Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/JarlaxleArtemis

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JarlaxleArtemis
Shortcut: WP:LTA/Grawp
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Original name(s) JarlaxleArtemis
Wikilifespan 30 December 2004 – 20 August 2007 (as JarlaxleArtemis)
20 August 2007-present (as Grawp)
ISP Verizon
(*.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net)

PeoplePC or Earthlink
(*.dial1.losangeles1.level3.net)
Known IPs See #Anonymous IPs
Known hostmasks See #Host masks
Physical location Lakewood, California and Rossmoor, California
Severity High
Requests for arbitration

WP:RFAr/JarlaxleArtemis,

WP:RFAr/JarlaxleArtemis 2, WP:RfAr/JarlaxleArtemis 3
Instructions Revert and block on sight, full-protect user and talk pages and disable email for all socks.
Status Unknown

JarlaxleArtemis (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) was a persistently uncooperative editor who now trolls and vandalizes. He has a long history of disruptive activity which has resulted in several short-term blocks, three Requests for Arbitration, a community ban from Wikipedia and an unprecedented ban from all Wikimedia projects.

During his second arbitration case, it was discovered that he had created almost 50 accounts to harass other Wikipedians, and also made a personal attack on Wikimedia board member Anthere. As a result, he was banned from all Wikimedia projects on September 18, 2005. In an unusual move, he was allowed back on probation two months later, but was community-banned from Wikipedia on September 17, 2006 for continued misbehavior.

Since then, he has been harassing editors and administrators by posting personal attacks and personal information with throwaway sockpuppet accounts, and by abusing the password request feature to perform network flooding. He may also be using sockpuppets or anonymous IPs to continue his pre-banning behaviour, the most serious of which were wanton copyright infringement and mass creation of unhelpful or incorrect redirects.

Starting in 2007, he took on a new persona, "Grawp", which he has utilized to disrupt Wikipedia and harass users and administrators.[1] As Grawp, he recruits people and coordinates at Encyclopedia Dramatica and 4chan, among other sites. He and his associates usually conduct page-move vandalism by moving pages to nonsensical titles, mostly variations of "HAGGER" followed by a series of glottal stops and with spacings (example sock). The word is derived from a corruption of the name "Hagrid" as spoken by Grawp in the "Harry Potter" universe. Technical restrictions have helped to ease this, although they have not been successful at stopping it entirely. His edits and moves are often supplemented by a URL of a shock site that hacks the user's browser and contains malware. Also occasionally reverts legitimate edits as vandalism sometimes using applications such as Twinkle. Edit summaries sometimes include "for great justice and epic lulz", followed by the shock site link. When blocked, he will post unblocks to the blocked account's user talk page using a huge image file that can crash some browsers (Firefox mainly), with the unblock request expressing a wish to crash the browser.

Other coordinated attacks are in the form of multiple creations of sockpuppet accounts with names intended to insult and harass legitimate users and administrators who attempt to deal with the sockpuppets. Many of these use alternate characters in an attempt to bypass abuse filters. As in the case of the "HAGGER" variations, an anti-abuse bot has been programmed to block such attacks, but not all sockpuppets are caught and blocked by the bot. Few of the sockpuppets actually edit the article space or perform page moves; many are simply childish taunts, but it should not be assumed that a sockpuppet creation is solely a taunt. It is also important to note that some sockpuppets are being created through network nodes. In doing so, the user creation log is bypassed. It is therefore necessary to bring up the most recent list of registered users in order to spot the attacks. A fix is currently in the works.

JarlaxleArtemis and the other people who edit as Grawp kept a multi-page list of all of his sockpuppets at Encyclopedia Dramatica before it was renamed Oh Internet. In this site, there is a talk page being used to coordinate vandalism: the URL was http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Talk:Grawp. Caution: explicit content.

Repeated complaints to Verizon and to his family members have been completely unsuccessful at curbing his abuse. Due to collateral damage resulting from his vandalism, large numbers of Verizon customers have been unable to edit Wikipedia anonymously.

