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This page summarises a limited number of long term abusers, to assist members of the community who believe they may have cause to report another incident. Note that this page is not a noticeboard. Names should only be added for the most egregious and well-attested cases. Most users here will have been banned, some on multiple occasions.
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123Aristotle | This user is a paid editor on Wikipedia, but does not disclose paid editing. After his initial account was blocked on Chinese Wikipedia, English Wikipedia as well as global locked, he uses sockpuppets to evade block and continues to create articles without disclosing paid editing. |
Albert20009 | An Indonesia-based user who mainly and frequently targets China, Malaysia, Singapore and several other countries media articles (like television/radio channels, newspaper as well television dramas/movies) with false information and WP:MOS/WP:OVERLINK related issues. The sock master has been globally blocked together with his sockpuppet accounts, but the user continues his disruptive edits through various IP numbers mostly from Medan and Stabat in North Sumatra and several other rare locations around Indonesia. |
Alec Smithson | A persistent cross-wiki hoaxer and sock-puppeteer since 2014. Globally locked in 2016 for long-term and extensive cross-wiki abuse, now edits using constantly shifting IPs resolving to Milan, Italy and surrounding towns. The primary focus is to promote obscure members of the Natoli family and to spuriously link them to various European nobility, using fake or misrepresented references. Continues to create articles on the Natoli family and related subjects on all wikis that allow article creation by unregistered users. |
Ananny | A persistent cross-wiki spammer and sock-puppeteer since December 2006, Ananny's goal is to promote the work of a non notable artist (as established in several independent AFD discussions). To this end the user has used more than a dozen socks and innumerable IPs to recreate the deleted article and add the artist's name to various lists. Although low level, the spamming has affected 19 Wikimedia wikis over a 9 year period. |
Ararat arev | An Armenian nationalist permabanned for revert-warring and sockpuppetry. His main focus is articles concerning Armenian antiquity, which he attempts to distort in accordance with certain nationalist fringe theories, mostly attributed to the www.armenianhighland.com/ website. |
Bambifan101 | Focuses on Disney articles. Claims to be a young boy in the southern United States (possibly in the Mobile, Alabama area) with a professed love of juvenile-themed movies (usually Disney animated features) and books. |
Bertrand101 | Massive vandalism on Philippine media. After being blocked on English Wikipedia, he will continue cross-wiki vandalism. |
Best known for IP | IP editor, regularly engaged in edit-warring and personal attacks, particularly over the phrase "best known for". |
BMX On WheeIs | Also known as the Fuerdai vandal. Uses phrases like "fuerdai" and "on wheels" and usually targets pages very broadly related to fuerdai. |
Boy band vandal | IP-hopping user from Alberta, blocked more than 30 times since 2013 for disruptively adding categories such as "boy band" and "girl group". |
Brad Watson, Miami | Once spammed pseudoscience on talk pages, now adds cryptic rants centered around the number 7 to pages related to the Bible and ancient Egypt. |
Brightify | Introduces false information in retail stores (hoax closures) and Pacific Northwest places (especially hoax county and metro area changes) as well as children's media related pages. Active for years, over 200 confirmed and suspected socks. |
Catcreekcitycouncil | Prolific sockpuppeter with over 500 socks which inserts hoaxes about lions existing in Montana. |
Cause of death vandal | UK-based user blocked many times for disruption at biographies, changing to false dates or adding irrelevant information. |
Cebr1979 | Personal attacks, harassment, and a generally combative attitude toward other editors. |
