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42 This page and its subpages were vandalized 42 times
This is a set of pages to track users who have engaged in long-term abuse of the projects. Feel free to contribute (if you can). If the LTA has tracked socks, or has been active for a while, it goes on a subpage. Do NOT add usernames that contain PII .
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== [[Special:ca/$MAINACCOUNT|$MAINACCOUNT]] or LTA name/alias_1/alias_2/.../alias_n ==
{{cot|Sock list}}
=== Accounts ===
# {{../ul|$SOCK}}
# {{../ul|$BADSOCK|hidename=1}} <-- (notes about sock)
# <s>{{../ul|$HIDDENSOCK}}</s>
=== IPs ===
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* Vandal's patterns
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Subpages
Based in Russia
Cross-site
Fandom
GameJolt
Medium
DeviantArt
Usernames are usually related to Five Nights at Freddy's
Spams the same copypasta on pages related to the above ([https://...2017-2022 года.)
May upload images to Commons
Spam seen on Wikidata: [1]
Seen on the following ranges:
INACTIVE as of 2026-02-18 Based in Japan
Cross-site
Vandalizes pages demanding her unlock (such as multiple deleted Phabricator tasks rants and (on 12 June 21:11:37 (UTC)) multiple high-visibility templates on PortalWiki )
Usernames often contain "KEMONO_PANTSU"
Keeps a log of "unjustly blocked" accounts with archive links
Started out on StackExchange, where she got blocked for advertising (put a Pixiv novel link in the website field in bio). Possibly started around 2013
Is also an LTA on Fandom and the Candy Crush Saga Wiki (see the history for the "Level 11679" page).
May impersonate or attack users from Fandom.
Edit summaries may contain something about Level 11679 not being redesigned.
Obsessed with lists of numbers, COVID-19 (specifically in Turkmenistan and North Korea), Candy Crush Saga, Centenary Avenue, vehicle registration plates in Australia, and the number 11679.
Targets enwiki, WikiData, testwiki, MediaWiki, MetaWiki, foundation, and simplewiki.
Revives old accounts.
Semi-protecting a target will cause them to move on.
w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Digital Dancing
Bruins vandal
Impersonates other LTAs
Attacks users who reverted them with talk about not messing with other LTAs (such as JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp, Wikinger, and GRP) by mass pinging them, especially USSR-Slav Codename Noreste
Compares users to the Boston Bruins (for some reason)
Knows about this page
Hatsune Miku vandal
Based in Japan
Targets jawiki, enwiki, viwiki, etc. Vandalizes pages related to Hatsune Miku by inserting copyvio lyrics (Miku...Miku.) 보민개 /Ttongtaehun ("똥태훈" - "Poop Taehun")Targets ko*
Adds the poop emoji (💩) to pages Cross-site
Targets many wikis Patterns:
Anti-COPPA activism (lower age to register accounts to 12)
Niche things about stars Based in Japan
Targets jawiki, kowiki, and others
kowiki
Replaces the signature on sysops' talk pages with BASEPAGENAME (Examples: 1 , 2 , 3 )
Removes themselves from AN when reported
jawiki
itwiki:
WMF-banned since 5 November 2024
Based in Newark, Delaware
Cross-site
Adds trivial details to weather and weather event-related pages, as well as US politics and sports-related pages
Edit warring to restore his changes
Requests preemptive protection for articles
Places block templates on user talk pages
Impersonates other users
Attacks reverting users
Knows about this page
Schwarz Gruppe vandal
List of enwiki pages vandalized by this vandal
Based in Germany
Spams disruptive German-language text on pages related to Germany Based in Hiroshima, Japan
Likely has Asperger's syndrome
enwiki CU While usually not of great concern, this user has occasionally used their sockpuppets to remove "Asperger's syndrome" from many projects. (Example )
Japanese and English names used by this master may be impersonation by ISECHIKA.
Revives old accounts.
Enwiki editing style:
May delink or remove references to Asperger's syndrome
Writes on their talk page or in the edit summary on their talk page, complaining about whatever is bothering them, then blanks their talk page.
Mass account creations anytime between 00:00 and 10:00 UTC, larger groups on weekends. Probably based somewhere around Chesapeake, Virginia, United States.
X-wiki hoaxing about fake Nickelodeon shows or programming blocks.
Typically focuses on Blue's Clues
Usernames usually follow a pattern, then change X-wiki article creation, unsourced changes (es, en, and wikidata), almost exclusively edits from mobile web/app
Will typically register accounts (see enwiki spi ), use IPs geolocating to Nicaragua, or proxies to make edits
Targets Nayib Bukele pages, wrestling, and Latin American TV channels/programming. Removes AfD/CSD templates
Changes are often unsourced, and is incredibly persistent in making them, often recreating deleted articles
Sock list
Saturnium119 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Waluigi1737 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )MrRooster23 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Ice cream truck boy ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Americanman231 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Greatest goat ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Phamy1 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )All deceased Wikipedians deserved to die ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Hat12346 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Madisyn Oglesby ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Penguin240 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Soccerman124 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Emeraldguy88 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Joe Biden is the worst U.S President ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Susman77 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Hydrogen88 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )This account is gIobally locked. See global account details for more information ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Charlotte Kretschmann ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Whoever reverts my edits is gay ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Poker311 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Kamala Harris is stupid ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )MinecraftGamer55 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Broccoli94171 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Chicken147 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )BlueTablet207 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )I8Jews ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )America1257 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Bananas1208 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Ostrich258 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )Dementia170 ( talk | contribs | logs (blocks , globalauth ) | CA | GUC | ST )
Based in Texas
Cross-wiki vandalism: targets enwiki, simplewiki, and Commons
Targets articles about old people and chemistry
Spams slurs in articles with edit summaries such as "I put 255,999 N-words on here."
Blanks pages and redirects them to nonexistent pages containing offensive titles
Revives old accounts to game autoconfirmed status
Creates hoaxes such as deaths or resurrections of people
Rapid vandalism (up to 10 consecutive edits in a minute)
Occasionally imitates ACV w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/백돌 w:ja:LTA:BAEG Targets kowiki, jawiki, enwiki, dewiki, zhwiki, and wikidata
Interests include music related articles and the Seoul subway system
Redirects articles to random articles
Edit wars to keep their edits on the page
Common edit summaries are "Wrong information." or "You lose!!!!"
When blocked they will spam a message attacking the blocking admin on their talk page.
Kyivstar
Mainly targets Ukranian wikis
Vandalizes (sysops') user talk pages with insults
Usernames are usually in Cyrillic and are profane Based in Vietnam?
Cross-site
Targets en*, simple*, mswiki, viwiki, viwikt, species, commons, and meta
Edits and usernames usually include the user saying they like one of their socks and don't like an established user
May edit or create socks' or other users' talk pages
May impersonate BMX or Salebot1
viwiki sock category
Machine translation LTA
Based in Vietnam (?) (multiple IPs geolocate to HCMC , some socks declare Vietnamese fluency via Babel)
Targets small wikis
Abuse ContentTranslation to spam machine translations
As a result, also mass imports templates and modules
These series of create log entries are very visible (for example, quarry:query/102850 ), though sometimes intermittently.
Socks are often locked without cleanup 
