User:Elizium23/The Horror of Babylon
Dramatis personæ[edit]
Investigations and actions[edit]
- The AN/I report and indef block that started it all: en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive960#BedrockPerson and biblical people infoboxes
- At issue were unsourced additions to articles disguised by deceptive edit summaries.
- BedrockPerson was reported at least three times for edit-warring.
- en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BedrockPerson
- en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1113#User:Zhomron: in which Elizium23 reports this user for disruptive editing, edit-warring, and incivility including personal attacks. Zhomron here offers a flat-out denial of being a sockpuppet in the face of such accusations, but by the end of the thread, we learn the truth about his identity as BP.
- User talk:BedrockPerson: Chuck Entz asks "Where are you getting this stuff?" in which Chuck confronts BP's incompetence. BP never replied on his Wiktionary user talk page to anyone.
Discussions[edit]
- wikt:User talk:Chuck Entz#Zhomron: the results are in
- en:User talk:Zhomron/Archive 1 serves as extensive documentation of BP's incompetence and belligerence, including ArbCom warnings, blocks, failed unblocks, and many experienced editors participating. If they only knew of the sock puppetry being perpetrated by then.
Distinguishing features[edit]
- Primary topic areas are the linguistic aspects of the Ancient Near East, such as archeological discoveries of inscriptions, cuneiform, obscure forms of Hebrew scripts, transliterations, gods, monarchs.
- Judeo-centric POV, and significant edits include topics in the Old Testament and the history of Israel.
- He appears to take delight in uploading unusable photographs of diseased body parts, such as a few that are still extant on enwiki, as of August 2023.
- "BedrockPerson" is a gamer reference, referring either to a Minecraft or Super Mario 64 character.
- After much difficulty connecting Zhomron back to BP himself, enwiki admins spoke of a "smoking gun", which may consist of a very active account on a very large and popular social media forum, named BedrockPerson after the sockmaster. This account's posts have been a good source for personal and profiling info.
- Camera: FinePix A340, as of 2004
- Zhomron's namesake appears to be Karne Shomron, a settlement on Israel's West Bank.
- In turn, "Shomron" is a romanized toponym for Samaria.
Affected projects[edit]
- English Wiktionary: initial block for disruptive editing / "untrustworthy information"
- English Wikipedia: blocked for making personal attacks, abusing multiple accounts, and edit warring
- Commons: uploading unfree files (copyright violation)
Resources[edit]
- commons:Commons:List of administrators
- wikidata:Wikidata:Administrators
- en:Wikipedia:List of administrators
- Steward requests/Global — request global locks and IP blocks here
- Trust and Safety — WMF
- RIPEstat: ASN/abuse contacts
Policies and guidelines[edit]
- commons:Commons:Project scope — COM:INUSE cited as a reason to keep photos
- en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry — English Wikipedia's policy on multiple account usage. Commons borrows this policy via redirect.
- Global bans — Metawiki
Supporters[edit]
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