UDWiki:Administration/Vandal Banning/Archive/2009 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.

There were a bunch of spambit-looking account creations on the 17th, these are the live ones at present.

• HaroldBeaman (contribs | logs | block | del userpage | IP Check)
• HallieKetcham7 (contribs | logs | block | del userpage | IP Check)
• AlexanderNoyes7 (contribs | logs | block | del userpage | IP Check)--Cheese 17:51, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

  Damn I legit missed these, thanks. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 03:13, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

• 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 2009

User:Dawgjz

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

Verdict	{{{1}}}
Action taken	{{{2}}}

Altering a signed comment of another user. Combined with repeated edits to a group page he is not a member of, request perma. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 04:48, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

No. Fuck you. I will not let you potentially ruin this guy's IRL career with your rules fetish. If he wants his own personal information removed, let him. It is not our place to question why. Cyberbob  Talk  05:05, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Would you like to tell me how this will work then when I get a page for my brand new shiny character Josh Provosty? -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 05:16, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

It will work when I email Kevan and request that he ban you from the game for malicious usage of someone's personal information. Cyberbob  Talk  05:19, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Not malicious use, just I name I got from an old group page. Also, have you checked this guy is who he says he is yet? Finally, what do we do when a group appears with this name? Given the age old statute that groups on the stats page get a wiki page due to autolinks.... -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 05:22, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Iscariot said:

Not malicious use, just I name I got from an old group page.

Bullshit and we both know it. Sorry! If you make a group page with the name, by the way, I will have it deleted and bring you here. Cyberbob  Talk  05:26, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

You'll try and escalate me for creating a group page for a group that appears on the stats page? Good luck with that. Plus you might want to consider the content of the pages he's vandalising here when in between them on the google search he claims so much about is a comment signed under his name about rectally inserting a burger.... -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 06:09, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Tried, done, failed and escalated accordingly. Read and Jed and co. tried it with "Jed is a Nigger" or something similar a couple of years ago. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 06:21, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Not Vandalism --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 06:21, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism - I'm sorry, but you can't just wipe your history from this site because you were silly enough to use your real name for a character here. However, if Iscariot (or anyone, really) creates a page to further sully the name through their own actions, then yeah, that would be vandalism on their part as well -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 08:37 3 November 2009 (BST)

"it is possible for it to be your own fault if you get raped" - wiki user "boxy" Cyberbob  Talk  10:47, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Lol. Instead of complaining, you could just rule NV yourself ;D --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 10:57, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Not Vandalism Cyberbob  Talk  10:59, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Who's getting raped? The guy allowed his yahoo email to be used by multiple people in a suspect UD group, and it was part of the evidence against them. He can't just go back and wipe every reference to such evidence because he now (says that he) realises that he made a stupid mistake -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 12:16 3 November 2009 (BST)

Vandalism because he should be doing it properly, not just randomly wiping shit. And I really doubt that some eployer is going to care that a guy plays games on a computer in his spare time.-- SA 11:01, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

see the talk page--Thadeous Oakley 12:07, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't think you should be ruling on this case given your participation in his ridicule. You are also not in any position (nobody is) to be judging whether or not his name here would actually affect his chances - or indeed, to pass judgement on why he wants his name gone at all. Cyberbob  Talk  11:57, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Although I consider this vandalism, in that Dawgjz went through blanking whole sentences to remove his name, thereby changing what people said in fairly major ways, I have gone through the pages and replaced the name with [name removed] in order to remove personal information that probably should never have been posted in the first place -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 12:30 3 November 2009 (BST)

User:Haliman111

Haliman111 (talk | contribs | logs | block | IP Check | vndl data | discuss)

Verdict	Not Vandalism
Action taken	None required

For his last edit to this page. he is not a member of The Dead Bunnies and has no business whatsoever editing our page under any circumstances. In fact, due to his past trolling and abuse he has officially been asked to never even post on our talk page. I would think it would be clear from that that he should also not edit our main page. If we feel that someone has vandalized our page we will handle the problem ourselves. Due to his repeated abuse and trolling towards our group we ask that action be taken. --M4rduK 19:01, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

I loled. I try to help you guys and you stab me in the back. Anyone can obviously see that I was reverting the vandalism. If what I did was vandalism, why haven't you reverted it back to the last edit? (Which is vandalism, btw) --Haliman - Talk 19:34, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Not Vandalism - [1]. He was just reverting Jason's edits, which any wiki user could see as an unwanted change to your page. He was just trying to help out, if you don't like what he did, revert it to Jason's version.

Basically, if you want Haliman to be prohibited from touching your pages, go to A/A. Otherwise, vandal cases like this won't slide and your asking of him to stay away from your group pages has no basis in administrative actions. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 23:52, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Actually, they kind of can ask him to stay off of their group main page, because unless he's editing the NPOV bit at the top or fixing vandalism, he isn't really allowed to touch it, group ownership rights and all. They don't have to go to Arbies to get him to stay away from their main page, only the talk page. And yes, they can make this case and it will "slide" because they obviously did not like the edit to their group page, and thought it was vandalism. None the less, I'm ruling NV. He tried to help, if they don't like it, then Haliman just needs to let it sit next time. K everyone?-- SA 00:14, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Just to expand on what SA is articulating, as a group page the Bunnies have ownership rights over it and can control who can edit there or not and the content of those edits. Although this is rightly not vandalism due to lack of bad faith, it is clear that the Dead Bunnies (page owners) are happy for Stafam to make whatever edits he wants to their page. Stafam could turn it into a parody page that makes the Bunnies look like Care Bears in trenchcoats if he wants, because he has been given permission to edit that page, provided the Bunnies are happy, Stafam's not committing vandalism. Given how the group's sense of humour in the past has been displayed it would be better for Haliman and others just to leave the page alone rather than trying to second guess what is vandalism and what is a provocative but allowed edit. If vandalism actually occurs, I'm sure a bunny will start a case here. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 00:21, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

What I was thinking. Hence why I'm pursuing Murduck about Stafam's initial edits, I knew having Bob insta-warn people would come to this eventually. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 00:38, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Forget Arbies. I'm done trying to play nice with the Bunnies. --Haliman - Talk 00:57, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm hoping that isn't you saying you're going to antagonize the bunnies. I'd much rather you just left them alone entirely, and vice-versa.-- SA 00:59, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Hardly. I meant I'm done trying to help them. --Haliman - Talk 01:11, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

'kay. Good.-- SA 01:30, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

No matter what is vandalism and what isn't, I'd rather have Jason edit our page than to have Haliman's peanut butter hands on it any day. Due to his history with us he should have known better than to touch it. If Jason gets a warning for editing a page that *he was at least associated with at some point* then Halitard deserves the same. Either they both deserve a warning or neither. We consider any editing or posting on our pages by Haliman to be malicious. --M4rduK 15:15, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

User:Jason 'Fock'n' Stafam

Jason 'Fock'n' Stafam (talk | contribs | logs | block | IP Check | vndl data | discuss)

Verdict	Vandalism
Action taken	Warning

For his last three edits to this page. He made a renegade group because he was unhappy with the bunnies, and then made those edits. I've reverted back to Boxy's edit. --Haliman - Talk 16:33, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Warned. Cyberbob  Talk  16:47, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

How can this be determined as vandalism without first asking the group in question? --M4rduK 15:16, 3 November 2009 (UTC)