| Original name(s) | Kingshowman |
|---|---|
| Wikilifespan | July 2015-2020 |
| Physical location | Brooklyn, New York |
| Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kingshowman |
| 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. Confirmed socks should be reported to m:SRG or #wikimedia-stewards connect for global locking. |
| Status | Archived |
Basic information
Kingshowman (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
Kingshowman is a user from Brooklyn, New York who makes personal attacks against other users as well as defamatory statements relating to supposed controversies about Donald Trump. This user usually exhibits a grandiose tone in usernames and edit summaries.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
- Makes defamatory statements at articles relating to Donald Trump and creates attack pages about supposed controversies.
- Adds false information to articles about controversial issues.
- Makes small edits at various articles, typically making grammatical changes or adding unsourced associations with conservatism.
Habitual behavior
- Typically uses grandiose usernames or IP addresses geolocating to Brooklyn.
- Creates user and user talk pages very shortly after creating an account, often with false sockpuppet tags, content copied from the userspace of impersonated users, or false claims of being a legitimate alternative account.
- Makes small grammatical edits to various articles.
- Creates attack pages and adds BLP violations targeting Donald Trump.
- Impersonates usernames of other editors and vandalises articles and deletion discussions recently edited by them.
- Typically makes multiple small edits in a row to appear constructive.
- Makes vague or grandiose statements at talk pages or WP:DRV and WP:AFD debates, respectively.
- Edit summaries typically make grandiose statements; accuse other editors of lying, vandalism, edit warring, hoaxing or racism; or claim to make grammatical or factual corrections.
- Frequently uses variants of the word friend.
- Changes names on hurricane lists.
Cases
Sockpuppet investigations on English Wikipedia
Other notes
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Kingshowman
- SuperFriendlyEditor (talk · contribs)
- Parrhesiast (talk · contribs)
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Kingshowman