Abuse response team members:
Here are the indicators for your convenience, use them in the Case Disposition and Log.
Indicators
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Indicators
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Request completed:
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Approved for investigation. {{ARA|approved}}
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Approved for investigation.
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Investigation Complete {{ARA|complete}}
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Investigation Complete, waiting for a contactor.
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Report done, ISP being contacted. {{ARA|contact}}
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Investigation Complete, Contacting ISP.
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Actioned. {{ARA|actioned}}
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Contact made, report completed.
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Resolved. {{ARA|resolved}}
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Issue has been resolved.
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Closed without response. {{ARA|noreply}}
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No reply from ISP.
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The contact has done what they can and cannot do anything else to help block the editor. {{ARA|nofurther}}
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The contact has done what they can and cannot do anything else to help block the editor.
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The contact has done what they can and cannot do anything else to help block the editor. {{ARA|nofurther}}
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Organization has done what they can to help.
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Request on hold:
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On Hold. because: {{ARA|hold}}
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Investigation on hold.
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Awaiting reply. {{ARA|wait}}
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ISP contacted, awaiting response.
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Request declined:
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Rejected. {{ARA|rejected}}
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Rejected, doesn't qualify for an abuse report.
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Stale {{ARA|StaleIP}}
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Too Old.
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Rejected. Not enough blocks on this IP. Please re-list when there are at least five blocks. {{ARA|reject|block}}
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Re-list when there are at least five blocks.
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Rejected. There are no blocks for this IP. Abuse reports are used for IPs with long-term history of abuse, not individual incidents of vandalism. {{ARA|reject|noblock}}
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No blocks notice.
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Rejected. Insuffient Block length. Please refile after IP has been blocked for a duration of one year. {{ARA|reject|length}}
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IP has not been blocked for over a year yet.
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Cancellation:
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Canceled: {{ARA|canceled}}
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Investigation or report canceled.
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Information:
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Additional information needed {{ARA|MoreInfo}}
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Need more info.
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Deferred {{ARA|Deferred}}
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Deferred to another abuse dept.
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Note: {{ARA|note}}
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Something worth noting.
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When contacting ISPs via please use the email templates provided at Wikipedia:Abuse response/Contact templates.
Other users:
When reporting IPs, keep in mind that the report will be declined if:
- The IP has not been blocked at least 5 times, 1 of which must be recently,
- The IP is a suspected sockpuppet, please consider going to the Sockpuppet investigations noticeboard instead, and
- The report relates to repeated abuse from a user/users, such reports go to the Long-term abuse noticeboard.