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User:Mfb/Taiwanese articles

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User description

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We have an editor or a group of editors persistently editing articles related to Taiwanese technology, especially rocketry and spaceflight, always trying to make Taiwan look better. The edits are often highly recognizable, and the same edit is done several times (getting reverted each time) over a timescale of days to months. The IP changes frequently. Common elements of the edits:

  • Apparently experienced with some Wikipedia conventions and terms such as those that are frequently used when reverting the vandalism, but at other times seems inexperienced as when the editor does not indent talk page posts.
  • Writing claims with references, but the given references do not discuss the claims at all. This is an extremely frequent pattern. In addition they don't appear to have actually read the sources they cite.
  • Citations are generally bare with only a URL and no other information.
  • Misleading links, giving the impression would have articles like Taiwanese manned spaceflight program or Taiwanese astronauts where the actual link goes to some other article (e.g. to "Taiwan" or "astronaut")
  • Edit warring and discussion in edit summaries
  • NPOV violations like "a cutting edge advanced Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) autonomous lunar lander". Example for all points so far
  • Making politically loaded statements, and keeping wrong statements (from 2005) in the article.
  • Adding tons of links from and to the articles in "see also", probably to promote visibility of the articles. Example
  • Namedropping. Example
  • Repeated edits on pages seem to rely on older versions instead of using the revert function, an example is this diff which brought back unrelated earlier vandalism.
  • There have been three cases where they have been engaged in discussion on a Talk page: here, here, and here.
  • Accusing others of being "the confirmed pro-communist Chinese KMT traitor vandal", prominently in the case of a request of a third opinion for this user and another one in an edit war concerning this article: this editor is known for both appearing to be a serious, good-faith editor and trolling.
  • Addresses from this VPN are used to evade IP blocks and detection. Multiple IPs can be active at the same time affecting multiple pages.
  • Extreme exaggeration about the scope and scale of Taiwan’s WMD program.
  • When provoked they will attempt retribution by going through the relevant editor’s contrib page and reverting their edits/engaging in talk page discussions and siding strongly against that editor, often to an uncomfortable degree.

Admin note

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IPs should be considered as block evading and blocked accordingly. NeilN talk to me 20:06, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Please note article protected and the length of protection. El_C 21:50, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Affected articles

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Cluster of Taiwan edits:

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Articles affected because of revenge streak against other editors:

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Unrelated to Taiwan or revenge streak:

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Collected IPs

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Examples of edits from different IPs, not an exhaustive list.

Some 2018 IPs, by far not an exhaustive list:

Some 2019 IPs:

Some IPs share edits with the articles above, but focus more on India and Pakistan otherwise, favoring India:

Misc

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Discussion pages (linked via URL on purpose): Talk:National_Space_Organization, User_talk:Vanamonde93, User_talk:Floquenbeam.

All changes on articles linked here

Feel free to update this page.

Chart

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Page #IP edits Date IP address(es) More IPs Type Involved Editors TP? RfPP? Admins? comments
Hsiung Feng IIE   >25 1/4/17

- Present

45.254.246.81

45.120.202.2

183.171.91.189 

77.70.57.19

223.204.250.218

27.100.19.69

1.237.20.87

59.120.120.50

39.110.61.66

Additions

deletions

source

EW

Adamgerber80

Dan Koeh

America789

Floquenbeam

N SEMI 30 days

N/A # of RfPP filed

Y1

Floq.

1.237.20.87 used twice in a row. IP uses a range of ES, including some erudite ones which may cause them to look like a good editor/VanCop. L3X1
Hsiung Feng III  >50 10/30/16

- Present

79.240.175.148

1.231.28.2

27.100.20.184

103.27.220.101 

43.249.129.212

27.100.19.16

103.27.220.49

27.100.20.248

45.254.247.21

45.254.247.237

45.254.247.29

45.254.247.36 

45.254.247.208

45.254.247.105

45.254.247.8

45.120.202.197

103.27.220.15

103.27.222.158

103.27.222.191

27.100.20.133

27.100.20.96

212.194.114.50

45.120.201.154

43.249.128.118

103.27.231.72

Additions

bad sources

EW

212.194.114.50

118.160.241.146

Sphilbrick

Primefac

MerlinVtwelve

Adamgerber80

MBlaze Lightning

Vanamonde93

Lizard the Wizard L3X1, [[User:Widr|Widr

Raritydash

Y 3

(Full 3 days) (Semi 30 days) (Semi 1 year)

Y It appears there was a vandal cop with multiple IPs. I'm pretty sure they are OK because they also reverted vandalism on other articles, and appear to have an intimate knowledge of WP regarding POV and RS. L3X1
Lunar Lander 2 2/8/17-

3/19/17

113.151.145.122

111.216.158.190

no ES mfb, Adam, Arjayay N Semi 1 week Y
National Space Organization >50 9/29/16

- Present

45.120.201.82

1.237.20.87

45.120.201.50

43.249.129.45

103.17.199.29

58.114.120.202

58.114.119.141

69.167.29.18

103.250.141.161

EW, unref additionsno ES Adamgerber80 

Coffee Floquenbeam MrOllie mfb BigBryan0

Y 1, semi 30 days Y2 TP is more about cleanup, not discussion with the sock
T65 AR 7 4/17/17- 4/18/17 2001:8003:801f:f800:2d34:8f67:cc74:e228

2001:8003:801f:f800:5952:9ee3:3160:bb31

additions, no ES BilCat N N N N
Yun Feng 16 3/12/17

- Present

61.245.72.140

101.51.219.243

62.231.239.133 EW, bad info Adamgerber80

CambridgeBayWeather

N 1, semi 30 days Y, PP Numerous other IP edits but I doubt they are attached.

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