Contents

Modus operandi

Current activities

  • Posting personal attacks and personal information. JarlaxleArtemis routinely vandalizes user pages and user talk pages by posting personal attacks. These attacks are often accompanied with personal information and contact details for the victim.
  • Creating attack usernames JarlaxleArtemis creates usernames attacking various Wikipedians containing personal details, libel and other abuse
  • Sockpuppeteering. (see below)
  • Impersonating and harassing other Wikipedians. JarlaxleArtemis has created a number of user accounts using or based on other Wikipedians' user names, real names, e-mail addresses, and web addresses. It was this activity, discovered during his second arbitration case that led to his brief ban from all Wikimedia projects. In some instances, the impersonation is done on another project and then brought to the English Wikipedia through unification.
  • Pagemove vandalism. Frequently moves articles to nonsensical or offensive titles.

Less recent activities

JarlaxleArtemis often engaged in the following activities using his main account. His known sockpuppets have not been observed to engage in these activities, but it is possible that he has created one or more non-attack sockpuppet accounts to perpetrate them. They are listed here to help users and administrators identify such non-attack socks. For details, please consult JarlaxleArtemis's previous three Requests for Arbitration.

  • Wanton copyright infringement, particularly with images
  • Flouting of WP:MOS, WP:NOT, and other policies
  • Entering blank, misleading, or vexatious edit summaries
  • Removing deletion tags
  • POV edits
  • Removing warnings
  • Attempting to gain administrator privileges
  • Creating unhelpful or incorrect redirects
  • Posting machine-translated articles
  • Posting duplicate articles
  • Recreating deleted articles

Activities outside Wikimedia websites

Means of identification

Favourite pages

With his original User:JarlaxleArtemis account, he was most active on the following pages:

Identities used

Accounts in other languages

Accounts on other Wikimedia projects

Accounts off-Wikimedia

Sockpuppets

See Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of JarlaxleArtemis and Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of JarlaxleArtemis for all tagged accounts and IPs. See also Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/JarlaxleArtemis for the discovery of many of his socks.

Maintenance

Suspected sockpuppet accounts and anonymous IPs should be tagged on the User page with:

{{sockpuppet|JarlaxleArtemis|evidence=[[Wikipedia:Long term abuse/JarlaxleArtemis]]}}

When the account is blocked, replace the above template with:

{{SockpuppetProven|JarlaxleArtemis|[[Wikipedia:Long term abuse/JarlaxleArtemis]] and [[Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/JarlaxleArtemis]]}} 
{{Indefblockeduser}}

Also fully protect his user page and talk page.

When reverting him, link to this page in the edit summary to help explain.

Since his return as Grawp, many of his socks have been found to be sleeper accounts and/or have large numbers of "good" edits.

Anonymous IPs

IP logs

Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:00:05 +1000
From: Tim Starling <t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
To:  linuxbeak@gmail.com, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>
Subject: Jarlaxle's harrassment and disruption by account creation

At Linuxbeak's request, I've looked up the IP address of the person who
has been spamming the new user log and [[Special:Listusers]] with
offensive usernames, often puerile attacks directed at Linuxbeak. Here's
the method I used:

*Used [[Special:Log/newusers]] to identify a single offensive username.
I looked up the IP address.
*Searched the recentchanges table for edits with that IP address. The
result was Jeremy Hanson.
*Searched for IP addresses with that username. The user was coming from
all over the 71.107.0.0/16 subnet.
*Searched for all account creations from that /16.
*Removed some of the entries that could have been false positives.
Hence in the log below, some of the rows are missing.

The first row below is a homograph, Psy%D1%81honaut in URL form. Row 19
is %DB%9E and row 20 is %E2%85%9D.

