User:Sjones23/G-Zay
As many of us Wikipedians all know by now, many Final Fantasy and Square Enix-related articles have been under attack from G-Zay (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log), a user based in England who has an extreme hatred of Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama and their involvement with Square Enix's video games, for about the past 4 years since his first edit back in November 2010. This individual's misrepresentation of sources and his edits to those articles have been significantly bothersome and it resulted in a community ban discussion in April 2013. Since then, he has continuously tried to insert his brand of BLP violations into articles relating to Square Enix producers/directors to promote the reputations of people that he likes while libeling people he doesn't.
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Editing behaviour[edit]
His editing shows the following common traits:
- frequent edits to Square Enix game designer credits in works lists and infoboxes
- laudatory edits to Hiroyuki Ito, Yasumi Matsuno, Yoshiaki Koizumi and related articles
- adding fake credits and information to promote their reputation
- mentioning these designers and their works in other articles
- edits promoting games by Ito and Matsuno
- Final Fantasy XII
- adding awards
- mentioning influence on Xenoblade
- Guardian Cross
- Final Fantasy XII
- libelous edits to Yoshinori Kitase, Motomu Toriyama and related articles
- removing legit credits and information
- removing Final Fantasy X director role for Kitase and related sources
- adding fake credits and information of "unpopular" works to slander these designers' reputation
- attributing game design of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XIII to Kitase; calling both "linear Interactive Movie RPGs"
- attributing scriptwriting of MindJack and Final Fantasy XIII to Toriyama
- removing legit credits and information
- re-adding former edits by G-Zay sockpuppets that have since been reverted
- edits on subscriptions and sales of online games Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and Guardian Cross
- long edit summaries
- edit summaries that mention a small wording change while ignoring the rest of a massive edit to the rest of the page
- denying connection to G-Zay, sometimes misspelled as Gzay
Sockpuppets[edit]
Because of his location in the London commuter belt, G-Zay has many ISPs at his disposal. G-Zay's usual modus operandus is to edit via several different internet cafe IP addresses in London over the course of a few days, vehemently disproving that he is G-Zay while making extraordinarily similar edits to his previous work. Occasionally he admits to being G-Zay, generally while stating that he is now finished and other editors should stop persecuting future IP addresses that look like him. He oftentimes posts on the Gamefaqs forums at the same time as he is editing under one of the several accounts he maintains there, talking about the subject he is trying to edit, which is helpful in proving that the edits come from him beyond the similarity to his previous edits.
In case of new sockpuppet investigations, CheckUser may not always give accurate results as G-Zay openly admitted to using some 20 sockpuppets on Wikipedia in connection with open proxies.
Countermeasures[edit]
This compilation of factual evidence is for the purpose of preparing an edit filter request or a long-term abuse report if the disruption continues to have this user's edits permanently prevented. See also User talk:G-Zay/Source problems, where there was an extensive cleanup on the articles. The current status is that any edit that looks even similar to his work is reverted on sight by at least 4 different editors.
Used IP ranges[edit]
- 78.(146,149,151).xxx.xx
- 85.237.xxx.xx
- 89.240.xxx.xx
- 92.(9,24,29).xxx.xx
- 122.152.xxx.xx
- 193.109.xxx.xx
- 2.103.xxx.xxx
Previous IP addresses and sockpuppets[edit]
- (27-28 September 2014), (13 October 2014)
- 92.9.210.247 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- (27 May 2014 - 23 September 2014)
- ErikBJohnson89 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- RezDude83 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- JakeEHere (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- SargeQ3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- StarHawkFan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- SubzeroMK2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- KyleRoberts99 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- RezGamer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- EkriirkE90 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- RadRacerFan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- RadRacerNES (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- (26-29 June 2014)
- Disaster999 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- SPI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/G-Zay - blocked as a result
- (17 February 2014)
- 2.103.209.116 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- ISP: TalkTalk
- Location: London, England
- (10-16 February 2014)
- Grotesque Desires (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- SPI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/G-Zay - blocked as a result
- (5-7 January 2014)
- 78.146.193.135 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- 78.149.241.20 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- (26 December 2013 - 3 January 2014)
- Skyjet89 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- Not-Here-2-Stay (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- (7-17 December 2013)
- 89.240.46.128 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- KyleP090 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- 122.152.167.12 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- 78.149.254.64 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- TylerJamesHere (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- BLP violations: Specifically on:
- (14-15 November 2013)
- 193.109.199.49 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log), 122.152.167.18 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- BLP violations: Specifically on:
- (1-2 September 2013)
- 89.240.37.130 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- 78.149.171.34 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- 78.151.159.191 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- BLP violations: Specifically on:
- Yoshinori Kitase: [14], [15], [16], [17]
- BLP violations: Specifically on:
- (28 August 2013)
- 92.23.59.0 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- ISP: TalkTalk
- Location: London, England
- BLP violations: Specifically on:
- (24-26 August 2013)
- 85.237.197.166 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- 78.146.30.16 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- 193.109.199.9 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- 193.109.199.72 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- 193.109.199.85 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- BLP violations: Specifically on:
- (19-22 July 2013)
- 92.29.49.31 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log), 78.146.28.192 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- BLP violations: Specifically on:
- (1-7 July 2013)
- ArchadianJudge (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- BLP violations: Specifically on:
- Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings: [30], [31]
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: [32], [33], [34], [35]
- Vagrant Story: [36]
- Hiroshi Minagawa: [37]
- Yasumi Matsuno: [38], [39], [40]
- Hiroyuki Ito: [41], [42], [43]
- Final Fantasy (video game): [44], [45]
- Yoshinori Kitase: [46], [47]
- Motomu Toriyama: [48], [49]
- Final Fantasy XII: [50], [51], [52], [53]
- BLP violations: Specifically on:
- (28 June 2013)
- 78.149.251.95 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- BLP violations: Specifically on:
- (22 April 2013)
- 92.24.53.160 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- ISP: TalkTalk
- Location: London, England
- Block evasion: edited under IP while continuing to deny that he is G-Zay
- Blocks: (22 April 2013) Blocked for 6 months for block evasion [55]
- (26 June 2012 - 20 April 2013)
- Azure223 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
- Block evasion: disrupts the CCI discussion and refuses to acknowledge that he is G-Zay, despite the contrary.
- Restores misinformation on Hiroyuki Ito: [56], [57], [58], [59]
- (20 April 2013)
- 89.240.44.205 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)