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Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/47.54.219.33

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47.54.219.33
WikilifespanJuly 2024 – present
Physical locationThe Canadian Maritimes, specifically Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia
InstructionsSuspected socks should be reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information.
StatusPending Approval

Basic information

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47.54.219.33 (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI)
Comprehensive edits analysis
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IP editor from the Maritimes that primarily focuses on Montreal Canadiens-related articles, while sometimes editing other hockey topics. Consistently refuses to work collaboratively, demonstrates extreme ownership of targeted articles, and refuses to accept any community consensus against them. Repeatedly insists that they are correct, and claims to be a "victim" of "bullying" or "gatekeeping;" they've begun to try citing WP:REVERTBAN as a defense of their block evasion.

Original IP was blocked for two weeks on August 8, 2024, returned to their behavior shortly after the block expired, and subsequently was blocked again for three months on August 24. Since then, they've resorted to frequent sockpuppeting via new IPs, despite further blocks.

As of October 2024, the original IP has had its block extended to a year and its talk page access revoked due to violations of WP:BLANKING regarding their declined unblock appeal.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

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Montreal Canadiens-related articles (specifically biographies), as well as other hockey topics. Consistent targets have included:

Asterisk indicates page placed under semi-protection one or more times due to disruption.

...and many others.

Habitual behavior

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Behavior that originally got them blocked was refusal to work collaboratively and/or accept community consensus, as shown here. Specific offenses included:

  • Insistence upon including second and third-tier professional ice hockey teams in player infoboxes, despite consensus to only include top-level teams.
  • Insistence upon capitalizing NHL entry draft to NHL Entry Draft, despite an RM concluding the contrary. This has become their primary action in recent weeks, as of September 2024.
  • Considerable edit-warring across many of the above pages to enforce their view (effectively constituting attempted ownership). This edit-warring was (and has been) particularly bad on Norlinder and Struble; see the page histories of those linked above, as well as the EWN report linked below.

After their three-month block for edit-warring/disruptive editing was instituted on August 24, they've since returned under a multitude of IPs (linked below), all of which geolocated to PEI or Nova Scotia. They make a variety of standard if unnecessary edits (not obvious vandalism), but alongside that, revert many of the above pages back to their preferred version(s), thus outing themselves as a sock.

Across all accounts, they also frequently blank their talk pages, removing warnings and block notices, often doing so with an overly-aggressive edit summary.

Cases

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  • August 7, 2024 – present: Original complaint on WP:NHL talk page, as well as subsequent sock discoveries.
  • August 8, 2024: Original ANI report leading to two-week block.
  • September 6, 2024: Second ANI report for block evasion.
  • September 16, 2024: Third ANI report for further block evasion.
  • September 17, 2024: Edit-warring report of sock, which was blocked.
  • October 7, 2024: Fourth ANI report for more block evasion on previously-blocked 2605 range. User played dumb prior to this report, claiming they weren't the original IP and had no idea what we were talking about.

Other notes

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As noted above, all IPs thus far have geolocated to the Maritime provinces of Canada. The vast majority have been located in Nova Scotia, but a handful have been Prince Edward Island-based as well.

Confirmed and suspected accounts

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All accounts listed have been blocked for disruptive editing, edit-warring, block evasion, or some combo of all three.

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