Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Teenage Fairytale Dropouts vandal

Basic information
This is a serial, IP hopping vandal who has been vandalising Wikipedia since at least 2010. They mostly attack pages by adding unrelated information about the children's television programs Teenage Fairytale Dropouts and Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets. However, they have been known to add false, unsourced and/or incorrect information as well.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

 * 1) Pages on albums in the So Fresh compilation series, examples include So Fresh: The Hits of Autumn 2009
 * 2) Pages on albums in the Now Australia compilation series, examples include Now: The Hits of Autumn 2011 and Now Spring 2005 (Australian series)
 * 3) Pages on children's programmes (mostly Australian game shows or animated shows), examples include Smashhdown!, Pixel Pinkie, Sharky's Friends, and Flushed (game show)
 * 4) Pages on various songs and singles, examples include Get Shaky, Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love), These Days (Bardot song), and Are You Ready (Shakaya song)
 * 5) Pages on various TV shows or pages related to TV shows, examples include Re:covered, All That (season 10), and List of United States Christmas television episodes
 * 6) Pages on various musicians and bands (mostly from Australia, the UK, Canada, or New Zealand), examples include Grant Nelson, Lillix, and Charlotte Devaney
 * 7) Pages on various actors and actresses (mostly from same as above), examples include Andy Trieu, Brian Drummond, Tāmati Coffey, Rose Matafeo, and Olivia Tennet
 * 8) Entertainment or music-related lists, examples include List of albums containing a hidden track: A, List of EMI artists, and List of films shot in Toronto
 * 9) And other assorted pages, mostly entertainment or music-related (movies, TV networks, discographies, other music compilation series, etc.)

Habitual behaviour
Their exact behavior changes a lot, but these are the most common ones:
 * 1) Replacing existing content with unsourced and/or dubious material:
 * 2) Vandalism:

More current, exact behaviors as of 2022 include:
 * 1) Replacing material with information about "Unknown Voice Actor" (a page on the site Behind the Voice Actors)
 * 2) Replacing people's names and band/musical artist names into those of cast members on shows such as Teenage Fairytale Dropouts (where this case gets its name from), Smashhdown!: Search for the G.O.A.T, (example) Flushed (example), The Barefoot Bandits (example), and Pixel Pinkie (example)
 * 3) Replacing names of TV shows, etc. with song lyrics or titles, such as In My Mind by Lyn Lapid, lyrics from SOS by Rihanna, and various other songs (example)
 * 4) As far as is known, they have never used edit summaries, used a talk page, or displayed any discernible reaction to warnings or blocks except to find a new IP address and continue their vandalism from there.

Noticeboard discussions

 * September 2016 – Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive935. No action taken.
 * October 2016 – Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive936. Various solutions discussed including rangeblocks and Special:AbuseFilter/802.
 * January 2017 – Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive944. Includes range calculations.
 * February 2017 – Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive945. Asking about a possible higher-up action from WMF.

