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This is the page explaining in detail the incident(s) leading up to a person being blocked. Every incident should have a section. Hopefully we won't have to add to this much.

Note that long-period bans of users and subsequent blocks of said users are not listed separately on this page, but are in the summary list under "Bans".

Fill out the following information when blocking a user.

Sysop: name of sysop who blocked the user

Reason: summarize reason for blocking here; specific instances will be mentioned in the "Report" section

Date and time of blocking: hh:mm, day month year

Time: duration of block

Report: give links to specific pages vandalised, plus summary of inappropriate content, also report any useful contributions

Follow up: any additional information gathered or action taken after initial filing

Bans

Expired Bans

Link-Spam Vandals

The following IP addresses / users have been blocked for vandalizing the NSwiki with links to improve Google PageRank. The standard blocking time for link-spam vandals is one month.

Blocked again by Rechze after re-spamming the same page, following the one-month block 12:27, 27 May 2005 (GMT)

Additionally, 213.228.80.0/24 was blocked by Goobergunch at 22:58, 20 Apr 2005 (GMT) to forestall future linkspamming. This CIDR range resolves to "IP network of Long-distance Telephone Station; department of join stock company "Elektrosvyaz" of Novosibirsk area" according to RIPE. This block was widened to 213.228.0.0/19 by Goobergunch on 23:09, 21 Apr 2005 (GMT). Inexplicably disappeared, renewed by Frisbeeteria 21:30, 20 Jun 2005.

Suspected open proxies

Blocks

82.41.69.191 (contribs)

Sysop: Frisbeeteria

Reason: Spamming

Date and time of blocking: 00:35, 9 Nov 2004

Time: 24 hours

Report: See User talk:82.41.69.191 - since I'm filling this out retroactively, I'm not going to cross-file a full report --Goobergunch|? 01:42, 19 Nov 2004 (GMT)

Follow up: After an e-mail exchange, matter was resolved and the IP was unblocked on 01:27, 9 Nov 2004.

67.160.101.109 (contribs)

Sysop: Goobergunch

Reason: Repeated blanking and vandalism

Date and time of blocking: 01:24, 19 Nov 2004

Time: 24 hours

Report: User blanked Talk:Main Page, -The Terran Republic-, Aaronakia, 1 Infinite Loop, Adam Island, and vandalized Coalition War, Category:Nations, and Mettatron, all in a fairly short period of time.

68.224.152.173 (contribs)

Sysop: Goobergunch

Reason: Flaming vandalism

Date and time of blocking: 21:03, 28 Nov 2004

Time: 24 hours

Report: Vandalized the Marathon, Beeker, Zoland, Perrier, and Klamath articles. We believe this IP to be Marathon.

Follow up: None.


69.75.245.223 (contribs)

Sysop: Frisbeeteria

Reason: Vandalism

Date and time of blocking: 22:38, 11 Dec 2004

Time: 24 hours

Report: Vandalism of Grub, 10000 Islands, Ten Thousand Islands Treaty Organization, Alliance Defense Network, The DEN. Blanking content and replacing it with anti-TITO messages

Follow up: returned as 65.82.122.144 seconds later, also blocked


24.94.2.210 (contribs)

Sysop: Frisbeeteria

Reason: Continuing vandalism of The Fedral Union

Date and time of blocking: 05:30, 16 Dec 2004 (GMT)

Time: 24 hours

Report: Vandalized TFU page twice today, warned by Goobergunch

Follow up: None.

24.66.94.140 (contribs)

Sysop: Frisbeeteria

Reason: deliberate and sustained vandalism

Date and time of blocking: 22:12, 29 Jan 2005; and again 21:51 on 05 March 2005

Time: 1 month, 2nd time blocked for two months.

Report: Vandalized Moderator, created multiple new spam pages based around promoting an offsite forum and using G. Carlin's "Seven Words you can't say on TV". No historical content, no useful contribs to speak of, one month block instituted.

Follow up: Spam pages and defacement of Moderator again. This is almost certainly the player behind Alansysim, a Delete-on-Sight player in NS On third offense, recommend permanent ban.

207.237.104.148 (contribs)

Sysop: Frisbeeteria

Reason: Vandalism, personal attacks of User:Scolopendra

Date and time of blocking: 21:37, 2 Feb 2005

Time: 24 hours

Report: User took time off from complaining about the protection of articles he vandalized to vandalize another user's page. 24 hour block.

Follow up: None.

204.38.89.101 (contribs)

Sysop: Knootoss

Reason: Vandalism

Date and time of blocking: 14:29, 25 Feb 2005 (GMT)

Time: 24 hours

Report: Repeated vandalism on United Nations.

Follow up: None.

