| Wikilifespan | December 2017 – 2021, 2023- |
|---|---|
| Physical location | Colchester, Essex, England |
| Instructions | Suspected socks should be reported to AIV and SRG, but not tagged, per WP:DENY. Do not report to SPI. 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. Confirmed socks should be reported to m:SRG or #wikimedia-stewards connect for global locking. |
| Status | Active |
Basic information
BMX On WheeIs (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Also known as the "Fuerdai vandal", this user is a Wikipedia vandal who has created hundreds of sockpuppets since December 2017. They started out targeting articles related to Apple Inc. smartphone products and fuerdai, but have since branched out. As of 2023, several LGBTQ+ related articles have also been known to be targeted by this LTA.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
Fuerdai is an obvious target. Broadly speaking, most target pages are related to wealth, China, Falun Gong, Hong Kong, Joshua Wong or technology. More recent socks may target the talk pages of people who have been involved in countering this vandal. They have also targeted this page and the BMX On WheeIs SPI. Additionally, socks frequently target Wikimedia projects other than the English Wikipedia, usually projects in English, notably Meta-Wiki, Wikivoyage, and Wikimedia Commons.
Starting in 2023, LGBTQ+ related articles are also a frequent target for this vandal where they engage in homophobic vandalism. Also, “Frozen Wee” and "My testicles are going up and down up down up down up down" and variations of these phrases are commonly used by this LTA.
Habitual behavior
Usernames usually, but not always, reference "fuerdai" or "on wheels" or are derogatory towards East Asians. Vandalism typically involves the same phrases and may reference wealth, China, or technology. Special characters and insertion of other letters (for example, "fouerdai", "富二代", "Fuㅌrdㅂi", and "phuerdai") are also frequently used to circumvent edit filters.
This user's user talk page vandalism may involve abuse of warning templates, such as giving users warnings for "reverting fuerdai vandalism" or similar, or changing section titles. Sometimes, the vandal will vandalize both articles and user talk pages by adding disruptive images. These images are uploaded by socks solely to vandalize with and typically reference the same things as their text-based vandalism. Any vandalism-only images need to be nominated for deletion on Commons.
Socks may also cause disruption on Commons, Meta, zhwiki, or any English-language Wiki project besides Wikipedia, and should be reported to Steward Requests on meta to be globally locked.
As of April 2020, usernames related to COVID-19 (see suspected sockpuppets for an example) have also been used by the vandal. Starting in 2023, this user started using usernames that are derogatory to LGBTQ+ people.
Cases
Other notes
"BMX on WheeIs" is spelled with a capital I; this was likely done to avoid triggering Willy on Wheels-related abuse filters. In all caps it looks like "BMX ON WHEEIS", and in lowercase it looks like "bmx on wheeis".
Edit filter: Special:AbuseFilter/918
Any future suspected sockpuppets need to be reported to Steward Requests on meta.
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of BMX On WheeIs
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of BMX On WheeIs