User:Tapir Terrific/Sock Central

'''Tapir Terrific's Sock Central



Tapir Terrific's Mellow: Observe how it is harshed by abusive sockpuppets.

Off channel
Cool - I think it'll be quite hard to keep track of everything, but the more pairs of eyes the better. Probably a good idea to set up some off channel communication (email, MSN mesenger etc) as BLR is clever and will probably watch this page Mammal4 16:24, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Personally, I'm happy with this level of transparency. I just wanted a to set up a centralized forum for any occasion in which multiple editors were involved with a group of socks; the other day while dealing with a particularly vile little neo-Nazi with a herd of socks, I thought it could be useful to have a place where people could ask questions, delegate responsibilities, and maybe consult admins.  Usually with sockspuppets, multiple editors get dragged in, and talk pages aren't the best way to communicate with more than two people.  Yeah, I'm sure Britton will notice this page, but I don't particularly care.  So I'll abstain from off-channel communications, though of course others are free to do otherwise.  - Tapir Terrific 12:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Britton LaRoche
He posted a response at User_talk:LaPiedraInglesa. IrishGuy talk 02:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


 * IrishGuy and I have both posted responses on the PiedraInglesa talk page. Britton's response can be found here.  - Tapir Terrific 19:42, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Unemployed, living in basement, aka Brando(n)03, aka Louisville Vandal
is a troll account which was indefinely blocked several weeks ago for repeated vandalism. I was involved in combatting this on RC patrol, including posting warning messages to his talk page, reporting him to WP:AIV, and nominating a garbage page he made for AfD. Since this occurred, he (or some other entity that I believe to be him) has started a pattern of harassment, consisting of:
 * Vandalising my user page (it is now sprotected)
 * Vandalising other pages, sometimes making inappropriate remarks about me (or linking/redirecting sexual or scatological subjects to my user page), sometimes just making inappropriate remarks in general
 * Doing likewise to other users.
 * Occasionally referencing User:Unemployed, living in basement in edits.
 * Creating several imposter accounts, see Category:Imposters of EngineerScotty. The most recent, User:EngineerScoty, embarked on a pattern of edits which appears to be a concerted attempt to damage my reputation.
 * Other actions have come from a variety of IP addresses, for a partial list see: Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Unemployed, living in basement.

Could an admin with checkuser priveleges crosscheck the IP of unemployed, and the various imposter accounts, to see if they patch the IP ranges?

--EngineerScotty 05:43, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

List of IP addresses used by this user. The user has a dymamic IP (a fact which he has boasted about at least twice)


 * -- defaced my home page, several articles. Added bogus imposter to my talk page.
 * -- made inappropriate edit on User:KimvdLinde's talk page, and vandalized several articles
 * -- fabricated a conversation between myself and KimvdLinde (blocked 31 hours)
 * -- defaced numerous user and talk pages, including posting bogus test5 message.
 * -- suggested that I avoid "feeding trolls" ; though my only contact with this user is reverting vandalism and posting warnings.
 * -- vandalized User:KimvdLinde's user and talk pages.
 * -- defaced numerous user and talk pages, including posting bogus test5 message.
 * -- suggested that I avoid "feeding trolls" ; though my only contact with this user is reverting vandalism and posting warnings.
 * -- vandalized User:KimvdLinde's user and talk pages.
 * -- suggested that I avoid "feeding trolls" ; though my only contact with this user is reverting vandalism and posting warnings.
 * -- vandalized User:KimvdLinde's user and talk pages.
 * -- vandalized User:KimvdLinde's user and talk pages.

Created three additional imposters of User:EngineerScotty on June 21, 2006; though all of them were blocked almost immediately. --EngineerScotty 21:26, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

June 25
Perhaps suffering from delusions of grandeur, impersonated the North Carolina Vandal (creating an account with that name, immediately blocked). --EngineerScotty 05:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

June 29
The following edit  on my talk page, suggests that Unemployed may be the same individual as. Looking at the page history of shows abusive edits from unemployed's IP range, as well as from Brando03. Could checkuser be run on Brando03 to see what IPs he posted from? --EngineerScotty 05:30, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

July 14

 * Rather busy from today; making crude remarks on numerous user and talk pages.  Almost seems to want greater recognition here; must balance reporting of abuse with vandal's seeming desire for attention.  Added message to my user page requesting to be blocked; by the time I noticed, had already been.  Has referred to itself lately as the Louisville Vandal, the above IPs are all registered to Qwest in Louisville, Kentucky.  Occasionally, this user makes constructive edits to Kentucky-related pages.  --EngineerScotty 20:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

July 15
Created account, which was used for vandalism against usual targets. Wrote a biography on his user page (unknown if any is true, other than vandal coming from Louisville area), can be viewed at (the page has since been replaced with a  message). Rails against "wiki deletionists" and such; though since the vandalism spree began, hasn't been involved in any genuine content disputes; all edits have either been noncontroversial additions or blatant vandalism. --EngineerScotty 05:14, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

July 19
Posting from revealed personal info on two Wikipedia editors (no idea if the info is correct). I won't link to the posts here (they probably should be deleted anyway), was blocked for this. --EngineerScotty 05:13, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

July 21
Homophobic personal attacks against openly gay user  posted to my talk page; from. A different service provider, but also in Louisville; refers to a content dispute (but I didn't notice any contentious edits from Chris24 upon checking his contribs). --EngineerScotty 17:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * After further checking, numerous personal attacks against Chris24 and from  on July 20; blocked by Kungfuadam. --EngineerScotty 17:29, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Regularly attacks me with reference to another user-- Kungfu Adam ( talk ) 17:43, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

"The Blasphemy Guy"
This peson repeatedly vandalizes the dinosaur article by blanking it and replacing the article with a fundamentalist Christian creed. An example of this can be seen here. They also make personal attacks against people to try and revert his attacks, for example.

Some IPs used:



He may also hit up on articles relating to Islam.