Wikilifespan | September 2021 - present |
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Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Belteshazzar |
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Belteshazzar was first reported for sockpuppetry in September 2021 and was blocked for it in October 2021. As of October 2023 there have been 48 sock-puppet reports. This has led to the blocking of many accounts and IP addresses. Several of their preferred target pages have had to be semi-protected. As of September 4, 2023, Belteshazzar has been banned by the Wikimedia Foundation from editing any Wikimedia project.
Ophthalmology related:
Opioid related:
Diet related:
They like to edit pages in the Wikipedia space, sometimes in seemingly innocuous ways, sometimes to try to make our policies more tolerant of their types of bad behaviour. A non-exhaustive list:
A few examples of articles which they stalked other people to and then used multiple socks to edit:
They also like to edit some personal essays within specific editors' user space:
Arguing the toss and attempts at self-justification:
Belteshazzar initially used sockpuppet accounts but has since mostly shifted over to anonymous editing using proxy IPs instead with only occasional forays back into registering accounts. Their most recent registered account (as of October 2023) was blocked in September 2023.
They will often make a few uncontroversial small edits to seemingly random articles before starting on their usual targets. This might be to cover their tracks or just to check that whichever IP address they are using that day is not already blocked. Edit summaries often contain plausibly innocuous descriptions. "Subject-verb agreement" seems to be a favourite.
One pattern that is often seen is editing articles about baseball and baseball players with small updates. Seems to reflect a genuine interest in baseball, in addition to the foregoing reason of testing the waters with a few less obviously bad edits. Some such edits have actually been reinstated by other editors as minor improvements. (Doing this is fine but please try to avoid doing so in a way that Belteshazzar could misinterpret as supportive of their continued ban evasion.)
After this, they will return to their previous main targets to reinstate their preferred changes (often with minor variations) and sometimes (but not always) try to justify their edits in their edit summaries. When trying to justify their behaviour they completely ignore the fact that the sockpuppetry is the main problem and are quite indignant that they are not treated with the same grace as an editor in good standing.
When their preferred targets get semi-protected do they will sometimes take to the Talk pages to argue the toss there.
They sometimes return to previously used proxy IP addresses once blocks on them expire suggesting that they have a fairly limited pool of proxy IPs at their disposal. Such IPs can probably be blocked for long periods without risk of disrupting legitimate editors.
Belteshazzar sometimes becomes annoyed with people who repeatedly report or revert their edits and will stalk their recent contribution histories and make small edits to articles they find there. Such edits are not normally particularly bad but, as they are editing articles about subjects that they know little or nothing about, they are very rarely improvements. This might be done to try to assert a degree of ownership over the articles that their imagined nemesis has edited or just to be annoying. This is disruptive even when the edits themselves are innocuous. The two users most frequently targeted in this way are Psychologist Guy and DanielRigal. In September 2023, Belteshazzar created a sock-puppet INeverEmailedPG referring to Psychologist Guy, who had received harassing emails seemingly sent by Belteshazzar. In November 2023 they escalated this behaviour by making a bogus report to WP:BLPN, seemingly in retaliation for being reverted, demanding that their preferred versions be reinstated.
When reverted they will occasionally try to canvass another editor who has edited the article in question for assistance. They do this by approaching editors on User Talk pages in a way that carefully avoids explaining why they are being reverted. As of December 2023, nobody has fallen for these approaches. If an editor in good standing is ever seen to be assisting them then we should consider the possibility that that editor has been tricked, and is acting in mistaken good faith, before reacting too harshly towards them.
In addition to canvassing individual editors they sometimes complain about being reverted at Wikipedia:Help desk, Wikipedia:Teahouse and other places where they hope to find a new audience, unfamiliar with their disruptive antics, who might be tricked into taking their side and assisting them.
Belteshazzar has also been active on the Wikimedia Commons where they have contacted other banned Wikipedia users including Chamaemelum in an attempt to get other disruptive users to support their edits. They claim to have a "list of users to contact". It is not clear whether Chamaemelum, or anybody else, actually became involved.
Sometimes Belteshazzar will edit a previously attacked article within minutes of page protection expiring. This most likely indicates that they set set a timer to remind them when pages expire so that they can get back in and attack the articles again as quickly as possible. This may argue for longer periods of semi-protection in cases where the risk of impact on legitimate anonymous editors is not too high.
SPI:
Before the socking started there was all this drama about the Bates Method:
There was a topic ban:
And, of course, it was violated:
Original name(s) | Marquis de la Eirron |
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Physical location | Manchester |
Sockpuppet investigations | Marquis de la Eirron |
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Status | Pending Approval |
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The editor Marquis de la Eirron was site-banned on 3 December 2011. Since then, for years, the editor has used IP addresses and created multiple accounts at Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, especially to evade the ban.
Mainly politics, generally of American, British, and Indonesian politics. Edits biographies of politicians, such as those of various ethnicity. Also peerages. Also pages related to COVID-19.
Original name(s) | User:Muhammad Samiuddin Qazi (sami) |
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Wikilifespan | 2017–present |
ISP |
Ptcl Ebone, WorldCall |
Known IPs | 39.51.0.0/17, 119.157.0.0/17, 119.159.0.0/17, 119.153.128.0/19, 119.73.96.0/19, 182.190.16.0/20, 182.183.128.0/17, 43.246.220.0/22, 168.211.188.0/24, 168.211.189.0/24, 196.195.36.0/24, 117.102.0.0/18, 122.8.51.0/24, 45.116.232.0/22 see notes |
Physical location | Karachi, Pakistan |
Sockpuppet investigations | Muhammad Samiuddin Qazi (sami) |
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Sami either edits with sockpuppet which has been recently created or with an IP based out of Karachi, Pakistan.
