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Long term abuse is a page intended to hold information describing editors or IPs who should be known by as many users as possible to aid in detecting and defeating their policy violations. Think of it as a "post office wall" with wanted posters. This page has been confused with several other pages, so please check the "Explanation" section if this is your first time here.

[edit] Explanation

Vandalism
Dealing with vandalism

Obvious vandalism
Requests for investigation
Long term abuse
Open proxies
Resources & assistance
Counter-vandalism tools
Cleaning up vandalism
Counter-vandalism unit
IP WHOIS tools
Further information
AOL and dynamic proxies
ISP contact information
Don't provoke vandals
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This page should contain only properly categorized, unique entries on specific vandals with enough relevant and correct information to allow other people to identify them and their tracks. To keep this page functioning smoothly, please:

Don't add an entry here requesting action, such as a block or page protect. This page is not scanned regularly, the same way WP:AIV or, to a lesser degree, WP:RFPP is. If you need someone blocked or a pages protected, please refer to those two links.
Don't add entries for users who have never engaged in serious vandalism. Generally speaking, if their main account isn't blocked indefinitely, their "vandalisms" don't merit inclusion here. If you aren't sure, ask on the talk page.
Don't use this page for discussions. If there needs to be a discussion, start it on the talk page and link to its section from this page. If there is a discussion going on elsewhere, link to it.
Don't "sign" your entries, but do say who originally reported them, or who are the most knowledgeable about them so they can be contacted if need be.
Don't use relative phrases like "recently" or "lately" without qualification. Try using "as of" to remedy this: "As of August 3rd, ..."
Don't add entries without the vital information enumerated below; they will be almost guaranteed useless and will be removed.
Remember to update entries with new or important information.

Contents


[edit] Criteria for addition

Users listed should have a marked past of policy violations related to the entry. User accounts that are listed as vandals but only have minor blocks, or "major vandals"/"sockpuppets" that aren't blocked indefinitely, will likely be removed. The relevant logs should back up your assertions, not contradict them.

Note that shared IP addresses (EG. Schools, libraries, prisons, legislatures, etc.) engaging in egregious vandalisms should be reported on this page as they specialize in dealing with such IPs.

[edit] Criteria for removal

The most common causes of removal are:

  1. Archiving old entries of inactive vandals.
  2. Removing improper or useless additions.

[edit] Adding to this page

  1. If this vandal was previously active over a year ago, check the archives. If they're listed in there, create a new section here and link to the archives.
  2. Check the subpages to ensure that they aren't already known about there.
  3. If the vandal's totally new, create an entry at the bottom of the appropriate section (see below for an explanation), with a descriptive heading, and under it a "Modus operandi" subsection. Use {{userlinks}} to list registered users involved and {{IPvandal}} for IP addresses.
    • This is vital: Without information on what a certain "vandal" does or how they do it, it will be impossible for other readers to understand how to spot them. Entries without this information will almost certainly be removed. See below for more information.
  1. If they're already listed on this page, add new information if you have it (Such as new sockpuppets or MOs). Discussion should be kept to a minimum, such as an open ended question about a puzzling attribute. In this instance, if you post the answer, incorporate it into the entry and remove the question. This page is extremely long as it is, if there needs to be prolonged discussion, use a talk page and link to it from the entry. Off topic discussion should be removed by anyone and any large discussion that has idled may be summarized.

[edit] Necessary information in an entry

Entries MUST have the following information to have utility:

  • List of (some of) the accounts using by using {{vandal}}/{{IPvandal}} templates. If they have a category for their sockpuppets, link to it.
  • A description of their vandalism(s). Good detail is important: unneeded information will be trimmed out by others, but a underexplained entry will require other people to sift through links, or just remove it.
  • Difference ("diff") link examples of their vandalisms. This is extremely important as it will show exactly what the vandal does and explain the entry. Note that linking to an IPs contributions or the history of a page is NOT passable: IPs get reassigned, pages keep getting edits. After a while, these will push the vandalism further into history and make the entry on the vandal(s) very hard to use.

With both lists, you don't need to go above 5, barring something extremely unusual. As an example, you only need to see 4 or 5 Willy on Wheels sockpuppets to be able to guess what every other one looks like. If there are more then that many sockpuppets, consider creating a category and tagging their userpages with sockpuppet tags.

