Hey there, I'm RyanCross (talk·contribs), a Wikipedian. I first started contributing to the English Wikipedia during mid February 2008 when I saw that "Log in / create account" link. I wondered, "What would it be like to have an account on Wikipedia, one of the most popular websites in the world?" After creating my account, I was amazed and astonished having known that I can actually edit and change Wikipedia articles, making it visible across the Internet and the world. From there, I decided to stick around Wikipedia. Even today, I'm still contributing to this site, and hope to continue doing so, helping to make this world a better place, one edit at a time.
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122.162.178.77(talk·contribs·deleted contribs·filter log·WHOIS·RDNS·RBLs·http·block user·block log) I gently warned this person about their unexplained, suspect removal of content from Raja Pervaiz Ashraf before I saw their two dozen plus edits from the past several hours. Each one I've reviewed looks like a random birthdate change, contentious removals or additions of unsourced ethnicity claims, and other iffy-at-best stuff. I'm not 100% sure they need a block quite yet but I'd really appreciate a rollback on everything they've done today. City of Silver 17:15, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Comment: I don't see any vandalism there. And reported after one first-level warning? signed, Willondon (talk) 17:23, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
@Willondon: As I explained, I wasn't aware of the rampage this user was on until after I left the warning. Had I seen all those edits first, I'd have started with a first-and-final. The vandalism itself is lowkey but it's very, very familiar to me because I patrol pending changes and there are tons of articles in the South Asian topic area that are under that level of protection. At Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, they removed the ethnic descriptor "Punjabi" from the lede even though Ashraf is unambiguously, uncontroversially Punjabi. South Asia has a long, ugly, ongoing history of hatred and bias over differences in race, religion, class, money, politics, and more and accordingly, BLPs like this (relevant to India and Pakistan and, to a lesser extent, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) regularly get attacked.
Also, this anonymous editor has made several unexplained date changes, mostly to living persons' birth dates. That's not always going to be problematic but it's a red flag every single time. They've stopped since I left them a second-level warning but I doubt it'll last. City of Silver 18:14, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Edits are not vandalism. Please ensure recent edits constitute vandalism before re-reporting.Bbb23 (talk) 19:02, 30 May 2024 (UTC)