Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Frenchie vandal

Basic information
This vandal using primarily IPs from the western side of Greater London (London proper and Hayes, Hillingdon) makes disruptive changes to rapper biographies, especially Frenchie (rapper) which gives this case its name. Other disruption is in general music articles, and film articles. FV frequently edits New York-based (especially New York City-based) rappers such as AZ (rapper), Grafh, Nas, Capone-N-Noreaga and Uncle Murda. The best collection of FV's articles is found at Special:Contributions/213.78.80.243, one of the more prolific IPs.

FV's first obvious tell was abject avoidance of the issue found at Talk:New York and removing intentional redirects. FV used the edit summary "(New York (state) redirects New York)" hundreds of times. Other frequent summaries are "ABC worked with XYZ" and "ABC and XYZ are friends", used to make tenuous connections when listing or refactoring Associated Acts.

The vandal often violates WP:NOTUSA, and he often changes associated acts and record labels. He may remove the convenience spaces in the infobox. He may turn date-range dashes into hyphens.

More IPs are coming forthwith, but much can be found at Sockpuppet investigations/62.49.119.18/Archive.

A new possible tell: Inexplicably changing extant indefinite article "a" to "an" where it clearly doesn't belong, cf.: "an British rapper" and "an 1998 film". JesseRafe (talk) 21:04, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Rangeblocks

 * 30 July 2017 – 2A02:C7D:14EC:9300:0:0:0:0/64 rangeblocked for six months.
 * 7 October 2017 – 2A02:C7F:3631:BA00:0:0:0:0/64 rangeblocked for 31 hours.
 * 18 December 2018 – 86.137.73.0/24 rangeblocked for one month.
 * 18 March 2023 – 2A02:C7C:5CE6:6100:0:0:0:0/64 rangeblocked for one month.
 * 1 July 2023 – 2A02:C7C:5CE6:6100:0:0:0:0/64 rangeblocked for one year.
 * 20 April 2024 – 2A02:C7C:5D7F:EE00:0:0:0:0/64 rangeblocked for six months.

Involved IP addresses

 * July 2024
 * April 2024
 * 2023
 * February-March 2021
 * October 2020
 * September 2019
 * October 2018 – March 2019
 * January 2019
 * January 2019
 * January 2019
 * January 2019
 * December 2018
 * December 2018
 * November 2018
 * October 2018
 * August 2018
 * August 2018
 * August 2018
 * August 2018
 * July 2018
 * June–July 2018 (blocked 1 month)
 * 17 June 2018
 * 15 June 2018
 * 1 June 2018
 * 31 May 2018
 * 15 May 2018
 * 11 May 2018
 * 8 May 2018
 * 7 May 2018
 * 24 April 2018
 * 9 April 2018
 * 1 April 2018
 * 25 March 2018
 * 19 March 2018
 * 15 March 2018
 * 8 March 2018
 * 6 March 2018
 * 23 February 2018
 * 20 February 2018
 * 19 February 2018
 * 18 February 2018
 * 17 February 2018
 * 13 February 2018
 * 6 February 2018
 * 5 February 2018
 * 1 February 2018
 * 1 February 2018
 * 31 January 2018 (listed below, blocked three times, latest for 6 months, resumed disruptive editing 6 days after that block expired)
 * 20 January 2018
 * 18 January 2018
 * 15 January 2018
 * 14 January 2018
 * 3 December 2017
 * 25-26 November 2017 (blocked 1 year)
 * 12 November 2017
 * 12 November 2017
 * 3 November 2017 (blocked 3 months)
 * 28 October 2017
 * 28 October 2017
 * 7 October 2017
 * 7 October 2017
 * 7 October 2017
 * 26 August 2017
 * 18–19 August 2017
 * 14 August 2017
 * November 2016 – September 2017 (blocked 1 year)
 * 30 July 2017
 * 30 July 2017
 * 30 July 2017
 * 28 July 2017
 * 27 July 2017 (blocked 31 hours)
 * 24 July 2017 (blocked 31 hours)
 * 23 July 2017 (blocked 31 hours)
 * 22 July 2017 (blocked 31 hours)
 * May–July 2017 (blocked three times, the latest for 6 months)
 * 25 March 2017
 * 11 March 2017
 * Nov 2016, Dec 16, Jan 2017, March 17, April 17, Sept 17 ' (blocked 4 times, latest expires 1 Sept 2018)
 * 24 Decemeber 2016
 * 21 December 2016
 * 22 November 2016
 * 22 November 2016
 * 22 November 2016
 * 19 Nov 2016, Jan 2017, Feb 17, May 17, August 17, Sept 17  (blocked 4 times, latest expires 1 Sept 2018)
 * 17 November 2016
 * 16-17 November 2016
 * 16 November 2016
 * 14 November 2016
 * 9 November 2016
 * 8 November 2016
 * 29 October 2016
 * 29 October 2016
 * 28 October 2016
 * 28 October 2016
 * 16 October 2016
 * 5 September 2016
 * 6 July 2016
 * 5 July 2016
 * 8 June 2016
 * 11 May 2016
 * 24 April 2016
 * 24 April 2016
 * 23 April 2016
 * 23 April 2016
 * 23 April 2016
 * 23 April 2016
 * April 2016, May 16, Nov 16, Dec 16, Jan 2017  (blocked twice, expired)
 * 22 April 2016
 * 22 April 2016
 * 20 April 2016
 * 20-23 April 2016
 * 18 April 2016
 * 18 April 2016
 * 5 April 2016, 11,12,28,29 April 2016, 28 June 2016

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