| Wikilifespan | 05 September 2011 - present |
|---|---|
| Known IPs | 38.104.59.114 98.172.16.231 158.59.127.250 109.149.250.155 98.163.68.171 |
| Known hostmasks | 198.24.16.0/20 158.59.0.0/16 98.169.0.0/16 |
| Physical location | Fairfax, VA, US |
| Sockpuppet investigations | Slowking4 |
| 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[edit]
Slowking4 (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
Systematic abuse of the non-free content policy, repeated personal attacks.
Committed to undo 'damage done' by the community, and Betacommand and Beetstra in particular.
Committed to show that IPs can be good editors, targeting to get reverted by anti-vandalism bots.
Targeted areas, pages, themes[edit]
Biographies, both of living and non-living persons. Articles are sometimes sloppy written or do not pass our inclusion standards. Quantity over quality. Committed to recreate articles by user:Sander.v.Ginkel. Often uploading non-free pictures of deceased people, which sometimes are however easily replaceable (and hence fail NFCC upon close inspection).
Participating in content drives, editing contests, editathons, and similar events with an aim to win and be able to say that they are a 'good contributor'.
Habitual behavior[edit]
- Adding images to large numbers of biographies, uploading them if they are not available.
- Contributing in content drives and contests (sometimes using multiple socks), brags on 'prizes' won in such.
- Use of typical source material
- Shows typical language in non-content namespaces.
- Creating articles through translation and/or copy-paste, often with sloppy content
- Some socks' usernames appear to be CAPTCHA generated.
Cases[edit]
- context (possibly incomplete)
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive679#User:Slowking4 mass creation of stub art articles
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive719#Disruptive edits by user:Slowking4
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive789#Revert war, block/unblock, and all sorts of mess
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive793#Mass uploading of NFC of recently deceased by Slowking4 - possibly a POINTy violation
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive796#User:Slowking4
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive296#"You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts."
- related
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive301#mass deleting edits of a banned editor
- m:Requests for comment/Global ban for Slowking4
- m:Requests for comment/Global ban for Slowking4 (2)
Other notes[edit]
- Special:AbuseFilter/639 - known IP ranges performing signature edits that can be filtered (set to block).
- Special:AbuseFilter/643 - targeting signature edits performed by new editors (set to log)
Special:AbuseFilter/1005Special:AbuseFilter/1037 - absolute signature edits for Slowking4 (but they try to avoid these)
Confirmed and suspected accounts[edit]
- Sockpuppet category: Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Slowking4
- Suspected sockpuppet category: Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Slowking4