User:Mfb/Taiwanese articles

User description
We have an editor or a group of editors persistently editing articles related to Taiwanese technology, especially rocketry and spaceflight, always trying to make Taiwan look better. The edits are often highly recognizable, and the same edit is done several times (getting reverted each time) over a timescale of days to months. The IP changes frequently. Common elements of the edits:


 * Apparently experienced with some Wikipedia conventions and terms such as those that are frequently used when reverting the vandalism, but at other times seems inexperienced as when the editor does not indent talk page posts.
 * Writing claims with references, but the given references do not discuss the claims at all. This is an extremely frequent pattern. In addition they don't appear to have actually read the sources they cite.
 * Citations are generally bare with only a URL and no other information.
 * Misleading links, giving the impression would have articles like Taiwanese manned spaceflight program or Taiwanese astronauts where the actual link goes to some other article (e.g. to "Taiwan" or "astronaut")
 * Edit warring and discussion in edit summaries
 * NPOV violations like "a cutting edge advanced Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) autonomous lunar lander". Example for all points so far
 * Making politically loaded statements, and keeping wrong statements (from 2005) in the article.
 * Adding tons of links from and to the articles in "see also", probably to promote visibility of the articles. Example
 * Namedropping. Example
 * Repeated edits on pages seem to rely on older versions instead of using the revert function, an example is this diff which brought back unrelated earlier vandalism.
 * There have been three cases where they have been engaged in discussion on a Talk page: here, here, and here.
 * Accusing others of being "the confirmed pro-communist Chinese KMT traitor vandal", prominently in the case of a request of a third opinion for this user and another one in an edit war concerning this article: this editor is known for both appearing to be a serious, good-faith editor and trolling.
 * Addresses from this VPN are used to evade IP blocks and detection. Multiple IPs can be active at the same time affecting multiple pages.
 * Extreme exaggeration about the scope and scale of Taiwan’s WMD program.
 * When provoked they will attempt retribution by going through the relevant editor’s contrib page and reverting their edits/engaging in talk page discussions and siding strongly against that editor, often to an uncomfortable degree.

Admin note
IPs should be considered as block evading and blocked accordingly. Neil N  talk to me 20:06, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Please note article protected and the length of protection. El_C 21:50, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Cluster of Taiwan edits:

 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 1
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.
 * very prolific IP 2
 * with isolated IPs (1, 2, 3) but similar edit pattern.

Unrelated to Taiwan or revenge streak:

 * Kenneth Fasching-Varner (Im not sure how its connected but its clearly not an incidental target see and )

Collected IPs
Examples of edits from different IPs, not an exhaustive list.

Some 2018 IPs, by far not an exhaustive list:
 * (May)
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 * (May)
 * (May)
 * (May)
 * (May)
 * (May)
 * (May)
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Some 2019 IPs:
 * (all Taiwan related except for rants about Tesla being Croatian not Serbian)
 * (unsure if long rant in Russian is related to our IP hopper, but I would guess not)
 * (unsure if long rant in Russian is related to our IP hopper, but I would guess not)

Some IPs share edits with the articles above, but focus more on India and Pakistan otherwise, favoring India:
 * 39.110.61.66
 * 45.120.201.46
 * is an interesting connection. One IP linked it to Anil Baijal with vandalism history, a different IP there has a connection to Hsiung Feng III and Assam Rifles ‎and this IP which leads back to Taiwan. That might need further investigation. See also the India link above.

Misc
Discussion pages (linked via URL on purpose): Talk:National_Space_Organization, User_talk:Vanamonde93, User_talk:Floquenbeam.

All changes on articles linked here

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