Chronic sockpuppeteer active in these broad topics: Hindi-Urdu pages (articles, categories and templates); Indian showbiz (adding Urdu POVPUSHing cats to actors, songs, films and TV shows), Pakistani television (creating blatant hoax articles, cats); the India-Pakistan conflict (creating POVPUSHing articles, templates and cats) and Muhajir topics (adding Muhajir POVPUSH cats).
More extensive info on other pages targeted at this wikia by the abuser.
Mostly non-sensical Urdu/Pakistan POVPUSHing in the topics above. Any IP making such edits from the above range that geolocates to Karachi is most likely him. Also uses good hand bad hand tactics for deception. Fakes identities (claiming to be from different countries) and feigns ignorance of sockpuppetry.
For infobox: Basically any IP beginning prefixed with 39.51.*, 119.57.*, 182.190.*, 119.159.*, 119.153.*, 43.246.*, 182.183.*, 168.211.*, 196.195.*, 117.102.*, 122.8.*, 45.116..
Original name(s) | Thai gun hoaxster |
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Wikilifespan | 2017-present |
Known IPs | See below |
Physical location | Thailand |
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Status | Active |
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The Thai gun hoaxster is an IP editor that adds user entries in firearm articles usually with false references taken from legitimate entries in the same or other articles. Sometimes, he just makes up ref names. He also has sometimes edited the infoboxes to give incorrect service histories. They uses IP addresses from Thailand and has been active since at least 2017.
Generally user sections in articles on firearms.
Copy/pastes existing references on other user entries to falsely substantiate the ones that he wants to add. He has IP hopped to edit war when others have reverted him. When editing, he will often use the article or section title as his edit summary.
These are the user reports documenting the history of this hoaxster:
This editor has usually used IP addresses although he has used one account known to the filing checkuser.
Original name(s) | Vince Daryl Falcunitin |
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Wikilifespan | 2014–2016 (as "Vince daryl falcunitin" and IPs); 2016–present (as "Yaysmay15" and socks/IPs |
ISP | PLDT, Globe, Smart |
Known IPs | 49.145.xx, 58.71.xx, 112.198.xx, 112.210.XX, 122.53.xx |
Physical location | Various ( Manila; Quezon City; Bacoor, Cavite) |
Sockpuppet investigations | Yaysmay15 |
Instructions | Revert edits by socks, report them to sockpuppet investigations with a link to this abuse report, and block and tag if found. Articles/pages targeted may have pending changes protection enabled to limit repeated disruptive activity. |
Status | Active |
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Yaysmay15 is a disruptive user who frequently bloats recent history and timeline articles, especially those related to the Philippines with non-notable events. Commonly targeted articles are those of about years in the Philippines ("XXXX in the Philippines" articles), but has also targeted decade and century pages.
The user started disruptive editing on Philippine history-related articles as "Vince daryl falcunitin" before June 2016, and as Yaysmay15 from June 2016. Most of the user's edits mostly restoring previously removed non-notable events or additions of newer ones, resulting to the Tambayan Philippines community to include criteria for events to be inserted to Philippine history articles by year, starting with 2015 in the Philippines through its talk page. After being blocked for edit warring with Hariboneagle927, Yaysmay15 started to use sockpuppets and do IP hopping to re-add events that he added on articles he targeted, then removed by other users.
As of 2023, the user mostly edits through IPs.
The user frequently targets articles about years in the Philippines, especially those discussing events in contemporary Philippine history. "XXXX in the Philippines" articles (e.g. 2013 in the Philippines, 2015 in the Philippines, 2016 in the Philippines, etc.) are the frequent targets, but Timeline of Philippine history and navboxes about the life and regime of recent presidents (e.g. {{ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo}},{{ Benigno Aquino III}},{{ Rodrigo Duterte}}), are also being targeted. Timelines and pages for recent centuries ( timeline of the 20th century, timeline of the 21st century) have been also targeted. In 2023, they have been seen adding events in Media circus#Philippines, often recent ones and with citations that do not support claims of a media circus.
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Wikilifespan | August 2010 [1] – present |
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ISP | AT&T DSL |
Known hostmasks | 84.169.0.0/16, 54.215.0.0/16, 54.241.0.0/16, and 54.251.0.0/16 confirmed with checkuser and blocked; 46.137.192.0/21 reported |
Physical location | Pleasanton, California, San Diego, Miami, Bangladesh and others |
Sockpuppet investigations | Morning277 |
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Status | Active |
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Note: Unfortunately, some of the information below and to the right conflates
[2] LegalMorning and Wiki-PR. We now know that they are two separate entities.
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This is a writer, or group of hired writers, who collaborate without ever using talk pages to communicate with each other. As of January 2014, 323 accounts have been confirmed, with another 95 suspected.
Wiki-PR editing of Wikipedia#Investigation and company reaction includes a discussion of whether Morning277 is Michael Wood or Wiki-PR.