If you aren't sure that your entry is correct, it is OK to request formatting help in then entry. If people have questions when they fix the format, they may ask you for more details.

[edit] Sections

The page is divided up into sections as follows:

  • The Archives which are periodically created for old entries who have become inactive for a significant length of time.
  • Entries, comprizing (in addition to regular entries):
    • Subpages for vandals who are a serious enough threat to warrant a subpage for easy reference (Please read the guideline there before creating a subpage).
    • Serial SPAMmers who literally do nothing but SPAM, frequently by inserting the same link into every article that's possibly related to what they're pushing.
  • To be correctly filed — Holding pen where entries are added by default. If you're in a hurry you can add yours here, but you should try and find the correct section yourself.

[edit] Archives

[edit] Entries

[edit] Subpages

These pages contain information on more serious or unusual cases which merit a fixed location of reference. Before creating a new subpage, please read the guidelines. Frequently people jump directly to creating a subpage instead of listing a vandal on this page which often results in unnecessary pages which serve little purpose and end up getting deleted.

Guidelines for creating subpages: 
  • Bonaparte — "Malicious sockpuppetry", vote stacking, consenseusfraud, ethnic disruption related to Romania and Moldova.
  • General Tojo — POV pushing on Parkinson's disease.
  • Israelbeach — Personal attacks and harassment; legal threats.
  • JarlaxleArtemis – Personal attacks, harassment, and e-mail bombing.
  • Lightbringer — POV pushing on Freemasonry, personal attacks, and ban evasion.
  • MascotGuy — Inserting hoax information into specific articles; possibly autistic.
  • Primetime and on Meta — Deliberate copyright infringement, personal attacks and harrassment on and off wiki, cross-wiki sockpuppetry.
  • Randallrobinstine — Childish vandalism to specific articles and images; creates socks with "Vrray" in their names; may be autistic. (Vandal is likely now inactive due to the indef blocking of his static IP address.)
  • Roitr — Adding false information on various militaries, especially Russia.
  • Universe Daily (No connection with the website) — Massive deceptive linkspam; personal attacks.
  • VaughanWatch — POV pushing on subjects related to Vaughan, Ontario.

[edit] Serial SPAMmers

Consider also reporting these spammers to the meta:Spam blacklist. If the addition is sucessful, you may wish to immediately archive or remove the section here.

[edit] Universe Today and sockpuppet-SPAMmers

Operating most notabily from the shared 203.10.59.63 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log) this user is a sneaky sockpuppeting SPAMMer. All this info is at /Universe Daily.

[edit] AlloExpat

[edit] SexInRussia spammer

[edit] Car and Ringtone Spammer

User keeps adding external links to his car website or ringtone/phone website, which only contains Wikipedia information (directly copied with no credit given to Wikimedia) and sponsored adverts. The links appear on many 'car' pages such as those of Aston Martin, Mercedes Benz, Land Rover etc (in the external links section). Spamming has continued to this day, despite a 24 hour ban by user RadioKirk. 50+ articles have had links added, some have now been removed be me and others, but he is persistent...

[edit] Bulldog Spammer

Using wikipedia to try to sell dogs, got final warning twice, still came back and spammed.
Cleaned up the links for now (linksearch). Suggest blacklisting if the spammer persists.

[edit] datasheet4u.com serial spamer

Not surprizingly this spammer hits the Datasheet page (history) and others related to electronics. The domain was Added to the SPAM blacklist.

[edit] "We are all looking fsorward to a great sseason"

These SPAMmers, who may be running a botnet from zombie computers, add trash like this. Many of the IPs are in LACNIC's range). A site-specific search on Google reveals that it's been somewhat successful at getting some indexing. An example IP is 83.238.44.12 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log) on June 1 2006. These malefactors have hit up other websites as well: [1]

[edit] SPUSA spammer

Anonymous IPs with similar IP numbers have persistently added links to the Socialist Party USA website and the wikipedia page on the organisation. These links number in the hundreds to any article on a social issue, such as black power, and re-adds the links repeatedly after they've been reverted by other editors. They are usually in the "see also" and "external links section, but sometimes, the same editor removes content critical of the SPUSA, or adds links in the body of the article (e.g. this diff, this diff and this diff). Occasionally these links may be considered legitimate, but the vast majority are things like "the SPUSA cares about this issue too" (e.g. this diff). It's hard to tell if they are honestly trying to promote the group or turn people against it! The editor/s have used the the following IP addresses, among others:

