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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.

January 2009

User:Iscariot

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

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

Shitting up admin pages, with free and unneeded attacks to members of the admin staff, in disguise of a good faith action for the community, even after being asked not to revert these comments. This behaviour can be seen in other administration pages, as most members of the community are aware of (no links needed, then). Unlike other users who work together with the admin staff to help mantain the wiki, iscariot constantly work against the admin staff. Asking for punishment on the grounds of his constant attitude towards the admin staff, not only because of these edits. --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{talk mod} 13:21, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

We won't even go into the wikigate-ness of wanting a user punished "on the grounds of his constant attitude towards the admin staff", was the clause that everyone has to be soopa-nice and give cookies and fluffy puppies to sysops a part of the civility policy? Because I don't remember reading that one.

Let's determine these edits correctly then, since Hagnat would mislead all of us for his own gain given the chance.

One bright sunny day, with the birds gaily singing in the trees, Iscariot was walking through the formerly lush and fertile gardens that were the administration pages (recent caretakers have unfortunately be deficient, we need a new team of gardeners) when he noticed a travesty. Speedy deletions that had received a keep had not been moved over to the main deletions queue. "Surely not!", thought Iscariot, but it was true. Iscariot consulted his Ladybird Book of UD Wiki Procedure and noticed the rules at the top of the page: "A Speedy Deletion may be circumvented by a single vote of Keep under the request. If this occurs, the system operator shall move the Speedy Deletion request to the Deletion Request Queue, where the normal rules for Deletion of the page shall apply." Iscariot lamented that this community approved process had not been followed, he checked the history to discover the culprit of this heinous act, seeing the Golden Boy of the Sysop Team, he knew that the misconduct case would be brushed aside even though a clear breach of procedure had occurred. So valiantly, with good faith brimming from his pores, he scooped up the errant cases and deposited them in the deletions queue.

Iscariot looked around the queue and saw that it had become customary for users other than sysops to leave a short message explaining to the community why these case had been moved.Trusting fully in the will of the community, he left a message on each case, explaining the situation. Along comes the arch-villain of the piece, Hagnat, and removes these comments for the dastardly purpose of leaving the community befuddled by the reasons that these cases have spontaneously appeared. Not to worry reader, for our knight of shining truth and justice, Iscariot, reappeared and explained to the arch-villain why these were needed. Good deeds done for the day he returned to his castle, for some troll had deposited a turd on his immaculate lawn.

But, lo! The Iscariot-Signal appeared in the sky again. This time the arch-villain had tried to besmirch his name by removing his signatures. This would leave no indication that the fair knight had performed these brave and selfless acts. Again the noble crusader undid the beast's work, content that all was right in Wiki-lot again.

Thwarted as he was, the arch-villain pulled out his final dishonourable weapon, a kangaroo court (well not really, there are no kangaroos in Wiki-lot, perhaps a wallaby court or a koala court?), and here fair reader doest our story pause, a cliffhanger. The deeds of the dashing knight at the will of denizens of the underworld. Is this the end for our valiant hero? Tune in next time.

Can anyone guess how the objectiveness and impartiality is going to work in this case? -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 13:43, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

TL;DR; - and quoting Nubis... thank you for your input --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{talk mod} 13:54, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your input. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 13:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh! A new active flame war! Cool, I'll watch *grabs popcorn*. Seriously though, what's up with Iscariot? I kinda get the feeling he isn't very popular.--Thadeous Oakley 15:39, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

User:8oxy

8oxy (talk | contribs | logs | block | IP Check | vndl data | discuss)

