Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Russian politics IP vandal
| Wikilifespan | around 2018 – present |
|---|---|
| ISP | Rostelecom / Macroregional_South |
| Physical location | Rostov-on-Don, Russia |
| Instructions | All edits are pretty obvious; the IP should be blocked on sight short-term, edits revision-deleted (usually both edit summary and revision) as purely disruptive material. Oversight is not needed. |
| Status | Active |
 | Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or ANI |
Basic information
[edit]The vandal does not have any known accounts, they are operating as IP.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
[edit]They target articles on Russian living politicians, such as Valentina Matviyenko, Alexei Navalny, Tatyana Golikova, Alisher Usmanov, Alina Kabaeva, Dmitry Rogozin, Dmitry Peskov, and many others.
Habitual behavior
[edit]They insert obscenities in Russian, transliterated Russian, and (rarely) English into these articles, and leave obscene edit summaries. Typically obscenities are directed at Vladimir Putin and some of the politicians, not necessarily the article subjects. They started with standartized summaries, and a dedicated edit filter had to be written to stop this. After that, they started to customize summaries. From one IP they make one, two, or three edits, and they disappear. Usually they operate once per day every day (from a new IP).
Cases
[edit]Other notes
[edit]- Edit filter
- Recent IP examples: 31.23.174.138 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 188.114.14.31 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 46.41.107.17 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 87.117.60.81 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 5.139.134.0 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 87.117.55.8 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 46.61.11.146 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 87.117.53.209 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 31.23.235.195 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 93.178.111.57 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 5.139.94.100 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 188.114.31.111 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
- Blocked for 4 years as 87.117.48.0/20 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial)). ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:15, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
Confirmed and suspected accounts
[edit]Never been checked, all the info above is based on the behavioral evidence.