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Stephen Colbert asked his fans to vandalise pages, especially Reality, with "___ is a commodity". I fully protected Reality to stop the immediate onslaught we had after the show aired, but some fans may still be lingering about. En:WP just went to DEFCON 1 for about 10 minutes earlier. PullToOpenTalk05:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
We are getting a lot of vandalism from a collection of IP addresses used by a school. Addresses 62.171.194.4 - 62.171.194.13 and 62.171.194.36 - 62.171.194.45 are being used steadily for vandalism only. These addresses are indefinately blocked on en.wiki already due to repeat vandalism. I have tagged all of the talk pages in the range with a warning version of en.wiki's block notice on the address blocks. -- Creol(talk) 15:03, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
One came Christmas day, no response when I emailed back asking for a clarification of what they wanted my help with. Then I got two on the 22nd, half an hour apart. They're all just filled with rubbish randomly extracted from wiki pages. I think it could be a bot using the Emailuser function to get you to reply. When you reply, your email address is revealed. Blocking it wouldn't do anything, it could still email users. I could of course be completely wrong on that though. Archer7 - talk09:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just a reminder, administrators should remember to uncheck the "block account creation" box when blocking users for inappropriate usernames. PullToOpenTalk05:52, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
December 2006
User:Bobo now unblocked, CheckUser shows that user is not a Kimberly Ashton sockpuppet. CheckUser did detect a vandal sockpuppet on the IP, whcih stopped after two warnings. Despite this, I think it's fine to unblock, the user seems perfectly harmless. Archer7 - talk19:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
We have found sockpuppets of Kimberly Ashton operating on 71.231.130.56. (Dear users, let me explain why I blocked these users: If you look closely, all these socks give large amounts of personal information. They then create another sock to vandalise, only to revert vandalism with the main sockpuppet. This modus operandi was seen in cases like AbbyItalia and Bobo and Anita and Kimberly Ashton. As such, the IP that these socks operate on was found to be static and has been blocked for six months.) Any queries can be directed to Archer7 or me, Tdxiang. Thanks.-- Tdxiang03:28, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Definitely an interesting question. Also of interest would be the timing of the latest incident. Bobo gets unblocked and returns. A couple hours after the first edits, the "You are Kimberly Ashton" (YaKA ? ) vandal starts attacking pages Bobo edited. Bobo and the Yaka vandal get into a minor edit skirmish. Yaka gets banned and Bobo stops editing at the same time. Highly coincidental timing there. Could just be weird luck; it is certainly not sockpuppetting (apparently checkuser shows separate IP's), but the possibility of meatpuppetting is is still there. -- Creol(talk) 07:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
user:Archaeopteryx/user:Elmo12456 is the creator of many new articles on the Simple English Wikipedia, including many edits to dinosaur articles. Prior to editing here, Elmo worked on en.wikipedia. Unfortunately, after many warnings over a half a year period, I made the tough decision to indefinitely block this user, based on the poor quality of hundreds of his edits, such as this. He is now editing here, and some edits appear questionable. If the patient folks here at Simple English want to work with trying to improve this user's edits, so be it, but I felt I should at least alert folks here to potential problems. Firsfron09:44, 14 December 2006 (UTC) (Admin:Firsfron on en.Wikipedia)[reply]
Litecoveria? I saw this name on the Code WIKI. And apparently he is also "Captain Weirdo", "Jerry Hafton", "Fillmore", and the guy who posts "DO BRIEFS STINK?". His range appears to be 4.136.0.0/16. Raffaello923:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It looks the same here as it did when I created the page on English Wikipedia. I had to put the pipes in myself. J Di22:18, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've CheckUsered from admins request. I'll tell you the answer. User:Kimberly Ashton and User:AbbyItalia share an IP, but one of them have too few post in the log, so it is possible they are same person, but not enough as I think from the answer. thanks --Suisui04:38, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
November 2006
Members of the massively popular 'General Mayhem' forum are now attempting to post their article on as many projects as possible. Article has been deleted and protected, but I'd expect a lot of vandalism in the next few days. I would advise immediate blocking of IPs for 24 hours, no warnings. Archer7 - talk18:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the admin votes archive, it seems Eptalon's adminship in March was supported by everyone except Freshstart, who later changed his vote from neutral to oppose. Freshstart is an admin who hasn't been seen in 3 months. Maybe to get more admins, we should reopen his candidacy? Blockinblox14:47, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
We're now electing new bureaucrats for the simplewiki. Archer7 and Blockinblox agreed to participate. Also, Netoholic seems to be questioned on wether to keep his bureaucrats status or not. Just hope no "philosphical disscusiion" comes around. --§Alastor Moody(T + C)10:12, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think Tangotango should be now a sysop since all of his votes are supports, if Netoholic dosen't wanna do it, call Simonmayer or Brion VIBBER for help. --§Alastor Moody(T + C)06:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]