Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Linde plc vandal

Basic information
This IP, which is known as the "Linde plc vandal" for consolidation purposes due to the constant IP hopping, is a block evading POV-pushing editor that constantly claims that almost every company in the world has its roots and origins in the United States, even if blatantly false, while downplaying the actual national origins of the company.

The term "Linde plc vandal" originated when the IP attempted to do this on Linde plc, a company from Germany by calling it "American-German". They have also done it on other companies such as Spotify by calling it "Swedish-American", Lenovo as "Chinese-American" or Fila as "Italian-American".

The IP has been blocked three times as 5.178.202.10, and twice as 103.210.146.65:



Since then, the editor has used a varity of IPs, including:



As of 23 February 2022 they are using IPs based on Dubai using the ISP Etisalat. As they are making the same edits to the same articles with the same arguments it's clearly still them, despite the different location.



As of 11 March 2022 they are back on Mumbai based IPs.



As of 11 September they are back on an IP address:

Another address in use as of 12 June 2023:

Habitual behavior
Edit wars to emphasise perceived Americanness of various companies, while downplaying the national origins of other companies, see for example the removal of Canadian or British.

Persistent addition of incorrect commas, see for example here, here and here.

Other notes
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 * rangeblocked for 3 months from 15 October 2021
 * rangeblocked for 3 months from 12 November 2021
 * rangeblocked for 3 months from 6 December 2021
 * rangeblocked for 3 months from 10 December 2021
 * rangeblocked for 3 months from 31 December 2021
 * rangeblocked for 3 months from 8 January 2022
 * blocked for 3 months from 16 January 2022
 * rangeblocked for 3 months from 25 January 2022
 * rangeblocked for 3 months from 25 January 2022
 * rangeblocked for 1 year from 4 February 2022
 * rangeblocked for 2 weeks from 4 February 2022
 * rangeblocked for 1 month from 17 March 2022
 * blocked for 2 years from 25 March 2022
 * rangeblocked for 3 months from 6 April 2022
 * rangeblocked for 3 months from 6 April 2022