and it looks like we admins won't be able to block a user or revert all their changes, there's no need to try to undo their works.

If that doesn't make sense, you'll probably understand this: unless you have a reason to contribute to an article that has been vandalized, there's no need to undo vandalism by bots. It will save time overall, but this doesn't remove the necessity to add them here. Now, it won't hurt if any of you continue to remove vandalism, but it's not as necessary. But if the bot is not on the list here, we may never catch it. Thank you for all your assistance, everyone.

How to add a new month

Very simple, add the following (replace <month> and <year> with appropriate month and year):

==== <month> <year> ====

{| width="100%"

<new vandal>

|}

How to add a new vandal

Also easy to do. Just add the Template:Tlink template in the appropriate month/year:

==== <month> <year> ====

{|

{{vandal|<vandal user name>}} <optional comment>

<other vandals...>

|}

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