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This is a selected list of banned Wikipedia users. Banned users are no longer welcome to edit the encyclopedia, until such time as the ban is lifted. Banned users who feel that their bans are unjust may appeal their case to the Arbitration Committee or directly to Jimbo Wales.

Banning is different from blocking; a block is a technical measure to disable editing by a specific account or IP address, and is a restriction which may be temporary or indefinite. Banning is a social construct, and blocks may be used to enforce them. There are also different kinds of bans: Some are temporary or focused on a specific article or topic. However, in the context of this page, "banned user" means someone who has been banned from the entire site.

Accounts which are reincarnations (sockpuppets) of banned users may be blocked as soon as it's obvious who they are; bans apply to the person and not the account. For more information, see the blocking and the banning policy.

Contents: Top - Banned by Jimbo Wales - Banned by the Arbitration Committee - Banned by the Wikipedia community

Banned by Jimbo Wales

By convention, Jimbo Wales has had the authority to ban users himself, which has usually only occurred in exceptional situations, and commenting on, criticism of and disagreeing with a ban is permitted.

Jimbo Wales has banned the following users indefinitely. They may appeal their ban by emailing him or the Arbitration Committee.

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Banned by the Arbitration Committee

The Arbitration Committee may ban users or approve of previous community bans. This list does not include bans that have expired, short-term bans, and bans from specific articles or categories.

Bans of indefinite duration

Bans of fixed duration

Banned by the Wikipedia community

Community bans may arise from consensus at the administrators' noticeboards (WP:AN, WP:ANI), the former community sanctions noticeboard (WP:CN), or elsewhere. As per the blocking and banning policies, users who alienate and offend the community enough may eventually be blocked long-term (most often indefinitely) by an administrator--with no administrator willing to unblock them. In such extreme cases, the user is considered to have been banned by the general community. The community can also extend bans imposed by ArbCom (see above). This corresponds to this section of the Wikipedia:Blocking policy.

Contents Top · 0–9 · A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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172GAL (talk • contribs • block log), November 18, 2006
"persistent and still continuing personal attacks"
1B6 (talk • contribs • block log), March 22, 2007
Banned after vandalism, incivility, ownership, borderline threats, and administrator impersonation; user responded to ban with further threats.
98E (talk • contribs • block log), May 2, 2007
"trolling, copyright violations, impersonation"

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Abbarocks (talk • contribs • block log), March 13, 2009
Evading sanctions, disruptive editing, etc. See also [1].
Afrika paprika (talk • contribs • block log), October 11, 2006
Indefinitely blocked with community assent for repeated vulgar insults, non-stop edit-warring, POV-pushing nationalism, disruption, and sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) to continue the above after blocks.
Alberuni (talk • contribs • block log), July 26, 2006
See Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Alberuni/Proposed_decision and User:Jayjg/Alberuni.
Alienus (talk • contribs • block log), October 5, 2006
"After being banned for one year by the Arbitration Committee, this person has engaged in endless sockpuppetry, edit warring, personal attacks, etc. Community banned"
American Brit (talk • contribs • block log), January 11, 2007
From the block log: "Malicious use of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) to issue graphic death threats, later proven beyond any reasonable doubt by checkuser and other behavior. Consensus for community ban was given on WP:ANI."
Anacapa (talk • contribs • block log), June 5, 2007
Banned for disruptive editing on feminism-related articles and legal threats. Used anonymous IPs to make disruptive edits and then created sockpuppets to influence discussion of his ban (confirmed socks, suspected socks and anonymous IPs).
Angela Kennedy (talk • contribs • block log), October 19, 2007
Legal threats. [2]
Anomo (talk • contribs • block log), June 27, 2007
Jayjg ran a checkuser that although not recorded at Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser, records show he ran it on accounts that checkuser found days earlier to be Blu Aardvark sock puppets. Jayjg found links between recent Blu Aardvark sock puppets, old Blu Aardvark sock puppets, and an account User:Hardvice who had been permanently blocked a year earlier with no further edits and named User:Anomo, a mainly dormant account [3] with no prior blocks as the puppet master. As a ban applies to the person and not the account User:Zurishaddai blocked Anomo indefinitely. [4] [5].


Anonymous 374 (talk • contribs • block log), February 29, 2008
Repeated trolling and harassment on LGBT-related topics, especially directed at User:David Shankbone, which exhausted the community's patience. Has attempted to evade the ban via anonymous IPs and sockpuppet accounts. At times, a large number of users in the Newark, New Jersey area have been unable to edit Wikipedia due to collateral damage from this user's blocks.
The Anonymous One (talk • contribs • block log), June 9, 2007
After numerous warnings for highly tendentious editing of religion-related articles, exhausted community patience with a spree of trolling and harassment on Muslim users' talk pages.
Ararat arev (talk • contribs • block log), March 28, 2007
Banned for edit warring and use of sockpuppets to continue warring while blocked, after multiple warnings, blocks, and an indefinite block on January 31, 2007.
Archtransit (talk • contribs • block log), February 19, 2008
Eighth current or former administrator to be banned from the project. Concerns about his use of admin tools had been raised at an RFC. A separate investigation revealed evidence (confirmed by CheckUser) that he was the puppetmaster of numerous abusive sockpuppets, many of which he had blocked or unblocked himself. As a result, he was emergency desysopped by ArbCom. Subsequently banned by the community for gross abuse of trust and being unapologetic about his behavior. Numerous other socks have been found, resulting in the creation of an SSP page to keep track of them. Has been determined, by way of technical and behavioral evidence, to himself be a sock of previously community-banned Dereks1x, despite the user page says that the user is still suspected.
Arkhamite (talk • contribs • block log), April 11, 2007
Banned for vandalism, disruption, threats, and personal attacks.
Art Dominique (talk • contribs • block log), September 26, 2006
Blocked for repeated sockpuppetry, as per AN. See Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Art_Dominique User:Art_Dominique/sockpuppetry
ASIA FAN CLUB (talk • contribs • block log) et al, April 17, 2008
Banned for persistent linkspamming, meatpuppetry, legal threats and promises to continue the same.
Asucena (talk • contribs • block log), April 16, 2007
After three distinct blocks for policy violations, exhausted the community's patience when she asserted that an edit to Hamas was inconsistent with "official policy of the Palestinian government."
AWilliamson (talk • contribs • block log), December 16, 2006
One of the many IDs (confirmed, suspected) of Allen Williamson, who was banned after being exposed as the Joan of Arc vandal.
Jonah Ayers (talk • contribs • block log), January 20, 2006
Banned for sockpuppetry (suspected, checkuser), harassment, personal attacks, POV violations, etc.
Azizbekov (talk • contribs • block log), August 13, 2007
"Arbitrator User:Mackensen says this is an obvious sockpuppet of a year-banned user by arbitration."