Charliewolf79 | Long term pattern of disruptive edits and sockpuppetry, centred around the article Game of Death and related articles. |
Christian2941 | Known for adding deliberate factual errors on Philippine-related articles, and for persistent sockpuppetry. Usernames typically follow a predictable pattern, such as RMxxxx or Southern Wear 201. |
ColourWolf | A prolific Singaporean sockpuppeteer known for deliberately inserting fake storylines into TV shows produced by MediaCorp, Singapore's national television broadcaster. |
Cow cleaner 5000 | Targets articles related to Weekly Shōnen Jump, and Justin Knapp. Seems to have a fixation on linking these to terrorist groups. |
David Beals | Inserts random images of ceiling fans into any articles, and even links to videos of them. He also has a tendency to randomly thank certain Wikipedia users. At the same time, while on Commons, he will load a ventilator/ceiling fan image over any medium or high use image that he targets. |
Denver LTA | Blanking Denver radio stations, Chili's, Bennigan's, other. |
Dog and rapper vandal | General disruption on articles relating to dogs and rappers. |
DPeterson | Persistent sockpuppetry and unencyclopedic/COI/POV editing on topics related to Attachment therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and related articles, social areas such as abortion and child sexual abuse, sneaky vandalism, promotional "cites", promotion of individuals and institutes in these areas, and BLP attacks + WP:BATTLEground on real-world opponents such as Advocates for Children in Therapy ("ACT"). Also edits and socks in other unrelated areas. |
Eeeeeewtw | Long-term abuse including removal of reliable sources from Taiwan-related articles. Also makes IP edits to bypass inspection and hides this POV-pushing changes behind fake edit summaries such as "minor edit", "repair vandalism" or "revert to good version". Also vandalism on talk page and removal of sockpuppeteer template. |
Friends vandal | Vandalism on articles related to the television show Friends. Persistently introduces factual errors regarding the relationship statuses of the characters. |
Gabriella~four.3-6 | Long-term abuse of spamming and creating many nonsense redirects relating to Monster High. |
Gabucho181 | Block evasion and persistent vandalism to television network and programme-related articles and harassment/trolling. |
German reference desk troll | Frequents reference desks as an anonymous user from 84.* or 88.* range (geolocated in Essen and Bochum, Germany), and asks fairly difficult open-ended questions, targeted to waste other people's time. Also, creates or requests creation of implausible redirects, usually with vulgar or double entendre meanings. |
Giovannigiulio | Persistent block-evader whose edits almost always have to do with Italy. |
Guangzhou IP vandal | Creates articles with administrator/rollbacker's usernames in Chinese Wikipedia and redirects many pages to Main Page. |
Guatemalan IP date-changing vandal | Frequently changes release dates for Latin albums and singles without citing a reliable source. |
Hanoi Vandal | Fabricates musical collaborations between targets of interest. |
HarveyCarter | Long term persistent sockpuppeteer, edit warrior, vandal. |
Hassan Guy | Chronic sockpuppeteer out of Oman & Libya who disrupts articles related to Pakistan Armed Forces with Pro Pakistani bias |
HENRY APPLEGATE | Cross-wiki sockpuppeteer known for writing nonsense attack pages in userspace, alluding to Philippine celebrities or local insurgent and/or organised crime groups. |
Hershelkrustofsky | POV pushing, sock puppets, ban evasion. |
Hydro dot net | Edit warring with unsourced content and misrepresenting sources, frequently about an alleged hijack of the "hydro.net" domain name. |
Iaaasi | Nationalistic and fringe edits. Community banned. |
I Love Bridges | Hoax-editing bridge articles, with multiple socks and IPs. |
Incorrigible Troll | Harassment of User:Purplebackpack89 with a whole bunch of accounts. |
