Terraria Wiki:Admin noticeboard/Vandals-2012

Using a bot to add links to some supposedly news site on http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/File:Spelunker_reference.png and http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/Terraria_Wiki/editcopy and likely many other rarely-viewed pages. Somehow these edits don't show up in the pages' edit history, and show up even in the earliest archival copy, making it impossible to tell who's doing this. The spam links are also not showing up in the edit page itself, strangely, and I don't have permission to delete sections anyway, or I'd deal with it myself. --Xolroc Other affected pages (that I can find): I think it's rather alarming that the spam isn't showing up on the edit page or on the edit history--that could indicate a direct connection to the wiki's server, allowing whoever connects to it to edit metadata. This should be dealt with as soon as possible.
 * http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/File:Copper_Pickaxe.png
 * http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/File:Copper_Pickaxe_Front.png
 * http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/File:Green_slime.png
 * http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/File:Green_Slime_Front.png
 * http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/File:Mushroom.png
 * http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/File:Mushroom_lg.png
 * http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/File:Silver_Coin.png
 * Literally every other image page I checked, going through frontpage images then random ones, including http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/File:Glitch_Tree.png which I personally uploaded not six hours ago.

Not sure who did it, though the Eye of Cthulu images have been replaced with something that does not belong.. -Bullseye55
 * The vandalism was done by StevenWilliams. He edited the templates that were included in those pages. I'll protecting those pages to prevent this from happening again. Also you should be able to revert vandalism like that from now on. --Icke 10:41, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you talking to me or Bullseye55? I forgot to sign my notice that the images were being spammed except in the middle of it. --Xolroc
 * You both should be able to remove it now. --Icke 11:23, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Uploading images that are invalid. --Ragen 00:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC) ITSTHEENDOFTHEGAME is also trying to get me in trouble for doing it when I try to revert it, and he's editing my userpage. Sorry if I'm kind of messing things up with this noticeboard system, I'm kinda new here. -BearzUnlimited
 * bing bong bannu, blocked forever. That's a regular customer. I'd be almost disappointed if he didn't come back. --Lunboks 01:29, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Spamming links to Example.jpg, which he uploaded an inappropriate image for, and replacing every 'l', 'm', and 'r' on the Terraria Wiki/editcopy to be a 'w'. Destructorspace 02:54, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Advertising websites. (Does spam filter detect links without "www"?) --Icke 12:10, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I wish I could give you and answer, but spam filters are most effective when their inner workings are kept secret. Know that they are continuously evolving depending on the type of activity we are seeing though. Thanks for reporting the vandals. happypal (talk &bull; contribs) 17:40, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Uses a bot that replaces "the" with "huh". --Icke 13:10, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Dropped the hammer --JonTheMon 15:56, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Was apparently inserting spam links into pages. Does the Abuse Filter pick up on spammers who have registered wiki accounts? --ChroniclerC 10:54, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked, thanks. The abuse filter mostly doesn't care about accounts; even I would get blocked for triggering a spam rule. --Lunboks 17:52, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Only promoting his own youtube video's (over 500!), even after warning. --Icke 15:34, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked for a month. Can't be bothered to actually consult the policy for each instance, but I think based on on this guy's history we can mostly rule out good faith.
 * Exclusively edits to add videos that are obviously his own
 * YouTube partner
 * Makes no effort to justify his actions, didn't respond to warning on his user talk page
 * Re-visits pages to re-add his video if they've been reverted
 * Blocked before for 24 hours for edit-warring with a bureaucrat (adding one of his videos, natch)
 * --Lunboks 15:56, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Numsies is 173.89.22.90. Same behavior, same vandalism, same spam links, same misleading edit messages (pretending to make grammar fixes when adding links to irrelevant stuff). --Gez 10:20, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 month timeout for both the account and the IP address. --Lunboks 22:53, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Random Keyboard smashing spam --Moxxy 00:31, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked for 1 week. — iLiaWneK (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Random spam "Porn porn porn" --Moxxy 00:33, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked for 1 week. — iLiaWneK (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism. 02:33, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Created a page and soon created the same page again with the same name but missing atleast a character. 02:33, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Both blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 10:40, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Created a vandal page that had no value whatsoever/spam. Here. 16:31, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism. An example here. 09:27, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Created a page that had no value whatsoever/spam. Here. 09:27, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism. An example here. 09:27, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked all 3. --0icke0 (talk) 11:02, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Screwed with the new Christmas pages, spamming the pages with large amounts of misinformation. Namely, Santa-NK1 (00:48, 21 Dec 2013) and Razorpine. (o1:05, 21 Dec 2013)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 11:03, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

This person was screwing around with the picksaw page 17:38, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Created a page that had no value whatsoever. User:72.213.177.74 (User talk:72.213.177.74) 22:28, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 11:28, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Vandalized several pages. Stiffarmsoy (talk) 18:34, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked for a long time. --0icke0 (talk) 11:52, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Complained about anyone being able to edit the page while simultaneously defacing said page, also screwed up a reference.ahamling27 (talk) 06:59, 02 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 11:36, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Created various troll pages and edits. rrnate (talk) 03:31, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 09:35, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Makes new pages or edits existing pages with false or erroneous information since Sept. 2013. Archabaddon (talk) 22:00, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 09:35, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

The stats for the Jungle Armor Defense Item has had a long diatribe on various aspects of the Finnish language inserted within the text.
 * Blocked for 1 month. --Icke 11:17, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Has repeatedly created vandal pages since yesterday.Liviaro (talk) 06:10, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Vandal bot, blocked indefinite. --0icke0 (talk) 08:35, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Only active for one day a couple days ago, made 15 total edits. None of them had value to the community. -MIMP (talk) 23:03, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 21:38, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Lots and lots of troll edits.

editing same pages as above, vandalizing.
 * Both blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 23:53, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Crude edits not even directly aimed toward contribution. -TST5000
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 15:14, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Removed some sections, put up some spam. I reverted most of them, but can't revert one because it's considered 'removing a section'. 74.69.40.245 16:40, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 17:28, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

‎/ Added noise to Wolf Banner, spam page Hujer p5. Barhandar (talk) 17:52, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 09:48, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Troll page and some edits. 2Spooky Wood --Remski0 (talk) 20:58, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 09:48, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Trolling pages with conspiracy references (Such as White Tuxedo) 74.69.40.245 17:08, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 17:21, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

There's been repeated creation of Cute by various IPs. Could you delete the page then apply a block? Sylarmorgan (talk) 17:36, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. --0icke0 (talk) 11:44, 19 November 2013 (UTC)