It could be Michael Wood ( Elance / LinkedIn / G+), the owner of professional writing service LegalMorning. Mr. Wood's website advertises Wikipedia article writing, monitoring, and translation services. He advertises that he doesn't use any foreign subcontractors. Mr. Wood adds on his blog that he's also a regular contributor to a bunch of websites: AllBusiness Experts, Yahoo, Business Insider, Business2Community, Social Media Today, and others. He runs a blog with articles such as "Are There Rules Against Paying Someone To Write A Wikipedia Article" and "Understanding What It Takes To Be Notable For Wikipedia".
Or it could be Wiki-PR.
Or perhaps it's both.
These writers create or (less often) rewrite articles about the people and companies who commission them. It is believed that there is a company with several regular employees, which also hires freelancers from Odesk and Elance [3] [4].
The client base is almost entirely from the United States. It is heavily laden with Silicon Valley dot-coms and their principals, dubbed "serial entrepreneurs" in several instances. Small financial institutions also make a showing. Articles about authors, medical doctors, a musician, a small oil company, and even a minor political party [5] have been placed.
In the less frequent case when an article about the client already exists, the Morning277 writers make extensive changes, cleansing the article of any disparaging material in the process.
Below is a list of article subjects found in User:Sublimeharmony/sandbox11, linked to the corresponding articles (sometimes the name of the article name differed from the subject). Most of these articles were deleted, but attempts to replace some of them, most often with variations on the name, have been seen. Often the new articles are shorter, but comparison of the new articles to the drafts in User:Sublimeharmony/sandbox11 has shown identical passages. This is not an exhaustive list of Morning277's topics; these drafts appeared between 22 February and 11 July 2013.
Below is a list of other topics not necessarily present in Sublimeharmony's sandbox but which were worked on by Morning277 writers (to do: remove the Sublimeharmony topics).
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Morning277 articles usually cite stories from the Web sites below, some of which are blog-like in accepting material from "citizen journalists." Search links are provided for strongly indicative sites:
Variations have been seen, but the most stereotypical editing chronology of these writers is as follows:
Morning277 articles are written in fluent English, with few spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors. However, they often have a promotional tone, and always contain material that is either neutral or that is flattering of their subjects, never material that is critical or negative, to the extent that they have sometimes been speedily deleted as spam. References sections always have a surfeit of citations, with the clients' press releases and web sites balanced by passing mentions in seemingly independent publications.
Check-user information showed use of 184.169.0.0/16 belonging to row44.com, an ISP which provides service aboard airliners. Used 65.122.15.184 at the Phoenix airport. Edited from Amazon EC2/AWS hosts in the United States (184.169.0.0/16, 54.215.0.0/16, 54.241.0.0/16, and 54.251.0.0/16, all confirmed with check-user information) and Ireland (46.137.194.87, not CU confirmed).
This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
This page is currently inactive and is retained for
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Wikilifespan | 2013–present |
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ISP | Verizon |
Physical location | New Jersey, USA [8] |
Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gabriella~four.3-6 |
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Gabriella~four.3-6 is a disruptive editor targeting the areas of TV, cartoons, anime, and manga. She often edits or wholly rewrites character or show pages without consensus and uses talk pages as forums or discussion pages (instead of places like the reference desk). The community first became aware of the editor's sockpuppetry circa January 2014.
Most known for her focus on the Monster High general topic area, with a special interest in List of Monster High characters. Lately edited on pages relating to TV shows (ex. List of Married... with Children characters), cartoons (ex. List of Hey Arnold! characters), anime (ex. Charlotte (TV series)), and manga (especially in the yaoi genre, ex. Hitorijime My Hero). Also treats talk pages as general discussion pages, as seen here on Talk:Luca (2021 film), for example.
Most recent interests include K-pop ( Babymonster and Fromis 9) and List of Bob's Burgers characters.
Socks will often name themselves Gabby, Gabriella, or full name Gabriella Grace Comito or any variant of the above often with numbers following. Usernames often contain punctuation ( User:GabbyComito.Dont-BlockMe!, User:WhyDoIEvenBotherWithIt?). Many accounts (circa 2017) have included food terms ( User:BananaSplitSundae-0, User:WafflesandPancakeswithSyrup-But Watch Out! Very Messy., User:HotBigPretzelsNoMustard, etc.
Useful background can be found at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gabriella~four.3-6/Archive and the talk page history of the master.
English is probably this person's first language, but her printed grammar is often malformed and she sometimes uses bizarre affects like "I'll be well at it", which doesn't seem consistent with how most people from New Jersey speak. When she chooses to communicate, her comments are often unclear, rambling, and sometimes incoherent. Questions that she asks are typically about trivial matters like cartoons, the Monster High doll franchise, TV series, and the Japanese language.
Wikilifespan | August 2020 - present |
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Physical location | Honduras |
Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Honduras200010 |
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Status | Active |
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Both under registered accounts and IPs, typically there are intersections of two or more of the following:
Makes changes to climate-related pages that are almost uniformly refuted by others involved in those pages. Add photos to articles over the objections of others. Routinely alternates between IP addresses from a few ranges and registered accounts. Sometimes builds up ability to edit semi-protected articles by a series of small edits, not infrequently making and edit and then reverting it. Also:
Wikilifespan | 2016–present |
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Known IPs | 37.200.197.207, 5.36.0.0/17, 5.37.128.0/18, 62.231.224.0/20, 62.61.160.0/19, 85.154.0.0/19, 82.178.48.0/20, 82.178.176.0/21, 41.253.0.0/18, 41.252.0.0/18, 134.0.192.0/22, 165.16.119.128/26 |
Physical location | Mainly Libya and Oman |
Sockpuppet investigations | Hassan Guy |
Instructions | Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information. |
Status | Active |
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Hassan Guy either edits with sockpuppet which has been recently created or with an IP based out of mostly Oman and occasionally Libya.
