Wikipedia:List of banned users
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This is a selected list of banned Wikipedia users. Users whose names are in bold have been specifically banned. The other users listed were blocked as likely sockpuppets of banned users without a specific declaration of a ban.
Banning is different from blocking; blocking is a technical measure to disable editing by a specific account or IP address, but banning is when a specific person is no longer welcome to edit here. Banned users may be blocked as soon as it's obvious who they are. For more information, see the blocking policy and the banning policy.
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Banned by Jimbo Wales
Jimbo Wales has banned these users indefinitely. They may appeal their ban by emailing Jimbo or the Arbitration Committee.
- Isis, February 3, 2003 [1]
- BuddhaInside, September 25, 2003 [2]
- Khranus, November 12, 2003 [3]
- Reithy, November 19, 2004
- Hamidifar, July 3, 2005 [4]
- Irate, August 7, 2005 [5] [6]
- MutterErde, September 23, 2005 [7]
- JackSarfatti, December 14, 2005 [8]
- Marsden, December 31, 2005 [9]
- MARMOT, January 17, 2006 [10]
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Wik
- Wik, June 1, 2004 in two ambiguously-worded mailing list posts ([21] and [22]), though he later clarified his intention on IRC.
Banned by the Arbitration Committee
(not including bans that have expired, short-term bans, and partial bans)
Plautus satire
Plautus satire has been banned for a period of one year, which originally started from March 11, 2004. He returned at the end of the ban, but was quickly banned again for another year. Is now banned untill User:Plautus satire/date(update).
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel has been banned for a period of one year, which originally started from May 7, 2004 but has since been extended until User:Paul Vogel/date (update). Paul Vogel edits anonymously. See User:Paul Vogel for a list of IP ranges used by this user.
Lir
Lir was banned for a year from January 1, 2005. This has now been extended multiple times due to Lir returning to edit before the expiry of his ban. The current expiration date can be found on his userpage.
Zivinbudas
Zivinbudas has been banned for a period of one year, originally starting July 22, 2005. (Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Zivinbudas#One year ban) It has been extended to August 19, 2006.
Internodeuser
Internodeuser was banned for a year from June 20, 2005. This ban was extended until July 28, 2006 due to further legal threats made and further extended until January 15, 2007 for using a sockpuppet (User:Zordrac) before the initial ban had expired.
Skyring
Skyring was banned for a year from August 15, 2005 for wiki-stalking and acting in bad faith towards other contributors. This has now been extended multiple times due to Skyring creating numerous sockpuppets before the expiry of his ban. Skyring will be unbanned on User:Skyring/date. (update)
Rainbowwarrior1977
Rainbowwarrior1977 was banned indefinitely on 28 September, 2005 for harassment of several users. See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rainbowwarrior1977. Clarified intent to ban on Requests for Arbitration on January 1, 2006.
Pigsonthewing
Pigsonthewing was banned for a year from January 25, 2006 for edit warring, and behaviour towards other users that borders on wikistalking [23].
Beckjord
Jon-Erik Beckjord, editing as Beckjord, was banned for a year on February 7, 2006, for attempting to use Wikipedia to promote his own theories about Bigfoot and other paranormal phonomena, and harassing other users who tried to reason with him. This ban has been reset to April 10, 2007 due to evasion by anonymous IPs. See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Beckjord.
EffK
EffK (and all alternate identities) was banned on 8 February 2006 for one year for personal attacks and disruption of the encyclopedia. See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/EffK.
Jason Gastrich
Jason Gastrich and numerous sockpuppets were all banned for one year (From March 21, 2006) for flagrant violation of multiple policies, initially PoV pushing on theological articels, later incredible sock and meat puppetry, as well as infamously listing legitimate articles he had issues with for deletion. This ban has been reset to April 15, 2007 due to continued sockpuppetry. See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jason Gastrich.
Licorne
Was also banned for year, with other restrictions, by the AC, shortly after Gastrich (See above).
Zen-master
Zen-master was banned for one year [24] for violations of multiple policies, probation, and general inability to function within a societial space. Expires February 6, 2007.
Tina M. Barber
A breeder of a strain of dogs, Tina M. Barber, attempted to exert complete control over the article on them and made extreme personal attacks and violated the privacy of users who disagreed with her. She was banned for one year in an arbitration case. Expires March 25, 2007.
CheeseDreams
CheeseDreams was subject to an arbitration case which limited CheeseDreams' editing, and banned CheeseDreams for a year, starting from March 3, 2005. Later, CheeseDreams was indefinitely blocked for deliberatly compromising CheeseDreams' account (giving away the password). CheeseDreams also created multitudes of sockpuppets similar to the name "CheeseDreams". See Category:Wikipedia:Suspected sockpuppets of CheeseDreams. Expires March 28, 2007.
-Ril-
In an arbitration case against "-Ril-", it was decided that -Ril- was a sockpuppet of CheeseDreams. -Ril- was blocked indefinitely, and CheeseDreams' ban was reset to another year, starting from March 28, 2006. The confirmation was based on numerous typographical similarities and behaviour patterns common to both users. Additionally, -Ril- only edited while CheeseDreams was blocked. However, -Ril- edited for almost a year before it was noticed that -Ril- was a sockpuppet of CheeseDreams, and the account had been in use for well over a year before it was finally blocked permanently. -Ril- was previously subject to an aribitration case that forced a signature change on his part (It was originally "~~~~"), which -Ril- disliked.
