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Editor on an IP range promoting fringe theories
Hi GeneralNotability and pagewatchers, do you have any ideas on how to respond to an editor on an IP range promoting fringe theories? I saw this unreferenced edit by an IP editor about Visigoths and Goths in Britain on my watchlist, reverted it and posted on the editor's talk page. The IP range has made some 600 edits over the last two weeks and those I have checked at Haestingas and History of Warwickshire seem to be equally odd. TSventon (talk) 04:31, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- TSventon, first thing I'd try is engaging them on their talk page when they're actively editing - looks like they're on a dynamic IPv6 range, rotating about once a day. If that fails to get their attention and they're being disruptive, we can use a partial block to get their attention. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:24, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you, I have posted on their latest talk page. Engaging them while they're actively editing will be more of a challenge. TSventon (talk) 08:20, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- Now talking at User talk:Ovid99. TSventon (talk) 15:32, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
- And at Talk:Anglo-Saxons#Meonwara and Wihtwara. TSventon (talk) 14:40, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
I raised the issue at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Ovid99 and the editor has gone quiet for now. Is there anything more I can do? Or for that matter anything I should have done differently? TSventon (talk) 05:48, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- TSventon, I don't think so at this point, and I think you did everything as well as you could. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:55, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
P.S. The editor intends to come back in the autumn, according to their talk page. TSventon (talk) 18:51, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
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Jimmy Fallon
Hello, GeneralNotability,
I see you've encountered our celebrity vandal who typically edits from newly created accounts and IPs that typically geolocate to Louisville, Kentucky but can be from neighboring states. He posts the exact same content on celebrity bios, although the content differs on women's pages vs. men's pages. I'm afraid that in 3 days he will just return to this article, he seems to pay attention to when protection ends. There are literally dozens of biographical articles that are protected anywhere from 3-12 months because of his persistence. Just look at Betty White to see another recent example. I wish we could use range block to end his vandalism streak but he seems to jump around quite a bit. Any way, if you haven't seen his work before, now you have and he just reuses the same content over and over again so he's easy to recognize. Our page patrollers do a good job reverting his edits quickly but it can take a while for his accounts to be blocked and the page protected.
Hope you are otherwise having a good weekend! Liz Read! Talk! 02:48, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
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