Chronic sockpuppeteer who primarily attacks and disrupts articles related to Pakistan Armed Forces with a Pro-Pakistani bias. An incomplete list of affected articles is mentioned below.
Has a tendency to add poorly sourced information and canvass for support with other Pakistani editors.
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Wikilifespan | 2012–present |
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ISP | various |
Physical location | Cebu City, Philippines |
Sockpuppet investigations | Brianmagallano |
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Status | Active |
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Vandal primarily targeting video game articles, Philippine media articles, and Football articles, introducing false information, active for years even after blocks. Dozens and dozens of suspected socks from the same IP range.
Video game articles, Philippine media companies, Football articles
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Original name(s) | ItsLassieTime |
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Wikilifespan | 2008–present |
Known IPs | multiple, unknown |
Physical location | Maine |
Sockpuppet investigations | ItsLassieTime |
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Status | Active |
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User:ItsLassieTime (ILT) is a prolific sockmaster with roughly 200 confirmed accounts dating back to 2008 with accounts blocked every year from 2009–2012, and again 2015–2018. Checkuser data is most likely stale in uncovering new socks, save for those operating simultaneously at the time of an SPI, and so behavioral evidence may be the only means to link new accounts to the old ones. Due to this user's penchant for creating multiple personas, mass copyvio, and then attacks or threats toward users who disagree with their edits, (
example) new socks need to be blocked as soon as the habitual problems emerge before too many problem articles are involved. Checkuser is generally advisable as this individual has at times created sleeper accounts.
The original pattern of this sockmaster was to create dozens of articles (up to 100 in a couple cases) with relatively few accounts. In 2016, the pattern changed to produce a massive number of accounts (an example being approximately 20-25 during February 2016) that made fewer edits each, but often purely for disruptive purposes in a game of "catch me if you can." It is likely that these may be two different individuals, designated LassieTime1 and LassieTime2. LassieTime2 is currently the far more disruptive sockmaster. That said, the LassieTime1 sockmaster may also still be quietly editing children's book articles, with a continued pattern of undiscussed changes, too-close paraphrasing, plagiarism, and improper attribution, though otherwise not drawing attention to themselves—in those cases, simple reversion and if needed, running the earwig tool and requesting revdel of problem edits seems to settle the matter.
Name | Create Date | First Edit | CU Confirmed? | Evidence |
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808Starfire ( talk · contribs) † | November 27, 2008 – November 25, 2009 | Colt McCoy NFL football player | Y | Various popular culture topics, football players, TV shows, movies, actors, Charles Dickens. Submits Shirley Temple to FAC, withdraws when another of their socks undergoes an SPI, [15]. |
Anny Nonymous ( talk · contribs) | November 30, 2009 | Babes in Toyland (edit summary removed), [16] | Y | Various, [17] |
Audiobooks7 ( talk · contribs) | January 24, 2011 – September 23, 2011 | Shirley Temple | Y | Apparently scrubs Shirley Temple and Little Orphan Annie of copyvio issues |
BeethovenFidelio ( talk · contribs) | March 30, 2008 | List of Flipper episodes, [18] | y | Flipper. Admits to being a sock of ILT, [19] |
BlastAwayMeHearties ( talk · contribs) | 15 March 2010 | to Ucucha | Y | Only two edits, both to Ucucha's page, [20], [21], and to Graham Beards but signs with BlowItAway ( talk · contribs), [22] |
BlowItAway ( talk · contribs) | 15 March 2010 | [23] | Y | Only two edits, both to Graham Beard's page, to copyedit posts left by its sock, [24], [25] |
Buttermilk1950 ( talk · contribs) † | March 10, 2009 – April 4, 2009 | User page, "I love Wikipedia", and section blanking at Rodeo | Y | |
CharlesWTrowbridge ( talk · contribs) | July 18, 2011 – September 17, 2011 | Horatio Alger | Y | Removes copyvio from a number of articles: contribs |
D4rkersib ( talk · contribs) | August 29, 2012 – September 16, 2012 | Calf roping, [31] | Y | Edits Calf roping, user talk Montanabw, admits to being Lapzwans ( talk · contribs), [32] |
EatNoPig ( talk · contribs) † | December 16, 2007 | merge !vote | Y | Andy Griffith Show, edits articles about old movies, westerns, Charles Dickens, complains about edit warring, edit-warring |
FlippFlopp ( talk · contribs) | December 26, 2007 | Flipper | Y | Flipper and Lassie related pages. |
HatAct ( talk · contribs) † | February 2, 2008 – February 10, 2008 | Bareback bronc and Saddle bronc riding [33] | Y | Rodeo event articles, promoting views of PETA, dispute over content [34], [35], threats to have other users blocked |