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BabyDweezil (talk • contribs • block log), March 6, 2007
Indefinitely blocked on March 5, after many distinct blocks for disruption, violations of WP:NOT, personal attacks, BLP violations, and assumptions of bad faith. This was endorsed as a ban over the following day. Appeal to Arbcom was rejected.
Beh-nam (talk • contribs • block log), December 03, 2007
After a history of disruption and numerous warnings, banned for repeated edit warring and proxying for a banned user after multiple warnings. [6]
Benapgar (talk • contribs • block log), March 25, 2006
Indefinitely blocked, after many distinct blocks for personal attacks and disruption. The Arbitration Committee confirmed that he has been banned by the Wikipedia community.
BenH (talk • contribs • block log), March 28, 2007
Refused to answer an RfC regarding poor-quality edits to television station articles, many of which included outright fabrication. Instead, he appeared to continue this vandalism using a number of sockpuppets. He was indefinitely blocked in July 2006, and this block was converted to a community ban when he refused to acknowledge his RfC.
Biochemical Mind (talk • contribs • block log), April 1, 2007
Banned for disruption/trolling, legal threats, and high conflict of interest. Via OTRS email, user sought ten billion dollars in damages from the Wikimedia Foundation for lost business opportunities following the refusal to offer him exclusive control over his now-deleted article Erinacine (currently a protected redirect). On his talkpage, user also claimed to have reported this "vandalism" to the FBI, and that the "hooligans" who had put warning notices on his talkpage would be excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
Piotr Blass (talk • contribs • block log), January 17, 2007
Following an AFD deletion of Piotr Blass (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs), his autobiography, continued to recreate it nearly a dozen times, after which it was salted on three different pages. When the page was deleted and unprotected, he proceeded to edit as Pblass2002 (talk • contribs • block log) and recreated his article, which was sent to AfD a second time, resulting in a speedy delete, a final protection against recreation, and a community ban on Blass. The article was later re-created (although he was not allowed to edit it), but was once again deleted and salted.
Bloomfield (talk • contribs • block log), March 15, 2009
Egregious sockpuppetry. See also [7].
Blu Aardvark (talk • contribs • block log), April 2, 2006
Originally given a short block for personal attacks, which quickly spiraled into an indefinite block when he began using abusive sockpuppets, making further personal attacks both on- and off-wiki, and vandalizing multiple Wikimedia projects. An ArbCom case banned him for a year. Given a community ban for mass sockpuppetry.
Bobabobabo (talk • contribs • block log), November 2, 2006
Center of massive sockpuppetry involving fair use images and the retention of lengthy Pokémon anime episode lists. After several other accounts were used to edit war over a template and image deletion tags, CheckUser discovered (1, 2) over 75 sock accounts, all of which were blocked for disruption. She later claimed that students had been bullying her and were behind the socks, and proceeded to spam administrators requesting unblocks on her originating account, her IP, and various sockpuppets.
Bobby Boulders (talk • contribs • block log), November 30, 2007
Repeated sockpuppetry and using MySpace to tell people to vandalize Wikipedia. Banned per ANI discussion. [8]
Bonaparte (talk • contribs • block log), January 11, 2006
After many individual blocks for incivility, finally banned for "malicious sockpuppetry and running a botnet".
BradSerious (talk • contribs • block log), November 22, 2007
Operating a large sock farm, lots of vandalism too. See [9] and Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets/AndreLapalme.
Brian Reddyb (talk • contribs • block log), July 2, 2007
Extensive WP:HOAX violations using multiple sockpuppets from February 2007 onward. Discussion at Talk:Rednex.
BryanFromPalatine (talk • contribs • block log), January 14, 2007
Banned for tendentious editing and edit warring, personal attacks, block evasion and persistent disruption through sockpuppets and proxy editors (confirmed, suspected) such as DeanHinnen (talk • contribs • block log). Ban endorsed by ArbCom March 29, 2007.

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CantStandYa (talk • contribs • block log), January 4, 2007
Banned for long term sock abuse, incivility, edit warring, and 3RR violations. CheckUser results have confirmed dozens of sockpuppets. Also at Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of CantStandYa.
CarolSpears (talk • contribs • block log), 22 July 2008
Indefblock extended to ban following a long and increasingly problematic history of copyright violations, tendentious editing, failure to engage productively with other editors, and willfully ignoring WP policy. Used confirmed sockpuppets to evade initial indefblock.
Cindery (talk • contribs • block log), February 3, 2007
Banned based on an accusation with circumstantial evidence of on- and off-wiki stalking of an administrator, including telephoning death threats, following a long history of disruption and incivility. Used sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected, checkuser) to evade ban.
ClaimJumperPete (talk • contribs • block log), June 6, 2008
Originally indefinitely blocked for adding unhelpful hidden anti-vandalism comments to the first lines of articles. Since then, it appears to have become a hobby of him, as he creates sockpuppets, and after being indefinitely blocked, posts a "lineup" to the account's talk page, which consists of all the accounts used so far, and the number of edits they made. Likes to write in some kind of dumb Wild West accent. See also this general threat.
CltFn (talk • contribs • block log), January 17, 2008
Indefinitely blocked by Jersey Devil for repeated disruption and tendentious editing. This block was then discussed on WP:AN/I, and he was briefly unblocked again by Archtransit, who himself was later desysopped and banned for sockpuppetry and inappropriate use of administrative tools. At WP:AN/I, a consensus was reached that CltFn had exhausted the community's patience, and he was banned on January 19. No one has since challenged this ban.
Cognition (talk • contribs • block log), May 16, 2006
User was blocked indef after a long history of disruption, in which many administrators endorsed. From the block log: "disruption, harassment, personal attacks, multiple violation of arbcom rulings, no or very few useful contributions". In September 2009, it was found through Checkuser evidence that Cognition has been evading his block for some time under several accounts, and may possibly have been a "bad hand" account of longtime editor and former admin 172 (talk • contribs • block log).
Colignatus (talk • contribs • block log), March 11, 2006
Banned from Wikipedia following a content dispute during which he threatened to complain to two other users' professors and deans and expose them to possible punishment from their schools for edits which he felt were invalid. He proceeded with these threats, and demanded money from the two users for the time he had spent writing a long document about the issues. See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Colignatus for more.
ColourWolf (talk • contribs • block log), November 28, 2007
Banned for incivility, vandalism, and abusive sock puppetry (confirmed, suspected). As of June 2009, ColourWolf has not only continued to sock, but has also resorted to making off-wiki threats and revealing personal information of users who try to stop him (mainly User:Arbiteroftruth). See WP:LTA/ColourWolf.
ColScott (talk • contribs • block log), June 19, 2007
After a long history of disruptive behavior, banned after his posting of another user's personal information resulted in that user's family being harassed off-wiki by a third party. Has since returned on numerous occasions with many sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected)
Connell66 (talk • contribs • block log), July 29, 2007
User complained about being trolled by The Master of Suspicion (talk • contribs • block log), only to be ensnared in The Master of Suspicion's autoblock. Checkuser then confirmed that The Master of Suspicion was one of several "bad hand" accounts he'd operated for some time; all were blocked. Has since continued to make socks to evade his block, with "good hand" accounts like AR Argon (talk • contribs • block log), Maser Fletcher (talk • contribs • block log) and The Wikipedist (talk • contribs • block log), and "bad hand" or trolling accounts such as Karnoff (talk • contribs • block log), To the lake (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) or Taciturnum (talk • contribs • block log) (confirmed via Checkuser, suspected).
Tobias Conradi (talk • contribs • block log), July 28, 2007
Banned for continued incivility and personal attacks. Multiple second chances were given, but eventually the patience of the community regarding his tendentious editing was exhausted and, following a discussion at the community sanction noticeboard, a site ban was enacted. Additionally, he engaged in IP hopping block evasion in order to continue the attacks and incivility once blocked.
Cplot (talk • contribs • block log), November 30, 2006
Following two blocks in a week for revert warring over his attempt to insert a conspiracy theory on the September 11, 2001 attacks, flooded the site with hundreds of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected, checkuser) and made noxious and ridiculous claims about "Federal clowns" on various community pages. Following this he was quickly banned by general agreement as a disruptive troll with no intent to contribute positively.
Brian G. Crawford (talk • contribs • block log), July 25, 2006
Banned for death threats following an escalating pattern of gross incivility, threats, and harassment. Consensus reached that user was too unstable for Wikipedia. Briefly unblocked on November 16, but reblocked hours later (with Jimbo's support) after it was disclosed that he had sent threatening emails to other users.
Cretanpride (talk • contribs • block log), September 24, 2006
Banned for using a massive number of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) and attempting to blackmail a user by threatening to murder a girl.
Cute 1 4 u (talk • contribs • block log), August 20, 2006
Focused more on her own user page and tried to promote a MySpace-like atmosphere with her user space. Originally blocked because of her membership in a "vandalism club" created by another user, but banned by community consensus after the discovery of a large number of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected).

