User:Samwalton9/Maelbros

This page is for tracking a vandal who has been IP hopping & inserting false information into various video game and television show infoboxes. Edit filter 653 is attempting to disallow this user's edits. See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video_games/Archive_111.

Given the similarities in editing style I suspect this to be Maelbros.

Edits
Edits by this user are characterized by changing or adding false information into infoboxes. Common changes include those to publisher and developer fields in video game articles and companies or distributors in television shows. Such fields are often empty before the edit. The user has also been known to add false content to templates and tables.

Their edits often look legitimate but are almost always incorrect. They jump sporadically from article to article in bursts, often taking information from the previous article to insert in the next.

I have a suspicion that this is multiple users as users in the most common range often reappear on the same IP after blocks (sometimes 1 week) have ended, with edits from other IPs made in the meantime.

Known IPs and usernames
IPs exhibiting the same pattern in editing, where ✅ denotes that the IP has been fully reverted:
 * - 15-26 August 2014 Sort of done; all latest revisions reverted, haven't checked all edits though.
 * - 14 October - 29 November 2014 As above.
 * - 14-26 November 2014 ✅
 * - 30 November - 1 December 2014 ✅
 * - 2 December 2014 ✅
 * - 4 December 2014 ✅
 * - 8-9 December 2014 ✅
 * - 11-12 December 2014 ✅
 * - 14-16 December 2014 ✅
 * - 17-19 December 2014 ✅
 * - 2 January 2015 ✅
 * - 3-6 January 2015 ✅
 * - 7 January 2015 ✅
 * - 7-9 January 2015 ✅
 * - 8-9 January 2015 ✅
 * - 10 January 2015 ✅
 * - 10-11 January 2015 ✅
 * - 12-14 January 2015 ✅
 * - 13 January 2015 ✅
 * - 18-20 January 2015 ✅
 * - 21 January 2015 ✅
 * - 21 January 2015 ✅
 * - 21 January - 3 February 2015 ✅
 * - 22-24 January 2015 ✅
 * - 26-28 January 2015 ✅
 * - 30 January and 5 February 2015 ✅
 * - 31 January 2015 ✅
 * - 1 and 9 February 2015 ✅
 * - 11 February 2015 ✅
 * - 14 February 2015 ✅
 * - 21 February 2015 ✅ - One of many usernames I should also collate.
 * - 27 February 2015 ✅
 * - 10 March 2015 ✅
 * - 13 March 2015 ✅
 * - 2 April 2015 ✅
 * - 10 April 2015 ✅