HelloDenmark ( talk · contribs) † | January 25, 2008 – January 31, 2008 | The Tinderbox: [36] | Y | Hans Christian Anderson stories, blocked November 11, 2009, probably on a CU sweep. Possibly intended as a sleeper account |
HomeComingQueenl1942 ( talk · contribs) | May 27, 2011 | [37] | Y | Three edits, vandalism to Truthkeeper88 FAs: True at First Light, Edmund Evans, The Magdalen Reading |
IndianCaverns ( talk · contribs) † | March 4, 2008 – February 23, 2009 | Thumbelina | Y | Edited to Feb. 23, 2009. 1950s movies, Peter Pan, Lousia May Alcott novels, Gidget [38] |
ItsLassieTime ( talk · contribs)† | January 12, 2008 – April 8, 2009 | [39] | Y |
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IttyBittyMe! ( talk · contribs) | September 24, 2011 | Vandalism | Y | Vandalism only account: [57], [58], [59], one to a video game article, [60]. |
JockFunster ( talk · contribs) | October 20, 2011 | Vandalism to MuZemike | Y | Vandalism only account: [61] |
Kathyrncelestewright ( talk · contribs) † | May 6, 2009 | Welsh Corgi | Y | LIterature/childern's lit/ballet. Ottava Rima points out sourcing/paraphrasing issues on GA nom of Flore et Zephire here. |
KentPhiladelphia ( talk · contribs) | December 13, 2010 | Christmas in Puritan New England, [66] | Y | Only two edits to a single article. Sets images upright like Kathyrncelestewright |
Lapzwans ( talk · contribs) | May 27, 2009 | Electric potential | Y | Soccer, bowhunting, calf-roping, steerwrestling, food, zoos. Dispute with Montanabw [67] |
LaSylphide ( talk · contribs) † | January 9, 2008 – February 21, 2008 | La Sylphide, [68] | Y | Edited mostly Hans Christian Anderson stories and ballet articles. Unblock request, says s/he's living in a senior center, [69] linked to account Overjoyed by shared IP, claimed it was someone in her building. Later admitted to the account: [70] |
LMD908jo ( talk · contribs) | November 18, 2010 | Y | Hansel and Gretel. Only edits for one day. 18:50 UTC to 2:34, stops, returns at 9:02 UTC . | |
MayfieldForever ( talk · contribs) † | March 9, 2008 – May 29, 2008 | Creates user page, then 50 edits the same day to Leave it to Beaver | Y | Primarily articles about Leave It to Beaver TV show, Had a different sock give her a barnstar admitted to account: [71] |
MyFebruaryBirthday ( talk · contribs) | May 28, 2011 | to SandyGeorgia's page | Y | Single edit to to comment on SG's page about TK88 |
NewHouse4533 ( talk · contribs) | May 27, 2011 | Pig slaughter | Y | Account seems to have been created to harass and edit Jack and the Beanstalk [72], [73] |
NYFernValley ( talk · contribs) | May 18, 2011 – May 25, 2011 | created article | Y | Pig articles, concern with Pig slaughter |
Overjoyed ( talk · contribs) † | February 17, 2008 – February 20, 2008 | Adventures of Superman (TV series) deleted significant content | Y | Mostly Adventures of Superman (TV series) and Gidget (TV series). Linked to account of LaSylphide via IP. Admitted account: [74] |
Pancakepatty ( talk · contribs) | October 11, 2007 | Flipper, [75], | N | Flipper and Lassie, Edited logged out by confirmed ItsLassieTime IP: [76] |
PrestoPrestoPresto ( talk · contribs) | March 11, 2011 | [77] | Y | Edits to Horror comics talk re merge discussion, [78]. Says to TK88 that ILT has made hundreds of accounts and passed and FA without being detected, [79] |
ReverendLogos ( talk · contribs) † | January 31, 2008 | creates new article | Y | Comic books, Christmas stuff, creates My Big Redneck Wedding first day, Tag-teaming with other socks on The Andy Griffith Show and talk. ItsLassieTime posted a "thank you": [80] Admitted to account: [81] |
SeeSpot Run ( talk · contribs) | November 3, 2014 | Jumbo Altered infobox, totally rewrote article, removing sourced content | N | Ballet, Charles Dickens, Old West, Children's stories: Significant edits to Jumbo (about 60 over a three-day period as a brand new account), Petrushka (ballet), Giselle Le Spectre de la rose (also ballets), A Christmas Carol, Kit Carson, The Story of the Three Bears, plus assorted others. Significant edit-warring throughout: [82], [83], [84] |
ShaShaJackson ( talk · contribs) † | January 23, 2008- February 2, 2009 | Hazel (TV series) | Y | Mostly old TV shows from the 1950s, also a bunch of GA reviews: [85] and horribly unkind comments at a GAN, notably: "However, the article is sooooooooooooooooo slight, my gorge rises every time I look at it. I am astonished beyond words that an editor would have the nerve to seek GA status for this trifle." [86] |
SoniaSyle ( talk · contribs) † | December 17, 2009 | The Donna Reed Show [87] | Y | Lilyan Tashman, King Kong (1933 film), golden age Actresses, The Story of the Three Bears, Michael Jackson and Bubbles (note an IP hit to Simple article on same topic!) |
Susanne2009NYC ( talk · contribs) † | Dec. 6, 2009 - November 17, 2010 | Beatrix Potter | Y | Almost completely Beatrix Potter related. GA reviews, i.e, this one to
Don't Forget the Bacon. Sent a number of Potter articles to GA and Miss Moppet to FA. Come back to this.