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Daniel Brandt (talk • contribs • block log), November 8, 2005 (rebanned April 5, 2006, April 21, 2007 and July 28, 2007)
Indefinitely blocked from Wikipedia for repeated legal threats and harassment of Wikipedia editors despite many warnings. The Arbitration Commitee rejected an appeal as of April 10, 2007. Community ban was reaffirmed on April 14, 2007. (Jimbo Wales lifted the block/ban on April 18, and reinstated it on April 21, both at Brandt's own request; see WP:CN/Unblocking of Daniel Brandt.) On May 6, 2007, Brandt removed a section of his Web site that revealed Wikipedians' real-life identities, and was then unblocked by Jimbo himself. [10] However, on July 18, he was reblocked after an administrator learned the outing section of his site was back online. This was endorsed as a ban by community discussion, with Jimbo's support.
DavidYork71 (talk • contribs • block log), April 23, 2007
Banned for exhausting community patience with tendentious editing, fringe views about Islam, terrorism and the Nazi Party, trolling and sockpuppetry. Has been subject of 20 Checkuser requests. Almost 300 confirmed sockpuppets and almost 100 more suspected socks, resulting in the creation of an LTA page to help track more down.
David Lauder (talk • contribs • block log) 21 February 2008
Banned for exhausting community patience with disruptive editing on issues related to the Western Goals Institute and the Conservative Monday Club, abusive use of multiple sockpuppets, and legal threats.
Defender 911 (talk • contribs • block log), August 11, 2007
Following the departure of another user, made attempts to pass a message to that user by contacting 15 different editors on their talk pages, thus disrespecting right to vanish. Indefblocked after repeated requests to stop attempts to make contact although he made no subsequent edits which might indicate he had seen them. Apologized and requested his block be lifted 4 months later, but no admin was willing to unblock at the resulting WP:AN discussion. Appeal to ArbCom was rejected.
Dereks1x (talk • contribs • block log), April 3, 2007
Used a sockpuppet with false medical credentials, Doc United States (talk • contribs • block log), to gain an advantage in a content dispute regarding the John Edwards article. Given the community's sensitivity to false credentials (see Essjay controversy), he was banned; tried and failed to influence discussion as Atlas87 (talk • contribs • block log). Later returned as Archtransit (talk • contribs • block log), who ultimately gained adminship before being himself banned for gross abuse of admin powers and community trust.
Dingbat2007 (talk • contribs • block log), November 10, 2007
Persistent vandal who would intentionally introduce nonsensical and unverifiable information into articles, and challenged users who would issue warnings to stop. Once blocked, became a prolific sockpuppeteer. As several administrators have blocked his socks and deleted and/or reverted their edits on sight, he is considered community-banned, retroactive to the date of his indefinite block. User continues to create new sock accounts, mostly named Word... or Rebafan..., and frequently edits anonymously.


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Ecoleetage (talk • contribs • block log), January 17, 2009
A long-time valued editor, was banned and agreed to leave Wikipedia after making contact with a user's employer following an unsuccessful RfA. The matter should not be discussed further on-wiki; please do not unblock without consulting ArbCom. User created an new account soon after the ban called Pastor Theo (talk · contribs) which eventually became an admin. The connection was eventually discovered when it was found there was another sockpuppet, Mrs. Wolpoff (talk · contribs) which had been used to double-vote and skew consensus.
EddieSegoura (talk • contribs • block log), May 26, 2006
Editing career was spent almost entirely on using Wikipedia to promote the existence of a neologism. He engaged in massive disruption of the original AfD with votes from sockpuppets he created (confirmed, suspected), as well as attempts to change votes. His numerous attempts to recreate the article finally exhausted the community's patience (version 1, version 2). His disruption has been so severe that the unusual step was taken of salting his userpage (it has since been restored). Has also been suspected of causing similar disruption on Wikitionary.
EffK (talk • contribs • block log), October 4, 2007
Previously known as Famekeeper (talk • contribs • block log). Used Wikipedia to promote conspiracy theories on the Roman Catholic Church article and related articles, resulting in him being banned for a year by ArbCom. Returned and almost immediately began trolling about the topics that got him banned. Repeated warnings were met with legal threats, exhausting the community's patience.
Egyegy (talk • contribs • block log), June 6, 2008
For egregious sockpuppetry, personal attacks and harassment [11].
Ekajati (talk • contribs • block log), January 31, 2007
disruption, sock puppetry
El Machete Guerrero (talk • contribs • block log), March 27, 2009
Banned for personal attacks, edit warring, harassment, incivility, soapboxing, wikilawyering, and deceptive sockpuppetry (confirmed. suspected) used to avoid scrutiny. User persistently denied any evidence of his misbehavior. See history of User talk:Xcahv8 for large-scale user invlovement.
EliasAlucard (talk • contribs • block log), February 29, 2008
Indeffed for anti-Semitic remarks [12][13] by User:Will Beback; block generally supported by the community.
Arthur Ellis (talk • contribs • block log), February 3, 2007
Originally banned for one month, he built up an impressive log of blocks and bans for block evasion (confirmed, suspected) and editing banned articles in violation of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Warren Kinsella. Checkuser case here. Community ban discussed here.
Encyclopedist (talk • contribs • block log), July 31, 2006
Once one of Wikipedia's prized editors; stopped editing regularly after March 13, 2006; later indefinitely blocked twice after heavy vandalism against John Reid with his sockpuppet or possibly meatpuppet the "CIyde vandal." He was later unblocked as a sign of good will, and he proceeded to nominate himself for adminship, which was withdrawn. After a month, he nominated himself for adminship once more, which led users to suspect he was trolling them. However, the RfA failed horribly. Enraged, he claimed that "Wikipedia is Fascism" in his final edits on July 31, 2006 and left furious comments on his fourth unsuccessful request for adminship. Used sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected). Blocked indefinitely for exhausting the community' patience with trolling.
Ernham (talk • contribs • block log), April 10, 2007
Banned for disruptive and tendentious edit-warring, and POV pushing, having been blocked several times previously.

