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This page is for people without the abusefilter-modify permission or people without sufficient knowledge about the coding involved to make requests to enact Abuse filters. Please add a new section at the top of current requests using the following format: 

===Filter name===
*'''Task''': What is the filter supposed to do? To what pages and editors does it apply?
*'''Reason''': Why is the filter needed.
- ~~~~

Bear the following in mind:

  • Filters are applied to all edits. Therefore, problematic changes that apply to a single page are likely not suitable for an abuse filter.
  • Each filter takes time to run, making editing (and to some extent other things) slightly slower. The time is only a few milliseconds per filter, but with enough filters that adds up. When the system is near its limit, adding a new filter may require removing another filter in order to keep the system within its limits.
  • There is a limit to what filters can check for. More complex, non-essential tasks, such as those that need to perform a more in-depth check of the page or fetch information that the filter system does not have access to, are better served by separate software, run by an individual user on their own machine or dedicated server such as the Toolserver, rather than those used to actually host Wikipedia.
  • It used to be called the abuse filter for a reason. Contributors are not expected to have read all 200+ policies, guidelines and style pages. Trivial formatting mistakes and edits that at first glance look fine but go against some obscure style guideline or arbitration ruling are not suitable candidates for an abuse filter -- quite apart from performance concerns, if it doesn't harm the project, it is best not to hassle new contributors because of it.
  • For prevention of creation of pages with certain names, MediaWiki:Titleblacklist is usually a better way to handle the problem - see MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist for details.

Current requests

The elevator vandal

Apply a new filter

  • Task: Apply a filter to articles flagged by Bracketbot which are made by IP editors.
  • Reason: I've noticed that 80-85% of these edits are done by vandals.

Brackbot just started up this week. The bot flags an article and notifies the editor that the edit caused a bracket to become unbalanced. An example would be a missing [] on a reference or wikilink. I've noticed that the cause was vandalism 80-85% of the time. - Bgwhite (talk) 20:29, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Change to Filter 479

Special:AbuseFilter/479, designed to help "noobs", should be changed to make an exception for image examples included inside infoboxes. As most know, commented-out image syntax is sometimes included in infoboxes because there is no consistent way that images are included in an infobox. Some infoboxes want the "File:" namespace prefix, others don't; some want square brackets, others don't, etc. 67.100.127.22 (talk) 03:58, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since it does not disallow such edits, but merely warns and tags, I don't think this is a frequent enough occurrence to be a big deal. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:02, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mullingar libel

  • Task: Deter certain libelous statements. Probably sufficient to apply to page Mullingar, IP editors only.
  • Reason: Repeated additions like this from various IPs over a number of years, usually aimed at the same person. Please see history of Mullingar for further instances (though some have been oversighted). If you have a better way to achieve this than edit filtering, that's good too.

- Certes (talk) 18:18, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • This doesn't seem like something that fits the scope of an edit filter. At least, in the sense that this is largely a one article issue, and can be solved with a watchlist; Saving that extra few milliseconds per edit that make the difference between robust and just meh server provisioning. -T.I.M(Contact) 22:23, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Voobly

  • At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Voobly_spam_again I'm told this site is already blacklisted, and I should come here. IP addresses are still spamming links to Voobly.com in articles it has been removed from over the months/years multiple times. I listed some, but certainly nowhere near to all, of the cases of that happening at the Wikiproject for spam. If its on the blacklist already, shouldn't it automatically be in the filter? Dream Focus 22:07, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The blacklist isn't stopping those edits because they're not creating external links. The blacklist will only prevent you from creating an external link to that particular site. It won't, however, stop you from inserting the text "voobly.com" outside of a link. For that you would need an edit filter, and in this case, I think it would probably be warranted. If I have some time later, I'll try to add one. (But if someone else has time before I get to it, feel free to jump in.) ‑Scottywong| squeal _ 22:31, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Special:AbuseFilter/535. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 08:25, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Joy Richard Preuss

  • Task: Prevent edits containing the name “Joy Richard Preuss” and this persons bank account number (which can be seen in this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Balancing_test&diff=next&oldid=541649751)
  • Reason: Joy Richard Preuss is an, apparently mentally ill, aspiring something that spams the web with promotional nonsense (and his/her bank account information). We have a filter that prevents this on dawiki, which has been very successful at stopping him/her, but it appears that he/she has started spamming enwiki as well. Also, perhaps the edits he/she has made that contains his/her bank account information should be hidden, despite it being quite public already (it's all over the web due to the aforementioned spam). --Cgtdk (talk) 00:00, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I just rolled back a JRP edit, but it did not contain any sensitive information. Other than that and the one I posted in my original request, I have not seen any recently. --Cgtdk (talk) 13:46, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Creating pages with speedy deletion tags

  • Task: Catch speedy deletion tags insrted while creating pages (at least in article space).