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TimmyTruck ( talk · contribs) † | October 11, 2007 | The Andy Griffith Show, [92] | Y | Andy Griffith, Flipper (intersects with?), Superman (intersects with?), Jockstrap, very sick this: [93] |
Tower4Sitz ( talk · contribs) † | November 17, 2010, creates userpage with "interests are" | [94] | Y | All edits to Jack and the Beanstalk and Victoriaearle, [95]. Harasses VE on user page, pretentious bitch, rant, at AN/I calls VE/TK "pretentious little missy" etc, "pretentious little be-otch". |
User:Tre=poi | November 16, 2009 | Lad a Dog, complained to Ucucha and Graham about promoting this under a different account | Y | Edits Ed Gein, murderer and bodysnatcher and Charles Johnston (captive of Native Americans), Shawnee captive. Opens this SPI against another ILT sock. LaVidaLoca ( talk · contribs) admits to living in Ohio (see possible Ohio IPs). Leaves November 25, 2009. |
Where the domestic things are ( talk · contribs) | July 7, 2017 | [96], To Lassie (1954 TV series) article | N | Edits to Maine and Lassie articles [97]. Opened FAC following multiple edits. Soon blocked; also repeated a user harassment pattern here. |
WP Martinet MZmke ( talk · contribs) | September 19, 2011 | vandalism | Y | Only two edits: One blanks a page, the second is a personal attack toward VE/TK |
Name | Create Date | First Edit | Link IP verified | Evidence |
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209.244.189.88 ( talk · contribs) | January 10, 2007-January 24, 2011 | N/A (may not be a static IP) | [98] | Lassie, Flipper, Hazel (TV series), other TV shows, rodeo articles, ballet, baseball, Hans Christian Anderson stories, etc. Associated with LaSylphide [99], Overjoyed [100], ItsLassieTime [101], EatNoPig [102] |
209.244.43.194 ( talk · contribs) | December 31, 2006 - November 19, 2008 | N/A (may not be a static IP) | [103] | baseball, old movies, rodeo, Hans Christian Andersen, other. Associated with LaSylphide [104] |
2601:184:200:8067:F018:D884:7936:3154 ( talk · contribs) | August 22, 2017 | [105] | [106] | Primarily vandalism of Maine and rodeo articles |
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Wikilifespan | June 2011/June 2012 – present |
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ISP | China Telecom in Guangzhou |
Known IPs | 218.20.0.0/16, 219.135-137.0.0/16, 14.46.0.0/16, 14.150-151.0.0/16, 58.62.0.0/16, 59.41.0.0/16, 69.197.0.0/16, 74.208.0.0/16, 202.172.0.0/16, 204.74.0.0/16 and open proxies |
Physical location | Guangzhou |
Instructions | Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information. |
Status | Active |
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Meenewa (
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Vandalism-only account using this IP range in 2011:
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Original name(s) | User:Wikinger, User:CBMIBM |
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Wikilifespan | 2007–present |
ISP | Neostrada Plus, Poland |
Known IPs | 83.16.0.0/13, 79.184.0.0/13; 2A00:F41:2800::/40; and others; many open proxies |
Physical location | Poland |
Instructions | Block sock IPs on sight; always check if they are open proxies (they usually are unless they are his Polish home ISP); semiprotect any page he touches to prevent follow-up disruption. Confirmed socks should be reported to m:SRG or #wikimedia-stewards connect for global locking. |
Status | Active |
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Wikinger (
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Persistent spreading of misinformation about Greek alphabet topics across multiple language Wikipedias. Persistent sockpuppetry, including good-hand/bad-hand schemes, edit-warring against his own socks; verbal abuse, fake death threats and outing attacks against administrators, joe jobs and impersonation of other vandals, use of open proxies. Wikinger's account was globally locked on 24 March 2015 due to cross-wiki abuse.
He is banned by the Wikimedia Foundation and may not edit any Wikimedia project. All accounts/IPs should be globally locked/blocked on sight.
Persistent obsessive tinkering with pages relating to the Greek alphabet and its minor additional characters ( Greek alphabet, Template:Greek alphabet sidebar, Ϝ, Ϛ, Ͱ, Ϙ, Ϻ, Ϡ, Ϸ), on en-wiki and multiple other projects. All Wikipedias that have equivalents of the above articles have been affected.
Original name(s) | Richard Daft |
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Wikilifespan | 2008–present |
Physical location | Kidderminster, England New Zealand |
Instructions | Revert and block on sight. Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information. |
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Richard Daft (
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This person is banned indefinitely for repeated block evasion, constant POV pushing, repeated disruption to WP:CRIC, legal threats, a general lack of competence and non-stop incivility to further a single purpose. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Richard Daft and archive.
Single purpose disruption of articles re cricket, especially designed to make personal attacks on several members of WP:CRIC
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Richard Daft and archive
Frequently edits from hotels, both in the UK and continental Europe. Formerly based in Powys, Wales, then Kidderminster in Worcestershire, but recent IPs suggest relocation to New Zealand.
see SPI as above
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Wikilifespan | December 2006–present |
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Sockpuppet investigations | Ananny |
Status | Active |
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“ | "Wikipedia is all about free speech!" - Ananny | ” |
A persistent cross-wiki spammer and sock-puppeteer since December 2006, Ananny's goal is to promote the work of Terry M. Ananny, a non notable artist (as established in independent AfD discussions on the German, Russian, and English Wikipedias). To this end, the user has used more than a dozen socks and innumerable IPs to recreate the deleted article and add Ananny's name to various lists. Although low level, Ananny's spamming has affected 19 Wikimedia wikis over a 10 year period.