mysql> select rc_timestamp,rc_ip,rc_comment from recentchanges where
rc_namespace=-1 and rc_title='Log/newusers' and rc_ip like '71.107.%'\G
*************************** 2. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050913024057
       rc_ip: 71.107.145.140
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Psyсhonaut|Psyсhonaut]]
([[User talk:Psyсhonaut|Talk]] |
[[Special:Contributions/Psyсhonaut|contribs]])
*************************** 6. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050914002144
       rc_ip: 71.107.166.135
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Jarlaxle Baenre|Jarlaxle
Baenre]] ([[User talk:Jarlaxle Baenre|Talk]] |
[[Special:Contributions/Jarlaxle Baenre|contribs]])
*************************** 7. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050918011419
       rc_ip: 71.107.168.17
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:! ! ! ! Linuxbeak is an
unemployed bum|! ! ! ! Linuxbeak is an unemployed bum]] ([[User talk:! !
! ! Linuxbeak is an unemployed bum|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/! !
! ! Linuxbeak is an unemployed bum|contribs]])
*************************** 8. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050918011716
       rc_ip: 71.107.168.17
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Zscout370, there's no
point in blocking these unused accounts|Zscout370, there's no point in
blocking these unused accounts]] ([[User talk:Zscout370, there's no
point in blocking these unused accounts|Talk]] | [[Special:C
*************************** 9. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050918012005
       rc_ip: 71.107.168.17
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Zscout370, it's not like
I'm using these accounts.|Zscout370, it's not like I'm using these
accounts.]] ([[User talk:Zscout370, it's not like I'm using these
accounts.|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Zscout370, it's not
*************************** 10. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050918012226
       rc_ip: 71.107.168.17
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Zscout370, stop deleting
old images!|Zscout370, stop deleting old images!]] ([[User
talk:Zscout370, stop deleting old images!|Talk]] |
[[Special:Contributions/Zscout370, stop deleting old images!|contribs]])
*************************** 11. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050918012542
       rc_ip: 71.107.168.17
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Phroziac and Zscout370,
old images are good for the history.|Phroziac and Zscout370, old images
are good for the history.]] ([[User talk:Phroziac and Zscout370, old
images are good for the history.|Talk]] | [[Special:Cont
*************************** 12. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050918012808
       rc_ip: 71.107.168.17
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Ral315, there are no
such things as souls.|Ral315, there are no such things as souls.]]
([[User talk:Ral315, there are no such things as souls.|Talk]] |
[[Special:Contributions/Ral315, there are no such things as souls.|c
*************************** 13. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050918012859
       rc_ip: 71.107.168.17
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Curpsbot-unicodify is a
stupid name.|Curpsbot-unicodify is a stupid name.]] ([[User
talk:Curpsbot-unicodify is a stupid name.|Talk]] |
[[Special:Contributions/Curpsbot-unicodify is a stupid name.|contribs]])
*************************** 14. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050918013103
       rc_ip: 71.107.168.17
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Phroziac, you also have
a stupid name.|Phroziac, you also have a stupid name.]] ([[User
talk:Phroziac, you also have a stupid name.|Talk]] |
[[Special:Contributions/Phroziac, you also have a stupid name.|contribs]])
*************************** 15. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050918013609
       rc_ip: 71.107.168.17
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user
[[User:ThereasongivenforWikibrah'sblockis"Personal attacks on talk
page|ThereasongivenforWikibrah'sblockis"Personal attacks on talk page]]
([[User talk:ThereasongivenforWikibrah'sblockis"Personal attacks on talk
page|Talk]] | [[
*************************** 16. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050918013735
       rc_ip: 71.107.168.17
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Removeimagetobedeleted
as per WP CSD and User talk Jimbo Wales|Removeimagetobedeleted as per WP
CSD and User talk Jimbo Wales]] ([[User talk:Removeimagetobedeleted as
per WP CSD and User talk Jimbo Wales|Talk]] | [[Specia
*************************** 17. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050916005702
       rc_ip: 71.107.171.89
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:░|░]] ([[User
talk:░|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/░|contribs]])
*************************** 18. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050916032451
       rc_ip: 71.107.171.89
