Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Mmbabies
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| Mmbabies | |
| Original name(s): | Mmbabies |
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| Wikilifespan: | January 29th, 2007 - March 2008 |
| ISP: | AT&T Yahoo! DSL/AT&T Internet Services |
| Known IPs: | Usually on the Houston node of AT&T's network, 200+ IP's; also the Alief Independent School District and Harris County DoE networks |
| Known hostmasks: | |
| Physical location: | Houston & Alief, Texas |
| Severity: | Extreme |
| Requests for comment: | |
| Requests for arbitration: | |
| Instructions: | Revert and block on sight, non-administrators report to WP:AIV |
Mmbabies (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) is a prolific vandal who frequently adds nonsense and outright fabrication to many articles. This behavior got him indefinitely blocked on February 12, 2007. Following continued vandalism by way of dozens of anonymous IPs, he was banned by the community on March 30, 2007.
Since then, he has continued his pattern of disruptive editing--sometimes on a daily and sometimes on a weekly basis. He edits primarily from AT&T's DSL network in the Houston, Texas area. As this is the largest DSL provider in Houston, at times the collateral damage from his blocked IPs leaves portions of that city unable to edit Wikipedia.
Due to his abusive edits, particularly his threats to the lives of celebrities (see below), numerous complaints were made to AT&T by both administrators and regular users. These complaints went unanswered. As a result, range blocks were put on almost 7,200 IP addresses within AT&T's Houston address space (dsl.hstntx.swbell.net), requiring all users in that range to create an account in order to edit Wikipedia. A semi-protect wall was set up on all pages relating to Houston television. However, he has since moved on to other stations across the country.
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Modus operandi
He vandalizes articles by adding nonsense and random typing into articles. He makes it more difficult to enforce the community ban by using anonymous IPs to do his dirty work.
Articles
- He mainly focuses on creating an alternate reality of his own doing when it comes to television and radio stations in the Houston area, such as claiming that Fox owned and operated station KRIV is actually owned by and carries the defunct WB network (note that the network never owned any of their affiliates), and that KHCW is a Trinity Broadcasting Network station, with TBN's KETH as the market's CW affil. KNWS-TV according to him is not an independent station, but carries The WB, CBS, ABC, and Fox, and has the Gulf Coast Weather Authority branding used by KRIV, while Univision's KXLN carries MyNetworkTV, not KTXH. This edit of the Houston TV template shows his imaginary Houston channel map.
- Some of these edits also involved stations not located in the Houston market -- Dallas / Fort Worth and Bakersfield in particular. In some of these edits, he also implemented the Gulf Coast Weather Authority slogan, even though the station being edited is located nowhere near the Gulf Coast. Also will occasionally use stations not in the state of Texas, as displayed here.
- Insists there is a fictional program called Maniac Mansion Babies based on the game (and the inspiration for his username) which aired on various networks since the early 80s (and that the game was created in 1981, not 1987). To bring this across, he inserts the image Image:Maniac Mansion (Commodore 64) box front cover art.jpg constantly into other articles such as Muppet Babies and Superbook.
- Vandalizes articles about Christian television programs such as Gospel Bill and The Flying House with other images and fictional network/station affiliations.
- Insists other network shows (such as Matt Houston) premiered and aired on relgious broadcasters, some which did not exist at the time of their original run.
- Constant references to two specific public service announcements as television shows; the End Abuse campaign for the Family Violence Prevention Fund, and a late 80's recruitment commercial for the Marines (referred by him as the one with the lady making the sword), of which he has the scripts of memorized and uses in edits and edit summaries.
- Seems to have an odd fixation on using images of food to do incorrect "math" to assert his alternate Houston TV reality.
- Is aggresive to other editors cleaning up his vandalism; a constant edit summary seems to be stupid (bleep)-hole from KETH TV-39 (which is actually channel 14), and calling Azumanga1 a f***ing lady when his edits were reverted by that editor. Other times though, he tries to come across as an innocent party asking if there's a channel 46 in Houston (there is not), and asked an editor how they knew about the PSA scripts mentioned above while mentioning ficticious Houston channels, although the editor asked lives in Wisconsin. (It should be known that some of the PSAs Mmbabies were referring to, especially the one involving the Marines, were seen on stations nationwide.)
- Also suggested that all of the Houston television stations and many key celebrities "live" in one apartment complex, often with several living in a single apartment. ([1])
- Has made death threats against Juan Gabriel, Enrique Iglesias, Nicole C. Mullen, Kellie Copeland-Kutz (daughter of Kenneth) ,Christina Aguilera, and in more recent edits, Lisa Bevere. He has also displayed what could either be condoned as cannibalism or sex towards Beyoncé Knowles. He also has a particularly vicious desire to see Kellie Copeland dead because of a "bad rendition" of a song on Gospel Bill. Has also targeted Kenneth in some more recent edits and in some cases even included Gloria and John.
- In addition, put a death threat on the talk page of Ray Charles, who passed away over three years ago, and also Johnny Cash. As per this edit in this talk page, he is apparently well-aware of their deaths.
