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Wikipedia:Requests for investigation

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    This page is intended to request administrator investigation of certain types of abuse only. Do not use this page until you read the policies, guidelines, and procedures. For obvious vandalism, see Administrator intervention against vandalism.

    Alerts that do not belong on this page may be removed without action or notice.

    To update this page, purge the cache. For alerts that have already been addressed, see the archives.

    Watchlist

    • Report here:
    1. Articles being hit with a very high level of vandalism or are repeatedly vandalised with an extended time before reverts.
    2. Registered users or IPs that have carried out clear vandalism but have currently stopped.
    • Do not report here:
    1. Articles featured on the front page, or very high profile articles - these will already be watched
    2. Vandals needing to be blocked - see WP:AIV instead.
    3. Users needing investigation - see one of the sections below.
    • Use the following format:
    * {{article|article name}} - brief explanation // ~~~~ or
    * {{vandal|username}} - brief explanation // ~~~~ or
    * {{IPvandal|Ip_Address}} - brief explanation //~~~~

    Watchlist requests

    IP addresses

      Do not report obvious vandalism here; see Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Only report IP addresses that are engaged in complicated, deceptive vandalism that will require more than a few moments for an administrator to analyse. Please read the policies, guidelines, and procedures before reporting.

    Requests

    Please use this format at the top of this section:

    * {{IPvandal|IP Address}} -- Brief Description // ~~~~


    UPDATE: At least one of these three sock puppet IP addresses has been used to revert to the same linkspam again, IMMEDIATELY AFTER two additional registered username sock puppets of the same user had been indefinitely blocked. Indefinite blocks of these three IP addresses seems appropriate at this point. See the referral resulting in the indefinite block of the two username sock puppets here; see an 8th reversion in a row to the same linkspam, under one of these three IP addresses, AFTER the indefinite block of the two username sock puppets, here. (Please note that the linkspam in question uses both a description and a URL that seem to be relevant to the article, but the URL is actually a redirect to the original linkspam site.) - Reaverdrop (talk/nl/wp:space) 01:20, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    UPDATE AGAIN: One of these IP addresses was recently used in apparent collaboration with an apparent brand new sock puppet for this user, after two more of his registered username sock puppets were blocked indefinitely; see User_talk:Richard_Branson#Re:_Evidence_of_bad_faith_adoption_of_.22Richard_Branson.22_username_by_three-time_indefinitely_blocked_user. - Reaverdrop (talk/nl/ub/w:s/w:l) 05:32, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

    Registered users

    New requests

    Read the policies, guidelines, and procedures before reporting. Do not report content or user disputes here, unless you can provide links demonstrating a strong attempt at dispute resolution. Please use this format at the top of this section:

    * {{vandal|User_name}} -- Brief Description // ~~~~

    Usernames are case sensitive and please note that spaces in usernames need to be replaced by underscores (as shown in the example above).

    Under investigation

    See also

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