Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Bodiadub

Global ban needed
The request for global locks on and socks was successful in regard to the socks but for Bodiadub a global ban needs to be requested. I, for one, never knew such a thing existed and looking into it at m:List of globally banned users, only 8 users have ever been banned by the global community. In contrast the page lists 17 failed requests.

m:Global bans outlines the requirements.

Given the high failure rate and the pace of meta's RFCs (they close in two years if an earlier conclusion has not been reached) it seems prudent to draft the rfc here and to document the notifications in case they're challenged.

Step 1
Confirm that the user satisfies all criteria for global bans prior to opening a request for comment.

Global bans are only considered when all of the following criteria are met:


 * 1) The user demonstrates an ongoing pattern of cross-wiki abuse that is not merely vandalism or spam. No global ban is required for uncontroversial cases of cross-wiki vandalism or spam, since these may be handled with a block or lock (which may be made by a steward, without need for extensive discussion). See m:Special:MyLanguage/Steward requests/Global.


 * 1) The user has been carefully informed about appropriate participation in the projects and has had fair opportunity to rectify any problems. These projects must have demonstrated a good faith attempt to explain acceptable practices and behaviors that are consistent with their mission and scope. This criterion is to show users reasonably know what is expected, have had ample opportunity to appropriately address concerns, and chose not to participate appropriately in projects.


 * 1) The user is indefinitely blocked or banned on two or more projects. These blocks or bans must be based on the user's local disruptive behavior, and do not include protective blocks such as preemptive blocks on user without local edits, and blocks based on account security issue or problematic username.

Merely meeting the above minimum criteria does not mean that a global ban is required. Past reasons for requesting a global ban have included:


 * Harassing or threatening contributors to the projects, on- or off-wiki.
 * Serious on-wiki fraud or identity theft that is not simple abuse of multiple accounts.
 * Inappropriate use of user rights with access to private information, such as CheckUser or Oversight.
 * Violations of the m:Special:MyLanguage/Privacy policy or other official wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Policies.
 * Persistent cross-wiki copyright violation

Step 2

 * File a new request for comment on Meta. The title should have the username of the user nominated for a global ban. The nominator must impartially document the significant incidences that satisfy all criteria for global bans. The nominator must also attempt to show that the user's decision not to participate appropriately presents a current danger to all Wikimedia communities.

Step 3 - Inform the user about the discussion on all wikis where they are active
m:Special:CentralAuth/Bodiadub
 * Active wikis:


 * Draft notice - He's been on enwiki so there's no need to translate the notice to Bodiadub.

Notice to be placed on each of the following:
 * c:User talk:Bodiadub
 * en:User talk:Bodiadub
 * en:q:User talk:Bodiadub
 * fr:User talk:Bodiadub
 * pl:User talk:Bodiadub
 * ru:User talk:Bodiadub
 * ru:q:User talk:Bodiadub
 * uk:User talk:Bodiadub
 * uk:q:User talk:Bodiadub
 * d:User talk:Bodiadub

In English

 * c:Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems
 * c:Commons:Village pump
 * en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
 * en:Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)
 * en:q:Wikiquote:Village pump
 * d:Wikidata:Project chat


 * d:Wikidata:Requests for comment - has its own format:

In French
translation needed
 * fr:

In Polish
translation needed
 * pl:

In Russian
translation needed
 * ru:
 * ru:q:

In Ukrainian
translation needed
 * uk:
 * uk:q:

Draft RFC
to file at : m:Requests for comment/Global ban for Bodiadub

Global ban for Bodiadub
Bodiadub has, on his own account and using sockpuppet accounts,
 * edited without disclosing his paid editing contrary to the terms of use - m:TOU.
 * en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1020
 * en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bodiadub/Archive.

some evidence from ruwiki to demonstrate the xwiki nature of Bodiadub's activity needed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cabayi (talk • contribs) 07:17, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Bodiadub has been blocked on commons:, en:, and ru: for his continued breach of the rules.

Bodiadub had ample warnings and opportunity to stop his breach - his user pages contain many warnings - c:User talk:Bodiadub, en:User talk:Bodiadub, ru:User talk:Bodiadub.

A global ban is requested for Bodiadub.

Category:Requests for comments (open)