Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/CalebHughes

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CalebHughes
Original name(s)User:CalebHughes,
Louisville Loon
Wikilifespanc. 2014 – present
Physical locationLouisville, Kentucky, Nashville, Tennessee, other locations
Sockpuppet investigationsWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CalebHughes
InstructionsSuspected socks should be tagged and 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.
StatusActive

Basic information[edit]

CalebHughes (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
CalebHughes (also known as the Louisville LTA) is an IP-hopping user who vandalizes biographies and articles relating to hurricanes. One of their main goals is to cause articles to be indefinitely protected.

Targeted areas, pages, themes[edit]

Articles relating to politicians, actors, actresses, historical figures, and hurricanes are frequent targets for this LTA. CalebHughes also likes to create pages about college football rivalries.

Habitual behavior[edit]

This user regularly engages in the following disruptive behaviors:

  • Adding egregious libelous and defamatory content to articles about actors, actresses, and politicians (example).
  • Adding profanities to articles about hurricanes. (example).
  • Adding vandalism, then immediately restoring it when the edit is reverted. example.
  • After causing an article or page to be temporarily protected from editing, the user will often create another sockpuppet account, then later will use it to request the protection level of that article or page be extended (usually indefinitely), citing their own vandalism as the cause.

Cases[edit]

Other notes[edit]

CalebHughes' IP addresses should typically be hard blocked, as they will use an already-created account to continue vandalism from any soft blocked address.

Confirmed and suspected accounts[edit]