Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Slowking4

Basic information
Comprehensive edits analysis

Systematic abuse of the non-free content policy, repeated personal attacks.

Committed to undo 'damage done' by the community, and Betacommand and Beetstra in particular.

Committed to show that IPs can be good editors, targeting to get reverted by anti-vandalism bots.

Targeted areas, pages, themes
Biographies, both of living and non-living persons. Articles are sometimes sloppy written or do not pass our inclusion standards. Quantity over quality. Committed to recreate articles by user:Sander.v.Ginkel. Often uploading non-free pictures of deceased people, which sometimes are however easily replaceable (and hence fail NFCC upon close inspection).

Participating in content drives, editing contests, editathons, and similar events with an aim to win and be able to say that they are a 'good contributor'.

Habitual behavior

 * Adding images to large numbers of biographies, uploading them if they are not available.
 * Contributing in content drives and contests (sometimes using multiple socks), brags on 'prizes' won in such.
 * Use of typical source material
 * Shows typical language in non-content namespaces.
 * Creating articles through translation and/or copy-paste, often with sloppy content
 * Some socks' usernames appear to be CAPTCHA generated.

Cases

 * Sockpuppet investigations/Slowking4


 * context (possibly incomplete)
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive679
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive719
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive789
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive793
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive796
 * Administrators' noticeboard/Archive296


 * related
 * Administrators' noticeboard/Archive301
 * Requests for comment/Global ban for Slowking4
 * Requests for comment/Global ban for Slowking4 (2)

Other notes

 * Special:AbuseFilter/639 - known IP ranges performing signature edits that can be filtered (set to block).
 * Special:AbuseFilter/643 - targeting signature edits performed by new editors (set to log)
 * Special:AbuseFilter/1005 Special:AbuseFilter/1037 - absolute signature edits for Slowking4 (but they try to avoid these)

Confirmed and suspected accounts

 * Sockpuppet category: Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Slowking4
 * Suspected sockpuppet category: Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Slowking4

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