[edit] Shran/CantStandYa

  • Previously identified sock accounts/IPs:
  • Sample of articles which have been edited by more than one current account. *Conspicuous edit warring.
  • "Shran" uses sockpuppets to edit war. He has been asked repeatedly by editors to stick to one account. The user, through various accounts, has protested that the IPs are either open to many users, or are used by a "little brother" or "brother-in-law". Despite these claims the edits are clearly the work of one person. The previous set of sock puppet accounts was blocked several times in the fall of 2005, and a new set has been created since then. As with previous socks, these accounts were used to abuse consensus and fraudulate votes in CfDs and an AfD. User:Jayjg checkusered these accounts and showed a strong connection between many of them.


[edit] InFlames vandalizer

[edit] Mr Belvedere poster

A suspicious vandal who creates accounts in a fairly set pattern (See below) and then adds an image of "Mr. Belvedere" to various articles with only minor relations ("Mr. Belvedere never drove on Nevada State Route 689" was one) or outright nonsense ("Noted polygamist Mr. Belvedere was not a fan of the 1890 manifesto").

A note from the former Mrbelvedereposter: I have given up vandalism and am contributing constructively to Wikipedia under a different name. I applogize for my past actions (although you must admit a bit of quality absurdist humor...). I want to make it clear that I am not responsible for any alleged mrbelvedereposter beyond #28, with the exception of "Iwasinspiredbythegreatmrbelvedereposter" and "mrbelvedereposter37". Every other user who has claimed to be mrbelvedereposter since I retired is not me. Again, I apologize for any harm I may have caused. Helpfulposter 05:28, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

According to the former "Mrbelvedereposter" vandal, these accounts were made by other people.

[edit] DickyRobert

DickyRobert (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) was an editor who was blocked indefinitely for disruption on pages related to warez and threats. He regularly creates new sockpuppets but doesn't use them untill they're old enough to skirt semi-protection, then he'll flood his chosen targets with them, frequently using each account only once, whether or not it's been blocked.

His sockpuppet names generally are names of famous people (User:Issac Newton), or various productions. See Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of DickyRobert for the full list of suspected accounts.

[edit] Blocked User:Gibraltarian

Gibraltarian (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) was indefinitely blocked in mid-December 2005 for constant sockpuppetry, personal attacks, malice and POV pushing. His sockpuppets can be seen here and here.

He uses the most major dial-up ISP in the territory, hence blocking them or individual IPs will result in collateral damage to most of most of Gibraltar. Keep the blocks short: Enough to make him impatient to re-dial-up. Also note that 212.120.227.226 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log), which is occasionally used by Gibnews (talk • contribs), is legitimate. A history of the IPs he's used may be seen here.

Comments made by Gibraltarian may be signed "Gibraltarian": (Example).

His purview is mostly the following, and can be identified by extreme POV edits:

[edit] SpongeBob/The Shining vandal

[edit] Sollog

Followers of a self-styled god named Sollog frequently vandalise the Wikipedia. They at one point had a website at http://www.wikipediasucks.com.

Articles regularly hit up on are:

Sockpuppets / Meatpuppets of Sollog will usually make themselves known by invoking the name of Sollog or linking to the aforementioned site or http://www.247news.net/2004/20041211-wikipedia.shtml, also sharing a similar writing style, using UPPER CASE for emphasis. See Talk:Sollog for information on their past behavior. An example of Sollog vandalism can be seen in this edit to Henry VIII of England:

In the past the following proxies have been used:

The physical location for most of the attacks seems to be Atlanta, Georgia and from northeastern Broward County, Florida, possibly Pompano Beach, Florida and/or Lighthouse Point, Florida.

