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History

IP editor from the Detroit area who has engaged in a long-standing campaign of focused tendentious editing to establish their point of view in articles. The user originally used an IP linked to the Kalamazoo Public Library, which was blocked due to an unrelated user's vandalism. This user then began editing using a frequently-changing mobile IP based in the Detroit area, and occasionally continues editing while travelling across the country.

In early 2014, a number of uninvolved administrators opened a dialogue with the user to resolve the longstanding tendentious editing issues, and encourage the user to create an account. The user participated in the discussion but was ultimately uninterested in creating an account, and insisted that their edits were to defend Wikipedia against outside corrupt influences, and that they intended to continue doing so.

Behavior

  • Tendentious editing in climate change related articles:
  • Creates nonstandard "also see" sections in articles (rather than "See also")
  • Adds redlinks to random words where they are not appropriate, and removes appropriate redlinks
  • Overlinks articles by randomly linking words, frequently violating WP:EGG and sometimes linking every word in a sentence
  • Uses {{ill}} template to make interlanguage links where a subject merely exists, whether or not the interlink is logical
  • Dumps raw links on talk pages without providing any context or explanation for their use or relevance
  • Spams external links in edit summaries
  • Thanks users who revert their edits

Confirmed IPs/ranges blocked

  • 23 August 2012, 3-month rangeblock of 99.181.128.0/19
  • 24 August 2012, 1-month rangeblock of 108.195.136.0/22
  • 24 August 2012, 2-month rangeblock of 108.73.112.0/22
  • 24 August 2012, 12-month block of IP 97.87.29.188 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 20 September 2012, 3-month block of 141.218.36.44 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 20 September 2012, 3-month block of 141.218.36.99 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 20 September 2012, 3-month block of 99.109.127.145 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 24 November 2012, 3-month block of 99.181.131.219 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 25 November 2012, 3-month block of 99.181.134.50 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 25 November 2012, 3-month block of 99.119.128.139 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 25 November 2012, 3-month block of 99.181.159.214 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 25 November 2012, 6-month rangeblock of 99.181.128.0/19
  • 25 November 2012, 1-month block of 108.73.115.198 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 25 November 2012, 3-month rangeblock of 108.195.136.0/23
  • 25 November 2012, 2-week rangeblock of 108.73.112.0/22
  • 26 November 2012, 3-month block of 99.109.127.240 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 26 November 2012, 3-month block of 64.27.194.74 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 1 December 2012, 3-month block of 108.195.138.226 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 1 December 2012, 2-month block of 216.250.156.66 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • 10 December 2012, 1-week block of 168.13.6.2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected accounts

This extensive list is copied from User:Arthur Rubin/IP list. Timestamps and annotations have been removed. In most cases, the IP address has only been used by this user.

January 2012

February 2012

March 2012

April 2012

May 2012

June 2012

July 2012

August 2012

September 2012

October 2012

Florida

Indiana -- Layover between FL and MI?

November 2012

Michigan -- Apparently he had to go back to vote

December 2012

En route to NW FL again (see Oct 12)

NW Florida

January 2013

(Times in UTC)

February 2013

March 2013

April 2013

May 2013

July 2013

September 2013

March 2021


source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ivanvector/Michigan_IP