Verdict	Sockpuppet
Action taken	Permaban

Possible attempt to impersonate Boxy. IP check reveals it originates from the same location as that of this guy. Same single contribution of posting on user page to (possibly) get the account noticed. I won't ban it (yet) just in case I'm wrong, unless another sysop wants to back me up on this one. -- Cheese 11:48, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Lulz. *in await of the Ce3se and A unhelpful little gnome.* --Thadeous Oakley 14:54, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I noticed this one, but my checkuser came back blank. how did you make the link? --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 15:23, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Ran the IPs through an IP checker. Both came back to the same place in Australia. -- Cheese 15:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I was checking this user ip earlier this morning, it points to a proxy site in australia... i say perma as an obvious attempt to impersonate boxy --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{talk mod} 15:34, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I concur. Permabanned. Stop this, you are not funny.--Thari ^{TжFedCom is BFI!} 16:02, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Might as well ban the IP, surely? Also, the 2 Special crowd almost certainly had something to do with this as well but good luck getting proof. --Cyberbob 16:18, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

You should be a detective! If it's a proxy then i'm sure they will ban the IP. --xoxo 00:38, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

They should ban it anyway to prevent any more of these occurrences, proxy or no. I don't quite know why IP bans aren't standard for all permabans, to be honest. --Cyberbob 03:22, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Because some people who play UD may not have access to a computer at home, so they use it at the library, or at school. Also, some users that live together and run through the same IP address would have problems with that also. I think IP bans should happen if it's a recurring problem with the one IP, but with the whole community computers things in schools, universities and libraries etc it would be impossible.--CyberRead240 03:37, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

When banning a user, the mediawiki framework automatically bans any attempt to create an account with the same IP of the banned user. This IP ban only last for a few days, though, to avoid punishing shared computer users who had nothing to do with the case. Now, if you guys want to carry on this discussion, i suggest you to move it to the talk page, as this doesnt have any relevance - exclusive relevance - to this case --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{talk mod} 11:04, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Rayols

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

Verdict	Vandalism
Action taken	Permaban

Circumventing a perma that was issued earlier by making this edit. Sure his 'friend' made the edits, that's why the first edit under that account to Rev's pages months ago was a vandalism edit. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 02:42, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey, that's a completely understandable thing right there. Friends using each others PC's. Just like Scinfaxi and Jjames. *Snickers*-- dǝǝɥs oʇ ɯɐds: sʎɐʍ1ɐ! 02:49, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Permaban This is is the same IP as the banned vandal below. Pro-tip: if you want to plead your buddies case don't do it from his computer.--– Nubis ^NWO 02:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Kerkel

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

Verdict	Vandalism
Action taken	Permaban

More editation of PK pages. Any more vandalism from him and it's a ban. -- Cheese 22:04, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Persistent fucking vandal. Can we have that perma now? -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 22:07, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Already done. -- Cheese 22:09, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Kerkel

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

Verdict	Vandalism
Action taken	Warning

Editing the group page he is not a member of. Two contributions, two acts of vandalism. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 21:24, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

The other one is over a month old so I'll just count this one. Vandalism and warned. -- Cheese 21:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Hrrm, didn't even notice that until Boxy reverted it. Guess he's sore about dying, what a shame he's just put himself on my radar again... >:D Thanks for that. ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 01:51, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Janus Abernathy

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

Verdict	Not Vandalism
Action taken	None required

For this edit, as mentioned below. Umbrella members are real class acts, eh? How many vandal reports in the last week from their members, hmmmmm? --WanYao 14:45, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

He was attempting to revert the vandalism from the case below but didn't do it right. Not Vandalism. -- Cheese 14:47, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Again, I fail at reverting vandalism ;) --Janus ^talk 14:48, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh. Sorry...... **goes and stands in the corner** --WanYao 14:56, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, my summary was referring to that she didn't know how to use the undo and revert tools properly. So, yeah, I posted on her talk page. If anyone's wondering. Linkthewindow  Talk  15:00, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Extraneous Discussion to talk -- Cheese 18:41, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Hallman111

Hallman111 (talk | contribs | logs | block | IP Check | vndl data | discuss)