24.196.38.215 (contribs)

Sysop: Rechze

Reason: Vandalism

Date and time of blocking: 06:54, 5 March 2005 (GMT)

Time: 24 hours

Report: Vandalism of Grub, Kandarin, The Rejected Realms, Alliance Defense Network and Ten Thousand Islands Treaty Organization. Including replacing flags with, and otherwise linking to pornographic images, within a relatively short period of time.

Follow up: I have zero tolerance for inappropriate images on this site - it's linked to from NationStates and many minors visit it (and admin it, for that matter). Therefore, I'm extending this block to a one-month block. --Goobergunch|? 17:31, 6 Mar 2005 (GMT)

68.236.13.233 (contribs)

Sysop: Goobergunch

Reason: Vandalism of Left-oriented articles

Date and time of blocking: 00:46, 27 Mar 2005 (GMT)

Time: 24 hours

Report: Vandalism of User:Nanakaland, Aerigia, FurNation, EuroSoviets, The Red Factions, and Red Liberty Alliance. Also created defamatory article Jako and vandalized deleted article Founder and Leader - Comrade General (links work for sysops only).

Follow up: None.


134.226.1.136 (contribs)

Sysop: Goobergunch

Reason: Vandalism of Irish articles

Date and time of blocking: 19:51, 16 Apr 2005 (GMT)

Time: 24 hours

Report: Vandalized Cu Mara, Ireland, and Eireann Shamrock. Probably enough to justify a block in its own right, but also had an extant warning for vandalizing Orgybot, Cu Mara, and Eireann Shamrock previousl (see User talk:134.226.1.136). For reference, this IP resolves to a computer group (unix14) at Trinity College, Dublin.

Follow up: None.

203.62.134.131 (contribs)

Sysop: Knootoss

Reason: Vandalism of Iesus Christi and The Reich articles

Date and time of blocking: 08:06, 19 May 2005 (GMT)

Time: 24 hours

Report: Replacing article words with crude language. Worth a block, nuff said. Recommend a longer ban if it happens again.

Follow up: None.


141.156.236.126 (contribs)

Sysop: Goobergunch

Reason: Vandalism of Alliance Defense Network and Europa

Date and time of blocking: 22:48, 6 Jun 2005 (GMT)

Time: 24 hours

Report: Replaced article texts with "Great Gonjika". I seem to remember another incident of this earlier, but it doesn't show in the contributions; an IP check reveals a Verizon dial-up user that will be difficult to block.

Follow up: None.

172.147.247.103 (contribs)

Sysop: Goobergunch

Reason: Vandalism of Irish articles

Date and time of blocking: 19:00, 2 Jul 2005 (GNT)

Time: 6 hours 9 minutes

Report: Vandalized Northside Brothers, Cu Mara, Graysferry, Ireland, Multyfarnham, Eire Nua, and Brega and Mide. Also made POV edits to Socialist Underground, but that article isn't NPOV anyway so it's not really a major offense. This is an AOL IP, so repeated actions may be necessary.

Follow up: None.

68.170.86.111 (contribs)

Sysop: Frisbeeteria

Reason: Vandalism of Frisbeeteria articles

Date and time of blocking: 19:27, 27 Oct 2005 (EST)

Time: 1 month

Report: Vandalized Frisbeeteria, SkyFac TransOrbital, Category:Frisbeeteria; created pages G3Y, Free Speach, Free speach, Frisbish, Jerk (all since deleted). All pages were reverted by Gruenberg2, then re-edited multiple times by banned user. NOTE: This is the same user that recently spam-vandalised various NS regions with anti-Frisbeeteria messages and has been IP banned from the main site.

Follow up: Since I was forced to self-moderate this issue (no other sysops active in IRC at the time), I will link this section to User talk:Goobergunch for review.

68.170.86.111 (contribs) Take Two

Sysop: Gruenberg

Reason: Vandalism of assorted articles

Date and time of blocking: 08:45, 7 Dec 2005 (GMT)

Time: Infinite

Report: Vandalized Frisbeeteria, Tuesday Heights, Helvetic Confederation. Edits reverted by Ceorana, who reported the offence on Frisbeeteria's home page. As noted above they have already been banned from NS, and after vandalism to NSwiki, received a tempban. Their edits are generally offensive. I have put them onto an infinite ban, and as I cannot see their having anything more to contribute to NSwiki (especially as they have been banned from NS). If it is felt this was too harsh, then by all means downgrade the ban. However, I would ask that the fact that this a second offence be taken into consideration.

Follow up: None, unless it is felt the length of the ban needs to be reviewed.

24.207.15.212 (contribs)

Sysop: Ceorana

Reason: Vandalism of Pacitalia

Date and time of blocking: 21:13, 5 March 2006 (GMT)

Time: 72 hours

Report: Vandalised Pacitalia with offensive edits. Normally would probably be a 24 hour block, but seeing as it was the current featured article, went next step up.

Follow up: None that I can see.