  • Reason: These are most likely recreations of speedy deleted pages (for example when the creator copies the page wikitext with the speedy tag on it when notified, and then pastes the same text after the page is deleted to recreate it) or are test pages where the creator wants them deleted as soon as possible after they are created. There are very few valid reasons, if any, for a speedy deletion tag to be applied on a page when it is created. jfd34 (talk) 14:01, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Magical Item" disallow

  • Task: I would like a filter to disallow any edits to Pretty Cure (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) that insert the Japanese text "関連アイテム" and the romanization of "Mahō Aitemu".
  • Reason: I recently dealt with someone who was edit warring on the previously stated article and during the edit war they inserted the aforementioned text into her edits. As the Japanese text and romanization are actually erroneously matched ("関連" is read as kanren) and the only person who would be inserting it into the article is this individual who has resorted to sockpuppeting, I do not believe there will be any issue with false positives.

—Ryulong (琉竜) 18:12, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lions at Cat Creek

Not

  • Task: This filter would warn tag edits by all non-autoconfirmed users that are simply inserting the word "not". It would also tag all edits that fit the criteria so that users can identify them and take action if necessary.
  • Reason: Many IP and new users simply add "not" to an article as sneaky vandalism.

- The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 06:47, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done Many also remove "not" as another form of sneaky vandalism, and this filter would stop the reversion of that. There also would likely be many false positives associated with this. Reaper Eternal (talk) 11:37, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback: Adding email addresses

  • Background: It's about this filter (Feedback: Adding email addresses): At November 20, 2012 the filter was public visible and the german wikipedia copied it because of their introduction of AFTv5.
  • Task: consider replaceing "\b[a-zA-Z0-9_]{2,20}@[a-zA-Z0-9_]{2,20}\.(co\.)?[a-z]{2,3}\b" with "\b[a-zA-Z0-9_]{2,20}@[a-zA-Z0-9_\-]{2,20}\.(co\.)?[a-z]{2,3}\b" (but i have only little knowledge about regexp)
  • Reason: We've discovered that domains like t-online.de (with a hyphen) were not detected.

- Se4598 (talk) 20:39, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Filter name

  • Task: Prevent specific vandalism, which appears to have started in June 2012 by User:125.239.195.150. Repeated vandalism by many meatpuppets on the 1272 article (see page history), and after that page was protected the vandalism has occurred on the 1372 article. Possibilities are prevent these phrases being used in year articles, and prevent all use of certain combinations of phrases.
  • Reason: Better than protection as it could prevent the bad edits, and on a wider range of articles.

- Peter James (talk) 01:04, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Retard

  • Task: Filter redirects to pages like Mental retardation.
  • Reason: Very likely an attack page.

- FrankDev (talk) 02:41, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OverBlood

  • Task: This is really a request to move a filter from one article to another. The original filter was intended to curb a persistent stream of vandalism at this article where the vandals change the name of the main character from "Raz Karcy" to "Wienerless Steve". Because these vandals are often poor spellers the term "Weinerless Steve" ("ei" rather than "ie") is often used and filter end-runs like "Steve without a Wiener" are also frequently used. I'm not sure how the old filter works, but it should be enough to filter for the words "wiener" and "weiner" in any context. Anyway the request is to move the filter from "Overblood" (the old name of the article) to its new name, "OverBlood" (capitalized "B" in "Blood").
