Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Thai gun hoaxster

Basic information
The Thai gun hoaxster is an IP editor that adds user entries in firearm articles usually with false references taken from legitimate entries in the same or other articles. Sometimes, he just makes up ref names. He also has sometimes edited the infoboxes to give incorrect service histories. They uses IP addresses from Thailand and has been active since at least 2017.

Targeted areas, pages, themes
Generally user sections in articles on firearms.

Habitual behavior
Copy/pastes existing references on other user entries to falsely substantiate the ones that he wants to add. He has IP hopped to edit war when others have reverted him. When editing, he will often use the article or section title as his edit summary.

History
These are the user reports documenting the history of this hoaxster:
 * April 2017
 * July 2017 1
 * July 2017 2
 * July 2017 3
 * Feb 2018
 * April 2018
 * April 2019
 * July 2019

Discrete addresses as examples

 * 49.237.158.175
 * 49.237.192.216
 * 115.87.213.223
 * 118.174.215.68
 * 124.122.186.177
 * 171.6.137.18
 * 171.7.89.225
 * 171.7.122.189
 * 182.232.45.134
 * 184.22.101.11
 * 203.158.216.38 (block log)
 * 171.97.81.119
 * 58.8.110.228
 * 1.46.226.41
 * 1.46.146.12

Ranges

 * 1.47.0.0/16 (block log)(active block: July 15, 2019 Berean Hunter blocked 1.47.0.0/16 with an expiration time of 3 months (anon. only) (rangeblock: gun hoaxster falsifies refs)
 * 49.237.128.0/17
 * 49.237.152.0/21 (subset of prior range)
 * 118.174.160.0/19
 * 118.174.215.0/24 (block log)(subset of prior range)
 * 124.122.128.0/17
 * 171.6.128.0/17
 * 171.7.0.0/17
 * 182.232.0.0/18
 * 184.22.0.0/16 (local block log) (active global block: April 26, 2019: Trijnstel (meta.wikimedia.org) globally blocked 184.22.0.0/16 (expires on April 26, 2024 at 19:41, anonymous only) (Open proxy: webhosting))
 * Special:Contributions/49.49.224.0/19 blocked for six months
 * Special:Contributions/2403:6200:88A2:8000:0:0:0:0/50 blocked for two years

Discrete addresses as examples

 * 2001:44C8:4006:934A:1:2:2175:19D6
 * 2001:44C8:4448:3E6E:1:2:39D:ADF8
 * 2403:6200:88A0:B9BE:1CD:9769:C2EF:A237
 * 2403:6200:88A1:B39F:4E5:9CAA:3D3D:DDB8 block log
 * 2403:6200:88A2:9CF9:14AC:AB89:37C:2FEF
 * 2403:6200:88A2:D941:14AC:AB89:37C:2FEF
 * 2403:6200:88A2:ECB8:60F2:301E:C22D:DDB

Ranges

 * 2001:44C8:4000::/37 (may need adjusting)
 * 2403:6200:88A0::/40

Confirmed and suspected accounts
This editor has usually used IP addresses although he has used one account known to the filing checkuser.

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