User:Sjones23/G-Zay

As many of us Wikipedians know, many Final Fantasy and Square Enix-related articles have been under attack from, a user based in England who has an extreme hatred of Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama and their involvement with Square Enix's video games, for over the past 8 years since his first edit back in November 2010, with his most recent being in July 2018. This individual's misrepresentation of sources and his edits to those articles have been significantly bothersome and it resulted first in a WPVG discussion, then in a AN report in December 2012, and eventually a successful community ban discussion in April 2013. Since then, he has continuously tried to insert his brand of BLP violations into articles relating to Square Enix producers/directors to promote the reputations of people that he likes while defaming people he doesn't.

Editing behaviour
His editing shows the following common traits:
 * frequent edits to Square Enix game designer credits in works lists and infoboxes
 * laudatory edits to Hiroyuki Ito, Yasumi Matsuno, Yoshiaki Koizumi and related articles
 * adding fake credits and information to promote their reputation
 * mentioning these designers and their works in other articles
 * edits promoting games by Ito and Matsuno
 * Final Fantasy XII
 * adding awards
 * mentioning influence on Xenoblade
 * Guardian Cross‎
 * libelous edits to Yoshinori Kitase, Motomu Toriyama and related articles
 * removing legit credits and information
 * removing Final Fantasy X director role for Kitase and related sources
 * adding fake credits and information of "unpopular" works to defame these designers' reputation
 * attributing game design of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XIII to Kitase; calling both "linear Interactive Movie RPGs"
 * attributing scriptwriting of MindJack and Final Fantasy XIII to Toriyama
 * re-adding former edits by G-Zay sockpuppets that have since been reverted
 * edits on subscriptions and sales of online games Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and Guardian Cross
 * long edit summaries
 * edit summaries that mention a small wording change while ignoring the rest of a massive edit to the rest of the page
 * denying connection to G-Zay, sometimes misspelled as Gzay
 * Basically, any time anyone edits the infoboxes of a Final Fantasy game to change the credits, it's G-Zay.

Sockpuppets
Because of his location in the London metropolitan area, G-Zay has many Internet service providers at his disposal. G-Zay's usual modus operandus is to edit via several different internet cafe IP addresses in London over the course of a few days, vehemently disproving that he is G-Zay while making extraordinarily similar edits to his previous work. Occasionally he admits to being G-Zay, generally while stating that he is now finished and other editors should stop persecuting future IP addresses that look like him. Occasionally, these take the form of rants that simultaneously proclaim that he is not interested in editing any more and also that he in continuing to edit other topic areas through hundreds of socks. He frequently posts on the GameFAQs forums at the same time as he is editing under one of the several accounts he maintains there, talking about the subject he is trying to edit, which is helpful in proving that the edits come from him beyond the similarity to his previous edits.

In case of new sockpuppet investigations, CheckUser may not always give accurate results as G-Zay openly admitted to using some 20 sockpuppets on Wikipedia in connection with open proxies.

Countermeasures
This compilation of factual evidence is for the purpose of preparing a sockpuppet investigation to have this user's edits permanently prevented. See also User talk:G-Zay/Source problems, where there was an extensive cleanup on the articles. The current status is that any edit that looks even similar to his work is reverted on sight by at least 4 different editors.

Used IP ranges

 * 78.(146,149,151).xxx.xx
 * 81.170.xxx.xx
 * 85.237.xxx.xx
 * 89.240.xxx.xx
 * 92.(1,9,24,29,31).xxx.xx
 * 122.152.xxx.xx
 * 193.109.xxx.xx
 * 2.103.xxx.xxx

Previous IP addresses and sockpuppets

 * (7 November 2017 - 22 July 2018)


 * (5-10 April 2018)


 * (31 July 2017 - 22 September 2017)


 * (8 February 2017 -18 February 2017)


 * (5 July 2016 - 7 July 2016)
 * ISP: BT
 * Location: Milton Keynes, England
 * Location: Milton Keynes, England


 * (15 May 2016 - 27 June 2016)


 * (22 July 2015 - 3 December 2015)


 * (15-23 July 2015)
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: Marlborough, England
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: Bilston, England
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: England
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: England
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: Marlborough, England
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: England
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: Marlborough, England
 * Location: Marlborough, England


 * (26 May 2015 - 28 June 2015)
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: England
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: Birmingham, England
 * Location: England
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: Birmingham, England
 * Location: Birmingham, England


 * (27-28 September 2014), (13 October 2014)
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: Wolverhampton, England
 * Location: Wolverhampton, England


 * (27 May 2014 - 23 September 2014)
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,
 * BLP violations on Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy X: ,


 * (26-29 June 2014)
 * SPI: Sockpuppet investigations/G-Zay - blocked as a result
 * SPI: Sockpuppet investigations/G-Zay - blocked as a result


 * (17 February 2014)
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: London, England
 * Location: London, England


