A vandalism-only account is an account that is used only to vandalize Wikipedia.

Dealing with vandalism-only accounts

Vandalism-only accounts are usually blocked indefinitely, sometimes without warning. Occasionally, the first block implemented may be temporary. If vandalism continues after a temporary block expires, it is extremely rare for the second block to be temporary.

A suspected vandalism-only account can be reported at Administrator intervention against vandalism.

IP addresses

IP addresses cannot be considered vandalism-only accounts, as IP addresses are sometimes shared by many devices (by way of network address translation or a proxy server), and many are reassigned to another computer after a period of time. However, if an IP address has been used only or mostly for vandalism over a long period of time, it may be subject to a very long block, up to a year and occasionally even longer, but is almost never blocked indefinitely.

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