User:Pbritti/Secret

''Note: The below page is not an article, but rather a space for me to compile information regarding persistent violators and vandals relating to Indian Christian Wikipedia pages. Feel free to ask me for more info on my talk page.''

Purpose
This page is meant to collect information related to the various repeated-offenders who frequent articles relating to Indian Christianity. In particular, articles relating to Saint Thomas Christians, Kerala, and Portuguese colonization in India have proven havens for these editors. Several non-blocked editors and IPs are mentioned on this page; all of these editors are presumed innocent (and should be considered respected editors!) and can only face disciplinary action through the appropriate channels.

How I ended up on this thread
Starting late 2021, I decided the page for the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church should have some maintenance. After adding the page to my watchlist, I noticed a pattern of POV and uncited edits on that page. Ultimately, I would bring up the matter to one editor making such contributions, on 7 March 2022. Things sorta went downhill from there. Following a series of interactions with myself and other WikiProject Catholicism editors trying to prevent the creation of even more redundant Saint Thomas Christian pages, JD announced a break from editing. Shortly afterwards, IPs associated with the editor popped up on Eastern Catholic Church, resulting in several abusive interactions initiated by the IP and later the account. In May 2022, it was discovered JD and Q were the same user engaging in sockpuppetry. In the process of discovering these issues, I have discovered a pattern of several other editors who abuse pages on these topics. These abuses range from sockpuppetry to POV edits to outright vandalism and inhospitality.

Known violators
The below editors are known to have engaged in abusive behavior and have faced disciplinary sanctions for their actions. Many are associated with now-known sockmasters:

Characteristics
Adversarial editing strategies, use of green text and "//" when quoting other editors, "advanced mobile edit" tags, knowledge of Malayalam, proficiency in page moves, poor discussion page skills.

Violations
Abusive behavior towards other editors, compulsive edit warring, frequent uncited contributions, sockpuppetry, logged-out IP usage.

Known accounts/IPs

 * First edit 18 February 2022, indeffed 23 May 2022 following Sockpuppet investigations/Qaumrambista
 * First edit 15 April 2022, indeffed 23 May 2022 following Sockpuppet investigations/Qaumrambista
 * IP 2402:8100:3908:8C0B:214C:8BBE:2CE6:48B5
 * IP 2402:8100:3905:605C:4C1:FAF5:862D:F138
 * IP 2402:8100:3908:8C0B:214C:8BBE:2CE6:48B5
 * IP 69.47.47.12

Suspected accounts/IPs

 * First edit 24 November 2021
 * IP 69.47.47.12
 * IP 27.97.167.195 (One month dragnet IP ban 25 April 2022)
 * IP 49.15.203.241 (One month dragnet IP ban 25 April 2022)
 * IP 49.15.130.77

Characterisitics
Compulsive edit warring, "advanced mobile edit" tag.

Known accounts/IPs

 * First edit 3 October 2020, indeffed 7 October 2021 following Sockpuppet investigations/Br Ibrahim john
 * First edit 1 October 2021, indeffed 7 October 2021 following Sockpuppet investigations/Br Ibrahim john

Violations
Edit warring, sockpuppetry.