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Fatal!ty (talk • contribs • block log), November 25, 2008
per this discussion. Disruptive editor blocked originally in early 2008 for heavy sockpuppetry; unblocked after expressing remorse but quickly reblocked again when he went on a spree of reckless deletion noms and reverts.
Fclass (talk • contribs • block log), June 24, 2008
Gaming the system, persistent disruption and personal attacks. Banned for exhausting community patience.
Fila3466757 (talk • contribs • block log), February 10, 2008
Abusing multiple accounts.
Footage (talk • contribs • block log), May 2, 2009
Blocked for two weeks after it was discovered he'd been cutting and pasting material wholesale from sources. However, the block was extended indefinitely when further investigation revealed that many of the images he'd uploaded were actually copyrighted when he claimed them as his own work. After it emerged that he'd lifted the content of entire articles from a single book, this was endorsed as a ban.
Fraberj (talk • contribs • block log), October 6, 2009
Per this discussion, banned for exhausting community patience from disruptive editing, sockpuppetry, legal threats, etc.
Fragments of Jade (talk • contribs • block log), February 11, 2009
Banned indefinitely for continued harassment by means of block-evading sockpuppetry (confirmed, SPI). Such activity has dated back to an indefinite block given to the user six months prior to the ban.
Freestylefrappe (talk • contribs • block log), October 4, 2006
Third former administrator to be banned from the project; desysopped by ArbCom for various abuses; returned as KI (talk • contribs • block log) without revealing his previous identity to try to regain adminship; main account blocked after he switched to Ya ya ya ya ya ya (talk • contribs • block log); exhausted the community's patience with massive sockpuppetry, trolling, and harassment.
France a (talk • contribs • block log), May 2007
simple vandalism which, post-block, became massive sockpuppetry and talkpage disruption. See here for a list of socks - it includes MrClaxson (talk · contribs · logs · block log), who is almost certainly linked with the banned user Claxson.


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GENIUS(4th power) (talk • contribs • block log), February 20, 2009
Despite having made several good contributions, this user was indefinitely blocked on June 16, 2008 for distruptive editing. It was determined later, via three checkusers, that GENIUS had created many sockpuppets, including "good hand" accounts like Master of Pies (talk • contribs • block log) and "bad hand" accounts like the Blake The Third (talk • contribs • block log) sockpuppets. He eventually confessed to the socking with an IP. Another checkuser was run in February 2009 which uncovered more sockpuppets, including another "good hand" account and an imposter account. Banned for disruption, harrassment, sockpuppetry and vandalism per consensus on IRC.
Gerald Gonzalez (talk • contribs • block log), (First was February 12, 2008, later February 15 and March 14, 2008 indefinitely)
Exhausted community patience by deliberately inserting POV information and BLP violations in Philippine-related articles like Angel Locsin. He created sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) on said articles and occasionally added vandalism as well as attacked other users. See his long term abuse about his information and see ANI thread 1 and ANI thread 2.
Gibraltarian (talk • contribs • block log), December 17, 2005
Engaged in POV-pushing, harassment, and vandalism while editing pages on Gibraltar. While being decided against in arbitration, user's main account was blocked for 48 hours on December 12 for disruption. He then used sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) to evade block, leading to an indefinite block on December 17, which ArbCom did not lift. At times, almost all Internet users in Gibraltar have been unable to edit Wikipedia due to collateral damage from blocks of this user. Please see this WP:LTA entry.
Giovanni33 (talk • contribs • block log) July 04 2008
exhausted community patience. See ANI thread and Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Giovanni33.
Giovanni Giove (talk • contribs • block log), November 30, 2007
exhausted community patience. See talk page and ANI thread.
Gold heart (talk • contribs • block log), September 16, 2007
After announcing his retirement on August 11, proceeded to reactivate a dormant second account, Thepiper (talk • contribs • block log), to troll in an ArbCom case. He subsequently created several other socks to influence the case and to harass another user on and off-wiki. Despite having made several good contributions, this behavior (especially the harassment) enraged the community, leading to a ban.
GrahamBould (talk • contribs • block log), March 13, 2009
Created a massive copyright problem which is now being tackled at WikiProject Gastropods. Had been warned in 2008 about lifting text from sources, but continued for over a year until the problem was detected. Banned after it was discovered that several of his other contributions were copyright violations as well.
Guitarherochristopher (talk • contribs • block log), October 23, 2009
Banned for repeated violations of WP:NFCC and WP:NOTMYSPACE and misuse of Wikipedia as a blog, despite many warnings not to do so. This user had also claimed to have assumed control of a legitimate user's account.

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Haham hanuka (talk • contribs • block log), January 22, 2007
Engaged in repeated revert warring, block-evading sockpuppetry, and disrupting AFD discussions and WikiProjects. Also engaged in "search engine fraud" by adding random Hebrew words on his user page, which could have caused serious problems for Wikipedia. See WP:RFC/Haham hanuka. A final violation of 3RR at Adolf Hitler led to an indefinite block endorsed as a ban of this individual. Also banned from the Hebrew Wikipedia for similar reasons.
HanzoHattori (talk • contribs • block log), February 05, 2008
Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive362#Ban_proposed, long term gross incivility, disruption, tendentious editing.
Harvardlaw (talk • contribs • block log), October 13, 2006
Banned for rampant self-promotion and removal of AFD tags, which he vowed to continue. Has created numerous sockpuppets (suspected, confirmed).
HeadleyDown (talk • contribs • block log), June 5, 2006
Gaming the system, malicious personal attacks and deliberate degradation of articles to extreme POV positions under the guise of playing the "good editor." After a number of distinct blocks for violating an ArbCom decision concerning him, the block was extended to indefinite for the use of several sockpuppets and meatpuppets. Has since created a large number of sockpuppets in a wide range of fields, resulting in an LTA page so more socks can be found.
Hogeye (talk • contribs • block log), October 1, 2006
Banned for exhaustive POV-pushing, using dozens of sockpuppets after being banned for various offenses, and unwillingness to work towards consensus in reaching positive changes to the encyclopedia. Offenses included malicious activity such as vandalism to research templates and personal attacks, including uploading offensive images with the intention to harass editors.
Hornetman16 (talk • contribs • block log) August 29, 2007
Engaged in highly disruptive behavior and POV-pushing despite attempts by numerous users to set him right. He requested adminship twice (1, 2) but failed. After having one obvious sockpuppet, Cenafan16 (talk • contribs • block log), he later denied that he was connected to another sock, ChristianYouth (talk • contribs • block log), despite the fact that Checkuser confirmed it was a sock. After being blocked once again, his threats to disrupt the project unless he was unblocked exhausted the community's patience. Has continued to sock (confirmed, suspected) since the ban. On June 6, 2008, Hornetman16's account was renamed to User:ChristianMan16 to facilitate SUL registration for other projects. He was further renamed on July 27, 2009 to User:Christianrocker90. The ban follows from Hornetman16 -> Christianrocker90 accordingly.

