Wikivoyage:Ongoing vandalism

Please read Project:How to handle unwanted edits to understand what is vandalism to Wikivoyage.

Anyone can help handle unwanted edits on Wikivoyage. A couple of bad edits can be reverted quickly and easily by the first person to see them. See How to revert a page to see how to do this yourself.

However, administrators and patrollers have the rollback tool that enables them to quickly revert edits by a particular user, and admins also to temporarily block repeat offenders. Use this page when you need assistance from an administrator, for example when vandalism is occurring at a rapid rate or over an extended period of time. Or even if you have been managing a vandalism attack but are now going offline.

There may be large periods where local admins go inactive; in such cases, do not hesitate to also list uncontroversial (i.e. obvious vandal accounts) requests on Global sysop requests (GSR) on Meta-Wiki. The English Wikivoyage has specifically opted in for global sysops. For ease of use, there are tools such as XReport that give a more user-friendly UI to add block requests on GSR.

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See also Project:User ban nominations. Archived threads are at Wikivoyage:Ongoing vandalism/Archive.

Current alerts

Toilet humor around the world

Here,here and here someone's been trying to be funny today. Low-volume vandalism, yes, but there is a chance that they are going to continue making these kinds of edits for who knows how long... --Ypsilon (talk) 20:34, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done, though you'll need to request WV:TAIV permissions to exactly see what I've done. //shb (t | c | m) 23:01, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

NDG is stupid

LTA. Tenshi Hinanawi (talk) 16:04, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally ~2026-13780-13. Tenshi Hinanawi (talk) 16:05, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Already globally locked. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 16:09, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

~2026-24139-51

Vandalism. Tenshi Hinanawi (talk) 16:29, 20 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done by Ground Zero and M7. //shb (t | c | m) 22:06, 20 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mao Zedong

@Sbb1413 created this redirect, but someone is using multiple anonymous IP addresses to try to reverse the redirect and create a garbage page full of encyclopedic bio content. Can an admin please check that the redirect is in place then protect the page against anonymous updates? Thanks! Mrkstvns (talk) 20:32, 1 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 21:22, 1 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

~2026-28575-74

Inserting blatantly false information into guides. Tenshi Hinanawi (talk) 21:55, 11 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Seems taken care of. –LPfi (talk) 07:44, 12 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

HenriPittier

Rapidly adding a lot of nonsense to articles and creating off-topic pages. Gerode (talk) 03:14, 17 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerode:

Done, I've globally locked the account. //shb (t | c | m) 04:37, 17 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Candy Crush Saga spam

Just noticed a LTA spammer has recently expanded their spamming into here. Their m.o. is as follows: Insert random objects and timestamp, most often in sandbox but also in other unprotected Wikivoyage namespace pages, and wrapping up with an "all done" edit summary. Previously in Wikispecies, they have been inserting a laundry list of random objects and persisted long enough that Wikispecies has to put up an abuse filter that autoblocks upon triggered, which appears to be working. Please be on the lookout. If this issue persists long enough here, I'll consider copying Wikispecies' abuse filter and adapting it for Wikivoyage. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 05:09, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]