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
Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to
AIV or
ANI
Basic information
Tim Zukas is in the habit of using a variety of IP addressses along with his registered account, to make more than 1,000 logged-out edits. He has caused a great deal of friction with fellow editors by removing far too much important text in his attempts to copy-edit and trim articles about air and rail transportation. Editing primarily from Oakland, California, but also from other cities in the
East Bay, he has violated the guideline at
WP:MULTIPLE to gain the upper hand in content disputes. Under his attention, multiple articles have been edit-protected.
Many other editors have reverted Tim Zukas's work, but his persistence creates edit wars at articles such as:
It's clear from certain sequences of edits that Tim Zukas has edited logged out as these IPs. Tim Zukas has even answered two questions on his own talk page using IP addresses.
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Binksternet If you really want something done, you need to follow the instructions at the head of this page which clearly state that you must tag the socks and raise an
SPI case, linking in this abuse report. I reproduce below. I suspect that not a lot will happen in the case of the historical socks.
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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.