 * (10-16 February 2014)
 * SPI: Sockpuppet investigations/G-Zay - blocked as a result
 * SPI: Sockpuppet investigations/G-Zay - blocked as a result


 * (5-7 January 2014)
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: London, England
 * Edits regular articles:, ,
 * Location: London, England
 * Edits regular articles:, ,


 * (26 December 2013 - 3 January 2014)


 * (7-17 December 2013)
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Hiroyuki Ito:, ,
 * Yoshinori Kitase: ,
 * Final Fantasy X:
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Hiroyuki Ito:, ,
 * Yoshinori Kitase: ,
 * Final Fantasy X:
 * Final Fantasy X:


 * (14-15 November 2013)
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Hiroyuki Ito: ,
 * Hiroyuki Ito: ,


 * (1-2 September 2013)
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Yoshinori Kitase:, , ,
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Yoshinori Kitase:, , ,
 * Yoshinori Kitase:, , ,


 * (28 August 2013)
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: London, England
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Jun Akiyama (video game designer): ,
 * Akihiko Yoshida:
 * Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn:
 * Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn:


 * (24-26 August 2013)
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Guardian Cross:, , ,
 * Daisuke Watanabe: ,
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Guardian Cross:, , ,
 * Daisuke Watanabe: ,
 * Guardian Cross:, , ,
 * Daisuke Watanabe: ,


 * (19-22 July 2013)
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Motomu Toriyama:
 * Hiroyuki Ito:
 * Hiroyuki Ito:


 * (1-7 July 2013)
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings: ,
 * Final Fantasy Tactics Advance:, , ,
 * Vagrant Story:
 * Hiroshi Minagawa:
 * Yasumi Matsuno:, ,
 * Hiroyuki Ito:, ,
 * Final Fantasy (video game): ,
 * Yoshinori Kitase: ,
 * Motomu Toriyama: ,
 * Final Fantasy XII:, , ,
 * Final Fantasy XII:, , ,


 * (28 June 2013)
 * BLP violations: Specifically on:
 * Yoshinori Kitase:
 * Yoshinori Kitase:


 * (22 April 2013)
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: London, England
 * Block evasion: edited under IP while continuing to deny that he is G-Zay
 * Blocks: (22 April 2013) Blocked for 6 months for block evasion
 * Blocks: (22 April 2013) Blocked for 6 months for block evasion


 * (26 June 2012 - 20 April 2013)
 * Block evasion: disrupts the CCI discussion and refuses to acknowledge that he is G-Zay, despite the contrary.
 * Restores misinformation on Hiroyuki Ito:, , ,
 * Restores misinformation on Hiroyuki Ito:, , ,


 * (20 April 2013)
 * ISP: TalkTalk
 * Location: London, England
 * Block evasion: disrupts the CCI discussion here
 * Blocks: (20 April 2013) Blocked for 6 months for block evasion
 * Blocks: (20 April 2013) Blocked for 6 months for block evasion


 * (6 November 2010 - 12 April 2013)
 * MASTER ACCOUNT, see lede paragraph for ban discussion, SPI, etc.
 * MASTER ACCOUNT, see lede paragraph for ban discussion, SPI, etc.


 * (October 2010 - June 2011)
 * Strongly suspected of having been used for logged-out editing or meatpuppetry while the G-Zay account was active
 * Strongly suspected of having been used for logged-out editing or meatpuppetry while the G-Zay account was active

Associated users

 * (31 March 2011 - present)
 * Was blocked as a DUCK but later unblocked by ArbCom (BASC) after they concluded evidence was insufficient to prove this is the same user as G-Zay. Twitter evidence (not reposted here due to OUTING) proves that the known Twitter accounts of Brayden96 and G-Zay are in frequent communication. This account may or may not also be using socks, and may or may not be acting as a proxy/meatpuppet (edits to FF topics and specifically Yoshinori Kitase, compare Brayden96 to ErikBJohnson89 or KyleP090). See this thread which confirms ArbCom must be consulted before reblocking based on new evidence. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;
 * Was blocked as a DUCK but later unblocked by ArbCom (BASC) after they concluded evidence was insufficient to prove this is the same user as G-Zay. Twitter evidence (not reposted here due to OUTING) proves that the known Twitter accounts of Brayden96 and G-Zay are in frequent communication. This account may or may not also be using socks, and may or may not be acting as a proxy/meatpuppet (edits to FF topics and specifically Yoshinori Kitase, compare Brayden96 to ErikBJohnson89 or KyleP090). See this thread which confirms ArbCom must be consulted before reblocking based on new evidence. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;


 * (3 April 2011 - 23 April 2013)
 * Account suspected as having been used by G-Zay (tagged as suspected Jan. 2014 by Sjones)
 * April 2011 CU result was ❌ despite overwhelming behavioural & off-wiki evidence (SPI), might be a meatpuppet/friend as above
 * April 2011 CU result was ❌ despite overwhelming behavioural & off-wiki evidence (SPI), might be a meatpuppet/friend as above