[edit] Super Nintendo vandal

This vandal vandalizes pages by replacing the page title or keyterms with the word Super Nintendo. This vandal moves at very high speed. I only have 2 IP's for this vandal but I'm almost positive that there are more.--Ichiro (会話|+|投稿記録|メール) 04:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

  • It is also possible that the Super Nintendo is responsible creating accounts that imitate WoW and tCv. This vandal also blanks his talk page linking to WoW and tCv when blocked. --Ichiro (会話|+|投稿記録|メール) 02:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

IPs used by the Super Nintendo vandal


[edit] Zephram Stark

After being banned six months by the Arbitration Committee for POV-pushing on Terrorism and related pages, personal attacks (including a racial slur [5]), and unwillingness to cooperate with his fellow editors, he created multitudes of sockpuppets to circumvent his ban, which has been reset several times. --TML1988 21:39, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Images:

Frequently, he will upload an image. It can either be a strange one that he created, or just a random one that he swiped from the web. He also creates sockpuppets and uploads images to Wikipedia Commons. (See [6], [7], [8], [9]). They're all Zephram sockpuppets, many of the same images have been deleted from Wikipedia. If anyone uses any of these images here, he is most likely a sockpuppet. For example War on Sockpuppetism. --JW1805 (Talk) 17:02, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Currently identified sockpuppets:

Articles to watch (and associated talk pages):


[edit] Krabs502

  • Krabs502 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) seems to create multiple sockpuppets with usernames Krabs5**. Creates articles with dubious validity and inserts uncited (most likely hoax) information into articles. Attempts to contact the user have failed since whenever one username gets warned the user just creates another one to continue editing in the same manner. Most used account seems to be Krabs514 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) and the most recent is Krabs520 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log). Krabs520 removed an AFD tag from an article Krabs514 created. --TheKoG (talk|contribs) 13:32, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Krabs502 just tried to remove the AFD off of the same article (The Girl Who Turned to Stone (video game)) again. Has created yet another hoax article (The Smallest People in the World (video game)). --TheKoG (talk|contribs) 18:47, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
    • I might as well note his IP address 216.83.121.194 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log), which he also makes similar hoax edits under. --Oakster (Talk) 15:36, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Continued vandalism of this kind from Krabs and associated socks[10], most recently User:Krabs600. Kaisershatner 15:47, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
See [11], and [12] Kaisershatner 15:48, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Why isn't this guy blocked at all? Any real edit he makes is drowned by the dozens of vandalistic ones he makes. - Hahnchen 18:15, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Erlopez2 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) blocked

I have blocked this [ab]user for 6 months for causing repeated disruption (blanking, uncivil comments, suspected sockpuppetry) in Anti-semitism [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] and Anti-Christian prejudice [18] and for ad hom attack [19]. ←Humus sapiens ну? 08:17, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Hryun (D.A. Arbatsky vandal)

User has declared a "war" against Wikipedia because it did not allow the article on a purported scientific theory of Dmitri Arbatsky (who is probably the vandal) to survive. As such has created many single-edit sockpuppets and has made various edits to quantum physics articles, many of them intentional vandalism (inserting incorrect statements, moving or deleting sections) or variations of self-promotion spam. See Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Hryun for a list of them. They all have very similarly uninventive names and usually link to a diff of his declared "war" on Wikipedia, lord knows why. It would be great if we could assess whether or not the ISP, who is obviously assigning dynamic IPs, is worth contacting or just worth blocking alltogether. --Fastfission 00:08, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 206.170.104.*

Keeps vandalising Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the user pages of editors who revert his vandalism, and removes warnings from own talk pages. All the IPs have been blocked before but vandalism continues... --Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 20:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unemployed, living in basement, aka Brando(n)03, aka Louisville Vandal

Unemployed,_living_in_basement (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) is a troll account which was indefinely blocked for repeated vandalism. He attempts to harass users who deal with his trollery by vandalising their user and user talk pages (Including using malicious redirects) and creating fraudulent impostor usernames and attempting to ruin their reputation. He has also made homophobic vandalisms against gay users. According to User:Chris24, his name is Jeffrey Brandon Morris.

Brandon03 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) shows strong knowledge of WpA process and culture, suggesting this vandal has done his research or has been around for a while. Many of his IPs are registered to Qwest in Louisville, Kentucky, hence the name.

See also, Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Unemployed, living in basement.

He has claimed that he is going to stop vandalising. [20] [21] Note that this was one of the hallmarks of the "North Carolina vandal".

[edit] Fursecution Vandal

A user has been repeatedly attacking articles related to Furry fandom, Therianthropy and Otherkin. The user violates WP:HA. The vandalism often involves insults aimed at these various subsultures and/or bad-faith merge requests. The vandalism also involves user page vandalism, hate speech, and is not just blanking.

User:Fursecution_vandal's sock puppets list is here.

