| Wikilifespan | October 2022 - present |
|---|---|
| ISP | Türk Telekom |
| Known IPs | 95.12.16.171, 85.96.19.184, 85.107.163.127 etc. |
| Physical location | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AudiGuy-1204 |
| Instructions | Suspected socks should be reported to AIV and SRG. Do not tag socks; instead, Revert, block and ignore. Do not leave warnings on their talk page, as they are known to target users who warn them. Revoke TPA for socks as they are known to abuse their talk page access to troll others. Usernames which contain profanity and/or insults can be revdelled as necessary. |
| Status | Pending Approval |
Basic information
AudiGuy-1204 (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
XTools Timecard
Sockmaster and troll from Turkey who vandalizes articles related to cars, Japan, voice actors and/or anime by unwikifying text and making unnecessary references to vehicles, adding obscenities to text and/or adding references to Nazism. Impersonates and/or harasses users who revert or block them, especially Harushiga (most impostors of Harushiga are socks of this LTA), Sakura emad and --WikiUser1234945--. Engages in good-hand, bad-hand socking at times. Leaves inappropriate talk page messages to troll users who revert, block or report them. Occasionally also impersonates Lithuaniaball2 and BMX/Fuerdai.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
Anything related to cars, Nijisanji, voice actors, anime, VTubers, or Japanese culture. Also, the talk pages of users who block, revert or report them, especially Harushiga's. Also, regularly trolls Wikipedia noticeboards, for example by commenting out legitimate reports or adding frivolous ones.
Habitual behavior
- Usernames consist of something related to Japanese culture or automotives and end in a four-figure number and/or impersonate or insult Harushiga. Nazi themes can occasionally be seen in usernames as well.
- Unwikifies text.
- Adds obscenities to articles.
- Vandalizes Japanese culture-related articles by hijacking content and making unnecessary references to automobiles in articles about Japanese culture.
- Nazi themed vandalism (e.g. adding ASCII art of a swastika, changing infobox parameters to Hitler) are also common.
- Trouts, leaves block notices and/or warning templates or adds other trolling messages on the people who revert, block and/or report them. Also, trolls AIV by reporting people who revert their edits.
- Uses "sneaky" edit summaries that imply they may be fixing vandalism while vandalizing the article.
- Socks will usually flat out deny that they are an AudiGuy-1204 sock even if other behavioral evidence matches.
- Good hand-bad hand socking; occasionally fixes typos or reverts vandalism with good-hand socks.
- When using IP addresses, denies that they have edited using said address even if they have done so.
- Occasionally replaces English text with other language text.
- Impersonates Lithuaniaball2 and Fuerdai.
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of AudiGuy-1204
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of AudiGuy-1204