Individual IP addresses

 * 21-24 April 2023
 * 18-20 April 2023
 * 9-12 April 2023
 * 7 April 2023
 * 31 March 2023
 * 25 March 2023
 * 13 March 2023
 * 7 March 2023
 * 27 February 2023
 * 26 February 2023
 * 17 February 2023
 * 26-30 December 2022
 * 27 November - 4 December 2022
 * 21 November 2022
 * 5-26 October 2022
 * 1-26 October 2022
 * 24-25 September 2022
 * 20-27 September 2022
 * 22-24 August 2022
 * 1 August 2022
 * 21 July 2022
 * 11-12 July 2022
 * 23-26 June 2022
 * 19 June 2022
 * 6-17 June 2022
 * 11 May 2022
 * April 2022 (new IP range, geolocates to Melbourne)
 * April 2022 (new IP range, geolocates to Perth)
 * April 2022
 * March 2022
 * March 2022
 * March 2022
 * March 2022
 * March 2022
 * February 2022 (new IP range, geolocates to Sydney)
 * February 2022
 * February 2022
 * February 2022 (new IP range, geolocates to Adelaide, South Australia)
 * February 2022
 * January 2022
 * January 2022
 * December 2021
 * December 2021 (new IP range, initially geolocated to Melbourne, Victoria but now geolocates to Sydney)
 * December 2021
 * December 2021
 * December 2021
 * November 2021
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 * December 2020
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 * December 2019
 * August 2019
 * July 2019
 * May 2019
 * May 2019 (new IP range, in Sydney)
 * April 2019
 * March 2019
 * March 2019
 * February 2019
 * January 2019
 * December 2018
 * December 2018
 * November 2018
 * November 2018 (in Sydney)
 * July 2018 (geolocates to Ringwood, Victoria, Whois says both Melbourne and Sydney)
 * June 2018
 * June 2018
 * 8 June 2018
 * May 2018
 * April 2018
 * 2-4 April 2018
 * February 2018
 * January 2018 (geolocates to Brisbane, Queensland)
 * 20 December 2017
 * 8 December 2017
 * 2 September 2017
 * 2 September 2017
 * 16 August 2017
 * 16 August 2017
 * 12 June 2017
 * 12 June 2017
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 * 9 June 2017
 * 5 June 2017
 * 4 June 2017
 * 4 June 2017
 * 3 June 2017
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 * 27 May 2017
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 * 26–27 May 2017
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 * 13 May 2017
 * 10 May 2017
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 * 26 April 2017
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 * 26 April 2017 (also December 2015 and May–June 2016)
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 * 21 April 2017
 * 19 April 2017
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 * 12 April 2017
 * 11 April 2017
 * 11–12 April 2017
 * 11 April 2017
 * 10 April 2017
 * 7 April 2017
 * 5 April 2017
 * 4 April 2017
 * 1, 6–7, 19 April 2017
 * 1 April 2017
 * 1 April 2017
 * 1–7 April 2017
 * 31 March 2017
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 * 15 March 2017
 * 15 March 2017
 * 13 March 2017
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 * 11 March 2017
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 * 7 March 2017
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 * 12 February 2017 (geolocates to Brisbane, Queensland)
 * 10 February 2017
 * 10 February 2017
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 * December 2016, January 2017
 * 29 December 2016
 * 25 December 2016
 * 24 December 2016
 * 24 December 2016
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 * 20 December 2016
 * 13 December 2016
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 * 13 December 2016
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 * 11–12 December 2016
 * November–December 2016
 * 8 December 2016
 * 4 December 2016
 * 2 December 2016
 * 2 December 2016
 * 2 December 2016
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 * 1 December 2016
 * 28 November 2016
 * 27 November 2016
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 * 26 November 2016
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 * 15 November 2016
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 * 15 November 2016
 * 14 November 2016
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 * 14 November 2016
 * July 2015 – November 2016 (geolocates to Saint Marys, New South Wales)
 * 13 November 2016
 * 12 November 2016
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 * 11 November 2016
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 * 9 November 2016
 * 8 November 2016
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 * 2 November 2016
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 * 10 October 2016
 * 9 October 2016
 * 8 October 2016
 * 6 October 2016
 * 5 October 2016
 * 4 October 2016
 * 4 October 2016
 * 4 October 2016
 * 4 October 2016
 * 3 October 2016
 * 3 October 2016
 * 3 October 2016 (geolocates to Shepparton, Victoria)
 * 2–3 October 2016
 * 1 October 2016
 * 1 October 2016
 * 30 September 2016
 * 30 September 2016
 * 29 September 2016
 * 29 September 2016
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 * 29 September 2016
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 * 25–27 September 2016
 * 23 September 2016
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 * 13–14 September 2016
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 * July–September 2016
 * 10 September 2016
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 * 24 February 2015
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 * 11 February 2015
 * 11 February 2015
 * 11 February 2015
 * 4 February 2015
 * 3 February 2015
 * 30 January 2015
 * 25 January 2015
 * 23 January 2015
 * 22 January 2015
 * 21 January 2015
 * 7 January 2015 (geolocates to Brisbane, Queensland)
 * 29 December 2014
 * 23 December 2014
 * 18 December 2014
 * 5 December 2014
 * 28 November 2014
 * 2 November 2014
 * 31 October 2014
 * 5 October 2014
 * 4 October 2014
 * 30 September 2014
 * 7–17 September 2014
 * 3–4 September 2014
 * 15 August 2014
 * 1 August 2014
 * 31 July 2014
 * 31 July 2014
 * 28 July 2014
 * 7-10 July 2014
 * 9 July 2014
 * 9 July 2014 (geolocates to Melbourne)
 * 9 July 2014
 * 9 July 2014
 * 8 July 2014
 * 8 July 2014
 * 7 July 2014 (geolocates to Corinella, Victoria)
 * 7 July 2014 (geolocates to Brisbane)
 * 2 July 2014 (geolocates to Cairns)
 * June 2014 – September 2016
 * 21 June 2014
 * 13 June 2014 (geolocates to Melbourne, Victoria)
 * 10-11 June 2014
 * 3-5 June 2014
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 * 22-23 March 2014
 * 17 March 2014
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 * 19-23 February 2014 (geolocates to Perth)
 * 20 February 2014 (geolocates to Perth)
 * 17-19 February 2014 (geolocates to Hobart, Tasmania)
 * 13-14 February 2014
 * 14 December 2013
 * December 2013
 * December 2013
 * November 2013
 * 19 November 2013
 * 4-12 November 2013
 * 14-16 October 2013 (geolocates to Brisbane)
 * 12 October 2013 (geolocates to Perth)
 * 26–27 September 2013
 * 19 August 2013 (geolocates to Melbourne)
 * 14 August 2013
 * 12 August 2013
 * 15 June 2013
 * 15 June 2013
 * 30 May 2013
 * 10 May 2013
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 * 9 May 2013
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 * 9 May 2013
 * March 2013
 * 27 March 2013
 * 27 December 2012 (geolocates to Townsville, Queensland)
 * 14 June - 21 November 2012
 * 9 July 2012
 * 5 August 2010 - 9 May 2012
 * 9 April 2011

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