September 3

Since August 24, attacks on this group of pages are still being observed, but if they are from the same editor, the MO may be taking a turn for the more subtle. Rather than delete entire sections or add merge requests, recent attacks have been single sentences or even single words, continuing the pattern of WP:HA, but from accounts not flaunting an obvious connection with TFV. These may be unrelated incidents, but I would caution editors to keep a close eye out regardless. Baxil 09:07, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Armking

This user engages in circular redirect vandalism (Pointing two pages at each other via redirects). His original account was Armking (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log), and he has since started creating socks. Most of his accounts begin with "arm" or end with "mra" (arm backwards)

[edit] Asian fetish vandal

User logs in from a randomized German IP 80.138.x.x to post racist, anti-semitic, and sexist material under the rubric of "anthropology." Uses white supremecist sources. Most notorious for persistent vandalism to Asian fetish. Also attacks Beethoven, Racial fetishism, Anti-relativity, Mongoloid, Special relativity, Anthropology, and possibly other pages. Was a major vandal on Virago until the page was deleted and protected. Also insults other editors based on assumptions about their gender, religion, or ethnic background. Banning is impractical due to the range of IP addresses used. January - March 2006 addresses are listed below. Durova 04:50, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

80.138.128.87 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.130.146 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.134.141 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.141.154 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.142.102 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.148.67 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.152.165 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.152.199 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.158.108 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.166.174 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.168.39 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.168.54 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.168.55 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.168.9 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.172.139 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.172.31 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.174.234 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.175.232 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.177.147 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.184.169 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.185.229 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.188.125 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.188.86 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.189.79 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.190.240 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.190.246 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.190.9 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.191.138 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.191.193 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.191.193 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.191.208 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.192.174 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.192.181 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.192.188 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
80.138.192.188 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)
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80.138.194.83 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log)

[edit] "The Blasphemy Guy"

This person repeatedly vandalizes the dinosaur article by blanking it and replacing it with a Young-Earth fundamentalist Christian creed that states that dinosaurs did not exist. An example of this can be seen here. He or she also makes personal attacks against reverters; for example: [22] [23] [24].

Some IPs used:

He or she may also hit articles relating to Islam.

[edit] The Middle East Conflict Man

The Middle East Conflict Man (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log), indefinitely banned from three Wikipedias (English and both Norwegians), uses numerous sockpuppets to make a highly POV edit to Socialism, as well as making inflammatory/vandalistic edits to various other socialism-related articles. As of late July 2006 he has 50 suspected sockpuppets. Blocks on his IP are apparently ineffective.

The sockpuppets variously claim to be from two different people: given their similar behaviour, they may be treated as one entity in accordance with Arbitration Committee rulings

[edit] Banned User:Irate

Banned user persistently returning using revolving IPs in the 84.9.x.x and 87.75.x.x range. This user uses the edit summary "revert vandalism" or "rvv".

[edit] Emico

Emico (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) was banned from editing Iglesia ni Cristo related articles for one year from August 21, 2005 (provided he doesn't violate his parole) by the arbitration comittee: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Emico. He has not honored that decision and continues to cause disruption at the article and users involved with his ArbCom hearing. Emico is also believed to be using proxys to evade blocks, making it nearly impossible to confirm using checkuser functionality. A member of the Arbitration Comittee has declared explicitly that Emico's edits and edits edits of suspected sockpuppets may be reverted "without comment": [25]

[edit] Modus operandi

The following is a list of editing patterns which are common with Emico and his sockpuppets:

  • Posts only at Iglesia ni Cristo and its related articles.
  • Personal attacks or negative opinions aimed the contributers who are against him (mostly the ones who have participated in his ArbCom hearing). This includes, but is not limited to, comments about contributers' past policy violations or/and lack of knowlege of the subject matter.
  • New usernames where the majority of contributions are of the above point.
  • Posts coming from proxy addresses. A checkuser result has proven Emico posts from different IPs from all over the world.
  • Article edits which are nearly identical to Emico's initial edit pattern, which is explained at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Emico.
  • Insult usernames which parodies current contributers' screen names (eg User:Starbucks, User:LenlenBunting)
  • Massive ommisions of sourced content which are critical of the Church.
  • Use of sockpuppets (See Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Emico and Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Emico)
  • Use of open proxies


[edit] Tooj117/The Geek Vandal

Tooj117 was a vandal that began vandalising the page Geek by repetedly adding a ridiculous picure of a stereotypical geek. The vandal the began adding this picture on various pages, or just doing other vandalism such as page blanking, and false information. After being warned several times, the user was blocked indefinitely. Tooj117 created many sockpuppets and had accounts doing the same vandalism from different IPs. The vandalism of the page geek still happens frequently, but not nearly as often as before. Tooj117 also "teamed up" with Stroon and felt it nececary to advertise their alliance and club on a bunch of pages. It seems the nonesense from Tooj117 has been reduced, but not completely stopped.

