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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?
SHOULD I REVERT VANDALISM MYSELF?
WHAT WILL THE ADMINS DO ABOUT IT?
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- See Also
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- WoWWiki:Vandalism
- WoWWiki:Policy/Vandalism
- Block Log
- Currently blocked list
- Administrator use only: Special:Blockip
Vandals List
- Admins: If a vandal has caused massive disruption, use the "if bot" link when reverting vandalism - it will cause the vandalism (and the rollback) to become tagged as a "bot edit" and hidden from the RC list by default.
March 2007
| BLOCKED Thorinkiller | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Spot vandalism. See contributions. 2 Week ban. |
| BLOCKED Ineedmorelumber | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Repeated vandalism of two articles related to Hellscream (US) 1 Month ban. |
| BLOCKED TehLiqE | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | rofl..."Hacked" WoWWiki_talk:Main_Page_Dev. Only Contribution. Permaban. |
| BLOCKED Kirkdwin | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Replaced multiple icons by stupid images, sock puppet. Permaban. |
| BLOCKED Fatis | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Replaced contents of Image:Icon-exclamation-48x48.png. 1 month ban. Increased to permaban by Adys (talk · contr), has many sock puppets. |
February 2007
| BLOCKED 764Hero | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Replaced contents of Gnome. Only contribution. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED BrianUrinal | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | sneaky (and unimaginatively infantile) vandalism of Arthas Menethil. 2 week ban |
| SUSPECT Afratana111 | contribs (if bot), logs | talk | block user – Added "weaksauce" to the Naxxramas article. Only contrib. |
| BLOCKED Fuck Kirkburn | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Infinite ban, in a shocking twist. |
| BLOCKED Geekdroid | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Replaced Night Elf Crest with a random image and placed it on the Draenei article. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED CheesyPOOF5 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Repeated vandalism. 20+ acts, Permaban. |
| BLOCKED Asdgasg | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Spambot. Permaban. |
| BLOCKED Belwar | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalising several pages with stupid comments, fake information and incorrect wiki links. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Lolurh4x3d | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Added false information to Karazhan. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED 1172238083 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Spambot. Permaban. |
| BLOCKED Street scholar is a sexist asshole! IS BACK | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | As below. Perma-ban. |
| BLOCKED Charles Darwin | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | As below. Perma-ban. |
| BLOCKED Street scholar is a racist asshole | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | As below. Perma-ban. |
| BLOCKED Street scholar is a sexist and racist asshole | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Moved policy pages among other vandalism. Perma-ban. |
| BLOCKED Maples22 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Fake addition to members of the Horde and unflattering comment about night elves in the Alliance. 2 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Jeff190 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Trashed popular pages. 1 month ban |
| BLOCKED 1172072103 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Spambot. Permaban |
| SUSPECT Dinobot7127 | contribs (if bot), logs | talk | block user – Promoting his own stragegy link on many instances and boss pages. See Netherspite for exemple. Not many acts and generally good additions, not banning him for now. |
| BLOCKED Gfh fghgf hd ff | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Moved a bunch of pages around, vandalized others. Perma-ban. |
| BLOCKED Adys. | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalized several pages, and moved several pages (much like C.U.L.O...). Impersonation of an admin. Perma-ban. |
| BLOCKED C.U.L.O (it means ass in spanish) | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalized several pages, and moved several pages to Fuck and Cunt. Perma-ban. |
| BLOCKED Philson | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | He's had his chance, he's been warned time and again, but he's still promoting his link on Patch mirrors. 1 month ban to "think" about it and read Patch mirrors#Adding Mirrors a few times. |
| BLOCKED Omgpwnzorz | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalism on guild pages. Sock puppet of recent ban. Permaban. |
| BLOCKED Viodia | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Added false rep requirement to Black Temple. 1 act, 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Pietro1000 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Added false murloc rumor to Illidan Stormrage. 1 act, 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Saphir | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Created 1 offensive page + 1 edit. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Whoisit | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Added an offensive message to Server:Jubei'Thos US. 1 act, 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Idsioledo | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Blanked multiple pages related to Server:Kargath US. Permaban. |
| BLOCKED Street scholar is a sexist asshole | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalism of WoWWiki:Known vandals, WoWWiki:Site support, Instance guide. Moved Gruul the Dragonkiller and User:Ziana to bogus/offending page names. 1 year ban. |
