Wikipedia:Long term abuse/SummerThunder
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| SummerThunder | |
| Original name(s): | SummerThunder |
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| Wikilifespan: | December 29, 2006 — present |
| ISP: | SBC Internet Services (probable) |
| Known IPs: | See Category |
| Known hostmasks: | |
| Physical location: | Fullerton or Irvine, California (probable) |
| Severity: | Moderate to high |
| Requests for comment: | |
| Requests for arbitration: | |
| Instructions: | Block socks on sight or take to WP:AIV before fixing damage. |
SummerThunder (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) arrived on the English Wikipedia with complaints to make against the Chinese Wikipedia. A long discussion ensued, which is archived at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous). He was blocked for 24 hours on December 31, 2006 for making extensive personal attacks. Within 24 hours, this block was extended to 48 hours, 72 hours, and then indefinite, due to his ongoing use of sockpuppets to continue his personal attacks. As of January 2008, SummerThunder continues to use sockpuppets on a variety of Wikipedia pages. He has been banned by the Wikipedia community.
He has recently shown a tendency to attack users who have attracted his ire by marking them as his own sock puppets or as sock puppets of each other. He will attempt to cause as much damage and chaos as possible within the amount of time he has between his new sock's first edit and its inevitable banning. Alert editors and sysops have managed as of late to keep these rampages below 15 minutes in duration, yet he has still managed to rack up dozens upon dozens of vandalizing edits. Ideally, he should be blocked on sight or taken to WP:AIV, where he should get high priority, as time is of the essence to limit damage. Watch AIV reports until they go through, however, as he will often watch AIV and alter reports in a heretofore unsuccessful attempt to get his pursuers blocked as socks.
SummerThunder also appears to be pursuing what seems to be an obsessive vendetta against those he feels have wronged him, and against Wikipedia itself, on other online forums and other wikis (example: see banned user Summer.Thunder's discussion page at Uncyclopedia and the former contents of his userpage there). Though SummerThunder's initial motivations for extreme Wikipedia misbehavior seem to have been genuinely political (see this probable posting of his at cNet), his attacks now seem to be uniformly driven by spite.
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Targets
- Vandalizes the user and talk pages of accounts identified as sock puppets of SummerThunder. Removes {{sockpuppet}} tags or falsely marks his socks as those of legitimate users.
- Vandalizes the user and talk pages of editors who have dealt with him. Adds false sockpuppet tags to the pages, marking them as either his own sockpuppets or sockpuppets of other users.
- Creates false sockpuppet categories for legitimate users who have dealt with him.
- Edits all pages of the Wikipedia:Village pump.
- Posts the attack essay "Wikipedia addiction", either as an article or on talk pages. The essay refers to specific Wikipedia users, accusing them of suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, Internet addiction and "Wikipedia addiction".
- Posts his preferred version of an article at a redirect or alternate title, such as "Wikipedia China" for Chinese Wikipedia and "Unknown Rebel" for Tank Man.
Chinese Wikipedia
People's Republic of China and the Republic of China
- People's Republic of China
- Republic of China
- Two Chinas
- Cultural Revolution
- Tank Man
- Google China
- Politics of the People's Republic of China
- Tongyong Pinyin
- 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China
- Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
Universities and colleges
- Harvard University
- Harvard College
- University of California, Riverside
- UCR
- History of the University of California, Riverside
- Reposts the deleted article (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UCR mascot Highlander). Alternate titles include, but are not limited to:
- Often posts the article in the talk namespace
- Reposts the deleted article
- Highlander
- List of U.S. college mascots
- other University of California campuses' articles: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, UCLA, Merced, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz
Users who have dealt with him
SummerThunder vandalizes these editors' user/talk pages, makes false sockpuppet and vandalism reports, reverts their recent edits, names them in his "Wikipedia addiction" attack essay, and attacks them in his sockpuppets' usernames.
- All pages edited by the above users or anyone who assists them in reverting his vandalism.
Sockpuppets
- Socks' usernames will often reference obsessive-compulsive disorder or other mental illnesses. (e.g., User:0bsessive c0mpulsive dis0rder wiklpedia caused, User:Obsedantně kompulzivní porucha patient, User:Therapy needed, etc.)
- Usernames will often reference and/or attack other users who have dealt with him. (e.g., User:Szyslocd, User:Dyanflow is a whore, User:0bsessive compuIsive dis0rder & wikipeedia ADDICTION LOSER Riana, etc.)
- Accounts with such usernames and displaying suspicious behavior should be reported to WP:AIV as possible SummerThunder socks so administrators can monitor their actions.