  • Reason: The old filter is protecting a redirect and the new article has no filter on it and has become the subject of renewed vandalism since August. This whole issue has been going on since January 4, 2011 (close to 2 years). The logs for the old page show a long history of ineffective page-protections. The filter was the only thing that worked. -Thibbs (talk) 16:54, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Done I finally got to the root of this issue myself. It was very difficult since I'm not an admin and I couldn't see from the logs what the filter's number was nor did I have access to the filter details once I knew its number, but an admin at the Village Pump (technical) tracked down the editors who maintain the filter in question and although one of them is on semi-retirement, the other was able to restore functionality for this filter which had failed 7 months ago. Thanks for all the support. This takes a lot off my mind. -Thibbs (talk) 21:19, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ken Hoang

  • Task: Keep any socks of banned user Don't Feed the Zords (talk · contribs) from editing Ken Hoang or creating an AfD for the article. (Being unfamiliar with edit filters, I'm unsure how one would go about this, or if it is possible at all).
  • Reason: Don't Feed the Zords has repeatedly used sockpuppet accounts to redirect, nominate for deletion, or otherwise interfere with the Ken Hoang article. They're good at it, too: for example, is the AfD salted? They'll get around it by misspelling the word "nomination" (admins only). So many sock accounts have been aggravating to deal with as well. I know of several of DFtZ's behavioral patterns, so contact me if necessary.

— CtP (t • c) 01:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We can semi-protect the article, but the bot would just tag them when new AfDs get made. I think just blocking the AfD creations would be enough from the filter. Definitely needed. Monty845 01:10, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
If we're just blocking AfD creations, then do you think that MediaWiki:Titleblacklist might be a better route? The article is currenty semi-protected, but the socks just make useless or trivial edits and then lay low for a few days before editing the article. CtP (t • c) 01:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I thought of that, but honestly, the article does have problems, and someone could quite reasonably want to make a good faith nomination of it. AFAIK, the only way to do something like a semi-protected title black list is a filter. Also, the socks are already using alternate names, there would be nothing to stop them from evading the blacklist the same way they are evading the salting. If I understood Regex, I would try to block any IPs/new editors from creating an AfD that links to the article. Monty845 01:18, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Looked at the blacklist docs, and you can set to autoconfirmed, still there is the issue of evasion. Monty845 01:22, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming they're filing the AfD correctly (I can't see the deleted revisions), you should be able to block any edit that adds both {{la|Ken Hoang}} and {{find sources|Ken Hoang}} and maybe a link to "\bhttp://toolserver.org/~snottywong/cgi-bin/votecounter.cgi?page=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ken_Hoang.*?\b". That being said, I'm not sure how expensive that would be to run as a filter. Legoktm (talk) 22:15, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Language speaker data

  • Task: Filter the 'speakers' parameter of {{Infobox language}} for changes, similarly to how changes to height and weight in bio boxes are tagged. (If possible, filter 'date' and 'ref' under the same tag: these are all elements of the population figure.) Should apply to editors without advanced permissions.
  • Reason: Population inflation is a chronic problem with our language articles, and isn't easy to detect if you don't see it happen. Although this wouldn't catch changes to the text, vandals and POV warriors normally change the info box as well. This isn't just a problem with IPs, but often with signed-in POV editors. The date may be changed to make the data look recent. If 'date' and 'ref' can be covered without increasing server load significantly, please include them; otherwise 'speakers' is the main problem.