India Against Corruption sock-meatfarm | Large group of sock and meat puppets disrupting India Against Corruption and related articles since late 2012, sometimes self-referring as "the HRA1924 network". Extensive use of legal threats directed at both the WMF and individual editors. Engage in serious harassment, both on- and off-wiki. |
ItsLassieTime | This user has been banned from editing wikipedia, with over 150 sockpuppet accounts and a CCI that encompassed over 700 articles. Edits a wide range of articles, but ones on children's literature and TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s in particular. Also has an interest in topics related to the American West. Has a penchant for being quick to attack anyone who disagrees with his/her edits and editing pattern is a problem due to frequent copyvio, close-paraphrasing and other misuse of source material. Tends to create usernames related to topics that account is editing and claim a different, often sympathy-invoking, persona for each. Recent socking has focused on making dozens of accounts with a few edits each and trolling, personal attacks, and harassment. Sockpuppets have been blocked in 2009–2018. |
JarlaxleArtemis (Grawp) | Trolling, personal attacks, harassment, and page-move vandalism on many Wikimedia wikis. |
JAT6634 | Prolific sockpuppetteer (over 150 socks at Sep 2011) who uses Wikipedia as a webhost for fantasy football articles. |
JB196 | Prolific sock-puppeteer (over 500 known or suspected socks) whose focus is on professional wrestling figures. Frequently nominates articles for deletion, and tag-bombs articles with speedy deletion and notability warnings. |
Jermboy27 | Vandal attacking road sign and TV-related articles. Vandalism scheme involves abusive use of multiple accounts and IP vandalism. |
JeSuisBilly | Known for "anti-anime" edits across several Philippine TV and Korean drama related articles. |
JI Hawkins | Inserts vandalism regarding government conspiracies. Despite the wide range of articles vandalized, most of them are related to Harland Sanders. User typically vandalizes both the article page and the talk page. IP range traces to Research In Motion. |
Joehazelton | Has been stalking User:Goethean and other users since 2006 when he was involved in a conflict over the articles Peter Roskam and Tammy Duckworth. Recently, he has been nominating for deletion articles that User:Goethean created. He generally edits, from a pro-Republican viewpoint, articles relating to far west suburban Chicago politicians. He has a poor command of the English language, and speaks Polish. If his efforts are undermined, he will appear to explode with child-like, semi-coherent rage, often riddled with obscenities and with references to homosexuality, Marxism, the Chicago Outfit, Barack Obama, etc. |
John Daker | Hoaxing and impersonation. |
Karmaisking | This user has been indefinitely blocked for vandalism, personal attacks, soapboxing, and sockpuppeteering. He often uses multiple sockpuppets. Aliases have included User:Lagrandebanquesucre, User:KeynesianCounterfeiters, User:KarmasBlackSwan, User:Rememberkarma, User:Timothymak, User:TimothyDon-HughMak. Edits pages related to fractional reserve banking, Austrian school of economics, and libertarian-related issues. Often leaves insulting or misleading edit summaries, and sometimes claims to be a new user. |
Katrina Villegas | Known for persistently [re]creating fictitious articles pertaining to Filipino child actors. |
Keegscee | Banned user from RationalWiki who persistently harasses people with opposing political views or whom he otherwise dislikes, and encourages vandals to vandalize other wikis that he dislikes. |
Krisdegioia | Edits relating to Kris Degioia and related topic areas: cyberstalking, cyberbullying, cyber crimes, etc. krisdegioia (talk · contribs) has been banned by the Wikimedia Foundation from editing Wikimedia sites consistent with the Terms of Use. Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to SPI for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. Notify the Support & Safety team regarding any incidents at ca@wikimedia.org .
