Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Fangusu
Wikilifespan | February 2008 - present |
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ISP | 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 ANI |
Basic information
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Comprehensive edits analysis
Fangusu is a user who was active starting in February 2008. She was repeatedly blocked for ongoing
After an apparent 4-year absence, Fangusu returned with a new unblock request in July 2015, claiming to have read and understood the reasons behind her block, disclosing her alternate accounts, and promising to abide by policies. She was unblocked, but very soon after was discovered to be abusing multiple accounts again. A community discussion led to her being sitebanned in August 2015. She continued to claim innocence and appeal for "forgiveness" until DJ Autagirl was discovered in December 2015.
Since then, Fangusu has socked primarily with IPs, often hitting the same pages over and over, raising frivolous
Targeted areas, pages, themes
- various Futurama episodes
- pages related to (women's) clothing, such as boyshorts, backless dress
- edits on women's clothing pages are usually to change gender-specific terms to gender-neutral terms (example)
- 1990s first-person-shooter and side-scroller video games, such as
- Digimon-related articles
- talk pages of non-administrator users with whom she has previously interacted
- Honey Bunny
Habitual behaviour
Fangusu returns to previously edited pages and reverts to a revision of a previous sockpuppet, sometimes after considerable time has passed and without regard for intervening edits. If her edit is reverted, she will repeatedly restore it with an edit summary pleading for the reverting user to lift her block while usually addressing the user by name (example) and/or will paste an appeal onto that user's talk page (example) and may follow them to other pages. If a page is protected, she will make an edit request (or revert to restore a previous one) asking for the reverted edit to be restored, or simply pleading for her block to be reduced. She rarely bothers administrators with these requests.
Fangusu most often edits through IPs in one of the ranges indicated, and jumps IPs frequently and rapidly such that IP blocks are largely ineffective. She has also been found to be continuing to abuse multiple named accounts, with CheckUser-confirmed sleeper accounts discovered as recently as April 2017.
Cases
- Requests for checkuser (archived)
- Sockpuppet investigations case page
- WP:AN
Other notes
See also Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/66.234.193.118.
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Fangusu
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Fangusu