Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Music vandal from Greater Detroit

Basic information
This is an IP editor from Greater Detroit who engages in original research and BLP violations on music articles primarily about African American artists and their albums and songs from the 1970s and '80s. The user has inserted unreferenced controversial information about singers, including Dionne Warwick, Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Wanda Young, Linda Ronstadt, and Richard Marx. An especially strong focus is the biography of Aretha Franklin and her songs and albums. Negative information is introduced or emphasized, such as "disappointing" chart failures and personal controversy. Binksternet (talk) 23:36, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

In September 2015, the disruption shifted to Redmond, Washington, using IPv6 addresses.


 * Most of the IPs are in the groups 99.117 and 99.150.
 * There are a few outliers such as 99.103, 99.17, 99.21, 99.23, 99.26, 99.29, 99.34, and 99.40.
 * Some early 2008 IPs are in the group 76.226.
 * The earliest recognizable activity was by several 63.3 IPs, with this series of fawning edits made to the Richard Marx biography in April 2007, with this edit signed as Marcus Watson of Detroit, the location soon changed to Plymouth, Michigan. The arrival in June–July 2007 of IP 63.3.1.1 (a network shared with other users) led to start a sockpuppet investigation.
 * See Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of 63.3.1.1.

Targeted areas

 * Aretha Franklin, her songs, albums, and family
 * other American singers, especially ones connected to Motown/Detroit
 * 1970s albums and songs
 * 1980s albums and songs
 * chart performance of albums and singles

Suspected accounts


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