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KuhnstylePro | Creates hoax articles about made-up TV shows and vandalizes cleanup templates. |
Laredo AM power vandal | Edits power levels used by AM radio stations in and around Laredo, Texas. |
Lightbringer (usurped - blocked) | A stubborn user who has extremely POV and fringe beliefs regarding freemasonry. He repeatedly edit wars through sockpuppets to insert his beliefs into all freemasonry-related articles, and steadfastly refuses to engage in discussions or negotiate his poorly sourced (and often wildly incorrect) edits. |
Link Smurf | Serial sockpuppetry and harassment; serial vandalism on Interstate Highway System and other articles, usually using the fake word "eolgi" |
Lpkids2006 | Massive vandalism on Philippine media. |
Maelbros | Known for hoaxes and other patent nonsense on articles pertaining to children's media. |
Malusia22 | Targets articles pertaining to Filipino gangs, and fabricates hoaxes about them. |
Mangoeater1000 | A vandal who moved pages to inappropriate names. After getting indefinitely blocked for fourth-offense sockpuppetry, he continued to edit using many sockpuppets. His contributions typically focus on tendentious editing regarding NYU Poly and Cal Poly Pomona. |
Martial arts vandal | Disrupts martial arts-related films, especially (but not limited to) Hong Kong action films. Engages in genre warring, extensive edit warring, sock puppetry, and block evasion. |
Mattisse | Contributor who had difficult interactions with several other established users. Has regularly resorted to socking to evade scrutiny and carry on grudges with other editors. |
Messenger2010 | This user is the sockpuppeteer of a huge number of sockpuppets who claims they are part of a group of over 50 whose purpose is to spread (mostly false) anti-soy bean propaganda through various articles on Wikipedia using strongarm tactics and sockpuppets to stop any other editors from disputing the statements. See Talk:Soy protein and Talk:Biological value as one example. Favorite targets include articles on soy, soy protein, biological value, whey protein, PDCAAS, Sodium dodecyl sulfate and articles related to vegan dieting. |
Morning277 (Legalmorning.com[1] / Wiki-PR) | Hired writers who collaborate off-wiki. Active from August 2010. As of August 2013, 312 accounts confirmed. Promote high-tech companies. |
Muppets LTA | Two users from the United States, (one from Indiana typically on Frontier, one from California typically on Comcast) persistently adding indiscriminate lists focused on "Background Muppets" or "Background characters" or "Muppet cameos" or "Not Featured Muppets" across a wide variety of articles related to The Muppets. Active circa mid-2015 to present (2017). |
MusicLover650 | Disruption to music related articles. |
My Royal Young | Massive vandalism on US Navy ships, Encantadia articles and some talk pages. After being blocked on English Wikipedia, he continues to do cross-wiki vandalism. |
Nangparbat | Chronic sockpuppeteer who primarily attacks and disrupts articles on India-Pakistan-Afghanistan Military History with a Pro-Pakistani bias. |
Nate Speed | Long-term sockpuppeteer known for treating Wikipedia as his own sandbox for which to preserve his version of articles on studios and entertainment that he targets. Slings semi-censored expletives and insults at anyone who gets in his way in messages and email, even if it's by reverting his edits, and will demand said editors put his version back. Notorious for writing out Internet "punches" as well as a bunch of exclamation points in his messages and emails. |
New Order vandal | IP-hopping editor from Japan who primarily vandalizes New Order- and 808 State- related articles. This vandal mostly engages in genre warring, extensive edit warring, opinion pushing, personal attacks and spamming on talk pages. Also occasionally interchanges article contents and pictures. |
Newcrewforu | A new account is created as soon as the old one is accused of sockpuppetry. The account often but not always lays low for a few days to a week, making trivial edits. Then the account begins editing beer-related pages en masse. On their own each edit has the superficial appearance of being constructive, but form part of a pattern of spamming (including Joe Jobbing) and harassment. Pages or added text often involves the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP). User shows tendencies to impersonate others. |
Nikita | Persistent edits and edit requests related to certification and sales inflation of Green Day and The Who articles and other abuse by globally blocked and locally banned user Никита-Родин-2002. |
Nipponese Dog Calvero | Trolling, personal attacks, harassment, creating attacking or confusing accounts and pages. He is more active on east Asian projects, such as Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese Wikipedia. |