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Iamandrewrice (talk • contribs • block log), December 7, 2007
Banned for disruption, sockpuppetry and claiming that innocent users are his socks.
Ideogram (talk • contribs • block log), August 15, 2007, reset for one year from July 28, 2008
Frequently engaged in incivility, edit warring and POV pushing. Also made it a habit to bait former problem users into relapsing, and then seeking to have them banned. Banned for exhausting community patience. Unlike most community bans, this is set to last at least one year. It was extended to one year from July 28, 2008 for socking. See User:Slashem.
-Inanna- (talk • contribs • block log), April 5, 2006
After many blocks for edit warring, incivility, and racist personal attacks, user was banned. Used sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected).
Israelbeach (talk • contribs • block log), April 30, 2006
Alias of search engine optimizer Joel Leyden. After a long history of linkspamming by his main account and by way of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected), banned for legal threats and harassment of another user, including revealing the user's real-life identity. Since his ban, has continued to use sockpuppets to linkspam and show false consensus, resulting in the creation of an LTA page (now deleted) to track them down.
ItsLassieTime (talk • contribs • block log), April 8, 2009
Banned for 18 months for widespread and disruptive sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected, including self-admitted). User's claims to be using multiple accounts legitimately found to be false due to creation of multiple different personae on different sockpuppet accounts, including sockpuppets awarding each other Barnstars for work on GA projects.

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JamesBurns (talk • contribs • block log), April 20, 2009
De facto community ban. Used many sock puppets to influence AfDs and talk page discussions for five and a half years, edit warred using sock puppets, edit warred to include BLP violations (eventually leading to the article's subject having to make an OTRS complaint), impersonated other users, impersonated non-Wikipedians with their real names, created hoax article of a living person. It is likely that this user previously edited under the name Leanne (talk · contribs) before JamesBurns was created. See also Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Leanne/Archive and Uncle G's evidence in particular.
JarlaxleArtemis (talk • contribs • block log), September 17, 2005, lifted November 17, 2005, then reimposed on September 17, 2006
Subject of two ArbCom cases (1st case, 2nd case) for trolling, disruption, and massive copyright violations. During the second ArbCom case, it was discovered that he had created almost 50 accounts to impersonate and harass other users. As a result, he was banned from all Wikimedia projects by order of board member Anthere. The ban was lifted two months later, but he was community-banned from Wikipedia a year later for continued misbehavior, including further sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected). He then continued as a serial vandal. Later created the vandal persona "Grawp", engaging in page-move vandalism and harassment of various users on the English Wikipedia and many other wikis.

See also WP:LTA/JarlaxleArtemis.
Jbamb (talk • contribs • block log), March 10, 2007
Alias of blogger John Bambenek, who worked to keep his article (since salted) on Wikipedia, using sockpuppets to create the article repeatedly and to stack votes in discussions related to its deletion. Banned for filing a bad-faith arbitration request as Echo16 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) and then using another sock, DailyIllini (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log), to appear to support it.
JB196 (talk • contribs • block log), December 20, 2006
Alias of an internet professional wrestling fan, who was blocked on September 8, 2006 during an edit war on Vic Grimes (see: WP:LAME entry) for violations of WP:OWN, trolling, and personal attacks. Converted to a community ban due to his behaviour and attitude to Wikipedia. Since the ban he has had over 200 confirmed sockpuppets discovered through CheckUser and duck tests, as well as several more suspected socks and at least one meatpuppet, Burntsauce (talk • contribs • block log) (see above). See Wikipedia:Long term abuse/JB196.
Jerry Jones (talk • contribs • block log), May 24, 2006
Known previously as JJstroker (talk • contribs • block log). Banned for plagarism, copyright violations and POV-pushing Edits focused on adding derogatory information about Jews, African Americans and the U.S. Democratic Party, removing negative information about individuals such as Charles Lindbergh and Charles Coughlin, and similar POV-pushing. Engaged in sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected). Unblocked on July 15, 2006 after he expressed a desire to return, but was reblocked after it was discovered he'd been evading his block as TheSettingSun (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) and RisingJapaneseSun (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log).
John254 (talk • contribs • block log), January 28, 2009
Banned when it was discovered he had been using a sockpuppet to manipulate and disrupt Wikipedia. His ban is endorsed by the Arbitration Committee.
Johnjoecavanagh (talk • contribs • block log), March 8, 2008
After having an article, Redboy, deleted several times, canvassed for support of a petition in protest of the deletion, resulting in an indefinite block in August 2007. Subsequently returned as Orrelon (talk • contribs • block log), and harassed one of the administrators involved in the original deletion. After this account was blocked, continued campaign of harassment by way of several anonymous IPs, leading to a ban.
John celona (talk • contribs • block log), 4 July 2008
Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive153#User:John_celona_socking
Jon Awbrey (talk • contribs • block log), 7 September 2006
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive134#User:Jon Awbrey project spam
Just H (talk • contribs • block log), April 12, 2007
On at least four occasions, engaged in disruptive multiple-voting on RfAs via prolonged sockpuppetry. Blocked indefinitely after evidence surfaced that his multiple voting may have affected the outcome of at least one RfA. While this user had many good contributions, his egregious gaming of the system and sockpuppetry infuriated the community and he was banned for being unapologetic about his behavior; he declared upon being indefblocked, "Don't worry, i've been here before, I can be here again. :)"
Jvolkblum (talk • contribs • block log), May 31, 2008
Engaged in disruptive conduct on articles, persistently working around indefinite blocks by using proxies to create (at last count) 67 confirmed sock puppets and at least six other suspected. Banned after eighth checkuser and suspected sock puppets cases were filed.

