Wikipedia talk:Long-term abuse/Thai gun hoaxster
Notifying editors[edit]
...that I have created this LTA page for the Thai gun hoaxster. Please watchlist and add IP addresses and ranges to this page and feel free to adjust descriptions accordingly.
- BilCat, Thomas.W and Le Petit Chat who are already familiar with this hoaxster. Springee has probably seen him before.
- Oshwah who has blocked him before and Kuru has blocked him before, I think.
- Please let anyone know that regularly edits firearm articles. Cheers,
— Berean Hunter (talk) 23:20, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
AIV or SPI[edit]
@KillerChihuahua: This vandal keeps his IP adress for 1 to 5 days and then switch to another. Using SPI is useless because by the time the investigations are completed the vandal's adress has changed. However, he has a very strong signature: he is adding long lists of users with no sources to various firearms articles (and his IPs always come from Thailand). Therefore, we are always sure this is him when reporting to AIV.--Le Petit Chat (talk) 13:42, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
- Seconded. Please see point number 6 on WP:AIV:
Reports of sockpuppetry should be made at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations unless the connection between the accounts is obvious and disruption is recent and ongoing.
—k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 16:01, 3 October 2019 (UTC)- Then use SPP, for crying out loud, that is what it's for. If you insist on sending people to AIV, encourage your reporters to follow AIV rules, clearly outlined on the Editnotice and the page itself. We're getting AIV reports where the editor has not even made one single edit; reports where the editor has made one edit and no warnings, and the edit isn't vandalism. This needs to stop. As K6ka points out, these reports do not meet the "obvious" or "ongoing" requirements of reporting at AIV. KillerChihuahua 11:54, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
- Um, what? —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:44, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
- SPI is an incorrect venue for this LTA as Thai gun hoaxster is not an account name and there is no case for him there. This follows the same convention as Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Best known for IP where that is not an account name for him either.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 13:31, 4 October 2019 (UTC)- And for the record, SPP is the semi-protection policy, which is obviously the wrong thing to use for LTAs. Got me a chuckle there. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 13:36, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
- Then use SPP, for crying out loud, that is what it's for. If you insist on sending people to AIV, encourage your reporters to follow AIV rules, clearly outlined on the Editnotice and the page itself. We're getting AIV reports where the editor has not even made one single edit; reports where the editor has made one edit and no warnings, and the edit isn't vandalism. This needs to stop. As K6ka points out, these reports do not meet the "obvious" or "ongoing" requirements of reporting at AIV. KillerChihuahua 11:54, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Anti-vandalism filter?[edit]
For those who know en.wikipedia better than me.
Do you think it could be possible to create an edit filter? The signature of the LTA is quite clear (adding multiple countrydata templates and undefined references).
Thanks for you advices. --Le Petit Chat (talk) 07:15, 5 April 2021 (UTC)