| Wikilifespan | 2012–present |
|---|---|
| ISP | various |
| Physical location | Cebu City, Philippines |
| Sockpuppet investigations | Brianmagallano |
| Instructions | Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. 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. |
| Status | Active |
Basic information
Brianmagallano (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
Vandal primarily targeting video game articles, Philippine media articles, and Football articles, introducing false information, active for years even after blocks. Dozens and dozens of suspected socks from the same IP range.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
Video game articles, Philippine media companies, Football articles
- Radio Mindanao Network
- Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
- The King of Fighters
- Tekken series
- TV Patrol
- Template:Philippine peso history
- Manila Broadcasting Company
- DZRH-TV
- Raiden (series)
- ABS-CBN Regional
- Philippine two peso coin
- List of Japanese-language television channels
- Bandai Namco Studios
- List of Bandai Namco video game franchises
- Template:Bandai Namco franchises
- MOSS (company)
- Manny Pacquiao
- Philippine National Police and PNP regional offices
Habitual behavior
- Introduction of fake video game titles, reorganization of game-related lists into nonsensical categories, continually highlights the video game character Kasumi Todoh in edits.
- Adds hoax local versions of the Philippine TV newscast TV Patrol. As of 2019, the vandal adds hoax Japanese versions of this newscast.
- Has an obsession with adding hoax information on FIFA World Cup-related articles.
- Has an obsession with including the Raiden video game series to both List of Bandai Namco franchises and Template:Bandai Namco franchises. Bandai Namco has no relation to Raiden and does not own the property.
- Edits the New Generation Currency Series article and the Philippine peso history template and claims that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas will issue a new P2 coin.
- Uploads fake versions of Philippine National Police insignias in Commons and replaces the real one without providing a proper explanation. See Commons:Special:Contributions/Yuiyui2001.
Other notes
- The vandal is rarely seen creating new accounts, however, he is very active using IP addresses. The IPs are based from Cebu City or the Central Visayas region of the Philippines when checked with Geolocate.
- As of 2022, the vandal is using different IP addresses in en.wiki and seldom creates sockpuppet accounts. However, he has been seen creating various accounts in Commons, with the main sockpuppet account named as User:Yuiyui2001. See Requests for checkuser/Case/Yuiyui2001 and Category:Sockpuppets of Yuiyui2001.
- The vandal is also seen in Tagalog and Cebuano Wikipedias, doing the same edits whenever his current IP address is blocked here in en.wiki.
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Brianmagallano
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Brianmagallano