Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Country music category vandal from Tennessee

The "country music category vandal from Tennessee" is someone who uses primarily Tennessee IPs to target country music topics, adding inappropriate categories, usually to biographies. In June 2012, this edit appears appropriate, but by January 2013, categories and subcategories were added together without paying attention to the WP:SUBCAT hierarchy. Many edits like this one were problematic because the subcategory "American country singer-songwriters" already includes membership in the "American country singers" category. The person is uncommunicative, never expressing a thought on a talk page.

In other instances, instead of simply double-categorizing a person, the vandal may move an article from a "singers" category to a "singer-songwriters" category even if the person is not properly sourceable as having written songs, or from a "singer-songwriters" category to a "singers" category even if the person is properly sourceable as having written songs. At other times, the person may appear to pay attention to duplicate categorization issues by removing duplicate categorizations, but also simultaneously removing the same categories from articles where it isn't duplicating other categories — for instance, they may remove the "singers" category from some country singers who are subcategorized as singer-songwriters, while also simultaneously removing it from country singers who are not similarly subcategorized at all and thus leaving those singers completely stranded from the "country singers" tree.

Another area of interest is radio stations, with similar categorization problems demonstrated, ignoring logical subcategory hierarchy. They have also been known to create talk pages for radio stations or musicians that do not have articles, but are themselves categorized as "articles".

The vandal is a frequent visitor to Broken Bow Records and LifeTalk Radio. The most numerous edits are in music biographies.

Other trends:
 * Adding the Category:Living people to deceased people
 * Adding of "current" callsigns to the "former_callsigns" in the infobox of radio articles, plus marking former in the future (ie: former until 2020).
 * Adding parent categories to "Name" articles/disambiguations
 * Adding non–existent/unverified schools to education sections of geographic areas.
 * Inappropriate categories (ie: adding singer–songwriter to a non-musician, singer to a pure instrumentalist)
 * Modifying entries of names
 * Adding/changing category such as American country group to a more detailed subcat (such as a state) even if the cat does not exist
 * Occasionally categorizing people as the wrong gender (e.g. adding the male P'tit Belliveau to )
 * Adding American categories to Canadian artists without any article support
 * Adding categories of being from a certain state/location without any article support
 * Adding the non-existent template as an external link

Suspected and blocked accounts

 * April 2024 range blocked 1 month
 * March 2024
 * November 2023
 * July 2023
 * July 2023 blocked 6 months
 * July 2023 blocked 1 year
 * June 2023 blocked 6 months
 * June 2023 blocked 6 months
 * May 2023 blocked 1 year
 * July 2022
 * February-March 2022 rangeblock one year
 * February 2022
 * January and March 2022 blocked one week, followed by three months; is registered to a library
 * January 15–17 and April 4-15, 2022
 * Dec 2021 - March 2022
 * Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
 * Nov 2021
 * Oct 2021 blocked 2 years
 * September 29, 2021
 * August 2021 /64 block for 3 years
 * June 6, 2021  continued same editing pattern after last block expired
 * May 5, 2021 – blocked 1 month
 * December 23, 2011 – February 22, 2021
 * November 5, 2020 blocked 4 years, 365 days, 43 minutes and 12 seconds
 * October 27, 2020 blocked 1 year
 * September 23, 2020
 * August 7, 2020 – blocked 1 week
 * July 2020 –  blocked 31 hours followed by 3 months, 6 months (11/5/20)
 * June 25, 2020 –
 * May 30, 2020 – blocked 2 years
 * First quarter 2020 –
 * September 12, 2019 –
 * August 26, 2019 – blocked 1 month
 * August 20, 2019 –
 * August 19, 2019 –
 * August 15, 2019 –
 * July 31, 2019 –
 * July 30, 2019 – mass addition of talk pages without subject articles (CSD G8)
 * July 27, 2019 –
 * July 25, 2019 –
 * July 25, 2019 –
 * July 21, 2019 –
 * July 21, 2019 –
 * July 19, 2019 –
 * July 19, 2019 –, blocked 31 hours
 * July 18, 2019 –, blocked 31 hourss
 * July 14, 2019 –
 * July 14, 2019 –
 * July 9, 2019 –
 * July 7, 2019 –
 * July 3–5, 2019 – (blocked 1 month, third block)
 * June 29, 2019 –
 * May 21, 2019 – (blocked 60 hours)(5/25: blocked 2 weeks)
 * March 2, 2019 – (blocked 24 hours)
 * March 12–13, 2019 –
 * March 2, 2019 – (blocked 2 weeks)
 * February 27, 2019 –  (blocked 1 month), returned March, blocked 6 months
 * February 22, 2019 –
 * February 10, 2019 –
 * January 17, 2019 –
 * December 2018 –
 * July 13, 2018 –, returned Nov, blocked 6 months
 * June 28, 2018 –
 * June 26, 2018 –
 * June 18, 2018 –
 * May 27, 2018 –
 * March 8, 2018 –
 * February 1, 2018 –  stale
 * December 2017 – January 8, 2018 active again, block declined
 * December 2017 – January 2018
 * November 27 – December 3, 2017 (blocked for 2 weeks)
 * October 30, 2017 (blocked for 7 days)
 * September 29, 2017 stale
 * September 24, 2017 (reblocked for 6 months)
 * September 24, 2017 single edit, moved to above account
 * September 18, 2017 stale
 * September 18, 2017 stale
 * August 30, 2017 previous one-year block expired, back at it
 * August 20, 2017 stale
 * August 15, 2017 stale
 * August 3, 2017 stale
 * July 25, 2017 (blocked for 31 hours)
 * July 18, 2017 stale
 * July 12, 2017 (blocked for 31 hours)
 * June 22, 2017 (blocked for 31 hours)
 * June 8–9, 2017 (blocked for 2 weeks, reblocked for 3 months)
 * June 5, 2017 (blocked for 1 month, reblocked for 3 months)
 * June 4, 2017 –
 * May 28, 2017
 * May 22, 2017
 * May 14, 2017
 * May 1–2, 2017
 * April 26 – May 4, 2017 (blocked for 2 weeks)
 * March 3, 2017
 * January 18, 2017
 * January 18, 2017
 * January 17, 2017
 * November 27, 2016 – April 13, 2017 (blocked for 6 months)
 * November 1–3, 2016 (blocked for 3 months)
 * October 14–29, 2016 (blocked for 2 weeks)
 * October 10, 2016 (blocked for 31 hours)
 * September 19–24, 2016 (blocked for 3 months)
 * September 18, 2016 (blocked for 3 months)
 * August 10, 2016
 * May 16 – July 24, 2016 (blocked for 3 months)
 * April 26 – May 4, 2016 (blocked for 2 weeks)
 * December 10, 2015 – January 21, 2016
 * November 19, 2014 – September 7, 2016 (blocked for 1 year)
 * December 16, 2014 – December 9, 2015 (blocked for 1 month)
 * September 2013 - January 2014
 * October 2012 – March 2013
 * September 2012 – June 4, 2017 (blocked for 2 weeks)
 * November 2011
 * October 2011 – November 2020 (blocked for 1 year)
 * January 14, 2011 - October 2011
 * January 13, 2011 - August 2014

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