UDWiki:Administration/Vandal Banning/Archive/2010 11

This page is for the reporting of vandalism within the Urban Dead wiki, as defined by vandalism policy. On this wiki, the punishment for Vandalism is temporary banning, but due to security concerns, the ability to mete out this punishment is restricted to System Operators. As such, regular users will need to lodge a report for a Vandal to be banned from the wiki. For consistency and accountability, System Operators are requested to note on this board their actions in dealing with Vandals.

Guidelines for Vandalism Reporting

In dealing with Vandalism, time is often of the essence. As such, we ask that all users include the following information in a Vandalism report:

• A link to the pages in question.

Preferably bolded for visibility. If the Vandalism is occurring over a sufficiently large number of pages, instead include a time range of the vandalism attempt, or alternatively, a link to the first vandalised page. This allows us to quickly find the damage so we can quickly assess the situation.

• The user name of the Vandal.

This allows us to more easily identify the culprit, and to check details.

• A signed datestamp.

For accountability purposes, we ask that you record in your request your user name and the time you lodged the report.

• Please report at the top.

There's conflict with where to post and a lot of the reports are missed. If it's placed at the top of the page it's probably going to be seen and dealt with.

If you see Vandalism in progress, don't wait for System Operators to deal with it, as there may be no System Operator online at the time. Lodge the report, then start reverting pages back to their original form. This can be done by going to the "History" tab at the top of the page, and finding the last edit before the Vandal's attack. When a System Operator is available, they'll assess the situation, and if the report is legitimate, we will take steps to either warn the vandal, or ban them if they are on their second warning.

If the page is long, you can add new reports by editing the top report and placing your new report above its header in the edit screen.

Before Submitting a Report

• This page, Vandal Banning, deals with bad-faith breaches of official policy.
• Interpersonal complaints are better sorted out at UDWiki:Administration/Arbitration.
• As much as is practical, assume good faith and try to iron out problems with other users one to one, only using this page as a last resort.
• Avoid submitting reports which are petty.

Vandalism Report Space

Administration Notice Talk with the user before reporting or accusing someone of vandalism for small edits. In most cases it's simply a case of a new user that doesn't know how this wiki works. Sometimes assuming good faith and speaking with others can avoid a lot of drama, and can even help newbies feel part of this community. Administration Notice If you are not a System Operator, the user who made the vandal report, the user being reported, or directly involved in the case, the administration asks that you use the talk page for further discussion. Free-for-all commenting can lead to a less respectful environment. Administration Notice Warned users can remove one entry of their warning history every one month and 250 edits after their last warning. Remember to ask a sysop to remove them in due time. You are as responsible for keeping track of your history as the sysops are; In case of a sysop wrongly punishing you due to an outdated history, he might not be punished for his actions.

Spambots

Spambots are to be reported on this page. New reports should be added to the top. Reports may be purged after one week.

• Blocked a large surge of bots --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 01:08, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
• YasminLashbrook (contribs | logs | block | del userpage | IP Check) --VVV ^RPMBG 06:35, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
• LoganDos626 (contribs | logs | block | del userpage | IP Check) --VVV ^RPMBG 06:35, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

  Both done DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION 09:25, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

November 2010

User:DDRSUCKSKNOB

Sexylegsread (talk | contribs | logs | block | IP Check | vndl data | discuss)
DDRSUCKSKNOB (talk | contribs | logs | block | IP Check | vndl data | discuss)

Verdict	Vandal alt
Action taken	Permaban

Turns up, insults DDR and uploads a very unfashionable photo of the male anatomy. Banned Under the three edit rule. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 09:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Protected user page, reverted edit to DDR's main page and put on banned template.--User:Yonnua Koponen/signature3 09:39, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Via Email said:

Yo Homie, Its sexylegsread, the boys are at my house and are drunkards and decided to post this from my desktop upstairs as the topic of wiki-ing got brought up from way back in the day. Is an IP ban a necessity? I dont come on much any more but I would still like the right to edit... Hope you understand what it is like when veteren wiki goers who are all irl friends and irl friends with DDR get together and have a few brews, I'm completely innocent here! Thought id jump on and let you know before it went too far

Thoughts? Specifically DDR? --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 11:35, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I shouldn't be the one you ask cause I'm gonna have the most inherent bias, but if Read's willing to admit it's him (or from his computer), I believe him, so we can unban the IP address cause it's technically "his" not a random vandal (the ip data supports that it's one of the BBK crew too) but if that happens imagine Read would have to cop a warning for the vandalism as even if it wasn't him in person, he takes the responsibility of the IP I guess? Also I'm very hurt that they would do drunk wiki vandalism without me. -- LEMON #1 12:18, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I didn't see the picture (quite glad for that, actually), so I'll leave it to those of you that did to decide whether or not a warning is necessary. If I was going off of just the text that was on DDR's page however, I'd say slap on the wrist and that's it. —Aichon— 13:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

We seem to be on an honesty is the best policy kick at the minute. I'll unban the IP, and tell read to get himself sorted out. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 14:15, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I didn't see the image because Ross deleted it before I got a chance, so he's the only one who did see it. Personally, he doesn't seem to have been the one at fault, so I'm down with whatever.--User:Yonnua Koponen/signature3 16:51, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

It's not really an honesty is best policy imo, it's just that the IP really belongs to read, so I'm considering this account a vandal alt of his. -- LEMON #1 23:18, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

IP does match Read's in the checkuser archive, but it's pretty silly to say it's a vandal alt of his when he probably wasn't even the one making the edits. :P --User:Yonnua Koponen/signature3 23:20, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

That's not our problem, his computer is his responsibility, and vandalism is vandalism, but if I'm the only one on this then meh just leave it be. -- LEMON #1 23:50, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Someone make sure I've done that correctly. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 14:17, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Looks right.--User:Yonnua Koponen/signature3 16:51, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Escalation for read. He has two choices. Pick a better class of friends, or don't let them vandalise the wiki on his equipment -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 05:57 2 November 2010 (BST)

I hate to say it, cause I'm part of read's "less better class of friends", but I agree, so my vote regarding this case reflects boxys vote. -- LEMON #1 14:36, 2 November 2010 (UTC)