Thread:Cinnabar The Evil Gem Chemist 55555555555555555550/@comment-8105307-20131117045235/@comment-30095342-20131117165331

This highlights the need for more admins- none of them were around at the time and I was the first admin to see it. I spent a good hour cleaning up his mess and that was done mostly with batch delete and one-click delete. I couldn't have done it much quicker. I have NEVER seen vandalism on this scale before. It isn't this bad on Wikipedia 90% of the time.

And yet, this can happen again. Vandals are effectively criminals- close one loophole and it's only a matter of time before they exploit another. It's only a matter of time before something extraordinary happens like what happened while I was asleep, and more admins are needed to minimise the damage.

I gave my thanks to 4 people for making the cleanup as easy as possible- Wildoneshelper (created one-click delete), Blueeighthnote (alerted me to vandal), 3primetime3 and Julianthewiki (both tagged spam pages for deletion, making them easy to find). Without you, this process would have taken far longer. Please keep up the good work, it makes our lives much easier.