Wikilifespan | 2007–present |
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ISP | Telecom Italia |
Physical location | North-central Italy: Florence, Prato, Tuscany (also Bologna, Emilia-Romagna) |
Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/87.6.121.105 |
Instructions | Please do not take any action if this user is not causing significant disruption. Please do not warn this user. If 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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The Sandbox Troll is known to repeatedly disrupt Wikipedia sandbox pages. Typical behaviour includes repeatedly blanking or resetting the sandbox, undoing others' edits, and writing profanities in English or Italian. They will normally attack any user who reverts, warns or blocks them. They do not use registered usernames.
This user exclusively targets Wikipedia sandbox pages, their own talk pages, and the user/talk pages of any users who interact with them. They may sometimes also warn other users who are disrupting the sandbox (in their opinion). The main targets are:
In the past they have shown that they might also disrupt almost any other project-wide sandbox page.
Repeatedly blanking or resetting sandboxes, calling people idiots, adding "fuck off all", [1] [2], or "fuck off admins". [3] [4] [5] and similar abuse in Italian. If they receive warnings they will typically blank them and start throwing abuse.
No user accounts have ever been identified.
As of 2015–2022 they are mainly using IP addresses in the following ranges (all Telecom Italia in Northern Italy):
A few other Telecom Italia ranges in the same region are occasionally used, as seen below.
Partial list of IP addresses used: