Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Dog and rapper vandal

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Dog and rapper vandal
Shortcut: WP:LTA/DARV
WikilifespanOctober 2013 – present
Known IPsSee list
Physical locationPrimarily Pennsylvania, mostly the Philadelphia area
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


This person uses primarily Pennsylvania IPs to make disruptive changes to the listed weight of dog breeds. Childish vandalism also occurs, such as this: [1]. The edit summary often includes a request to "accept" the edit, or "view source". On March 27, 2015, two accounts were registered with the surname Kwiecinski, making the same edits. The person sometimes uses IPs from other places in the US, including Utah, Michigan, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington DC. These different places appear in quick succession; this person is not necessarily traveling to physical locations. For instance, on one day they used IPs from Provo, Utah; Brooklyn, New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This rapid changing of IPs has lead to many T-Mobile ranges in the U.S. being blocked.

This person began to add unreferenced text to rapper biographies and various hip hop song articles, for instance by changing the genre parameter or by changing dates. Serious violations of the BLP policy include the false announcement of someone's death.

Edit summaries generally consist of the words "Refreshed", "Updated", "Sourced", or "Merged" (or a request to "discuss on [their] talk page"), and also claim to have added sources to the article, even though they did not add any at all. They also add roles such as "singer" and "songwriter" to rapper biographies, and add many associated acts.

This person also spends time on Simple English Wikipedia, with administrators putting articles into protection because of it.[2] They may use the same IP on the same dates for both of the English Wikipedias.[3] They have also vandalized dog articles in Dutch, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Czech Wikipedia, and has changed data on Commons and WikiData.[4]

As of December 2021, the user has taken to registering accounts on the Portuguese Wikipedia in order to avoid account registration blocks on the English Wikipedia.

A sockpuppet investigation was established in April 2015: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/John Kwiecinski. Two groups of socks were identified, with no technical link between them. However, the edit summaries tie together all of the socks.

A related LTA case is Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/MusicLover650. In January 2019, a checkuser said "in my check I came across several CU-blocked Kwiecinski socks, and they are Technically indistinguishable from the MusicLover650 socks."

Targeted articles should be placed on long-term semi-protection, or when that is not enough, long-term extended confirmed protection.

In March 2019, an abuse report was sent to Adelphi University regarding the abuse from their IP range, and a real person from the IT department responded that the matter would be investigated.

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