Wikipedia:WikiProject Contributor clean-up/Qworty

Qworty clean-up
This sub-page is intended for clean-up of the editing performed by Qworty and his sock accounts.

Instructions
Please choose any of the articles that have not been cleared. After you have reviewed Qworty's changes and made any necessary corrections, strike through  the entire listed article and diffs; indent a comment underneath indicating that you are done; summarize what action, if any, was needed; sign with 4 tildes ~. To avoid duplicating effort you may want to begin by indenting a comment that you are "working" the selected title. Please use a good edit summary on any article that you edited as a result of these checks to summarize your action.

Note: Edits made by Qworty should not simply be reverted, and unsourced contentious information should not be added back into biographies, especially BLPs. Non-contentious information may be reinstated if no attempt was made to request citations and these should have a tag added.

These reports (now split across 4 pages), cover contributions to 2448 articles by User:Qworty from timestamp 2007-03-11 09:30:41 UTC to timestamp 2013-05-12 00:24:59 UTC and 92 articles edited by socks of his control.
 * Qworty edits 1-1000
 * Qworty edits 1001-2000
 * Qworty edits 2001-2448
 * Sock edits 1-92 - All done! Sgubaldo (talk) 22:14, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

When all articles in a given section are finished, please consider adding below the section header and  below the last article in the section.

All of these reports were generated by Contribution Surveyor at 2013-05-25T20:00:59+00:00 in 0.08 sec.

An observation
It is my belief that most of Qworty's editing not relating to contemporary writers or publishers is largely unproblematic but that his fiddling with author biographies in particular has been sometimes malicious and damaging to the project. Priority should be placed on the author bios, paying particular attention to his "Delete-Unsourced" edit summary rationales, in which he seems to have taken particular glee. Carrite (talk) 17:08, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Useful links

 * Robert Clark Young
 * ANI discussion to ban Qworty
 * Sockpuppet investigation - contains list of suspected socks
 * Sockpuppet investigation - contains list of suspected socks

Qworty task force participants

 * Guy Macon (talk) 08:40, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 02:29, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * My76Strat (talk) 02:47, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * NaymanNoland (talk) 05:04, 26 May 2013 (UTC) [I did some work on the Brad Vice entry]
 * 5.12.68.204 (talk) 09:09, 26 May 2013 (UTC) [did a few]
 * User:Rosencomet - I've done several, and always mentioned the Qworty connection in the edit summary.
 * Brangifer (talk) 15:38, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Seth Kellerman (talk) 17:32, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Catherineyronwode (talk) 07:13, 28 May 2013 (UTC) I've done a few and may do more.
 * Bilby (talk) 03:58, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The whole scandal makes me nauseated. Bearian (talk) 19:26, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Ceronomus (talk) 20:21, 15 May 2017 (UTC) Doing a little of the light lifting, checking the one or two edit articles.
 * User:Carrite - Playing with this a bit due to the emergence of the failure to clean this up expeditiously as a general complaint at Wikipediocracy. Carrite (talk) 17:10, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The Awesome Guy in the world (talk) 20:48, 4 November 2019 (BST)