— kwami (talk) 00:28, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dan Howell

  • Task: Filter "Dan Howell" / "danisnotonfire"
  • Reason: We need to double check the "Dan Howell" / "danisnotonfire"-related vandalism filter. I was told this would be a good thing to request since it is already supposed to be filtered out. --Sue Rangell[citation needed] 03:43, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Adding QuickiWiki

If this filter is made then QuickiWiki should be removed from Special:AbuseFilter/345. All posts I have seen identify the cause of adding QuickiWiki say it was WikiTweak. I don't know whether external links are used in edit filters but WikiTweak might link to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/wikitweak-wikipedia-enhancer/ and "disable" to http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-remove-add-ons. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:38, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see why we should split it out. That just creates more work and more server load. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:06, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The filter log shows Geez-oz triggered the filter 72 times before being told the cause at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive_103#QuickiWiki Look Up - Error and disabling WikiTweak. Other users might give up editing if they only see the generic message MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-codespill with no mention of WikiTweak. But the filter is triggered rarely and I don't know how costly an extra filter is. Maybe MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-codespill should just mention that if the added text is "QuickiWiki" then the browser extension WikiTweak is probably responsible. Can an edit filter pass a parameter to MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-codespill to indicate whether "QuickiWiki" was found? PrimeHunter (talk) 21:37, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

XSS Filter detect

  • Task: Block Internet Explorer 8+ users from saving edits that triggered the XSS Filter (Bug 32013). The XSS Filter transforms periods, bracket, and parentheses to the Number sign. One simple implementation might be ##[^{|}<\n>[\];:*]{5,255}?##
  • Reason: Because IE is extremely sneaky doing this after show change displays everything correctly and devs refuse to send the header to stop the filter. We've had many complaints about this.

— Dispenser 06:11, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppeteer

  • Task Modify Special:AbuseFilter/483. It already records users creating their own user page, but it needs to record those creating it with their signature.
  • Reason When he creates a new sock, a prolific sockpuppeteer and WMF-banned editor almost always creates its talk page with his signature. The filter would provide an easy way of locating any socks which CheckUser cannot detect. I understand that the four tildes are not edit filter syntax, but it surely must be extremely easy to add a condition to this filter which pays attention to 2012, the current year in the new text. WilliamH UK (talk) 16:49, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I think it is the reverse. The filter will detect the four tildes but not "2012 (UTC)". Sole Soul (talk) 14:18, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
That is correct. Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:06, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]


Template vandalism

I've added filter 482 in an attempt to deal with this. It's currently in a log-only mode and won't prevent these types of edits yet, because I'd like to make sure there are no unintended consequences from the way the filter works. If everything is ok in a day or two, I'll switch it on. -Scottywong| yak _ 19:02, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind, there are too many false positives with the method I chose to find these types of edits. I've deactivated and deleted the filter. We'll have to find some other way of ignoring comments. This should really be a function that is built in to the abuse filter extension itself, rather than having to be coded into each individual filter. -Scottywong| babble _ 13:44, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:50, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Make that not done for now; the wiki exploded. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:40, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Preventing example text

  • Task: Make it so that an edit to an article space page that includes the text '''Bold text''', [[File:Example.jpg]], and the other default text for various markups will be flagged by the filter. I suppose there are situations in which these things should be added, so please make it give the editor an "Are you sure you meant to do this?" message but please don't make it prevent them from making the edit if they say "Yes"
  • Reason: It's easy to leave stray text by accident. I often see these pieces of text in articles, and while they're occasionally vandalism, they're normally left by people who probably clicked the button and didn't notice that they'd done anything. Example. These aren't "Trivial formatting mistakes and edits that at first glance look fine but go against some obscure style guideline" — except for vandals and occasional editors who might find a good reason to add them to articles, nobody will intend to add them to articles, since in at least 99% of cases, they're pretty obviously against good English usage.

- 2001:18E8:2:1020:14CA:926D:7D1C:85A5 (talk) 19:39, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

When we tried filtering out all of these the hit rate wound up being far too high and kept out too many otherwise constructive edits. There is currently a bot that watches for such edits and reverts them if only such content is present. Otherwise it logs the edits here, and the backlog on clearing that page out is usually less than a month. If you have any suggestions for improving that bot, you might want to ask 28bytes. Someguy1221 (talk) 23:49, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Obscenities in AFT5

  • Task:Prevent the posting of obscenities through the Article Feedback Tool.
