WoWWiki: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.

Administrators: if a given user is a bot, use the "if bot" link when reverting vandalism.

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

June 2006

Nexxius	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – uncertain; the edit on Patch mirrors is suspicious; Nexxius also; others appear legit — can we get confirmation?
BLOCKED WiIly_On_Wheels	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	infinite ban
BLOCKED Fofgjt	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Bot; 1 year ban.
BLOCKED The_WoWWilly	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	blocked for eternity
John316	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – 2 acts, but undid them.
BLOCKED Asusvenus	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	4 acts, removing content; 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Ajb723	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	5 acts, appears to ba an alt of Imoi46 or vice versa, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Imoi46	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	3 acts on Holy Carnage, 1 week ban. Was warned but didn't read it I guess.
BLOCKED Revinance	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	4 acts on Holy Carnage, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Ansem	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	10+ acts of vandalism, 1 year ban.
BLOCKED Crapstick	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalism; 3 acts, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Woman	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	alt of Mexi-fry [1]; alt of Mexi-fry; perma-ban.
BLOCKED Boredman82734	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Mass-vandalism; over 20 acts, perma-ban.
BLOCKED Shay_ren	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Single Ability Template; 6 acts, 1 year ban.
BLOCKED Sasume	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Mass-vandalism; over 20 acts, perma-ban.
BLOCKED Fried	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Mass-vandalism, alt of Mexi-fry; perma-ban.
BLOCKED Themasterandcommandorofttheworld	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Mass-vandalism; 1 year ban.
BLOCKED Mexi-fry	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Mass-vandalism; over 20 acts, perma-ban.
BLOCKED Fuckyoumotherfuckers	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Mass-vandalism; over 20 acts, perma-ban.
BLOCKED Moezgay	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Naxxramas, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Eckoic	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Made changes to items that were not accurate.--Dracomage 11:18, 12 June 2006 (EDT); 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Overoy	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Deleted guild page, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Sasume	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	3 acts, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Greane	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Tauren; 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Xxfobxx	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	created Graeys Gayness, which is deleted; one week

May 2006

BLOCKED WoWWilly	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Even calls his edits vandalism...; infinite ban.
BLOCKED Pdobhp	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Bot.
BLOCKED Few	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Bot.
BLOCKED Gearci	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Scarlet Aristocracy, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Drarin	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Defaced Draenei; 3 acts, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Skurai2006	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Defaced Aegwynn_and_the_Dragon_Hunt; 1 act, 1 week ban.
Fareezulfaiss	contribs (if bot), logs	talk	block user – Removed Template:Guild. This was probably unintentional.
BLOCKED JChace029	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Defaced Blackwing Lair, but not seriously. one week.
BLOCKED Klaria	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Moved Boilerplate:Mob to Noire and modified it to be derogatory; only counting 10 acts, 1 year ban.
BLOCKED Sasume	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	vandalized [2], [3], [4], 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Flamingtable	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	4 acts of vandalism ([5], [6], [7], [8]), 1 week ban.
BLOCKED HuN74r_W34p0nz	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	vandalized Ragnaros loot table, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Willy_on_Wheels!	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	redirected pages wrongfully
BLOCKED Tonydanza	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	vandalized Eredar twice, 1 week ban.
BLOCKED Kkk	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	1 act.
BLOCKED Oustet	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Broken.
BLOCKED Winner847	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	1 act Solicitation/Vandalized WoWWiki talk:Community portal; gold spammer, ban 1 year.
BLOCKED Jewbalong	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Attributes and Talk:Attributes 4 times, ban 1 week.
BLOCKED Reaper_6145_69	contribs (if bot), log • block log	talk	Vandalized Paladin (and currently vandalizing more pages, waiting until he s

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!

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.

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.

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