Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism

Report active, obvious, and persistent vandals and spammers here.

Before reporting, read the spam and vandalism pages, as well as the AIV guide. To submit, edit this page and follow the instructions at the top of the "User-reported" section. For other issues, file a request for administrator attention.

Important!

1. The edits of the user must be obvious vandalism or obvious spam.
2. Except for egregious cases, the user must have been given enough warning(s).
3. The warning(s) must have been given recently and there must be reasonable grounds to believe the user(s) will further disrupt the site in the immediate future.
4. If you decide that a report should be filed place the following template at the bottom of the User-reported section:
   • * {{Vandal|Example user or IP}} Your concise reason (e.g. vandalised past 4th warning). ~~~~
5. Requests for further sanctions against a blocked user (e.g., talk page, e-mail blocks) should be made at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
6. Reports of sockpuppetry should be made at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations unless the connection between the accounts is obvious and disruption is recent and ongoing.

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Reports

User-reported

• VirginValleyTV (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) – On KTVX:. Edit warring; addition of non-notable names. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 18:53, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

  No edits since being warned. Re-report if this user continues vandalising or spamming after sufficient warnings. Daniel Case (talk) 19:42, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

• Mengel1111123 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) vandalism-only account. – ².O.^Boxing 19:17, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

  User has been incorrectly or insufficiently warned. Re-report if the user resumes vandalising after being warned sufficiently. And besides, they've been inactive for an hour. Daniel Case (talk) 19:46, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

  @Daniel Case: Per the notice at the top of the page, Except for egregious cases, the user must have been given enough warning(s) to stop their disruptive behavior. Creating an account for the sole purpose of vandalising articles is an egregious case of vandalism, so the amount of warnings is irrelevant. And unless there's some reason to believe that a clear-cut vandalism-only account may not continue in the same manner when/if they return, I fail to see how an hour of inactivity is relevant. Each to their own, I suppose. – ².O.^Boxing 20:09, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

  This feels like a one-off account created by a couple of bored kids during a free period in the library. I really doubt they'll ever use it again.

  And if we blocked every such account created that way, whose first edits were vandalism, we might not have some valuable community members today. Daniel Case (talk) 20:15, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

• 209.237.127.20 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) – 4th warning. Lol2VNIO (talk) 20:15, 18 January 2023 (UTC)