HRWiki:WikiTroll

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A WikiTroll is a person who purposefully defaces a document on a wiki. There are a few methods in place for dealing with WikiTrolls.

Contents 1 How to revert a page 2 Known Offenders 2.1 Example 3 Offenders

How to revert a page

Any page can be reverted back to a previous version. Here's how:

• sysop: Simply click "history" at the top of the page you wish to roll back. Position the radio buttons at the current version and the version you want to roll back to, then click "Compare selected versions". Next, click the "rollback" link near the upper right side of the page (directly to the right of the most recent author's name).
• non-sysop: Simply click "history" at the top of the page you wish to roll back. Then click on the time and date of the archived version you want to revert back to. The page will appear with the version indicated at the top of the page, just underneath the page title. Next, click "edit" at the top of the page. Add a note in the Summary box that you are reverting the page because of a troll, and then click "Save page".

After repeated defacings, an offender's IP address can be blocked by several users who have admin rights. These admins pay careful attention to this page, and will block IP addresses where/when appropriate.

Known Offenders

If you see any suspicious, defamatory, or objectionable behavior by any individuals on our wiki, please add their IP address to the list following the same format as the example shown below. For our purposes, an "offense" is defined as the defacement of a single document of our wiki.

Example

Date	IP Address and Contributions	Pages defaced	Description
12/13/05	127.0.0.1 (contribs | log | block)	Page Defaced actual edit	Description of dastardly deed

The general format:
Use the {{troll}} template as shown below to input the user name, which will automatically create the appropriate links. Spaces in user names must be entered as underscores.

Offenders

For a listing of older offenders, please see the archive.

Date	IP Address and Contributions	Pages defaced	Description
2/1/06	Drwho? (contribs | log | block) (formerly Dr Who Strikes back)	User:Dr Who Strikes back	Sockpuppet; personal attacks on User:It's dot com and User:Thunderbird L17
2/1/06	Maulcaz (contribs | log | block)	Scrolling Shooter Games Menu	WoW-style page moves
2/3/06	65.167.69.131 (contribs | log | block)	The Poopsmith [1]	Blanking, profanity
2/3/06	Zabulash (contribs | log | block)	Original Book, Teen Girl Squad	WoW-style page moves
2/4/06	69.9.200.227 (contribs | log | block)	Original Book [2]	IP used by Yeltensic.
2/4/06	Heimstern_Laufer (contribs | log | block)	User:Heimstern Läufer [3] [4]	Personal attack on Heimstern Läufer.
2/5/06	71.113.6.44 (contribs | log | block)	HRWiki:The Stick [5]	Changed "The Stick" to "The Stupid Thingy"
2/6/06	65.167.69.40 (contribs | log | block)	Whatsit [6]	Blanked and replaced with message disparaging TBC and their fans.
2/9/06	138.88.90.53 (contribs | log | block)	Multiple articles, User:it's dot com	Dr.Who vandal, blanked a lot of pages and replaced them with threats to vandalize other wikis. Vandalized user pages for It's dot com, ACupOfCoffee, and KieferSkunk.
2/9/06	Reverted (contribs | log | block)	Stinkoman 20X6 Enemies and Items [7]	Replaced parts of character/enemy descriptions with "A fweakin' chair"
2/11/06	Drwho? (contribs | log | block) (formerly OhW .rD)	The King of Town's Grill [8], User:Seriously [9], The Brothers Chaps [10]	Page move vandal, blanked several Main space and user pages and replaced with random text.
2/12/06	71.197.51.200 (contribs | log | block)	HRWiki:The_Stick [11]	Inapropriate language.
2/14/06	198.209.24.254 (contribs | log | block)	Strong Bad [12] Homestar Runner (Flash cartoon) [13]	Blanking and spamming
2/14/06	StrongRad (contribs | log | block)	Podstar Runner [14] Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 12.2 [15] HRWiki:WikiTroll [16] [17]	Swore a cuss