| Wikilifespan | 2007–present |
|---|---|
| Known IPs | Will generally abuse proxies to get back into Wikipedia and edit. Has (rarely) reused past proxies in the past. |
| Physical location | Sahuarita, Arizona |
| Sockpuppet investigations | See here for information. |
| Instructions | Suspected socks should be reported to the Administrator intervention against vandalism noticeboard for blocking. The edits may need to be revision deleted. 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. Do not engage in any discussion with him, nor respond to any emails or comments of his, nor place any comments or warnings on his talk pages. Do not feed the trolls. Simply revert, block, ignore. In more active times, semi-protect the affected page(s). Report any threats of violence to WP:EMERGENCY. |
| Status | Active |
Basic information
Nate Speed (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis of Nate Speed
Nate Speed is a wiki editor who since 2007 has treated Wikipedia as his personal sandbox for documenting every detail of entertainment companies or comics, including MGM Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment and, in his earlier days, Pearls Before Swine.
If any editor is to find themselves getting in the way of his antics, including by reverting his edits, Nate will react by hurling semi-censored expletives and insults at them while demanding said editors revert the page to what he wants. He is known in particular for his long-term sparring with user GethN7 as well as sending abusive emails to other editors.
Despite being indefinitely blocked on his original account in 2014 as well as being site banned in 2017, Nate has shown no sign of intent to give up on his page disruption.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
Nate tends to hit up on anything to do with children's television, studios, and animation; including their talk pages, making frivolous edit requests. This is just to name a few.
- 21st Century Film Corporation
- Annapurna Pictures
- Cambridge Animation Systems
- Disney Platform Distribution
- FX (TV channel)
- Interscope Communications
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- MGM Holdings
- MGM Home Entertainment
- New Line Cinema
- Paramount Pictures
- Paramount Players
- Seven Arts Pictures
- Spyglass Media Group
- Sony Wonder
- The Weinstein Company
- Tribune Entertainment
- United Artists
- Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
- Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
- Walt Disney Studios (division)
- Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International
- WildBrain
- WildBrain Studios
Habitual behavior
Nate has made it his mission to preserve his version of the articles he targets as much as possible (one major red flag in particular is his addition of large swaths of movie titles a certain company produced, as seen here). If one IP or account adds the information and it is reverted, another one pops up soon after to re-add the same information. Nate will also do this in talk pages of targeted articles, making frivolous edit requests.
Oftentimes during these editing sprees, Nate will throw expletives and personal attacks at anyone who steps in his way, emoticons representing angry faces (such as >:(, D:< and Dx), and has written out Internet "punches" (the LTA has recently resorted to using kicks or shoots instead of punches, often in the private parts) as well as a bunch of exclamation points in his messages and emails to other users. He has also resorted to death threats, which should be reported to WP:EMERGENCY. His swearing rampages are censored on Wikipedia because the site has an edit filter that prevents profanities in all-caps. The emails he sends alongside messages on other sites are, however, uncensored for this very reason.
The user also insists on being called Nate Spidgewood, which is the name of one of his sockpuppet accounts, and throws a tantrum when being called "Nate Speed" or mocking versions of his name on any website he vandalizes or edits from.
As soon as protection on one of his target articles expires, Nate will immediately return to add the same information as before, prompting another protection.
Nate has also threatened and even attempted to send malware to editors he doesn't like in order to crash their computers.
Cases
- Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nate Speed
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Site ban for Nate Speed
Other notes
The user has had a controversial reputation on other websites, having also had run-ins with moderators on TV Tropes, Tropes Mirror Wiki, Encyclopedia Dramatica, Reddit, Deviantart, the Audiovisual Identity Database, and the Fandom network of websites, as well as indirectly with Kiwi Farms. He recently repeated the above behavior when editors at sister website Wikimedia Commons—which is intended strictly for free-use content—demanded he remove pictures he uploaded there from the video game Roblox.
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category: Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Nate Speed
- Suspected sockpuppet category: Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Nate Speed