[edit] Nokhc / aluminium, sulfur

Nokhc is a vandal who attacks articles with unsourced comments and outright bias. His main targets are aluminium and sulfur, where he claims that the spellings are "a vulgar error that should not be perpetuated" and "a ridiculous spelling", respectively. He also seems to be homophobic (per this edit) and mysinogynistic (per this). He may be "EnthusiastFRANCE (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)".

Other targets include Jeremy Bentham, Stanford prison experiment, Prostitution, Foreskin, Morality, Naturism.

Userpage vandalism and personal attacks, signs himself as User:Nokhc (indef blocked). IPs used:

Creates one-time socks: User:Diched, User:Dichead, User:RESURGAM, User:V----l Sch----l, User:Dududuh, User:Duh duh duh, User:Not the duke of Devonshire, User:Master of the prick, User:TICK TOCK, User:DINGGGGG!, User:At the speed of light, User:Wikipedia is immoral, User:Porud!!!

[edit] Disney/Barney vandal

Since late May, this user has vandalized several articles related to The Walt Disney Company, Barney & Friends, Public Broadcasting Service and The Simpsons. His modus operandi is to introduce inaccuracies and bad formatting, much of it subtle to inexperienced users or those who know little about either subject. Edits from all IPs are identical, so it's virtually certain they are operated by the same user.

Articles frequented by this user include:

Disney articles:

Barney and PBS articles:

Other:

[edit] User:Kenwood 3000

This vandal has two targets:

  1. The article on jazz fusion band Brand X and related articles, replacing tracklistings and band lineups with fake ones, occasionally inventing entire imaginary albums. A giveaway is including an 'Ian Hart-Stein' in the lineup.
  2. Libellous vandalism against biographies of living persons, the majority black celebrities.

Has created numerous sockpuppets, and further ones should be blocked and rolled back on sight.

[edit] User:Enlighter1 & sock puppets

Original report by clearthought Sept 2006

Seems to always vandalize Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press the most (sometimes other news and non-news articles too), as well as making personal and vile attacks against users. Always reverts the reverts people do to his/her (Enlighter1's) vandalism by saying something like "rv vandalism" or "I am not the real vandal" in the edit summary. Has edits and actions aforementioned consistent to all of this users IP and registered user sock puppets. Also, when registering a username, tends to have the name end in "1" or have something to do with "AllPowerful" or "AllKnowing". A vandal profile page keeping an eye on this vandal is needed (like what has been done with the 'communism' and 'on wheels' vandals, but obviously not as serious). I myself, and others, have spent much time trying to take care of this vandal, so I think that the Wikipedia community — as well as admins who can actually do something when help is needed — should be made known to this new serial vandal. Still very active 30.11.2006: [32] activity includes "archiving" aka blanking of larger talkpages as well as targeting specific talkpages. See [33] [34] [35] for typical patterns. Often uses webproxies - some open - some backslashing.

[edit] User:Outoftuneviolin

This vandal uses similarly named sockpuppets to vandalize. His edits follow few, set patterns. Their vandalisms are usually written in "AOL speak" or just poorly spelled. For the most part, they're trollish posts attacking evolution and users they think are "evilutionists" [sic].

His sock puppets: category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Outoftuneviolin Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Outoftuneviolin

[edit] Galatasaray, etc POV pushers

Galatasaray and some other Turkish football articles are repeatedly hit on by an IP-hopping, sockpuppeting vandal who will engage in midless reverts of these pages to "their" version regardless of the differences. When partially protected, this vandal uses sockpuppets such as Burak18 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) and Johnny200 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) to perpetrate the same reversions.

