Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/DiscoveryTeenHD
| Wikilifespan | July 2018 - present |
|---|---|
| Known IPs | 46.10.95.144 46.35.177.94 84.1.247.135 84.1.247.189 149.62.192.0/19 (cellular) 95.43.242.218 92.247.9.130 92.247.31.18 78.83.214.42 78.83.237.2 88.87.21.59 88.203.146.242 88.203.165.172 88.213.220.31 77.76.177.64 87.254.180.201 77.85.194.165 85.187.178.73 85.160.50.87 31.13.208.133 |
| Physical location | Bulgaria |
| Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DiscoveryTeenHD |
| Instructions | Most socks can be reported to AIV and SRG or the Wikimedia stewards IRC channel for global locks/blocks. Personal attacks and death threats can be revdelled if needed. Do not warn socks, don't feed the troll. Instead report to AIV and SRG if abuse occurs. |
| Status | Pending Approval |
 | Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or SRG |
Basic information
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Comprehensive edits analysis
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DiscoveryTeenHD is a Wikipedia user and sockpuppeteer from Bulgaria who usually vandalises pages, creates hoaxes about TV channels, persistently adds CSD template of a blocked user or another Bulgarian IP address, abuses multiple accounts such as NovaTeenHD, MonsterTheBasser, MonsterTheJoker, AlexsanderBostonTV, uses dynamic IP addresses or public wifi to bypass the blocking and continue vandalising pages. They will sometimes use registered accounts but will usually use IP addresses that geolocate to Bulgaria. In 2023, DiscoveryTeenHD created an account MonsterTheBasser to continue vandalise pages and add a CSD template of a blocked IP address or user which used by the same person (diff 1, diff 2, diff 3). Cross wiki abuse/harassment has also occurred on Wikimedia Commons, Russian Wikipedia and Lithuanian Wikipedia at times [1][2][3].
Targeted areas, pages, themes
User usually targets TV channel pages such as:
- Trace Hits
- Trace Vault
- Tonis (Canada)
- TV-6 (Russia)
- Classic FM TV
- Alfa TV (Bulgaria)
- Fight+ (targeted a page in 2018 under the name User:DiemaBG and again persistently restores edits with the same content since April 2023 (diff 1, diff 2))
- RTVi+ (Canada)
- Hustler TV (American TV channel) (the same user edited logged-out in 2018 as 84.1.247.189. Now uses several IP addresses geolocating to the same country to vandalise by renaming to Alfa America with no source. (diff 1, diff 2, diff 3, diff 4, diff 5))
- MTV Brand New (Italian TV channel)
- MTV Brand New
- Blue Hustler
- any other TV channel related pages.
Habitual behavior
- User persistently hijacks other pages such as Hustler TV (US).
- Edit-warring.
- Harasses editors who report or revert them in all caps and by pinging them in edit summaries or talk page comments.
- Sends death threats on user talk pages, which sometimes get revdelled.
- Adding unsourced content about channel relaunches and replacements which never happened.
- Persistently hijacks other pages logged-out and changes to a nonexistant version of a ).
- Cross-wiki harasses editors on user talk pages by showing their vandalised edits.
Cases
Other notes
Pages about TV channels need to be watched, because the same person who has been vandalising and creating hoaxes for several months.
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of DiscoveryTeenHD
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of DiscoveryTeenHD