User:Ivanvector/Michigan IP

Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or ANI.

History
IP editor from the Detroit area who has engaged in a long-standing campaign of focused tendentious editing to establish their point of view in articles. The user originally used an IP linked to the Kalamazoo Public Library, which was blocked due to an unrelated user's vandalism. This user then began editing using a frequently-changing mobile IP based in the Detroit area, and occasionally continues editing while travelling across the country.

In early 2014, a number of uninvolved administrators opened a dialogue with the user to resolve the longstanding tendentious editing issues, and encourage the user to create an account. The user participated in the discussion but was ultimately uninterested in creating an account, and insisted that their edits were to defend Wikipedia against outside corrupt influences, and that they intended to continue doing so.

Behavior

 * Tendentious editing in climate change related articles:
 * Overlinking both global warming and climate change whenever either phrase is mentioned
 * Linking scientific opinion on climate change whenever any opinion is mentioned, against consensus, even when very loosely related
 * Spamming external links to 350.org in all climate change articles, and anywhere else the number 350 appears in an article
 * Creates nonstandard "also see" sections in articles (rather than "See also")
 * Adds redlinks to random words where they are not appropriate, and removes appropriate redlinks
 * Overlinks articles by randomly linking words, frequently violating WP:EGG and sometimes linking every word in a sentence
 * Uses ill template to make interlanguage links where a subject merely exists, whether or not the interlink is logical
 * Dumps raw links on talk pages without providing any context or explanation for their use or relevance
 * Spams external links in edit summaries
 * Thanks users who revert their edits

Confirmed IPs/ranges blocked

 * 23 August 2012, 3-month rangeblock of 99.181.128.0/19
 * 24 August 2012, 1-month rangeblock of 108.195.136.0/22
 * 24 August 2012, 2-month rangeblock of 108.73.112.0/22
 * 24 August 2012, 12-month block of IP
 * 20 September 2012, 3-month block of
 * 20 September 2012, 3-month block of
 * 20 September 2012, 3-month block of
 * 24 November 2012, 3-month block of
 * 25 November 2012, 3-month block of
 * 25 November 2012, 3-month block of
 * 25 November 2012, 3-month block of
 * 25 November 2012, 6-month rangeblock of 99.181.128.0/19
 * 25 November 2012, 1-month block of
 * 25 November 2012, 3-month rangeblock of 108.195.136.0/23
 * 25 November 2012, 2-week rangeblock of 108.73.112.0/22
 * 26 November 2012, 3-month block of
 * 26 November 2012, 3-month block of
 * 1 December 2012, 3-month block of
 * 1 December 2012, 2-month block of
 * 10 December 2012, 1-week block of

Suspected accounts
This extensive list is copied from User:Arthur Rubin/IP list. Timestamps and annotations have been removed. In most cases, the IP address has only been used by this user.

October 2012
Florida

Indiana -- Layover between FL and MI?

November 2012
Michigan -- Apparently he had to go back to vote 

December 2012


En route to NW FL again (see Oct 12)

NW Florida

January 2013
(Times in UTC)

March 2021


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