Vandalism in progress/Long-term alerts
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Exic*nt
This person, possibly w:User:EddieSegoura as he is the only person known to use the word (see AFD page), creates a large number of sockpuppets and adds the non existent word exic*nt to Wiktionary. Because exic*nt is now protected, this person has resorted to adding the word with random punctuation marks at the end.
Proposed policy to deal with this
If these words are deleted then he only recreates them, so to deal with this
- Block the sockpuppet account (frequently an impersonation of an active administrator, by transposing characters or substituting similar characters).
- Delete the word.
- Recreate as a redirect to --error: link target missing--.
- Protect.
Hopefully he will start to run out of words to enter and give up. If he continues he will start to run into combinations already used, slowing him down.
Other notes
As of 6 March 2006, this vandalism is spreading to other Wiktionaries, with fewer administrators. The IRC team monitors recentchanges channels and may be able to assist with summoning an admin or steward to assist.
Favorite terms include "exic*nt", "scissors crossover", "X-junction", and "double crossover". Exic*nt has been conclusively determined to be a non-word, both in RFV here and by investigations in Wikipedia.
Goatse
"Goatse" refers to an infamous shock site containing an explicit picture of some dude's ass. More info on WikipediA: w:Goatse.
- User:Jandevries has returned to add a very explicit and disgusting picture. I'll ban him for a bit longer this time.
- User:Jandevries created himself a new nick and came back as User:MyPecker. What are we going to do about this? I'll ban him again, but it's like carrying water to the sea. Polyglot 10:00, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- 194.70.3.60 = the.dogs.bollo.cx. Added goatse link to Request for deletion. Can *.cx be firewalled away? I think we can do without contributions from Christmas Island (and who knows, they may be responsible for the poor server performance recently. That's my completely unsubstantiated guess, anyhow.) --Connel MacKenzie 20:12, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- User:Mario Dinis Vandalized request pages tempates, added template "RfP" Request for pooperism. Admins please lock this starfrosch sock puppet account for ten years until he/she grows up. Added goat.cx hello.jpg to templates. Can wiki ban goat.cx external references? Christmas Island does not have any meaningful contributors, and due to their nature probably never will. See Special:Contributions Mario Dinis] WITH IMAGE DOWNLOADING TURNED OFF. --Connel MacKenzie 22:17, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- I'm almost certain this is the same person who created Jandevries and MyPecker. I banned him for a very long time when he showed up as Jandevries. This was rather useless, since he simply created another nick and he was more visible as long as he used Jandevries.
- I tried to have goat.cx banned through the effort that tries to stop recurring spamvertising. I was told that this blacklist was not meant for content we didn't 'like'. On top of that Jamesday told me he is fully aware of the content that can be found there. Apparently there are Wikimedia projects that do have valid links to this site.
- So I won't ask anymore and we simply have to keep deleting this kind of images, while at the same thime hoping no child or prude person has to be confronted/bothered by it. It's bad enough that the people who do happen to see it, have to be disgusted by it.
- I am going to ask that this be investigated further. Jamesday should be able to check from which IP-addresse(s) this guy is working. If they're not widely different, then we can ban him on a more permanent level (where it will become a lot more difficult for him to create another user account). Polyglot 07:59, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Ass Pus/Pelican Shit/Bugger/Dead animal/Bluxo vandal
Probably the most prolific vandal to hit the Wiktionary. Information is listed at a seperate sub-page as this page was getting too long.