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Karmafist (talk • contribs • block log), August 30, 2006
Second current or former administrator to be banned. Desysopped after this arbitration case, banned for engaging in subtle vandalism under numerous sock puppets (confirmed, suspected). See the links added in this post. Indefinitely blocked on August 10, but unblocked August 16 as a test of good faith. Two weeks later, the block was reinstated as he showed no signs of improvement.
Karmaisking (talk • contribs • block log), February 14, 2008
Editor blocked indefinitely for incivility and disruption. Since then, has engaged in aggressive and disruptive POV-pushing on economics articles using numerous sock puppets (confirmed, suspected).
KingsOfHearts (talk • contribs • block log), December 19, 2008
Editor blocked indefinitely for sock puppetry, lying, and POV pushing. Editor has exhausted community patience. (Confirmed, Suspected).
Klaksonn (talk • contribs • block log), August 13, 2007
Blocked indefinitely for persistent incivility and disruptive editing. Since then has been using numerous sockpuppets (identified through CheckUser — confirmed, suspected) to continue similar disruption.

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Leyasu (talk • contribs • block log), July 9, 2006
Put on revert probation in two distinct Arbcom cases, one in March 2006, the other in June. Regular violation of this parole and use of numerous IP addresses and sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) to disrupt a range of heavy metal music-related articles exhausted the community's patience.
Lifnlsdlsdnf (talk • contribs • block log), May 16, 2009
Also known as the "Rockwick spammer". Banned for excessive site spamming and use of abuse sockpuppets after a discussion on ANI. Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lifnlsdlsdnf for more information.
Light current (talk • contribs • block log), February 2, 2007
After a long history of incivility on his main account and by way of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) and IP addresses, banned for a particularly severe personal attack against another user. The ban was reduced to a one-month block with an unspecified parole, but was reimposed only six days later after the discovery of a large number of sockpuppets (see Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Light current) that threatened to "wreak havoc" with Wikipedia if he wasn't allowed back.
Lir (talk • contribs • block log), March 6, 2008
Subject of two arbitration cases (first case, second case) for disruptive and provocative editing. Banned for on January 1, 2005 for one year after the second case, but this ban was reset across two calendar years due to frequent evasion. After he returned, he trolled repeatedly about the circumstances of his ban, and was finally blocked indefinitely. Unblocked by Doc glasgow the next day as a test of good faith, but exhausted the community's patience by showing no signs of improvement.
Lou franklin (talk • contribs • block log), May 30, 2006
Engaged in sustained edit warring over a single article against a perceived "gay cabal" over a period of several months before being banned from the article by ArbCom, in addition to being put on revert and personal attack parole. After using a sock puppet to evade his sanctions and hence blocked for two weeks, he claimed that the sockpuppet accusation amounted to libel, and was henceforth banned.
Lyle123 (talk • contribs • block log), August 12, 2007
Also known as StealBoy (talk • contribs • block log). Created numerous hoax articles about television shows and movies, resulting in an indefinite block only three days after the account was created. Continued to create hoaxes and add false information using over 60 sockpuppets, resulting in an LTA listing to keep track of them. Banned to support block-on-sight of all socks and revert/delete-on-sight of all edits.

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Mario1987 (talk • contribs • block log), March 7, 2008 (lifted April 9, 2008; reinstated October 31, 2009)
Checkuser confirmed that this user had set up a massive network of sockpuppets to stack votes on WP:FPC discussions. A subsequent investigation revealed that the majority of images he uploaded were likely copyright violations or otherwise violated WP:NFCC, and he was banned for compromising the integrity of the project. The ban was lifted as a test of good faith, but reinstated more than a year later after the discovery of more copyright violations as well as an attempt to stalk another user.
Malber (talk • contribs • block log), August 18, 2007
A longtime contributor initially blocked for using a sockpuppet to vandalize RfA requests with Harry Potter spoilers, his block was later extended after he was found to be using another sockpuppet to further disrupt RfA while blocked. Later indefinitely blocked, and de facto banned from the community, for attempting to disruptively revoke the GFDL on his contributions and for continuing sockpuppet vandalism.
Mantanmoreland (talk • contribs • block log), May 29, 2008
Used multiple sock accounts, Samiharris (talk • contribs • block log), Lastexit (talk • contribs • block log), and Tomstoner (talk • contribs • block log) to help use Wikipedia as a battleground for an off-wiki controversy. Directed by ArbCom to edit from only one account, but blocked for two weeks after Checkuser confirmed the existence of another sock, Bassettcat (talk • contribs • block log). This was extended to a community ban with overwhelming support[14]
Maoririder (talk • contribs • block log), March 19, 2006
Exhausted the community's patience[specify] with a litany of inappropriate edits and articles. Several experienced users stepped in to try and help but to no avail. Used a number of sockpuppets in an attempt to edit the site, but to his credit made no attempt to disguise the socks as new accounts.
Michael (talk • contribs • block log), April 1, 2003, lifted on September 3, 2004, reimposed on September 4, 2006
Banned by Jimbo Wales for adding fake info and threats. Continued to cause disruption by inserting inaccuracies, vandalism, and personal attacks. Because he edited using AOL proxies, he was difficult to block. In August 2004, Michael began making constructive edits, and repeatedly stated that he wished to reform himself. As an "unique experiment", he was allowed back as Mike Garcia (talk • contribs • block log) and placed under mentorship. He actually became a constructive editor, making almost 10,000 article edits. But from May 2005 onwards his behaviour became increasingly problematic, and his editing less and less frequent. On September 4, 2006, his account was blocked indefinitely after it became apparent that he was once again using sockpuppets to cause disruption.
MichaelIsGreat (talk • contribs • block log), June 20, 2006
Initially posted an "essay" (advertisement) at Bösendorfer and player piano. Following its removal he made personal attacks against those who removed the essay from the articles, and was advised on proper policy. Banned for incessantly posting baseless and indiscriminate accusations of censorship, conspiracy, and skulduggery.
Middim13 (talk • contribs • block log), October 17, 2008
After exhausting the community's patience through a long-term history of POV-pushing, disruptive editing, sockpuppetry on maritime history-related articles, received an indefinite block and de-facto community ban.
Miyokan (talk • contribs • block log), September 17, 2008
Long disruption, incivility, personal attacks, and outing. See [15]
Mistress Selina Kyle (talk • contribs • block log), April 5, 2006
After a long history of blocks for incivility, edit warring, and trolling, received a month-long block. When she used a sockpuppet, Bob, just Bob (talk • contribs • block log), to evade the block and make personal attacks, the block was extended to indefinite.
Mmbabies (talk • contribs • block log), March 30, 2007
Banned for insertion of nonsense into articles and disruptive sockpuppetry through anonymous IPs to continue doing so after being indefinitely blocked as a vandal-only account on February 12, 2007. Some of the suspected socks' edits were abusive and outright threatening, including threats to the life of Christina Aguilera (a, b, c), as well as posting of personal information about Houston-area school bus drivers (d). Has continued this behavior from anonymous IPs since the banning, including graphic threats to the lives of Nicole C. Mullen, Enrique Iglesias and Kellie Copeland-Kutz (see WP:LTA/MMB). As a result of this and his ISP's unresponsiveness to repeated emails, some Internet users in the Houston area now have to create an account to edit Wikipedia.
Molag Bal (talk • contribs • block log), May 13, 2007
It was determined that Molag Bal had created a complex sockpuppetry ring including "good hand" accounts like Retiono Virginian (talk · contribs)/Eaomatrix (talk · contribs) and "bad hand" accounts like the Mr oompapa (talk • contribs • block log) sockpuppets. The above checkuser was run following a false hijacking used to vandalize not unlike what had happened to five administrator accounts.
Mr. Treason, July 8, 2004
Anonymous user or users who made death threats against various Wikipedians and legal threats, claiming to have filed criminal complaints and lawsuits against Wikipedians. This person or these people are to be considered banned. See User:Mr. Treason/Request for comment and User:Mr. Treason/Request for arbitration for details on this user's activities. As of February 2008, Mr. Treason has apparently not edited Wikipedia in several years.
MyWikiBiz (talk • contribs • block log), October 5, 2006
Originally banned by Jimbo for "inappropriate use of Wikipedia name in commerce" and "implying that people can pay him [MyWikiBiz] to get listed in Wikipedia." After having one of his sockpuppets, JossBuckle Swami (talk • contribs • block log), blocked, it was decided to reinforce Jimbo's ban with a community ban on January 23, 2007; the community felt this was necessary because his activities were an egregious violation of the pillars of the project. Unblocked by Jimbo March 23, 2007; reblocked for legal intimidation as Zibiki Wym (talk • contribs • block log) March 29, 2007. Has continued to disrupt and vandalize the project over the long term through various sockpuppet accounts as of early 2008, including impersonation of other users. This ban was provisionally suspended by the Arbitration Comittee here.

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Naacats (talk • contribs • block log), September 29, 2007
Devoted most of his time to extreme POV-pushing regarding the effects of smoking. Also canvassed for meatpuppets to advance his views. A topic ban was proposed, but was extended to a full community ban after it was determined that he had a high conflict of interest.
Naadapriya (talk • contribs • block log), formalised as of 17 February 2009
Banned from Wikipedia for tendentious POV-pushing, and other types of disruptive and problematic editing, including harassment, personal attacks, incivility, assumptions of bad faith, edit-warring, attempts to use Wikipedia as a battleground and game the system, egregious sockpuppetry/meatpuppetry, trolling, etc. Previously tried remedies include blocks, topic ban, and de-facto community ban. See also Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Naadapriya.
Nasz (talk • contribs • block log), June 1, 2007
Banned for low-quality editing, POV-pushing, and violation of WP:FRINGE. Had previously been banned for the same problems on the Polish Wikipedia.
Nazrac (talk • contribs • block log), May 13, 2007
User's editing style came close on several occasions to violating policies on NPOV editing and trolling, but managed to avoid being blocked. However, his personal attacks on article talk pages finally exhausted the community's patience.
Nathanrdotcom (talk • contribs • block log), August 14, 2006
Banned for highly inappropriate off-wiki emails (discussion not linked to protect innocent third parties). Ban was lifted on January 19, 2007 by Tawker. However, other administrators reimposed the ban and filed a request for an in-camera arbitration, citing the circumstances of the original ban and concerns about his behavior since the ban. As a result of this proceeding, the original community ban was endorsed. Subsequently tried to return as Skult of Caro (talk • contribs • block log), and has also harassed other users via email.
Neutralizer (talk • contribs • block log), December 20, 2006
After a long history of sockpuppetry, notably Ottawaman (talk • contribs • block log) and Canuckster (talk • contribs • block log), tendentious partisan editing, trolling, and legal threats on WP:ANI, Neutralizer eventually exhausted community patience, leading to a ban.
NicAgent (talk • contribs • block log), August 12, 2006
Known to act in good faith while simultaneously perpetrating rampant vandalism through many, many sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected). His "bad hand" account "contributions" include spurious AfD nominations (Wi-Fi and China), trolling, impersonation of better-known vandals and miscellaneous disruption.
Nimbley6 (talk • contribs • block log), 31 May 2009
Community-banned per banning discussion on WP:AN.
Nixer (talk • contribs • block log), January 2, 2007
While this user had many good contributions, his persistent edit-warring, personal attacks, and sockpuppetry exhausted community patience and led to a ban.
Nkras (talk • contribs • block log), February 20, 2007
Banned for POV pushing and revert warring on Marriage and related articles, creation of numerous POV forks, removal of various WikiProjects' templates from articles and talk pages, sockpuppetry, threats of meatpuppetry, abusive language, and disregard for consensus. See discussions here, here, and here.
NorbertArthur (talk • contribs • block log), November 26, 2006
After many individual blocks, personal attacks, disruption, and sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected), user's last block was extended to indefinite and he was banned.
Nothing444 (talk • contribs • block log), 26 May 2008
"This user is de facto banned per the consensus on ANI that his editing over a long period of time was unacceptable and that he should be removed from the community indefinitely." See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive138#Nothing444 and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive141#User:Nothing444.
Notre Dame vandal
Variable IP/sockpuppet vandal to American football and University of Notre Dame related topics. Banned by the community after checkuser confirmed this user created an impersonation account during the Jmfangio-Chrisjnelson arbitration case.
Nrcprm2026 (talk • contribs • block log), September 28, 2007
Also known as LossIsNotMore (talk • contribs • block log). Engaged in disruptive editing at Depleted uranium and other articles, to the point that he was banned from the article by ArbCom on May 6, 2006. Over the next year, he flagrantly evaded the ban with several sockpuppets. The discovery of his latest sock, BenB4 (talk • contribs • block log), resulted in him being banned.
NYScholar (talk • contribs • block log), July 2, 2009
Banned for exhausting the community's patience with repeated uncollaborative editing and incivility.

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Obuibo Mbstpo (talk • contribs • block log), March 17, 2008
Exhausted the community's patience with sockpuppetry, wikilawyering, and the creation of malicious hoax articles.
On.Elpeleg (talk • contribs • block log), September 17, 2008
Banned due to unrepentent spamming, incivility and personal attacks.

