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'''Nangaphobia''' means a state of an editor when he/she suspects very frequently, other editors of being [[WP:SOCK|sock]] of an [[WP:INDEF|indefinitely blocked]] editor. The phobia is mainly because of the fear of a disruptive sock. Usually editors who are or were followed by a sock in a particular topic area consider any new editor editing in that area with edits that oppose their [[WP:POV|POV]], a sock. |
'''Nangaphobia''' means a state of an editor when he/she suspects very frequently, other editors of being [[WP:SOCK|sock]] of an [[WP:INDEF|indefinitely blocked]] editor. The phobia is mainly because of the fear of a disruptive sock. Usually editors who are or were followed by a sock in a particular topic area consider any new editor editing in that area with edits that oppose their [[WP:POV|POV]], a sock. |
Revision as of 20:10, 26 June 2012
Nangaphobia means a state of an editor when he/she suspects very frequently, other editors of being sock of an indefinitely blocked editor. The phobia is mainly because of the fear of a disruptive sock. Usually editors who are or were followed by a sock in a particular topic area consider any new editor editing in that area with edits that oppose their POV, a sock.
Etymology
The term Nangaphobia is derived from the username of a sockmaster User:Nangparbat, who has been socking here since 2008.
Symptoms
- Biting the newcomers.
- Tagging new editors' userpages with sock tags without going through SPI or reporting to an admin.
- Invoking sock-puppet exemption to edit war your favoured version into the article.
- Reverting every other SPA's edits calling them a sock.
- Not following BRD if an SPA reverts you and re-reverting instead.
- Stalking SPAs that have not made any poor edits.
- Reverting all contributions of SPAs or even an actual sock without checking if some of the edits were good.
- Not properly explaining the policy to the newbies assuming them to be experienced editors.
- Outright reverting when seeing the sockmaster's IP range making any edit.
- Assuming only IP editors who support your view or unambiguously vandalize to be normal IP users.
- Striking or blanking new users' comments.
- Striking or blanking sockmaster's IP range talkpage comments even on unrelated topic areas.
Facts that are ignored
There are several reasons why the IP or the account might not be Nangparbat (or another indefinitely blocked editor):
- Before reverting the IP, ever wondered why they just don't range block him to get rid of the blocking headache? They don't because there are too many users (in the example case, millions) editing on that IP range. It is very much possible that a different person made the edit.
- Some times accounts that have a single edit on a main article are termed as sock-puppets; there is a good possibility that one of the IPs editing there just created an account.
Suggestion
If you are sure about a certain editor to be a sock of an indefinitely blocked editor, before shooting the gun (.i.e. tagging editor's user pages with sock tags and reverting all of the editor's edits), file a case at Sockpuppet Investigation board with the proof.
See also
- Wikipedia:Don't be quick to assume that someone is a sockpuppet
- Wikipedia:Signs of sock puppetry
- Wikipedia:An obvious sock is obvious
- Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations
- Wikipedia:Assume good faith
- Wikipedia:Duck
- Wikipedia:Newbies aren't always clueless