  • Reason: at the moment we've got filters 460, 472, 474 and 475 working in conjunction to try and skim obscenities and vandalism out of AFT5. They were adapted from the similar filters from edits, and are working relatively well, but there's some stuff they don't get. As a first step, it would be really great if someone could meld them so we don't have multiple filters doing what is essentially the same task. As a second, we should look at expanding the obscenities it covers :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 08:48, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it looks like those 4 filters each do their thing in a different way, so merging them would take some work (and actually may not be ideal, I'm not sure). As for refining them to catch more vandalism, it would help to have as many examples as possible of vandalism that they're not currently catching. Also, the users that have been working a lot on these filters include User:Fabrice Florin, User:Rsterbin, User:Wifione, and User:Someguy1221, so they might be better people to ask than me about these particular filters. -Scottywong| gab _ 18:25, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
They can all be merged and will probably work better because of it. I haven't looked deep into the hits, though. Is there much overlap? If they are catching distinct sets of vandalism, merging won't make a huge difference. Also, 474 is a resource-consuming beast and could use some work. Someguy1221 (talk) 04:44, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
They're basically the same thing (obscenities redux) - any help anyone can offer on this would be most appreciated. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:47, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Russian Beatles copyvio

  • Task:A highly dynamic IP and an occasional named sock account (FreedomRome (talk · contribs) is the latest sock of the master Crazy1980 (talk · contribs)) has been plaguing the OTRS noticeboard and other pages with spurious statements of permission to upload Beatles songs or to link to a Russian copyright-violating host. Typically includes a link to britishcouncil.org, which I'd rather not have blacklisted the usual way, and statements like "Team of the volunteers of the British Council gives the permission to use these materials", "The Beatles for Cultural Diversity" and all IPs are from Russian ranges. See [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] and so on.
  • Reason: Obviously Apple Records, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the estates of George Harrison and John Lennon will disagree with the idea that somebody at the British Council has given permission to Russians to upload Beatles songs to WP or to link to Russian copyvio sites, and given the incredible persistence of this user, a filter might be helpful - it's been going on for months. No actual uploads that I know of, but the spurious permissions are becoming tiresome. I believe the copyvio host has long since been blacklisted.

- Acroterion (talk) 01:58, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting a filter to track following terms at mr-wiki

Sorry, if I am putting my request at wrong place.I am admin and burocrat at Marathi language mr-wiki.

  • Task: We are looking for a (new or exported) filter that can track following kind of words.( All users & article namespace )

खरोखरीच , प्रसिध्द, प्रसिद्ध,अतिसुन्दर,रमणीय,अगदी,सर्वोत्तम,अत्युच्च,महान,लोकहृदयसम्राट,थोर,परमपूज्य

  • Reason:We want to track certain types of avaoidable words for further review and delet if needed at mr-wiki.

Thanks and Regards

Mahitgar (talk) 11:03, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You could use code like the following:
(article_namespace == 0) &
contains_any(added_lines, "खरोखरीच", "प्रसिध्द", "प्रसिद्ध", "अतिसुन्दर", "रमणीय", "अगदी", "सर्वोत्तम", "अत्युच्च", "महान", "लोकहृदयसम्राट", "थोर", "परमपूज्य")
As an aside, this is the place for requesting filters on enwiki, so this request should be at WT:FILTER. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:09, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your valuable support Mahitgar (talk) 03:36, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The word 'cocksucker'

There may be some valid use cases for adding the word "cocksucker" (case-insensitive, singular and plural) to articles (pornography articles, perhaps, as well as reported speech), but it probably ought to be filtered in the article namespace for non-confirmed users or even just IP users. —Tom Morris (talk) 21:49, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Replacing interwikis with ?