Verdict	Vandalism
Action taken	Permaban

Vandalised the UBCS Alpha page. Note that he is not Haliman111 (the UBCS leader.) Linkthewindow  Talk  14:16, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Got him. Permaban. IP address is the same as the one used by the Umbrellaemployee dude from earlier in the week. I've done an IP block to stop them using that one. -- Cheese 14:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

That was quick. There was another example here. on the main UBCS page. Linkthewindow  Talk  14:21, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, this needs some clarifying. Janus wasn't the vandal, Hallman was. I just compared between my edit and Janus's edit as she didn't revert properly, and the diff captured most of the vandalism. Linkthewindow  Talk  15:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Extraneous Discussion to talk -- Cheese 18:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Nemesis 645

Nemesis645 (talk | contribs | logs | block | IP Check | vndl data | discuss)

Verdict	Vandalism
Action taken	Warning

Impersonated the MOB at the CoTR's talk page, and did the same to the CoTR on the MOB's talk page, in an attempt to get the groups to declare war on each other, it seems. There is nothing about him being member of ether group on his page (he seems rather survivor.) Linkthewindow  Talk  11:53, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism - Impersonation of two different groups is just stupid. Warned. -- Cheese 18:58, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Sexylegsread

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

Verdict	Vandalism
Action taken	48 hour ban

Allowing vandalism to take place without doing anything to try and prevent it. Indeed, he actively supported it. I can't be arsed linking to the various pieces of evidence, pretty much everyone knows what went down anyway. --HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS 04:08, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Discussion moved to the talk page -- Cheese 18:44, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Please include the relevant links next time, bob.

• I can assure you it wasn't anyone I know --Sexylegsread 13:10, 28 December 2008 (UTC).
• On msn with them, I said, yes, it would be lulz to do this. And so far it has lived up to my expectations.--Sexylegsread 11:45 30 December 2008 (UTC).

I think it's clear that if we even accept his story that it was some faceless neighbor, and not him doing it, he was complicit in the vandalism. He was asked, should I do this, and he said yes, it will be lulz. He then proceeded to lulz it up on the vandal talk page, A/VB and A/M, lying about it all the way, depending on what could be proven at the time -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 05:51 1 January 2009 (BST)

Meatpuppet vandalism is still vandalism.--Karek^maps?! 08:36, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Right, I'm now sober and have had a chance to think. Vandalism -- Cheese 10:17, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, that looks like a 48hr ban, then. Done -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 10:55 1 January 2009 (BST)

This is ridiculous. Vandalism is a bad-faith edit. Talking to someone in RL is not an "edit" and, thus, cannot be vandalism. Not Vandalism.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 21:34, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Here are the links to bad faith edits to increase the disruption caused by this vandal impersonation that he coordinated with his "friend".

1. Posts on the sock account talk page to make sure that bob sees it on RC.
2. Taunting bob once he sees it and reports it on A/VB.
3. He fails to see how it's obvious, despite knowing the intent of the vandal, by his own admission later.
4. Assures us it is no one he knows.

It was a coordinated act of vandalism, so the next escalation is a 2 day ban. I can't help it if he's a persistent vandal who's used up all his warnings -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 02:16 2 January 2009 (BST)

Ok, here is the response to the "bad faith edits". 1. That isn't an act of vandalism. 2. That isn't an act of Vandalism. 3. That isnt an act of vandalism, and 4. Surprise Surprise, isn't an act of vandalism. Nice to see I was vandal banned for something you couldn't prove, isn't it? That agenda flare up again? Good timing too, getting me out of the way so that you could demote Jed under everyones noses. You are pure dirt, boxy.--CyberRead240 04:43, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

He may be dirt, but you're full of shit. --HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS 07:03, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Driving your buddies to make throw away accounts to make bad faith edits is as much vandalism as doing it yourself via proxy filters.--Karek^maps?! 21:43, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Not to mention it is an impersonation account of someone this user personally harasses. You can't believe that some random person made that account on their own.--– Nubis ^NWO 10:24, 2 January 2009 (UTC)