Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Israelbeach
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Israelbeach (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) (aka Joel Leyden) is currently banned for revealing personal information and for making legal and general threats. Several accounts judged to be puppets of Israelbeach have been blocked, but several other accounts with similar editing patterns are still active, and new ones appear periodically. The accounts are given the benefit of the doubt and not blocked on sight, as they do occasionally contribute valid and useful edits (almost always, these are updates on Israeli current events).
Joel Leyden is an Israeli SEO. He maintains several private websites and discussion groups, including the Israel News Agency and IsraelPr. By all accounts, he used Wikipedia expressly to drive traffic to sites he operated. When called on this, he becamed increasingly antagonistic towards various Wikipedia editors and administrators, and was ultimately indefinitely blocked for revealing another user's personal information, as well as making legal threats against that user.
Part of Israelbeach's MO is the creation of sockpuppets to show false consensus. These sockpuppets are easily recognisable, as they will always fullheartedly support each other and pat each other on the back, often perpetuating the same spelling mistakes.
To this day, he occasionally publishes long rants against Wikipedia on his webpage, disguised as "news", in which he vilifies specific Wikipedians who have crossed swords with him. His Web page was blacklisted Wikimedia-wide on March 17, 2007 due to frequent linkspamming by his socks, as well as frequent outing of anonymous Wikipedians.
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[edit] Suspected Sockpuppets
Accounts listed here have exhibited one or several of the following:
- low to very low edit counts
- edits are mostly articles related to Joel Leyden and the Israel News Agency (Note: some of these articles have since been deleted, meaning that edits disappear from the visible list of contributions and it may appear that almost no edits were made)
- unqualified support for Leyden
- voting on AfD against deletion of such articles, often joining the debate after fewer than 5 edits to wikipedia
- supporting and commending each other on talk pages (false consensus)
- adding outside links to the Israel News Agency, usually to articles on Israeli current events
- similar style: certain typical formatting problems, poor command of wiki markup, spelling mistakes typical of dyslexia or hasty writing
- very little text on user page, often only "I live in Israel" and/or "No censorship" ribbon
- accusing editors who disagree with Israelbeach of anti-semitism and and collaboration with anti-zionist enemies, censorship, supporting terrorism etc.
- antagonism towards other editors
- wikilawyering
[edit] Not blocked
Note that some of these users made contributions to pages that have since been deleted, so the contributions are no longer visible.
- Achlasaba (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - votes on AfD
- Bronxgirl (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - votes on AfD
- Givati (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - votes on AfD
- Traffics (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - (based on deleted contributions)
- Tzanchan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - vote on DR
The following are new accounts that have made edits to Michael Cherney, Michael Cherney Foundation and Tal Aviation in the style of Israelbeach. Two of the older sockpuppets, user:Traffics and user:Jerusalemrose have also made similar edits to Michael Cherney.
- Carleplace (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Dgure (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Eeffa (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - based on deleted contributions to Tal Aviation
- Mhltv (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - reopening the same old debates [2], [3] (this immediately prior to a condemnation on Joel Leyden's personal site), also voted on AfD [4]
- Mossadtlv (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - based on deleted contributions to Tal Aviation
- Onlythefacts (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Travelprof (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - based on deleted contributions to Tal Aviation
The following are single-purpose accounts that made edits related to Arnon Katz and Kinnernet. See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arnon Katz, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kinnernet. The Arnon Katz article was created by user:Mhltv who is listed above; the articles were both created at about the same time Leyden was writing about Kinnernet on his site. The bio for Arnon Katz linked to sites showing that he had several personal connections with Leyden. Related blocked accounts: user:Jerusalemgold and user:Kinnernetgal.
- Israelgeeks (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser) - voted on AfD
- Dervish8 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)
[edit] Currently blocked
- Animagi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Bluegrasstom (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Bonnieisrael (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Dafka (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - pure vandalism
- Davidstone (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Idf-barak (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Israelimp (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Israelmfa (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - votes on DR and "anti censorship" spam
- Jerusalemgold (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser) - voted on AfD
- Jerusalemrose (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - votes on DR
- Karnei (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Kinnernetgal (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser) - WP:POINT Afd according to plan outlined by Joel Leyden off-wiki
- Lennys (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - votes on DR and "anti censorship" spam
- Maayanbaruch (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - votes on AfD and DR and linking to INA
- Nancetlv (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Potterseesall (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Protoz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Ruachdarom (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) pure vandalism
- Specops (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) - votes on DR
[edit] IPs probably used by Israelbeach
Some of these IPs made contributions to articles which have since been deleted. For this reason it may appear as if no contributions were made.
- user page vandalism
- user page vandalism
- user page vandalism
- user page vandalism
- Israelbeach later returned to sign this comment; blocked (open proxy)
- user page vandalism
- blocked for repeated user page vandalism
- ; blocked (open proxy)
- Responded as Israelbeach on talk page; blocked (open proxy)
- user page vandalism
- identified himself as Joel Leyden on the WP:HE [5]; blocked (open proxy)
- user page vandalism
- signed comment as Israelbeach; blocked (open proxy)
[edit] Blocked puppets on Hebrew Wikipedia
[edit] Single purpose accounts opposing Leyden
- Hpaami (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Israelbitch (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Israelipro (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
- Kfceater (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
[edit] See also:
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Israelbeach
- Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Woggly
- Talk:Joel Leyden (owner of the Israel News Agency); Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joel Leyden
- Talk:Israel News Agency, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Israel news agency; Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Israel News Agency (2nd nomination); Wikipedia:Deletion review/Israel News Agency; Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Israel News Agency (3rd nomination)
- Talk:Ra'anana regarding edit war
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sara Silber (an INA contributor)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michele Shohatovitz (an INA contributor)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Mike Cohen for some reason they all voted for deletion of this article, though it was created by user:Potterseesall in the first place
- w:he:שיחה:ג'ואל ליידן Talk page for speedy deleted Joel Leyden article on Hebrew Wikipedia. At least three brand new single purpose accounts joined the discussion to protest this deletion, and were blocked as sock/meatpuppets.
- Spam blacklist [6]
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