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Wikipedia:Abuse reports is a centralized forum for the reporting and investigation of abuse complaints, related to IP Address-specific vandalism, to be reported to service providers. Please be aware that this is not an official contact system put in place by the Wikimedia Foundation, but a volunteer-run process to counter vandalism that has the communities blessings.

Instructions for filing editors – please read:

  • You may report any IP Address here, Do not report accounts here.
  • Please do not list IP addresses without a significant (At least 5 Blocks) history of vandalism. As contacting ISP's is a time consuming business, your request may be rejected.
  • We do not block accounts here, if an anonymous user is presently vandalising Wikipedia go to WP:AIV
  • We do not handle sock puppet identification. For that, see Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets and Wikipedia:Requests for Checkuser
  • Please use the {{user-uaa}} instead of {{userlinks}}.

Recently actioned • Rejected requests (since Nov 2006)
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Process

AR cases are a three step process:

Once the contactor has made contact with the provider, the case remains open as long as contact continues. If the provider successfully resolves the complaint, then the contactor closes the case, with a summary of the result. If the provider is unwilling to cooperate, the contactor notes the case, and closes it with a summary.

New alerts

Please follow the instructions below. Please do not list IPs that have only made a few edits (unless they are part of a bigger case), as only severe, continuing vandalism should be listed here.

To report an IP address

  1. In the text box below, replace IP with the IP address you are reporting and click the Report IP button. For a range of IP addresses, use the format 127.0.0.x Range and for two or more ranges use the format 127.0.0.x and 192.168.0.x Ranges. When reporting ranges, please replace the digits that are different with an x in the title of your report. There's no need to report different ranges if the IP addresses are sufficiently similar or run consecutively, 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.10.1 as an example (these could be reported as 192.168.x.x Range). Please note that 127.0.0.1 and any IP starting with 192.168 generally aren't the IP you're looking for. These IPs generally can't be accessed by someone outside of your LAN.
  2. Edit the resulting page, following the instructions in uppercase. Remember to provide a summary of why you believe the IP address(es) requires attention. Please use an {{IPvandal}} template for each IP address you are reporting (this is especially important when reporting a range), list the name of the provider (from the whois report), and briefly summarize the situation. Sign your comments with ~~~~ in case the investigator needs to contact you for clarification, and save the page.
  3. Edit this page, adding the following text above the most recent nomination (replacing IP with the IP address you're reporting):
    *[[Wikipedia:Abuse reports/IP]]


Open cases

Under investigation

Please do not move alerts into this section unless you are the investigator opening a new case.

Investigation complete/in contact

Contactor needed

Please do not move alerts into this section unless you are the investigator passing the case on to a contactor and do not intend to make contact yourself.

Contactor assigned

Please do not move alerts into this section unless you are the investigator continuing the case as a contactor, or a contactor taking a completed investigation.

Rejected requests

All rejected requests are now archived for easy retrieval as necessary. Please see Wikipedia:Abuse reports/Rejected.