332:; that particular film tends to be a favorite target. A frequently recreated hoax about a 2013 remake was a favorite at one time as well. Although Bambifan101 edits rarely at this point due to the unprecedented blocks placed on his IP addresses, he performs as many destructive edits and/or acts of trolling as possible until the sockpuppet account(s) is/are blocked. User's grammar, spelling, and syntax as seen on talk pages and edit summaries are poor. It is unclear whether or not this is just a ruse, but the poor quality of the entries remains consistent. Protests on talk pages tend to be partially or totally in capital letters. Edit summaries are similar and tend to be long, rambling, and often proclaim how "wrong" previous edits were. He tends to contradict himself in his own defense, simultaneously denying and admitting his involvement. An example may be found
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himself claims this the various IP ranges are a result of his editing from school, his home, his mobile phone, and relatives, but as user is not always truthful, this may only be somewhat true. He frequently employs the practice of piggybacking vandalism with his IP and named sock to try to keep the vandalism in place when editors are reverting a confirmed sock's edits. Reverters are urged to check the history of hit articles to ensure sets of edits are fully reverted.
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411:(read it backwards). Several socks have done nothing but create categories of suspected socks and tagged userpages for numerous apparent unused sleeper socks. This may be an attempt to create "busy work" for admins familiar with his editing patterns, as user has shown a pattern of not realizing how simple it is to revert their work with automated tools.
602:. Messages on the user pages of such accounts refer to the importance of sexuality, of females, etc. Edits are to the same types of articles, i.e., juvenile-themed films and their actors. As this "character," this user creates rambling, original research articles backed with copyrighted photos on subjects primarily related to the attributes of
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December 8. Privacy issues prevent any further contact by BellSouth on the matter, but it may be assumed that their quick response to the request for assistance was taken seriously and will be acted upon accordingly. Given this user's determination and access to multiple IPs, even this extreme measure has not totally ceased his actions.
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Russian Knowledge (XXG). This user was approached to perform edits on this site for him, including restoring his deleted articles, redoing his earlier versions of articles, etc. He appears to coach such users on what to say to avoid detection, yet he makes no attempts to hide the fact he is
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He has also been banned from various non-English
Knowledge (XXG) projects; it is certain this individual does not actually speak the languages in question. In discussions found on those projects, he communicates only in English and uses machine-translated text in those site's articles. He has posted
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User insists that all of the pages and talk pages on said subjects are wrong and subsequently tries to "correct" them. User becomes extremely vindictive and defensive when cornered, claiming that his parents are "wealthy" and will soon be "buying
Knowledge (XXG)". Edit summaries generally have snide
568:. The edit history shows a taunt on the talk page as to how the Animoviera14 account could have been overlooked as a sock. All target articles have been indefinitely semi-protected as a result; many of the articles had been protected previously but were vandalized soon after the lift of the block.
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User originally used shifting proxies and/or a dynamic IP; suspected anonymous accounts almost always rendered back to BellSouth in
Atlanta, Georgia USA. Recent anonymous edits appeared via Comcast Cable Communications in Mobile or on rare occasions, Road Runner Cable in Herndon, Virginia USA. User
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A Comcast range was blocked for one year starting in August 2010 and the block on the Mobile County Public School system reset after renewed damage from those IPs across Simple
English and several wiki projects, some unrelated to Wikia or the Wikimedia Foundation. It is possible that BellSouth did
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Multiple attempts have been made at offering him mentorship and a chance to be allowed to edit, however he almost always follows up by reverting to his usual behavior even as the discussions are going on. One good faith attempt was also made at Simple to offer this user a chance at rehabilitation.
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In June 2009, an anonymous user editing via an IP assigned to a
Courtyard by Marriott hotel in South Carolina solicited help from legitimate users in "changing" the usual target articles. Later that same day, a registered user which was determined via checkuser to be editing from another hotel IP
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Three BellSouth ranges were blocked for one year starting in
November and December 2009, specifically 74.249, 70.146, and 68.220. BellSouth was contacted via e-mail by administrator PMDrive1061 on December 6 and confirmation into an investigation of terms-of-service violations was initiated on
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In this instance, he appears to have wanted to have been detected, as he instructed
Meursault2004 to specifically note in his edit summaries that he was performing edits at another's request, sending up an immediate red flag to those familiar with Bambifan101's targets.
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appeared and was later blocked. A checkuser of the account revealed it to be from a public terminal, possibly that of a library; the range was subsequently blocked as well. Blocked too was a school IP used both here and at Simple
English which rendered back to the
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During attacks in May and
October of 2011, user appeared to implement a new strategy to circumvent semi-protection of his target articles. In both attacks, minor edits were made to unprotected articles using an anonymous IP. Next, a new account would be created
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His requests attempt to reestablish one of his preferred versions of articles or ask for inter-wikilinks to his many vandalized versions on other wiki projects to be added. He has also managed to convince users on non-English Knowledge (XXG) projects, such as
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Wikipedias. Again, Bambifan101 told the recruited users exactly why he could not edit, including pointing them to this LTA, and the editor still proceeded to aid in revandalizing three articles by following Bambifan101's requests to the
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In mid 2009, user developed an odd habit of creating accounts with names that insult characters from the shows he claims to love, and then tagging the userpages of those accounts as sockpuppets of other socks of theirs. For example
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This user also posted the password to the TheRescuersfan101 sockpuppet account, which was immediately changed for the user's protection while other users awaited his answer regarding mentorship. It was briefly used as a
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As more of his target articles are protected, he attempts to solicit help from administrators and established users in unblocking his target pages and has recently taken to placing unblock requests via
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in fact suspend service on a TOS violation with new service on a static IP opened at Comcast. This resulted in a global block of the Comcast IP at Wikia and the aforementioned unrelated projects.
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Hello there. My name is Angel. I am female and I have long golden-blonde hair. I like the character of Angel in Lady and the Tramp II because merely coincidentally she is a lot like me.
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via a Bell South IP. He has made it apparent that he is attempting to edit a number of other Wikimedia Foundation wikis and has been subsequently blocked from those sites as well.
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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.
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Established editors responding to requests from new editors regarding edits and restorations on any Disney-related article or other protected article are urged to use caution.
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in October) that would undo the IP's edits. Upon reaching 10 edits, the new account would then be autoconfirmed and thus able to edit semi-protected articles.
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Possible use of the computers of relatives and schools; various public terminals such as those found in retail stores and computer stores; mobile devices.
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to gain their confidence, although he had no previous part in the discussion. He also adds notes of his hope that these editors will help
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but later unblocked upon apologizing, ending his association with Bambifan, and agreeing not to edit any of his target articles again.
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copies of his preferred versions of English Knowledge (XXG) articles at multiple projects, which are frequently deleted.
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