Nsmutte | Personal attacks, impersonating other editors, community banned |
Orangemoody | 381 sockpuppet accounts blocked, mostly undisclosed paid editors, and 210 articles deleted in late August 2015. Received media attention. |
OSUHEY | Copyright violations. Interest in Ohio politics. |
Pioneercourthouse | Many years, many sockpuppets, has resulted in indefinite bans and his very own abusefilter. |
Primetime | and on Meta —Deliberate copyright infringement, personal attacks and harassment on and off wiki, cross-wiki sockpuppetry. |
Qwertywander | Addition of usually unsourced POV text attributing items in Asian culture to the Chutiya kingdom. Characteristic behaviour includes edit summaries characterising reversion of edits as vandalism. Multiple sock puppets and IPs. |
Ref Desk Antisemitic Troll | Antisemitic vandalism in both articles and on the Reference Desk, and rapid, bot-like vandalism across the site. |
Richard Daft | Personal attacks, harassment, legal threats, vandalism to WP:CRICKET, prolific sockpuppetry with 120 socks to date. Modus operandi:- targeting mostly cricket articles edited primarily by three members of the cricket project, often vandalising the page with personal attacks or replacing words with immature alternatives. Often has several socks set up at once, with many more in reserve. In 2012 Daft became the subject of a site ban, having been causing disruption since 2008. |
Rinpoche | Vandal has a tendency for personal attacks, harassment and outing attempts directed at editors with whom he was in dispute, who he would then troll with fake apologies. He was subsequently indefinitely blocked. Since then he has become a prolific sockpuppeteer, continuing to harass other users (on one occasion even contacting the school of an editor who is a minor). He has become more active again as of 2012, evading his block via various socks, and continuing to cause further disruption. |
Ron liebman | A vandal operating primarily out of the New York City public library open computer terminals, this user has impersonated members of baseball statistics organizations and inserted unsourced and false information into numerous baseball-related articles. |
Russian politics IP vandal | This vandal is using dynamical IP addresses in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, to introduce obscentites (in Russian, transliterated Russian, and English) into articles on Russian politicians, as well as using obscene edit summaries to these edits. |
Schwabacher vandal | Spams articles on digital wallet products with text like "Electronic Wallet, Digital Wallet, Mobile Wallet, intellectual property of Gaston Schwabacher, the number of patent PI 9500345." Major targets include Osaifu-Keitai, Lemon Wallet, Google Wallet, and digital wallet. |
Scibaby | Disruption concerning global warming. |
SEFPRODUCTIONS | Promotion of the films of non-notable British filmmaker Paul Easter. |
Sheynhertz-Unbayg | Persistent banned sockpuppeteer who typically edits articles about surnames of Jewish or Arabic origin. SU's English is poor, so contributions will often have grammar or spelling issues. Edits by them are nearly always marked as minor. Redlinks in articles are common, as is text copied from other Wikipedia projects, usually the German Wikipedia. Typically does not interact with other users when confronted about potential problems, and will sometimes actively revert other users attempting to fix their contributions. |
Slowking4 | Determined to set things right, focussing on adding images to biographies and participating in editing drives. Edits are regularly poor in attribution, and has historically been violating our non-free content policy. Uses strong language and personal attacks when being confronted. |
Snuffereet | Modus operandi is hard to describe, but obvious when found. Fond of nonsense made-up words, such as "ba-limp" and various attempts at onomatopoeia. Edits an extremely eclectic but relatively limited array of articles such as The Portsmouth Herald, Joel Gertner, Emilio Delgado, Bert (Sesame Street), Candlepin bowling, Losin' Myself, Jon Bauman. Only consistent area of focus is National Wrestling Federation and various wrestlers' articles, especially Andre the Giant. Vandalism is low-volume but very persistent. Often gets verbally aggressive when discovered or reverted, but gives up fairly quickly—until the next time. Often blanks his socks' user talk pages to remove warnings and block notices. |
SummerThunder | POV pushing on subjects related to China, malicious cross-wiki sock puppetry, extensive on- and off-wiki personal attacks. |
Swamilive | Creates hoax articles and will often act against his own accounts. |
