Notes for possible range block or edit filter request
IPs from Vilnius, Lithuania on Tele2 Lithuania spamming musician Frank Mortenson. Initially just mentioning non-notable covers by him, now bogus claims that his Strangers in the Night is the school song for multiple high schools. Frank Mortenson is a teenager from Lithuania who has covered Strangers in the Night and other songs.
School article problem first noted by user: Nederwiek [1].
Typical school article edits [2] include the bogus infobox claim: "| song = Frank Mortenson — Strangers in the Night" but other edits have included more generic Frank Mortenson spamming. The original article Frank Mortenson was speedied A7 January 2021. I thought the article existed around April 25 or 26, but I can't find it in the deletion log under any other name so I may be mistaken (possible this was a pipe to a foreign language version).
Similar Mortenson promotional edits have been going on since at least January. See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1058#User_determined_to_add_their_non-notable_friends_to_articles_(including_through_hoaxing) opened by user:Thjarkur for example, with Lithuanian IPs (from the same cities and some from the same ISP as this report) and a named account. One of the IPs is currently CU blocked and cross wiki blocked, and the named account (who created Frank Mortenson) is CU blocked.
Recently noted attempt to create a Frank Mortenson article on a foreign Wikipedia and then pipe a link to it from English Wikipedia. [3]. Have now found that that cross-wikis edits are nothing new. See m:Steward_requests/Miscellaneous/2021-04#Multiple_article-spam_on_Wikinews_and_Wikipedia)
On WP:AN July 2021 at Administrators' noticeboard#Admin does job
On WP:AN 1 August 21 at Administrators' noticeboard#IP's concerns about Global sysop Wikibayer
On SRM 10 July at m:Special:Permalink/21717229#Blatant nonsense of global sysop
May 2022 an account and an IP were blocked for repeatedly making unsourced claims that Frank Mortenson was the shooter in Laguna Woods church shooting. Its it possible that we have two different Lithuanian LTAs, one pushing Frank Mortenson and one cutting him down?
Articles
Articles, likely not a comprehensive list.
Bios
- af:Frank Mortenson (deleted three times), and multiple other wikis. See m:Steward_requests/Miscellaneous/2021-04#Multiple_article-spam_on_Wikinews_and_Wikipedia
- simple:Frank Mortenson (singer) (deleted) and the related simple:Edwin Symonowicz article (deleted x 4)
- pdc:Frank Mortenson (deleted x 5)
- da:Frank_Mortenson
- is:Frank_Mortenson
- et:Frank_Mortenson
- ru:Симонович, Эдвин (Edwin Symonowicz) (deleted)
Songs
- Strangers in the Night
- Yours (Quiéreme Mucho)
- Vaya con Dios (song)
- Moon Over Naples
- Red River Valley (song)
Schools
- Prince Henry's High School
- Buckingham School
- The Bourne Academy
- Century High School (Bismarck, North Dakota)
- Woodcote High School
- The Lenham School
- Helsby High School
- Akins High School
Shootings
- Indianapolis FedEx shooting (edits revision deleted)
- Plymouth shooting
- 2022 New York City Subway attack (edits suppressed)
- 2022 Buffalo shooting (edits revision deleted)
- Laguna Woods church shooting Unsourced claims that the shooter was Frank Mortenson.
Others
IPs
From Vilnius (or nearby Kaunas or Rudamina), Lithuania on Tele2 Lithuania
- 83.176.241.178 (talk · contribs) (Kaunas)
- 83.179.39.9 (talk · contribs)
- 83.179.30.198 (talk · contribs)
- 83.179.23.221 (talk · contribs)
- 83.179.1.107 (talk · contribs)
- 83.179.37.117 (talk · contribs)
- 83.179.82.34 (talk · contribs)
- 83.181.66.104 (talk · contribs)
- 83.181.94.23 (talk · contribs)
- 83.181.96.16 (talk · contribs)
- 83.188.87.135 (talk · contribs) (Kaunas)
- 83.190.237.16 (talk · contribs)
- 90.135.73.20 (talk · contribs)
- 37.0.240.168 (talk · contribs)
- 90.135.183.202 (talk · contribs)
- 90.140.4.135 (talk · contribs) (on Afrikaans Wikipedia)
- 83.176.234.11 (talk · contribs) (Kaunas, on Afrikaans Wikipedia)
- 37.0.242.55 (talk · contribs) (Rudamina)
- 90.135.177.121 (talk · contribs)
- 90.143.102.68 (talk · contribs)
- 83.187.96.107 (talk · contribs)
- 37.0.254.21 (talk · contribs)
- 90.142.144.14 (talk · contribs) (Same ISP but coming from Sweden)
- 84.55.19.40 (talk · contribs) (Kaunas but ISP is UAB INIT) CU blocked 3 months per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Birdsflyinghigh123, and blocked 3 more months August 11 as sock again
- 84.55.20.218 (talk · contribs) (Kaunas but ISP is UAB INIT)
- 193.217.16.112 (talk · contribs) (x-wiki)
- 85.206.166.82 (talk · contribs) (on Simple Wikipedia)
- 83.179.90.163 (talk · contribs)
- 83.187.109.195 (talk · contribs)
- 85.232.148.67 (talk · contribs)
- 90.143.86.1 (talk · contribs)
- 218.185.234.194 (talk · contribs) Proxy
- 83.189.221.162 (talk · contribs) (Kaunas)
- 83.176.235.55 (talk · contribs)
- 83.176.251.30 (talk · contribs)
- 83.176.253.205 (talk · contribs)
- 83.187.104.226 (talk · contribs)
- 217.173.65.214 (talk · contribs) Proxy
- 90.131.43.23 (talk · contribs)
- 90.131.39.181 (talk · contribs)
- 90.131.34.62 (talk · contribs) (Panevezys) inserting apparently bogus claim that Laguna Woods church shooting was by Frank Mortenson
- 90.131.34.51 (talk · contribs) (on User talk:Meters)
Accounts
- I will kil User Metres (talk · contribs) (this page, edits revdel'ed)
- I will kil User Meters (talk · contribs) (this page, edits revdel'ed)
- Birdsflyinghigh123 (talk · contribs)
- Lonely horseman (talk · contribs)
- Ysuhgd (talk · contribs)
- Ysuhgt (talk · contribs)
- Queder Med (talk · contribs)
- Queder Med2 (talk · contribs)
- Wiikilover (talk · contribs)
- Gaingroo (talk · contribs)
- Karekur (talk · contribs) globally locked
- Constantin Baldwin (talk · contribs) globally locked
- Grantsangsterr (talk · contribs) cu blocked
- Rlawrence12 (talk · contribs) cu blocked
- Aageewaanf (talk · contribs) cu blocked
- Aanmonden (talk · contribs) cu blocked
- Afrikaaner155 (talk · contribs) cu blocked
- Protoner1 (talk · contribs) cu blocked
- Thegreatestgift (talk · contribs) cu blocked
- Vinograddov (talk · contribs) cu blocked
- Thomasrobbe (talk · contribs) globally locked
- Logovoon (talk · contribs) globally locked
Abuse filter
- m:Special:AbuseFilter/286
- Title blacklist (global)