- In this death threat against Roberto Carlos, quoted from Who Framed Roger Rabbit and then the ticket pitch for The Price is Right, with Bob Barker/Drew Carey's name replaced by Kellie Copeland and the CBS Television City address with an address in Houston.
- Some of the material used in his vandalisms, including brief descriptions of TPIR's pricing games and outcome references (such as "PAINFUL LOSS"), seemed to be lifted directly from golden-road.net, a fan site that includes daily rundowns of recent TPIR episodes. Following Mmbabies' misappropriation of golden-road material, the author of the recaps began to insert a disclaimer, REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED WITHOUT AUTHOR PERMISSION. into his recaps. It is unknown if Mmbabies' actions motivated him to add the disclaimer.
- Some bizarre edits include quotes from films, such as a quote from The Mask used in a death threat against the animated character Fievel Mousekewitz on the An American Tail talk page. He also frequently inserts quotes from The Simpsons, generally those involving Montgomery Burns and his lackey, Waylon Smithers.
- Occasionally has edits and summaries which suggest he is an evangelical Christian (for example, the lyrics for the TBN show Praise the Lord).
- Has also given out personal information about bus drivers in the Alief Independent School District on several pages; AISD subsequently lost IP-editing privileges to Wikipedia due to his vandalism.
- Vandalizing the page of the late KTRK-TV reporter Marvin Zindler with an image of Pokemon's Tracey Sketchit.
- Changes the birthdate of celebrities, usually by two years, and changes the list of births on the affected dates' pages.
- Changes the content on Catch 47, a Tampa Bay area sports cable channel, to that of the book Catch-22, and vice versa.
- Actually revealed his password when he asked an admin to unblock him towards the beginning of April and another couple of times before then.
- As of October 2007, he is also frequently using talk pages to make new articles of either ridiculous or non-notable subjects, including very minor people involved in Houston media. Since these talk pages have no article attached to them, they are generally nominated for speedy deletion, per Wikipedia policy.
- Through this behavior, he added content to talk pages for non-existent amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which were "added" up to 52, his fictional channel for Dallas' KDFI (in actuality, this is the channel for KFWD). This was seen on this edit to the Gospel Bill talk page.
- During the 2007 Christmas season, he also added 25 ridiculous and, in some cases, unsavory, lyrics to The Twelve Days of Christmas, totalling 37. The rationale behind that number is unknown, though it's likely to be derived from adding KRIV (26) with KHOU (11).
- A death threat by Mmbabies against singer/actress Jaci Velasquez was reported to Plano, Texas' police department by editor Yamla.
- On occasion, he uses the talk pages of other banned users for his crimes. On March 17, 2008, he used the talk page of banned user Msm2007 to announce his latest death threat to Julio Iglesias. Msm's M.O. does not match that of Mmbabies, as Msm generally edits only to spread racial epithets.
Editing style
- Adds random typing to articles
- At times makes nonsensical unblock requests (such as "Screw you hippies")
- Appears to like to "play cat-and-mouse" with admins. Such as [2]
- May also make death threats against other editors, usually in edit summaries, though.
IP addresses
Although there were two IP's in the 202. range (both with the AISD), mainly his IP's are in the sixties to seventies. See Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Mmbabies. Most of his IPs have been registered to AT&T in the Houston, Texas area, but he once used a TOR node.
WP:ABUSE
An abuse report was filed on April 10 and accepted for investigation on September 5. The investigation was completed September 6, and contact has been opened with the ISP as detailed at the bottom of the abuse report. AT&T's only response to date (21:20, 10 September 2007 (UTC)) was an automated reply stating the original complaint has been received and that they would likely not be responding further.
Another abuse report was filed by Rio de oro on February 2, 2008. It was investigated by GO-PCHS-NJROTC and the issue was reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Texas State Attorney General, the Texas Rangers (a law enforcement group in the state of Texas), the Alief Independent School District, and AT&T. An autoreply was received from AT&T stating that the complaint was recieved and they would only reply if they needed more information to take action. A reply from the other organizations is still anticipated. A second report was filed by GO-PCHS-NJROTC on February 24, 2008. The Houston Police Department was contacted , and a report was filed on the Internet Crime Complaint Center www.ic3.gov.
Other notes
- Several of the IP's used are registered to AT&T or SBC, the former name of AT&T
- Mainly he uses proxies and IP addresses, but there has been only one account other than User:Mmbabies used: User:Noblestone
- Mmbabies once reported himself to the AIV.
- Under an IP sock, Mmbabies edited this very LTA page with "corrections", twice. Due to this, semi-protection was put on the page on September 2nd.
- He also had edited the LTA's talk page, adding and rewriting comments.
- Since this LTA page was posted, he has increased his vandalism to using two or more IP's per day.
- Once when asked "Why do you keep doing this?", answered "Because it's wrong.", which is also a paraphrase of a quote used by the character Hollywood in Two Stupid Dogs.
- Tried to leave a final warning message on an IP used by fellow sockpuppeter User:Dingbat2007.
- IP address 68.90.232.123 was also used by another sock, Mariam83. However, it is belived that neither Mmbabies nor Mariam83 are related.
