Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Zizban

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Description
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This user, who joined the Wikipedia in October 2004, has spent the past six months doing little more than a campaign against me. Using an army of sockpuppets, he has vandalised my user page, my user talk page, and has listed personal attacks against me, and other Wikipedians on his user and user talk pages. Removal of personal attacks from his pages (under the admittedly disputed WP:RPA) led to labels of vandalism.

His vandalism of my user/user talk pages has ranged from personal attacks to blanking, replacing with article content, refactoring content without my permission, impersonating seperate users via sockpuppets, and a series of extremely minor but annoying edits to my user page, which while not changing content, did change the page.

Dispute resolution attempts by User:Friday and User:Golbez have been ignored, eventually resulting in Zizban attempting to take out an RfC for 'abuse of power' when Golbez blocked him for vandalism. Golbez's attempts and blocks, and Fridays attempts did provide some temporary let up from his attacks, but he has not truely ceased at all since early September.

Zizban operates many sockpuppets, and also edits frequently not logged-in. He seems to assume that these either can not or will not be linked back to him. By acting as if his sockpuppets are seperate people, he is breaking Wikipedia policy on sockpuppets. His user page at one stage made a reference to me 'getting his work IP blocked for 24 hours', a direct association between him and one of the numeric IP sockpuppets beneath.

Most of his edits come from these sockpuppets. However, I am taking this RfC out against the Zizban account, as his orignal edits came from it, and the personal attacks were on his pages.

He and many of his sockpuppets have been blocked for this behaviour:
 * Zizban blocked
 * Generallego blocked
 * 141.154.151.219 blocked

Evidence of disputed behavior
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As User:Zizban

 * user page minorly vandalised
 * user page minorly vandalised
 * personal attack
 * personal attack
 * personal attack
 * personal attack
 * vandalism (extremely old)

As User:Generallego

 * copyright violation, vandalism
 * copyright violation, vandalism
 * vandalism of my user page
 * vandalism of my user page

As User:Zerozero

 * attempting to use a sockpuppet as a seperate entity, personal attack

As User:Asari

 * attempts to show one of his sockpuppets as a seperate entity, and could possibly be interpreted as a personal attack.

As User:24.52.0.219

 * pure vandalism of my talk page

As User:141.154.151.219

 * vandalism, copyright violation
 * vandalism, copyright violation
 * vandalism, copyright violation
 * vandalism of my user page
 * single full stop added to my user page, for no reason

As User:70.109.232.34

 * pure vandalism of my talk page, links this IP to User:Generallego
 * vandalism, again admitting to being Generallego
 * and again

As User:17.255.240.70

 * vandalism. This, but no other linked edits, might not be Zizban. But it came during one of his waves

As User:Symbols

 * vandalism of my user page
 * vandalism of my user page
 * vandalism of my user page

Applicable policies
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 * No personal attacks
 * Vandalism
 * Sock puppet
 * Copyrights

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute
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 * User:Golbez's attempt to resolve the dispute
 * one of User:Friday's attempts to resolve the dispute

Users certifying the basis for this dispute
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 * Kiand 09:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I encountered this unfortunate situation a couple weeks ago, and left a note asking Ziand to stop with the pestering. I wasn't aware of the sock situation until reading this, though.  Friday (talk) 14:40, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Other users who endorse this summary
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 * Obviously this user has some sort of grudge. It might be helpful to know why, but it doesn't change the fact that this is unacceptable conduct.  Robert McClenon 21:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * User:Zizban should refrain from making personal attacks. However, some of these alleged sockpuppets might not be related to him/her; see my comment on the talk page. Andrew pmk | Talk 23:15, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Response
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"I only have one ID, Zizban. It's all I have ever used. My ISP rotates IPs every seven days or so. This covers a huge area: all of Vermont, Half of Massachusetts and most of New York State. I'm sorry other users may have had the same IP as me at any given time, but I have no control of that. In addition, any similarities are coincidence, or more likely people or sock puppets of others trying to give me a bad name." --User:Zizban

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