Original name(s) | Mikequfv |
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Wikilifespan | 2016 – present |
Known IPs | See confirmed accounts section |
Physical location | Canada |
Instructions | Suspected 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 |
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First indeffed in 2016 for disruptive changing of climate infobox colors and now
WP:LOUTSOCKs using IPs geolocating to Canada. Repeatedly changes weatherbox precipitation coloring from standard green to blue across numerous city articles without any regard to community input and warnings from other editors despite being reverted and blocked every single time.
See pages listed at [1], [2], [3]
Around 2016, Mikequfv was indeffed for disruptive changing of weatherbox colors, such as changing the original blue snow coloring to green and changing the precipitation coloring from green to blue on some articles. This user justifies these edits as "fixing eyesores"; however, the long-standing use of green for the parameter has been used for nearly a decade, being commonly agreed that green as the parameter color creates a visual contrast between the blue cold temperatures above the row and the blue snow coloring below. The problem is that once the precipitation parameter is set to blue, than every single line between the cold temperatures and precipitation days (and sometimes humidity) becomes the same color, and creates this unsightly wall of solid blue – as seen here [4]. Since then, Mikequfv has primarily used IPs geolocating to Canada to continue these disruptive edits. Oddly enough, this user seems to be okay with this. On some other articles however, they changed the snow coloring from the original blue to green - saying things like "slight adjust" and "match" in their edit summaries. As many other editors recognize this problem, all the changes the IP made were reverted, even leading to a temporary block. However, this user evaded their block by IP-hopping on complete new IP addresses, effectively making any range block useless. Some methods this user has made to obtain new IPs have been using devices in public places (such as Greater Victoria Public Library in the case of 199.60.109.110 and 199.60.109.125) and likely mail servers (as with 64.114.18.188).
User:CrazyBoy826/Target pages of recent IPs
Edit summaries include:
One thing I latched onto right away is that this person only goes to the pages of cities with interesting climates. For example, the wettest city in Alaska, the warmest city in British Columbia, and cities on the cusp of two or sometimes three different climate types. They have repeatedly made a color change on a city with no snow and almost no rain, such that their change was literally invisible, just because ... I guess .... they like that city's climate.
If they've been doing this sort of thing with "boring" climates, I (or we), haven't noticed it yet. Thanks, — Soap — 13:18, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
I think we wore him out. The original filer of this case removed it from the active cases list, so is this really still pending approval or should we just let it go? — Soap — 23:03, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
Original name(s) | Mikequfv |
---|---|
Wikilifespan | 2016 – present |
Known IPs | See confirmed accounts section |
Physical location | Canada |
Instructions | Suspected 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 AIV or ANI |
Mikequfv (
talk ·
contribs ·
block log ·
arb ·
SPI
confirmed)
Comprehensive edits analysis
First indeffed in 2016 for disruptive changing of climate infobox colors and now
WP:LOUTSOCKs using IPs geolocating to Canada. Repeatedly changes weatherbox precipitation coloring from standard green to blue across numerous city articles without any regard to community input and warnings from other editors despite being reverted and blocked every single time.
See pages listed at [1], [2], [3]
Around 2016, Mikequfv was indeffed for disruptive changing of weatherbox colors, such as changing the original blue snow coloring to green and changing the precipitation coloring from green to blue on some articles. This user justifies these edits as "fixing eyesores"; however, the long-standing use of green for the parameter has been used for nearly a decade, being commonly agreed that green as the parameter color creates a visual contrast between the blue cold temperatures above the row and the blue snow coloring below. The problem is that once the precipitation parameter is set to blue, than every single line between the cold temperatures and precipitation days (and sometimes humidity) becomes the same color, and creates this unsightly wall of solid blue – as seen here [4]. Since then, Mikequfv has primarily used IPs geolocating to Canada to continue these disruptive edits. Oddly enough, this user seems to be okay with this. On some other articles however, they changed the snow coloring from the original blue to green - saying things like "slight adjust" and "match" in their edit summaries. As many other editors recognize this problem, all the changes the IP made were reverted, even leading to a temporary block. However, this user evaded their block by IP-hopping on complete new IP addresses, effectively making any range block useless. Some methods this user has made to obtain new IPs have been using devices in public places (such as Greater Victoria Public Library in the case of 199.60.109.110 and 199.60.109.125) and likely mail servers (as with 64.114.18.188).
User:CrazyBoy826/Target pages of recent IPs
Edit summaries include:
One thing I latched onto right away is that this person only goes to the pages of cities with interesting climates. For example, the wettest city in Alaska, the warmest city in British Columbia, and cities on the cusp of two or sometimes three different climate types. They have repeatedly made a color change on a city with no snow and almost no rain, such that their change was literally invisible, just because ... I guess .... they like that city's climate.
If they've been doing this sort of thing with "boring" climates, I (or we), haven't noticed it yet. Thanks, — Soap — 13:18, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
I think we wore him out. The original filer of this case removed it from the active cases list, so is this really still pending approval or should we just let it go? — Soap — 23:03, 19 November 2020 (UTC)