Szm020730 | Image flag vandal, adding hoax flags to articles about places. Mostly edits with IP. |
Taiki0409 | Massive Vandalism as Beauty Queen Pageants, Anime and Tokusatsu and etc. But Created as Hoaxes and Vandalism to User and User talk Pages as Blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a web host. |
Techwriter2B | Stalks and harasses editors using many IP addresses. |
Teenage Fairytale Dropouts vandal | A frequent vandaliser of Wikipedia for several years. Most of their edits involve adding false, unsourced and/or dubious information about the Children's television program Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. They predominantly target the articles, So Fresh and So Random! as well as the associated pages of these articles. |
The Fresh Beat Band | Persistent spamming related to The Fresh Beat Band, impersonator. |
Tile join | Persistently creates new accounts to vandalise Evolution, Talk:Evolution, and/or user pages. Replaces text of the article, or user pages of people who revert his edits, with text from Genesis. May be sockpuppets of User:Barbary lion. The first incident occurred February 5, 2007. Typical attacks happen in spurts, with a new sock deployed as the previous sock is blocked, and are conducted by usernames registered earlier to bypass semiprotection. Usernames are typically meaningless combinations of a few letters or short words, and are often created in batches. |
TV5Ozamiz | Persistent addition of hoaxes pertaining to Filipino media, malls, and films. |
TyrusThomas4lyf | This user is a persistent sock-puppeteer who had his account blocked indefinitely in May 2007 for repeated personal attacks and edit warring on NBA-related articles, despite 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. Since his block, he has repeatedly attempted to subvert the block by resorting to sock-puppetry. |
UnderArmourKid | Vandalizes Aflac, Office Depot, Under Armour. Themes include 9/11, aviation, cyclones, moon landing conspiracies, Geometry Dash, Nascar, Santiago (Chile). |
Universe Daily | (No connection with website Universe Today) — Massive deceptive linkspam; personal attacks. |
The UPN Vandal | Adds hoax information to articles pertaining to television and film, especially children's media. |
VaughanWatch | POV pushing on subjects related to Vaughan, Ontario. |
Vnisanian2001 | Habitually adds WP:OR to articles; fails to meet WP:IDHT and WP:COMPETENCE; exhibits WP:BATTLE behavior. |
Voice Cast Vandal | Adds hoax information to film and television articles and their associated actors with cross-referencing. |
Vote (X) for Change | Trolls user and project talk pages, superficial discussion disputes but with incorrect and misleading information. |
Wallflowers98 | Significant copyright infringement and prolific sockmaster. |
Weathereditor | Made unsourced changes to articles relating to weather and locations in the United Kingdom. Once other editors started reverting the unsourced changes made by the user, sockpuppets will undo those reversions. |
Wikidestruction vandal | British Wikipedia vandal who constantly vandalizes articles relying on Now! That's What I Call Music, a large number of different musical artists, and some video game articles. User tends to "identify" the edits they reverse as "good faith edits", despite often being constructive contributions to the article.[2][3] The user occasionally pleads for other editors who repeatedly revert their nonconstructive edits, via edit summaries.[4][5] |
Wikiexplorer13 | Chronic sockpuppeteer who particularly engages in the pursuit and harassment of a number of users (Capitals00, D4iNa4, Razer2115, Raymond3023, MBlaze Lightning and Adamgerber80—to name a few) by reverting any edits that they have made until he gets blocked. |
Wikinger | Adds false information related to the Greek alphabet and to its related minor characters. Also impersonates other LTAs and sockmasters. |
Yaysmay15 | Adding of non-notable or sensationalist events on Philippine history-related articles, especially those on contemporary Philippine history, plus some personal attacks. Originally used the user name "Vince daryl falcunitin", soon blocked in 2016, and has been complained about by Tambayan Philippines members, especially Hariboneagle927 and Blake Gripling (Blakegripling ph), for edit pushing and edit warring. |
Zhoban | Adds unreliable sources to Islamic terrorism articles, while acting in an uncivil manner towards other editors. Abuses multiple accounts and IP addresses. |
Full list
For a full list of all the vandals (where all of the entries are shown on one page), please click here. Note that some usernames will appear as "Full" until clicking the [edit] link which leads to the individual subpage.
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