Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Blue Barette Bam

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Blue Barette Bam
Shortcut: WP:LTA/BBB
WikilifespanJanuary 2011 - present
Physical locationIthaca, New York, United States
Sockpuppet investigationsWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Blue Barette Bam
InstructionsRevert, block and ignore, and request suppression of their edits/summaries containing personal information. 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. Also report socks to SRG for global locking.
StatusPending Approval

Basic information

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Blue Barette Bam, or BBB, is a user who repeatedly attacks and harasses editors with disruptive edit summaries, and edits by posting grossly offensive content and/or personal information of admins/editors in their edits/edit summaries.

As of April 2020, BBB was blocked indefinitely from editing the English Wikipedia, and subsequently globally locked as of 2024. Despite this, they continue to use multiple accounts and IP addresses to further disrupt Wikipedia.

BBB has also created socks impersonating users that revert their edits and these accounts often try to get those reverting users blocked for socking.

As of March 25, 2024 BBB is banned by WMF Trust and Safety.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

Habitual behavior

  • They vandalize articles by posting offensive, transphobic, and/or racist content that may need to be revision deleted.
  • They claim that they don't know who they are, are just watching their "hands" or "fingers" vandalize, and that they have no control over these body parts and their body.
  • If their edit gets reverted, they will manually revert, and attack other editors using offensive edit summaries.
  • They may post personal information of other editors/administrators in their edits, summaries, or both, which requires
    suppression
    of said edits or summaries.
  • They replace sections with words related to the Grinch on pages related to Christmas or others. (example)
  • They admitted to using IPSharkk to evade blocks (see this edit to RPP). Most of BBB's IP's geolocate to Morocco or Egypt, but can occasionally be geolocated to other countries such as Nepal and the United States (See IP here).

Cases

Other notes

Editors should

deny recognition and revert, block and ignore
, and request suppression of their edits/summaries containing personal and/or grossly offensive information. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report.

Pages related to holidays such as

Valentines Day
should be closely monitored near or at their seasons, as BBB has admitted that they target these pages seasonally.

Confirmed and suspected accounts