Ananny is presumably the artist herself, as both her username and the persistent, specific nature of her spamming indicate a deep conflict of interest. She is unlikely to stop any time soon, as she believes that the Wikipedia community opposes her inclusion for personal reasons. For example:
“ | This article is under constant attempts to be removed by possible rival artists/dealers/gallery owners. They continue to attempt to remove it by any means they can think of... One might also question why these editors would want so desperately to block an article on a notable artist who has had work reproduced on UNICEF cards over the past decade, unless they had their own personal agenda for doing so. - Ananny | ” |
Ananny initially created Terry Ananny, which was deleted, (now indefinitely protected because of repeated attempts to re-create the article) despite attempts to interfere with the AFD process using the sock User:Jane Rushmore. It was soon after this that the spamming began in earnest.
Initially, she would add Ananny's name and a link to the artist's official site to articles such as List of Canadian artists, List of Canadian painters, Naive art, and Christmas card. Occasionally non-art related pages like Picnic and Hockey Jersey were also affected. Most of this editing would be done using IPs from the Toronto area.
When these began to be reverted more quickly, she created List of Canadian Contemporary Painters under the account User:CanadianArtworks in an attempt to escape notice. After this was deleted, Ananny took to sockpuppetry more freely (see suspected socks, and archived sock investigations), recreating the original biography using variations on spelling, including Terry Annany, TERRY ANANNY, Terry Marie Ananny, Terry M Ananny, Terry ananny, Terry M. Ananny, Terry A nanny, T.M.Ananny, Terry (Ananny) Annany, Terry Ananny - Canadian Painter, Terry Mary Broughton, Terri Ananny and Marie Stewart (artist).
Somewhere along the way, Ananny discovered Google Translate and began to go on periodic runs of cross-wiki spamming using machine-translated articles. (see list below)
User:Freshacconci has dealt with this user both here and on the Simple English Wiki, and also reported her to WP:WPSPAM. As a result terryananny.com has been added to the Meta spam blacklist.
Ananny at first spammed by adding her name and website to lists and other articles, but is now more focused on spamming by article creation. Also, the former method of spamming is restricted almost entirely to the English Wikipedia, where she is most active.
Ananny's article-creation spamming comes in intense but relatively brief bursts. It will last for several days, after which she appears to lose interest. Several months later, it will start up again. The link spamming, by contrast, is often more offhand and isolated.
In a typical burst of cross-wiki spam, she creates autobiographical articles on about half a dozen Wikipedia editions. Once deleted these often will resurface within a few days under variant spellings. After several iterations the spamming stops- for the time being.
If you run across a Terry Ananny article, be sure to google "Terry Ananny Wikipedia", as the spam comes in cross-wiki clusters. Once the articles are all deleted, continue to periodically google those terms for the next few days, as they will recur.
An article was created on May 23, 2017 for Roy Ananny. To be clear, there is nothing wrong with the article itself nor is there anything suspicious about the article creator (a long-time editor and administrator). However, with some quick digging, it turns out Roy Ananny is Terry Ananny's father-in-law. This is mentioned simply as a heads-up to other editors involved in this case as that article may be targeted as a backdoor entry for Terry Ananny who has used every trick in the book to create an article and adding a paragraph to this existing article would certainly not be beyond her. It has happened at least once, by a now-blocked sockpuppet of Ananny.
Most Ananny sockpuppets, when confronted, deny any association with Ananny. However, most have been confirmed as socks, all from the same editor. A now-blocked sockpuppet of Ananny made this comment on the userpage. As such, it is believed that the spammer/sockpuppeteer is Ananny herself.
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Wikilifespan | 2009 - present |
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Sockpuppet investigations | Karmaisking |
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Status | Active |
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Karmaisking has been indefinitely blocked for vandalism, personal attacks, soapboxing, and sockpuppeteering (confirmed through multiple checkuser cases). Some openly admit to being other versions of the sockpuppet numbering. Has admitted to having more active sockpuppets here.
More ongoing use of sockpuppets (documented at Checkuser case history, as well as clear history of use of IPs without logging in to evade block (primarily edits history of own contributions to talkpages, as well as editing). IPs usually geolocate to south-eastern Australia, see IP contribution history1, IP contribution history2. Yet more confirmed sockpuppets, abusive actions, etc, mostly documented under checkuser. Self-promotion of (presumed) real name (same as one of earliest registered names): Timothy Mak.
Edits primarily on pages related to finance, economics and libertarian issues. These include:
Deferred to abuse response for contact. The report may be found here.
Original name(s) | User:TyrusThomas4lyf |
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Wikilifespan | February 27, 2007 – present |
ISP | AT&T Internet Services |
Physical location | Chicago metropolitan area |
Requests for comment | Wikipedia:Requests for comment/TyrusThomas4lyf |
Sockpuppet investigations | TyrusThomas4lyf |
Instructions | Revert and block on sight. |
Status | Active |
TyrusThomas4lyf ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is the Wikipedia alias of a basketball fan who was blocked indefinitely in May 2007 for repeated personal attacks and edit warring on NBA-related articles, in spite of numerous warnings and attempts to mediate. For a summary of this user's past behavior, see the RFC and his talk page User talk:TyrusThomas4lyf. Prior to his block, this user possibly also edited under the aliases 68.253.206.119 ( talk · contribs · logs). Since his block, he has repeatedly attempted to subvert the block by resorting to sockpuppetry. Several reports were made at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets:
but he has returned time and time again.