  • Task: Tag the edit when a user unintentionally replaced interwikis with ???, because their computer doesn't support Unicode well. example
  • Reason: The tag will make it easier to fix it.

- Makecat 05:52, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Completed requests

Dan Howell

  • Task: Flag insertion of "Dan Howell" and be able to disallow the edit if necessary.
  • Reason: A flood of throwaway accounts and IPs have been inserting references to Dan Howell into random articles, with particular focus on Delia Smith (see history), then moving on to random articles after that was semi-protected. Inappropriate article creation, general silliness from a wide range of UK addresses. Since the entire meme depends on Dan Howell, it should be easy to filter for it. "Dan" alone would be harder to deal with. An emphasis on "Maltesers" is presumably significant to Dan and his entourage. See [7], [8], [9], [10].

- Acroterion (talk) 00:51, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Added to filter 58. Sole Soul (talk) 03:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks: it's intercepted three accounts. You might want to add "Phil Lester" for the time being, since that's showing up in the meme too. Acroterion (talk) 14:25, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
More coming in: see Milkshake, Falling (accident), Phan. "Daniel Howell" will need to be intercepted. Acroterion (talk) 16:12, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:32, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, glad to see this "danisnotonfire" might be a good term to add too. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:21, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
 Done too. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:26, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oh thank heavens!! --Sue Rangell[citation needed] 03:51, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Denied requests

Richard Daft

  • Task: Refer Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Richard Daft and Archive. Various keywords and categories of articles applicable which I am reluctant to post here right now. Grateful if you can give feedback if this sort of this is within scope, and if so I can work on the specifics.
  • Reason: Long term harassment of User:BlackJack, various attempts at outings, and vandalism of articles frequently related to 18th century cricket.

- Moondyne (talk) 13:58, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Request removed. Moondyne (talk) 01:46, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Long-term subtle vandalism

  • Task: Block addition of the following names to any artilce.
    • James Couch
    • Al "Oatmeal" Edwards, Al Edwards Oatmeal
    • Mike Geselbracht
    • Adams Hambüger-Hatt, Adam Hambüger-Hatt
    • Adams Madrid, Adam Madrid, Adam Gama-Madrid
  • Reason: Long-term subtle vandalism by IP hopping vandal (mostly from CitiCorp IPs) as reported by Axolotl Nr.733 (talk · contribs) at the village pump here. Thanks. 64.40.54.97 (talk) 11:29, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
An alternate would be to tag edits with these names as possible vadalism so that RCPers could have a closer look. 64.40.57.126 (talk) 18:09, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
An admin could just perform a rangeblock on the IPs. Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 22:36, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
A rangeblock really wouldn't be feasible for an IP hopper. You'd have to nail so many unrelated users that the collateral probably won't be worth it. Reaper Eternal (talk) 00:45, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with RE, a rangeblock is inapproriate here. I've gone throught the range contribs (links here) and I'd guess about 90% of them are helpful, useful additions. An edit filter is a much better tool for this problem. 64.40.57.189 (talk) 05:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Just out of curiosity: Is anyone having a look at this? It seems no such vandalism has occurred in the meantime, but as I had demonstrated, it had gone on for years. Btw, it would be totally sufficient to block just any addition of the name "Hambüger-Hatt", as there quite likely is no-one of that name. On the other hand, I'm not so sure about blocking additions of "James Couch", the vandal had added that name only three times or so, and some valid contributions might be blocked that way. --Axolotl Nr.733 (talk) 09:44, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
"Is anyone having a look at this?" Yep, the edit filter managers look at all the requests but often don't comment. There are several things to weigh before enabling a new edit filter. Such as; how big is the problem, how often does it happen, etc.. That's because the edit filters work on all edits. A few hundred edit filters on thousands of edit per hour takes up a lot of computer time, so they have to determine if the processor time is worth the problem it solves. Best regards. 64.40.54.81 (talk) 18:23, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done I'm withdrawing the request as it no longer seems to be a problem. 64.40.54.83 (talk) 10:49, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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