User:Softlavender/draft52

By the way, had to trim this way down from my original draft.

Longterm patterns of:


 * Deception/dishonesty

Newyorkbrad says on his talkpage: "the allegation that he has inserted falsehoods into hundreds of articles, in my mind, dwarfs the importance of everything else." 4 April 2016

This is amply covered in the recent ANI, with examples.

But not only did he add fake references to his own articles, he added numerous non-substantiating references to random existing articles (usually previously tagged "refimprove" or "unreferenced") that he did not even create. (more here). He's done this as late as a month ago:. Thus far in every random article that he added references to that I checked (over a dozen), his added references failed to substantiate, even via Wayback.

Creating unambiguous wholesale copyvios:, , + several on 2014 ANI

September 2014 was called out for false information and fake references (and copyvio ), but continued the pattern.

Credentials/identity : Photo and caption: Uploaded File:Wikicology.jpg March 2015 with the description "Wikicology in his office at Adekunle Ajasin University". Posted it on his userpage May 2015 (5 months prior to his RfA bid) with that same caption. Uses that as cachet to gain RfA nom; continues to insist he is a university lecturer throughout RfA. 20 hours after he withdraws his failed RfA, he changes the caption on the photo on his userpage to "Olatunde Isaac":. When confronted on recent ANI, he backpedals "I once lectured at "Adekunle Ajasin University Annex" but not directly employed by the University (not a formal employment) [for a few months]". . Later admits he never had an office there. CSDs photo a week ago.

Userpage: "My mission is to maintain wikipedia profile as the world most reliable information source." June 2014
 * Hypocrisy

Accused of creating an article that included false claims (underscoring his):,.

"Wikipedia takes copyright issues very seriously for legal reasons": 18 March 2015

On 16 April 2015 panicked and removed copyvios from 20+ of his own articles: + later  earlier

Then went on a spree of CSD copyvio tagging:, ,


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 * Self-aggrandizement/Self-promotion

Created Wikipedia articles on himself 14 times:


 * Articles for deletion/Olatunde olalekan

"The then, new editor is now a major contributor of Nigeria related articles to Wikipedia. In addition to creating over 500 articles on the English wikipedia with GA and bunch of DYK, he has recruited several Wikimedians for the Wikimedia Foundation through series of workshops/training organized by him in Nigeria, a country where there are low number of people contributing to Wikimedia Project. He served as member of the Individual Engagement Grant Committee as a volunteer and was twice a grantee of the WMF. The then, non-notable 'Olatunde Isaac' is now notable. I achieve this notability as a result of my tireless contributions to Wikipedia." March 2016


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"I had been very active ever since I joined the project with the desire to become an administrator someday." Sept 2014
 * Power-seeking (including aggressive hat-collecting)

Began editing as Wikicology 5 June 2014.

First day CSDed two perfectly good 5+-year-old articles ,

First month :

Uselessly and unnecessary meddled in counseling Teahouse querants. Welcoming users. "Reviewing" numerous new articles, beginning with,. Claiming completely faux "Mentor(s)".

Tagged articles for copypaste vio,.

Created second article, a biochemical one, without a single clickable/viewable reference (even though they are readily available on the web), and 1/3 of the refs are only author and year:. Attempted to cover his tracks just now by truncating the article and also removing two of the putative refs, still leaving the remaining ones unviewable.

Months 2-4 :

22 July 2014 made a distorted request for Pending changes reviewer, which turned up the fact he claimed user-rights he did not possess (which templates he claimed were "test" edits):. Requested again three weeks later and was again declined:.

In retaliation for someone merely !voting in that AfD that that article should be speedy deleted, prodded an article by that editor and then edit-warred to maintain the prod tag,. Inappropriately and unnecessarily tag-bombed another of the editor's articles, repeatedly argued for its deletion , , falsely reported him to an admin for COI: , and immediately AfDed two more of his articles: , , also falsely accusing of COI:.

Requested AWB 5 August 2014 (declined):.

Requested rollback 16 August 2014:.

Making authoritative and unhelpful replies to querants on admins' talkpages e.g.:, , , , , , , , ,  (five separate threads at end, beginning with CleanLife Energy) and inanely bullying others on unrelated-users' talkpages: , ,  (note subsequent CIR removals by the page owner on last , ),.

Began closing AfDs 4 September 2014, usually too early (after 5 to 6 days):,.

Began reviewing Articles for Creation 3 September 2014. Declined several clearly notable, properly written, well-referenced articles, e.g.:. ,. Accepted an article that was AfDed less than an hour later:.

First ANI opened 12 September 2014. It ran for over two weeks and to 70,000 bytes, and unearthed numerous major issues, and in fact someone put forth suggestion of site ban/indef at that time.

Following Sept 2014 ANI, began creating hundreds of articles. Created an average of at least 40 articles per month from Oct 2014 through December 2015: ; e.g. sample article full of misinformation and 35 non-substantiating citations:,.

Creating non-notable articles and wikilawyering for their preservation:.

Argumentative (and repeatedly declined) request for autopatrol Dec 2014:. Requested auto-patrol directly from an admin 8 February 2015, "having created over 100 articles": ; deleted that and tried another admin and was directed to WP:PERM/A:. Began commenting on other users' requests at WP:PERM/A, apparently figuring that that would make him more likely to receive it himself:,. Requested it 25 February having "created over 140 valid articles". This bizarre "clerking" at WP:PERM/A lasted from 10 December 2014 to 21 September 2015 when he was criticized for it at his RfA:.

Requested Mass Message Sender permission 3 February 2015 and was warned about hat-collecting:.

Self-promotion:

Still creating articles with misinformation and citations that fail to substantiate. Random spotcheck:

Odd RfA !vote, considering:.

Wikipedia Library Coordinator: Sep 2015

WIKICOLOGY'S RFA: In late October 2015, he approached, incongruously, an admin he had never interacted with and who knew nothing about him,, with a request to nominate him for RfA:. Odd that he did not approach one of the various admins he had consistently curried favor with and talk-page posted on (RHaworth, FreeRangeFrog, Deb, etc.). RfA, very instructional:

Teahouse Host: Nov 2015

GA Reviewer: Nov 2015

SPI clerk trainee: Nov 2015

Still lecturing about copyvio and COI:, Oct 2015

Decided to review Tom Hanks for GA: Jan 2016

Adopting users: Jan 2016

Wiki Loves Nigeria/Writing Contest 18 January 2016

TAFI member: March 2016

WMF page: March 2016

Manager of Wikipedia Education Program in Nigeria, etc.

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