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user
[[User:JarlaxleArtem¡s|JarlaxleArtem¡s]] ([[User
talk:JarlaxleArtem¡s|Talk]] |
[[Special:Contributions/JarlaxleArtem¡s|contribs]])
*************************** 19. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050916033001
       rc_ip: 71.107.171.89
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:|]] ([[User talk:|Talk]]
| [[Special:Contributions/|contribs]])
*************************** 20. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050916035835
       rc_ip: 71.107.171.89
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:|]] ([[User talk:|Talk]]
| [[Special:Contributions/|contribs]])
*************************** 21. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050916040657
       rc_ip: 71.107.171.89
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:⅝|⅝]] ([[User
talk:⅝|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/⅝|contribs]])
*************************** 22. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050916043237
       rc_ip: 71.107.171.89
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:Psychοnaut|Psychοnaut]]
([[User talk:Psychοnaut|Talk]] |
[[Special:Contributions/Psychοnaut|contribs]])
*************************** 23. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050917014732
       rc_ip: 71.107.172.236
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:! !
!WhyisLinuxbeaksoverygay?Noonecansay,except helikestoeat hay|! !
!WhyisLinuxbeaksoverygay?Noonecansay,except helikestoeat hay]] ([[User
talk:! ! !WhyisLinuxbeaksoverygay?Noonecansay,except helikestoeat
hay|Talk]] | [[
*************************** 24. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050917014909
       rc_ip: 71.107.172.236
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:! ! ! ! ! ! !
Linuxbeak's e-mail is linuxbeak1@hotmail.com|! ! ! ! ! ! ! Linuxbeak's
e-mail is linuxbeak1@hotmail.com]] ([[User talk:! ! ! ! ! ! !
Linuxbeak's e-mail is linuxbeak1@hotmail.com|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributi
*************************** 25. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050917015040
       rc_ip: 71.107.172.236
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:! ! ! ! ! ! !
Linuxbeak's AIM is linuxbeak1@hotmail.com|! ! ! ! ! ! ! Linuxbeak's AIM
is linuxbeak1@hotmail.com]] ([[User talk:! ! ! ! ! ! ! Linuxbeak's AIM
is linuxbeak1@hotmail.com|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/! ! !
*************************** 26. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050917015321
       rc_ip: 71.107.172.236
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:! ! ! ! ! ! !
Linuxbeak's AIM is actually linuxbeak1|! ! ! ! ! ! ! Linuxbeak's AIM is
actually linuxbeak1]] ([[User talk:! ! ! ! ! ! ! Linuxbeak's AIM is
actually linuxbeak1|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/! ! ! ! ! ! !
*************************** 27. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050917020336
       rc_ip: 71.107.172.236
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:! ! ! ! ! ! Linuxbeak's
personal email is alexschenck@gmail.com|! ! ! ! ! ! Linuxbeak's personal
email is alexschenck@gmail.com]] ([[User talk:! ! ! ! ! ! Linuxbeak's
personal email is alexschenck@gmail.com|Talk]] | [[Spe
*************************** 28. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050917020817
       rc_ip: 71.107.172.236
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:! ! ! Search for "forum
americasarmy com Alex Schenck" on Google|! ! ! Search for "forum
americasarmy com Alex Schenck" on Google]] ([[User talk:! ! ! Search for
"forum americasarmy com Alex Schenck" on Google|Talk]] | [[
*************************** 29. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050917021721
       rc_ip: 71.107.172.236
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:! ! !Google
"America'sArmyForumIndexViewingprofileAlexSchenck"|! ! !Google
"America'sArmyForumIndexViewingprofileAlexSchenck"]] ([[User talk:! !
!Google "America'sArmyForumIndexViewingprofileAlexSchenck"|Talk]] | [[Specia
*************************** 30. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050917022137
       rc_ip: 71.107.172.236
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Google "Alex Schenck" and click 1st link|! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Google
"Alex Schenck" and click 1st link]] ([[User talk:! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Google "Alex Schenck" and click 1st link|Talk]] | [[
*************************** 31. row ***************************
rc_timestamp: 20050917022444
       rc_ip: 71.107.172.236
  rc_comment: newusers: Created the user [[User:! ! ! ! ! !'m Linuxbeak!
I like to fuck trees!|! ! ! ! ! !'m Linuxbeak! I like to fuck trees!]]
([[User talk:! ! ! ! ! !'m Linuxbeak! I like to fuck trees!|Talk]] |
[[Special:Contributions/! ! ! ! ! !'m Linuxbeak! I like
31 rows in set (0.01 sec)

Host masks

RIPE gives no information on the above-listed anonymous IPs.

See also

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