TyrusThomas4lyf sock-puppets are recognizable most easily by their typical (but not exclusive) focus on a certain range of NBA articles, signature edits, occasionally abusive edit summaries, and edit warring. Favorite articles (with some sample signature edits) include:
NBA edits frequently show bias in favor of the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan, especially in bios on players that are compared to him. They frequently edit many of the "List of career achievements by ..." type pages at Category:Career achievements of basketball players. They have also shown an interest in serial killer and Nazi-related articles and are known for creating voluminous redirects for improbable spelling errors. The redirects are also sometimes music related, redirecting songs to articles on their album, or lyric snippets to their actual song title. They also create lots of categories in these subject areas.
IPs tend to originate mostly from the Chicago metropolitan area and St. Louis, typically using AT&T and associated networks. This user has also been known to use a Barnes & Noble shared account in the past, though this is uncommon. In 2020, some IPs were from Iowa.
For a more complete listing, see (for example) [164], as well as Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of TyrusThomas4lyf and Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of TyrusThomas4lyf.
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A vandal operating primarily out of the New York City public library open computer terminals, this vandal has impersonated members of baseball statistics organizations and inserted unsourced and false information into numerous baseball-related articles. Case primarily known as Ron liebman ( talk · contribs) but real name unknown. See RFCU: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Ron liebman and Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Ron liebman. Active 2007-current.
In late 2017, an vandal using Verizon ipv6 addressses from the New York City area was observed inserting false information into sports articles. See User:SummerPhDv2.0/Cellco_vandal. An IP editor with vandalism matching the Cellco vandal apparently confirmed that they are the Ron Liebman vandal while falsely claiming they "hadn't vandalized in a LONG time" (one day after this vandalism). [165] [166]
Current sock categories covered by this case are:
Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Ron liebman
Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Ron liebman
Known sockpuppets include at least:
Isidore wax (
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Irene liebman (
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Moe kaplan (
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Robert scheinblum (
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Rasheed wilds (
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Isidore was (
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Jos martinez (
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Emily ciorciari (
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Michael ing (
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Frank scelta (
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Eddie gold (
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Gamere (
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Mikemaddog (
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Ted ditullio (
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Evelyn m. begley (
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Cynthia roberts (
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Alvin berrios (
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Di Tullion (
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Ross adell (
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Rick dempsey (
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Mischa gelman (
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Joe nunziatta (
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Steven nadel (
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Lynn samuels (
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Joya das (
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Ebony dunn (
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Rasul modan (
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Cjamieson (
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Cloisters (
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Ellyabe (
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Dave eilers (
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Swerdlick (
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Wyckoff cut rate (
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Scott flatow (
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Achillest (
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Ruby e. cunningham (
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Barry friedman (
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[167] ) but edits from Queens College -City University of New York; prior IPs were largely New York City public library.
12.199.96.253 (
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149.4.108.x is CUNY - City University of New York. Other IPs used include New York City public library open access terminals.
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Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Best known for IP
Original name(s) | Keegscee |
---|---|
ISP |
Time Warner Cable/Spectrum (*.austin.res.rr.com) Sprint PCS (*.spcsdns.net) |
Known IPs | 66.68.86.111 (may have since changed), open proxies, Sprint IPs. |
Physical location | Austin, Texas (possibly relocated to Altamonte Springs, Florida based on IP geolocation) |
Sockpuppet investigations | Keegscee and ChadBrunner |
Instructions | Don't feed the troll. Quietly report to WP:AIV or WP:SPI and deny recognition. |
Status | Pending Approval |
Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or ANI |
Keegscee (
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Keegscee is a member of
RationalWiki, a website originally created in protest of
Conservapedia. RationalWiki members have been known to promote vandalism of other wikis.
[168]
[169]. Though Keegscee's account at RationalWiki has been dormant for several years, he may or may not be using a different identity at the site, which is common practice there. He was
banned by the English Wikipedia community in 2010 and
banned from all Wikimedia projects in 2021 by
the Wikimedia Foundation Trust & Safety team. He is also known as ChadBrunner.
Mostly pages edited by contributors he dislikes, and those contributors' talk pages. Keegscee is known to harass User:PCHS-NJROTC (real name David Morris), User:Ed Poor, User:Georgewilliamherbert, User:Neutralhomer, User:LBHS Cheerleader, and User:Orangemike, but his attacks should not be considered to be limited to those users.
Keegscee's activities range from harassing people he considers to be "right wing nuts" or who he believes are responsible for him being disciplined [170], to impersonating other users, to reverting vandalism and encouraging the perpetrators to vandalize wikis he dislikes. Keegscee's accounts are often obvious to those familiar with him, but sometimes his harassment is subtle in nature and might not even be detected as vandalism by recent changes patrols, such as to insert inaccurate information into an article mixed with off-wiki information about his victims (he has made malicious contributions that have survived for days before being reverted as "unreferenced" for example). He often makes numerous sockpuppet accounts at one time, although sometimes he will just make one sporadic account or use an IP. When his socks are identified, he sometimes denies being a sock He is known to use open proxies. Keegscee is known to dox his victims and harass them off-wiki, causing email access to be disabled from his main account. Sometimes similar, but slightly different abuse has been seen from different IP ranges (see the Keegscee SPI), possibly indicating meatpuppetry.
Avoid engaging Keegscee in conversation, and minimize unnecessary noticeboard discussions. His intentions are to create drama on Wikipedia. A hand-written abuse report was sent to Time Warner Cable in Austin, Texas in 2010, after which Keegscee disappeared altogether for roughly one year, but he has since returned with a new IP on the same network.
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