Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Thai gun hoaxster
| Original name(s) | Thai gun hoaxster |
|---|---|
| Wikilifespan | 2017-present |
| Known IPs | See below |
| Physical location | Thailand |
| Instructions | Suspected 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. |
| Status | Active |
 | Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or ANI |
Basic information[edit]
The Thai gun hoaxster is an IP editor that adds user entries in firearm articles usually with false references taken from legitimate entries in the same or other articles. Sometimes, he just makes up ref names. He also has sometimes edited the infoboxes to give incorrect service histories. They uses IP addresses from Thailand and has been active since at least 2017.
Targeted areas, pages, themes[edit]
Generally user sections in articles on firearms.
Habitual behavior[edit]
Copy/pastes existing references on other user entries to falsely substantiate the ones that he wants to add. He has IP hopped to edit war when others have reverted him. When editing, he will often use the article or section title as his edit summary.
Cases[edit]
History[edit]
These are the user reports documenting the history of this hoaxster:
Other notes[edit]
IPv4 addresses[edit]
Discrete addresses as examples[edit]
- 49.237.158.175
- 49.237.192.216
- 115.87.213.223
- 118.174.215.68
- 124.122.186.177
- 171.6.137.18
- 171.7.89.225
- 171.7.122.189
- 182.232.45.134
- 184.22.101.11
- 203.158.216.38 (block log)
- 171.97.81.119
- 58.8.110.228
- 1.46.226.41
- 1.46.146.12
Ranges[edit]
- 1.47.0.0/16 (block log)(active block: July 15, 2019 Berean Hunter blocked 1.47.0.0/16 with an expiration time of 3 months (anon. only) ({{rangeblock}}: gun hoaxster falsifies refs)
- 49.237.128.0/17
- 49.237.152.0/21 (subset of prior range)
- 118.174.160.0/19
- 118.174.215.0/24 (block log)(subset of prior range)
- 124.122.128.0/17
- 171.6.128.0/17
- 171.7.0.0/17
- 182.232.0.0/18
- 184.22.0.0/16 (local block log) (active global block: April 26, 2019: Trijnstel (meta.wikimedia.org) globally blocked 184.22.0.0/16 (expires on April 26, 2024 at 19:41, anonymous only) (Open proxy: webhosting))
- Special:Contributions/49.49.224.0/19 blocked for six months
- Special:Contributions/2403:6200:88A2:8000:0:0:0:0/50 blocked for two years
IPv6 addresses[edit]
Discrete addresses as examples[edit]
- 2001:44C8:4006:934A:1:2:2175:19D6
- 2001:44C8:4448:3E6E:1:2:39D:ADF8
- 2403:6200:88A0:B9BE:1CD:9769:C2EF:A237
- 2403:6200:88A1:B39F:4E5:9CAA:3D3D:DDB8 block log
- 2403:6200:88A2:9CF9:14AC:AB89:37C:2FEF
- 2403:6200:88A2:D941:14AC:AB89:37C:2FEF
- 2403:6200:88A2:ECB8:60F2:301E:C22D:DDB
Ranges[edit]
- 2001:44C8:4000::/37 (may need adjusting)
- 2403:6200:88A0::/40
Confirmed and suspected accounts[edit]
This editor has usually used IP addresses although he has used one account known to the filing checkuser.