A sampling of IPs used by this vandal will show their typical MO: 194.171.121.27 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log),124.50.89.17 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log), 148.233.120.49 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log), 200.76.104.121 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) 82.168.59.236 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) and 82.92.94.108 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)

Most vandalic edits involve "Turkifying" Galatasaray or other clubs by removing lists of foreign coaches. They also add unsourced conjectures ("X'll be coach of Galatasaray next year", etc.) and removing dispute tags calling attention to their unsourced assertions.

Administrator Robdurbar (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) has been helping out with dealing with this vandal, concerns (New sockpuppets, etc) sent to him may be understood more quickly.

[edit] Ionocraft, Lifter (ionic propulsion device), and Biefeld–Brown effect

An AOL user has been using AOL's proxies to persistently revert two articles (one of which was moved to a new name). Their edits are always exactly the same; replacing the entire article with an old version that they wrote in a bot-like fashion. They could easily be countered by a bot that watched the page and looked for their signature edit. Page protection logs (due entirely to this vandal): Lifter (now entitled Ionocraft), Biefeld–Brown effect — Omegatron 19:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jinxtengu Vandal

Operating from the main account called JINXTENGU (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) this vandalizer persistently launches personal attacks, creates a large amount of malicious sock puppets, creates imposter/spoof accounts, and many of his accounts have been blocked but one in particular was blocked for issuing a death threat (see this post) JINXTENGU is also being reported at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/JINXTENGU and this check user report caused one of the static IPs to be blocked for a month. This user has also claimed to have written a program specifically aiming to create large amounts of sockpuppet accounts to override bans (see this).

Their sockpuppets can be seen at: category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_JINXTENGU. Note that Prussian Poet gal. (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) and Tunisian Prophet poet (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) are both attacks on User:Persian Poet Gal.

The following is a list of diff pages tracking some of his vandalism/personal attacks throughout 2006:

[edit] Suki vandal

64.110.251.69 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log) and 209.107.121.103 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log): see Talk:Suki. Long-term hoax edits every month or so, notably to Suki and New World Religion, asserting the existence of a major world religion called "SUKI(tm)", despite repeated consensus to delete due to absence of reliable sources. Some examples: [36], [37].

The IP above attempted to remove this section [38] and is noted for ranting wildly and making borderline personal attacks on people he runs in to.

[edit] Sports television vandal

Keeps vandalising Category:Sports television in the United States articles. Blocked several times but keeps on adding the nonsense after the blocks expire. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 19:00, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

  • Tends to add the phrase "robertsrobert" or something similar to some of the vandalism. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 19:03, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joan of Arc vandal

This vandal edits Joan of Arc, Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc, and Joan of Arc facts and trivia, homosexuality, cross-dressing, Catholicism and related articels from a deliberate PoV. Uses AOL (64.12.116.x, 152.163.100.x, 205.188.11x.x) and sockpuppets.

This vandal uses numerous methods of PoV pushing, including addition of inaccurate statements to cited passages, malicious alteration of footnotes, removal of references they disagree with, replacement of material with PoV text, and in general trying to bias the articel towards a pro-Catholic, anti-homosexual view. Rarely, they will make legit edits.

Intermittent activity goes back possibly as far as 2004.

See also:

Original report by User:Durova.

[edit] The Name Vandal (TNV)

  • Modus operandi/analysis

IP (85.210.xxx.xxx) add one after another unsourced/false first & middle names,mostly in professional wrestlers[39][40][41][42][43]/Football articles[44][45][46][47][48], Googling shows no results verifying users edits with rare exceptions., the vandal will sometimes revert own earlier vandalism when someone discovers his activities; an example: (vandalism another user removes fictionalize middle namethe vandal will later add the true middle name back), will also engage in blatant vandalism in articles[49][50][51][52][53] and on user pages.

Known Ip's

  • Some of the Valdals other edits

" you wikipedia assholes think u can stop me ha ha ha ha ha" [54] insulting a sysop [55] - Sirex98 16:06, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To be correctly filed

[edit] Sneaky Stats Vandal

See also

Modus operandi

Sneaky vandal, alters statistics about population, race and skin colour, entering fabricated or poorly-calculated values. Turn-ons include weather, human height, and blonde hair colour. Also categorizes people into ethnic categories (many of these are legit edits). This vandal used to edit from Canadian IP addresses, but has recently started using Brazilian dynamic IP.

Examples

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