Lightbringer
After an arbitration case preventing Lightbringer from editing any pages dealing with Freemasonry (Which he had issues with), Lightbringer created an army of sockpuppetries to try and have his way with verious freemasonry-related articels (See Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Lightbringer). He was later officially banned by the A.C. in a motion.
Zephram Stark
Banned for six months starting 2005-11-12 for personal attacks, edit warring, and disruption of his Arbitration case.
Banned by the Wikipedia community
As per the blocking and banning policies, a user who alienates and offends the community enough may eventually be blocked by an administrator... and no one is willing to unblock them. In such extreme cases, the user is considered to have been banned by the general community.
Pioneer-12
Pioneer-12 has been banned for insisting that his contributions to talk pages were not licensed under the GFDL, and thus by fundamentally denying the terms of use of the site. Returns frequently open proxy IPs. This ban may be lifted if Pioneer-12 agrees to abide Wikipedia's terms of use and license his signed comments under the GFDL. For more information, see User:Pioneer-12.
Rovoam
After an Arbitration decision which limited his editing, Rovoam has employed anon IPs from various service providers (AOL, MSN, NetZero, RoadRunner, DSLExtreme) to continue his particular editing agenda and vandalize user pages and talk pages.
This person has been extremely persistent in vandalizing numerous Azerbaijan and Turkey-related entries, such as Nagorno-Karabakh, Caucasian Albania, Artsakh, Arran (Azerbaijan), Urartu, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kura-Araxes culture, Nakhichevan, Safavids, Karabakh, Khojaly, Khojaly massacre, Stepanakert, Khankendi, Demographics of Azerbaijan, History of Azerbaijan, History of Turkey, Oghuz Turks, Turks and even Template:Europe (removing Azerbaijan from the list).
He also made threats to escalate his efforts, including using "a DoS attack, which will make Wikipedia unavailable for all editors".
More updated information and a list of IP addresses are provided at User:Rovoam.
Gibraltarian
While being decided against by an Arbitration case, Gibraltarian's main account was blocked by an administrator, and he started to use many sock puppets to circumvent his block. Gibraltarian edited pages on Gibraltar from an extreme PoV point, refused to allow alternate opinions, vandalized when he didn't get his way, and harassed almost all who had to do with him. His actions have lead to almost all of Gibraltar being blocked at one point or another.
Tommstein
While he was the subject of an ArbCom case, and after insulting several members of the ArbCom, Tommstein was blocked indefinitely. No other admin was willing to unblock him. The ArbCom acknowledged and confirmed that Tommstein had been banned by the Wikipedia community. See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tommstein.
Benapgar
After many distinct blocks for personal attacks and disruption, Benapgar was indefinitely blocked on March 25, 2006. The Arbitration Committee confirmed that he has been banned by the Wikipedia community.
Flavius vanillus
Blocked on April 2nd, 2006 per the NLP arbcom decision. He was given multiple opportunities to be civil and to avoid personal attacks. He was blocked 6 times for violations of the arbcom case. This was the last straw. He made it very clear that he had no intention of following Wikipedia policy.
-Inanna-
After many individual blocks for edit warring and incivility, -Inanna-'s last block was extended to indefinite and she was banned following discussion on the Administrators' noticeboard (see discussion). She also engaged in racist remarks.
Mistress Selina Kyle
After a long history of blocks for incivility, edit warring, and bad-faith trolling, Mistress Selina Kyle was given a month-long block. When she used the sockpuppet Bob, just Bob to evade the block and make personal attacks, the block was extended to indefinite. [25]
Blu Aardvark
Blu Aardvark was given a short block for egregious personal attacks, which quickly spiraled into an indefinite block when he began using abusive sockpuppets, continuing personal attacks both on- and off-wiki, and vandalizing multiple Wikimedia projects.
Daniel Brandt
Daniel Brandt was banned from Wikipedia for repeated legal threats and harassment of Wikipedia editors despite many warnings. The conflict was related to Brandt's attempt to have his article, Daniel Brandt, deleted from Wikipedia. [26]
Colignatus
Colignatus was banned from Wikipedia following a content dispute during which he threatened to complain to two other users' professors and deans and expose them to possible punishment from their schools for edits which Colignatus felt were invalid, proceeded with these threats, and demanded money from the two users for the time he had spent writing a long document about the issues. See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Colignatus for more.
Jeffrey Vernon Merkey
Jeffrey Vernon Merkey, first editing as Gadugi and later under various other IPs and registered names, was banned for legal threats, repeatedly alleging that Internet stalkers were roaming freely on Wikipedia.
Rms125a@hotmail.com
Maliscious personal insults and hostile attitude. Was taken to the ArbCom, which suggested just banning him. Was later banned.
Jason Gastrich
Having the singular honor of two entries on this page, Jason Gastrich has continued to abuse sockpuppets and has been banned indefinitely by the community.