| BLOCKED Ewanuk | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Fake information on Gruul's Lair on purpose. 1 week ban. |
| SUSPECT Gsdkp | contribs (if bot), logs | talk | block user – See WoWWiki talk:Known vandals#Gsdkp |
| BLOCKED Cookiecookie | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Trashed Priest and Foror. 2 acts, 1 week ban. |
| SUSPECT Sipifi | contribs (if bot), logs | talk | block user – Deleted parts of URLs on Patch mirrors. Score (talk · contr) asked for an explanation on User talk:Sipifi on 8 Feb 2007. Apologized on User:Score. Left suspect. |
| BLOCKED KevinPowell | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | <Replaced the paladin page with "Gay">. Sole purpose of this account was to cause trouble. Infinite ban. |
| BLOCKED Xansafag | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Random sexual vandalism. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Monaro88 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalism of One-handed. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Ssjdaisuke | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalism of Class and Newbie Guide. 1 month |
| SUSPECT Rayskovsky | contribs (if bot), logs | talk | block user – First contribution, added guild article content to unreleated image page. |
| BLOCKED Devilz | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Created bogus Bananas in Pajamas. 1 act, 1 week ban. |
| SUSPECT Aryxymaraki | contribs (if bot), logs | talk | block user – Created questionable page. Past edits look ok, doesn't appear to be vandal, just looks like out of place/uneeded article. |
| BLOCKED Sweatshopkids | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Sexual vandalism on Kargath Bladefist. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Johnson21 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Offensive biological addition to Mutanus the Devourer. 1 year ban |
| BLOCKED Tooj117 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Same image vandal. Infinite ban. |
| BLOCKED Toojdwin | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Image vandalism. Infinite ban. |
| BLOCKED Wowgoldworld | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Gold seller. Infinite ban. |
| BLOCKED Bossy | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Replaced Fandyllic's userpage with a plethora of links and listed the change as "needed info." 1 year ban. |
| BLOCKED Vawugz | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Deleted section of High elf for a useless comment on eye color. 2 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Jizzman | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Unfunny, offensive addition to Instance Guide. 2 week ban. |
| BLOCKED BoAo | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalism on the Village Pump. 1 week ban. |
January 2007
| SUSPECT Lutero | contribs (if bot), logs | talk | block user – Created bogus page WoWWiki:Ricerca. Otherwise a helpful contributor. |
| BLOCKED Nefius | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalized Comparison_of_Aldor_and_Scryer_rewards. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Allol | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Created bogus Quest:Supplies for Nethergarde. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Stupid1 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Major vandalism of Night Elf. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Arranacar | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Removal of info from several articles, continued. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Sampendleton | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Only contribution is 3 acts of vandalism. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED 1169866443 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Spam bot, perma-ban. |
| BLOCKED Crazipper | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Sexual vandalism on Quest. 6 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Penismouth | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalized several pages. 6 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Dude444 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Replaced several pages with "HaHa, how sad are you guys?"; Replaced the Village Pump with a song making fun of AIDS victims; removed reversion information from the vandals list. 1 year ban. |
| BLOCKED Ghhgh | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Repeat vandal, same vandal pattern as below users. 1 year ban. |
| BLOCKED Ijrdw3ijedji | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Condensed Andrewfool43's vandalism into a shorter statement. 2 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Andrewfool43 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Added editorial on starvation in South Africa on Draenei. 2 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Jesusiskewl | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Over the top vandalism of Server:Barthilas, implied that Treebranch (aka Gaffs, aka Darky) and Rainbowlove are gay, use of an obscene word (f-king), over promoting Dusk till Dawn, "DtD FTW" and "IS THE ONLY GOOD GUILD ON TEH SERVER", implying that Pietro, Soj and Jammno are gay. |
| BLOCKED Gerald | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Sock-puppet of one the recent bans, reposted the deleted DNP post. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Thecraze | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | DNP content. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Alex_73 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | DNP content. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Kenmark | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Spammer, seller. Infinite ban. |
| BLOCKED WoWNooB | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalised Race. 1 act, 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED 10lvltaurenchieftain | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Minor DNP to  [Demoralizing Shout]. Two hours, pending investingation of contribution history.
