User:Icarus3/Sockpuppets of Joey5805

'''This page has been linked to from Suspected sock puppets/Soccermeko as evidence. Please note that, as of 14 February, the contents of this page has not been updated since 8 January. See User_talk:Lilwaynefan08 for more recent information regarding what might have been good-faith, but ultimately unfruitful, attempts by this user at reformation.'''

These is a record of the accounts that have been used by vandal Joey5805, kept for the purpose of helping to identify future accounts created by this same user.

Summary of vandalism
This user uploads copyrighted images of rappers and CD covers that he found on the internet and posts them in the articles on these topics. He may provide the URL to where he found it (sometimes nothing more than an image search engine), but never provides fair use rationales. When an is left on pages he targets warning against adding images without a fair use rationale, he disregards it, deleting it when he adds another imagediffs:. He also re-uploads the same image multiple times after it is deleted as copyvio, under the same name or a different one, without addressing the problem.

A few images he has uploaded have been salvaged by the addition of appropriate fair use rationales by other editors, but the majority had no apparent claim of fair use and have been deleted.

Not once has he ever asked for help in understanding or creating fair use rationales, despite knowing about WP:MCQ as evidenced by a couple of posts he made there (see the additional comments for his Bootz5805 and Jayjay47 accounts). He was later given two examples of good fair use rationales (see the additional comments for his Lilwaynefan08 account) but appears to have ignored them. When one of his accounts is banned for this behavior, he soon creates a new one and continues the same pattern. Due to his complete and utter recalcitrance, he has left us no choice but to consider him a vandal.

Most frequent targets
These articles have been targetted by all of the accounts.
 * Diamond (rapper)‎
 * Princess (rapper)

Other common targets
These articles have been vandalized by two or three of the accounts.
 * Crime Mob
 * Keyshia Cole
 * Kelly Rowland (replacing a non-copyvio image with a copyvio one)

Joey5805

 * Joey5805 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · [ logs] · block user · [ block log])
 * Created: 5 October 2007
 * Blocked: 24 November 2007
 * Notes: not permanently blocked, but user didn't seem to have realized that because he created a new account


 * Other vandalism activity:
 * repeatedly added cut-and-paste copyvio text from another website to Diamond (rapper)


 * Other articles with copyvio images added:
 * My Bubble Gum
 * Tiffany Pollard

Bootz5805

 * Bootz5805 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · [ logs] · block user · [ block log])
 * Created: 27 November 2007
 * Blocked: 27 November 2007
 * Notes: not permanently blocked, but user didn't seem to have realized that because he created a new account


 * Additional comments:
 * Posted a comment WP:MCQ diff asking "can you edit a pic" and received a reply asking for clarification diff but never replied. See next section, Jayjay47, for more info.

Jayjay47

 * Jayjay47 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · [ logs] · block user · [ block log])
 * Created: 30 November 2007
 * Blocked: 1 December 2007, 15 December 2007, 18 December 2007, 22 December 2007
 * Notes: User finally realized that blocks can expire, final block was indefinite


 * Other vandalism activity:
 * continued to repeatedly add cut-and-paste copyvio text from another website to Diamond (rapper), even replacing non-copyvio versions written by another editor diff
 * cut-and-paste copyvio text added to Tiffany Pollard


 * Other articles with copyvio images added:
 * Soulja Boy
 * Black Eyed Peas (replacing a non-copyvio image with a copyvio one)
 * Amerie (replacing a non-copyvio image with a copyvio one)
 * Bitch Muzik (image since given a fair use rationale by another user)
 * Class Is in Session (image since reduced to lo-rez given a fair use rationale by other users)
 * Farrah King(singer) (now a redirect to Cherish (band)) (image since given a fair use rationale, for use in a different article, by another user)


 * Additional comments:
 * Some images were altered using photoshop (or another graphic editing program) in small ways. For example, creating a new background around the subject of the photo, or creating a collage of sorts. These were then uploaded with the licensing template. He was informed that this was not appropriate on his talk page diff. Instead of accepting this answer, he went back to WP:MCQ and asked there again as he had under his previous account diff, and was informed that he couldn't by the same user who'd commented on his talk page diff.  He never responded at either location.

Diamondfan07

 * Diamondfan07 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · [ logs] · block user · [ block log])
 * Created: 26 December 2007
 * Blocked: 31 December 2007 (indefinite)


 * Other articles with copyvio images added:
 * Bitch Muzik (image since given a fair use rationale by another user)
 * Class Is in Session (image since reduced to lo-rez given a fair use rationale by other users)

Lilwaynefan08

 *  Lilwaynefan08 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · [ logs] · block user · [ block log])
 * Created: 1 January 2008
 * Blocked: Still active, as of 8 January 2008


 * Other articles with copyvio images added:
 * The BX Files (image since reduced to lo-rez given a fair use rationale by other users)
 * Most Anticipated (image since given a fair use rationale by another user)
 * Shesus Khryst (image since reduced to lo-rez given a fair use rationale by other users)
 * Pain & Paper (image since reduced to lo-rez given a fair use rationale by other users)
 * That's Right (copyright status still in question as of 8 January 2008)


 * Additional comments:
 * Early activity was at different articles than this vandal's usual targets, so despite suspicions, this account was given the benefit of the doubt. Later activity confirmed that it was, in fact, the same vandal.
 * User was twice given examples of images with acceptable fair use rationales, by two different users diffdiff, but continued to add images indiscriminately even after these attempts to help him reform.