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| BLOCKED Crazyguy | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Wiped class information and replaced with information on Thrall. Three months. |
| BLOCKED Collegesmells | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Minor act of vandalism to Instances by level and the creation of a DNP article, 1 week |
| BLOCKED Willtheocter | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalised Category:Lore Characters. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Afrothunder75 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Created BALLIN!!! five times after deletion. Been warned twice. Permaban. |
| BLOCKED Arkadi | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Created offensive page about another player. 2 weeks ban. |
| BLOCKED ~ | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | created off-topic articles and used an unsourced image of a person |
| BLOCKED Cac123 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Server:Barthilas put a random comment about "Ez downs Desuavo irl with his laser gunz January 2007" and broke the formating of the "server progress" table. 2 acts, 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Dude1234 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | various pages. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED 51505150 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vulgarity on the village pump. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Kreesto | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Put bogus stuff in Hogger x2. 2 acts, 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Dublecee | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalized picture in human and cleared blood elf. |
| BLOCKED 1168407663 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Spambot, permaban. |
| BLOCKED Hypertriumph | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Under the impression that Illidan's middle name is "Lloyd." 1 week ban. |
| SUSPECT Theron_the_Just | contribs (if bot), logs | talk | block user – Countless edit wars, keeps reverting changes without talking, wants to impose his view. Been given many warnings. Not banning him for now. Adys (talk · contr) |
| BLOCKED Hypnotical | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Created flaming page Hypno. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Riese | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Edited Scarlet Crusade/Progression over past month. 3 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Yourmumsahorde | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Mutliple acts of vandalism. Infinite ban. |
| BLOCKED Bigbang | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Gold seller spammer. Infinite ban. |
| BLOCKED 1168024215 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Bot? inserting blank pages with hidden DNP links. 5 pages so far. Permaban. |
| BLOCKED Johnnymurphy | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Sexual-related vandalism on Draenei page. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Gary | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Multiple acts Server:Stormreaver US. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Mehmehteh | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Multiple acts Server:Stormreaver US. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Rognarak | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | DNP content on Server:Stonemaul US. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED LOLWHO | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Vandalism of Server:Stonemaul US. 1 month ban. |
| BLOCKED Vertexcheats | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Inappropriately posted biased information on Vertex, and did so in all caps. 1 week ban. |
| BLOCKED Eledhel | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Content vandalism to Race, 1 week. |
| BLOCKED Brigger22 | contribs (if bot), log • block log | talk | Repeatedly added trash content to the Server:Silver Hand page. 9 acts, 1 month ban. |
Archives
- More vandals and bots from the past have been archived to:
- WoWWiki:Known vandals/Archive01 (2005 - March 2006)
- WoWWiki:Known vandals/Archive02 (March 2006 - July 2006)
- WoWWiki:Known vandals/Archive03 (August 2006 - October 2006)
- WoWWiki:Known vandals/Archive04 (November 2006 - December 2006)
↑ Jump to the top
Identifying Fake Spam Cleaners
Thanks to CJ for noticing these "sneaky bots".
Here are easy steps to identify fake spam cleaners:
- Go to the history page of the article that was supposedly cleaned.
- 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).
- Click the right radio button next to the entry of the "fake spam cleaner" edit.
- 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!
About reverting vandalism
It is worth noting that admins can quickly revert a bot's changes with one click, but only if it is the last edit. If you have better things to do than undo all their edits, you can just add the vandal's name here and we will block them. Once added to the list a 'contribs' link appear, giving quick access to a list of all their contributions. In that case we can open each revert link and thereby revert all their edits in one fell swoop. 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.
Therefore, 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.
If you wish to revert vandalism, open the last correct version (by clicking on the date), hit edit on that page and save it with an appropriate note!
Adding Stuff
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 at the top please:
- ==== <month> <year> ====
- {|
{{vandal|<vandal user name>}} <optional comment>- <other vandals...>
- |}
Note that underscores are important. If a user has a space in his name, you must put an underscore in its place.
Administrative actions
When a user is marked as a vandal, an admin will investigate the claim (usually by reviewing the accused vandal's contributions) and follow the policy. This may include reverting acts of vandalism and informing the user on their talk page that they have been accused of vandalism, if their contributions don't seem to be overt vandalism.
In addition, admins can do a few things the average user cannot to deal with vandalism:
- Use the [rollback] link to quickly revert vandalism (if it was the last edit on an article).
- Use the Special:Blockip page to ban/block the user from editing for a period of time (based on policy).
- Use the move tab in situations where a regular user might not be able to, to maintain the history of a vandalized article.
- Use the protect tab to give a reprieve to a frequently vandalized article, assuming it doesn't undergo frequent necessary updates.
Blocking a vandal
After an admin has investigated they can ban/block the user according to policy by using the Template:Tlink template:
{{block|<blocked vandal user name>}} <optional comment> + <additional comment> + <ban time>
Making a suspect
If the user subsequently contacts an admin with a reasonably explanation for the act (falsely accused, mistaken edit, misunderstood policy, etc.) and the admin is convinced the user has reformed or sufficiently explained their actions, the admin can use the Template:Tlink template to put then on a sort of probation (and clear the ban/block, if warranted):
{{suspect|<suspected vandal user name>}} <optional comment> + <additional comment>