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Panairjdde (talk • contribs • block log), June 10, 2007
Banned for POV pushing, incivility, and egregious sockpuppetry.
ParalelUni (talk • contribs • block log), August 11, 2006
While the subject of an arbitration case for edit-warring through sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected), banned for extremely offensive personal attacks and incivility, including reveling in the death of another user's sister. One of a very few cases whose community ban was formally endorsed by the Arbitration Committee.
ParthianShot (talk • contribs • block log), May 7, 2007
Previously known as Surena (talk • contribs • block log). Uploaded dozens of images to Wikipedia and Commons from a site that has been proven to host images deceptively labeled as free when they are actually copyrighted--thus putting the Wikimedia Foundation in grave legal danger. Responded to demands for an explanation with legal threats, leading to a ban.
Patchouli (talk • contribs • block log), February 20, 2007
Banned for repeatedly creating biased and incorrect articles about Iran and Muslims and making biased edits to articles about those topics. Has since used a number of sockpuppets.
Jacob Peters (talk • contribs • block log), January 7, 2007
Banned for persistent sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected, CheckUser) to avoid blocks for revert warring, personal attacks, incivility, disruptive behaviour on Communism-related articles, and exhausting the community's patience.
Peter Damian (talk • contribs • block log), August 3, 2009
Community banned per this discussion for violating ArbCom restrictions and socking.
Petri Krohn (talk • contribs • block log), May 29, 2009
After several months of unconstructive editing ending in alleged threats, user exhausted the community's patience. Unlike most community bans, this one was set to last for one year. User was previously banned for one year as a result of an arbitration case, from October 2007 to October 2008.
Piercetheorganist (talk • contribs • block log) April 12, 2008
User had several good contributions, but also had a tendency to veer into extreme POV-pushing which led to three distinct blocks and having his original userpage deleted. The discovery of several instances where he inserted racial slurs into articles exhausted the community's patience.
Pioneer-12 (talk • contribs • block log), May 15, 2005
Banned for insisting that his contributions to talk pages were not licensed under the GFDL, and thus fundamentally denying the terms of use of the site. Returns frequently via open proxies. Ban may be lifted if Pioneer-12 agrees to abide Wikipedia's terms of use and license his signed comments under the GFDL and Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike licenses. For more information, see User:Pioneer-12.
Pioneercourthouse (talk • contribs • block log), May 22, 2009
Has engaged in a nearly-constant edit-war at Pioneer Courthouse Square since 2006. After his main account was blocked in September 2006, continued to edit-war by way of sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) resulting in it being under nearly-constant protection since September 2008 (including a period of full protection). Also escalated to joe-jobbing other users to make them look like his socks. Banned to support block-on-sight/revert-on-sight of all socks.
PirateSmackK (talk • contribs • block log), 2 June 2009
Community-banned per discussion on WP:AN/I.
PoliticianTexas (talk • contribs • block log), October 11, 2008
Previously known as Diamond Joe Quimby (talk • contribs • block log). Blocked indefinitely in July 2008 for removing article maintenance tags, removing legitimate warnings from his talk page soon after they are placed, ignoring attempts to communicate, leaving uncivil comments on others' talk pages and massive sockpuppetry (first case, second case). Following the block, created more sockpuppets (third case, fourth case)to continue disruptive activity, including massive copyright violations. Banned to support block-on-sight of all socks and revert/delete-on-sight of their edits.
PoolGuy (talk • contribs • block log), June 25, 2006
Engaged in abusive sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected). After an arbitration ruling preventing him from holding more than one unblocked account, he was banned for continuing his antics and generally making no positive contributions.
Prin (talk • contribs • block log), May 17, 2006
Continuously uploaded copyvios to Wikipedia, and created many sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) to continue doing so.


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Raspor (talk • contribs • block log), January 18, 2007
Multiple blocks for trolling, disruption, abuse, edit warring, WP:POINT violations. Primary target Talk:Intelligent design and Intelligent design. Community ban discussion: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive179#Proposed_community_ban
Rbj (talk • contribs • block log), May 27, 2007
Consensus reached for a community ban on May 15, 2007 after a long history of incivility, harassment, personal attacks and highly tendentious editing. The community opted to give him one last chance to reform. However, he exhausted community patience by using anonymous IPs to harass another user. Appeal to ArbCom was rejected.
RevolverOcelotX (talk • contribs • block log), January 15, 2007
Disruption, sockpuppetry, community patient exhausted, unblock abuse. See thread on ANI.
Richard Relucio (talk • contribs • block log), February 14, 2009
Community ban after repeated sock and meat puppetry, and promise of more. See history of user's talk page for multiple admin involvement.
Rjecina (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log), March 24, 2009
Banned for a year for persistent failure to interact constructively with other editors [16] Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:03, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
RJII (talk • contribs • block log), June 25, 2006
Subject of two ArbCom cases for tendentious editing and incivility (first case, second case). While a third case was underway, posted a statement (reproduced on talk page) admitting to being a shared account, and was indefinitely blocked. This was endorsed as a ban the following day.
Roger the red (talk • contribs • block log), February 6, 2007
Banned for block evasion, incivility and ongoing threats, and violations of WP:POINT and WP:COI.
Roitr (talk • contribs • block log), March 25, 2007
Indefinitely blocked on March 11, 2006, for inserting false information about military ranks and the Olympic Games, numerous violations of the three-revert rule, and edit warring. For a year, evaded block with numerous sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected). Following a blizzard of vandalism by his socks on March 22, 2007, the block was converted to a community ban. Please also see WP:LTA/Roitr.
Ron liebman (talk • contribs • block log) September 14, 2007
Banned for adding outright fabrication to baseball-related articles, as well as making legal threats on his talk page.[17] Also created over 80 socks confirmed by Checkuser and duck tests, most of whose usernames matched those of members of the Society for American Baseball Research as well as well-known baseball players. See Wikipedia:Long term abuse#Baseball Vandal aka Ron liebman.
Rosinaharris (talk • contribs • block log), May 27, 2007
Evading ArbCom ban in editing article Gundagai, New South Wales and Talk:Gundagai, New South Wales, sock puppetry.
Rovoam (talk • contribs • block log), April 11, 2005
After an ArbCom case limited his editing, Rovoam employed anonymous IPs from various service providers to further his agenda and to vandalize user and talk pages. Has been extremely persistent in vandalizing numerous Azerbaijan- and Turkey-related entries, even Template:Europe (removing Azerbaijan from the list). He also threatened to escalate his efforts, including using "a DoS attack, which will make Wikipedia unavailable for all editors". More updated information provided at User:Rovoam.

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Safwwefe (talk • contribs • block log), June 7, 2009
Blocked indefinitely in May 2007 for generally disruptive editing, both on his main account and by way of several abusive sockpuppets. Returned a month later as Brave warrior (talk • contribs • block log), and immediately resumed the same pattern of disruption and socking, for which he was indefinitely blocked again in August 2007. Unblocked in January 2009 as a test of good faith, but almost immediately resumed his previous pattern of behavior. Two of his socks made highly graphic death threats against Barack Obama. Consensus reached that user was not mature enough for Wikipedia.
Samuel Luo (talk • contribs • block log), May 5, 2007
disruption, SPA, edit warring, and sockpuppetry
Sarenne (talk • contribs • block log), May 24, 2007
edit warring and sockpuppetry
Sarvabhaum (talk • contribs • block log), February 12, 2007
Banned after continuous edit warring and sockpuppetry to get around blocks for 3RR despite numerous warnings.
SEGA (talk • contribs • block log), March 31, 2007
Blocked indefinitely on January 1 for using massive sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) to upload unfree images despite warnings. Through socks, continued massive copyright violations after block. Banned in order to support block-on-sight of these sockpuppets and mass reversion of their edits. During the ban discussion, BuickCenturyDriver (talk · contribs) told him using prohibited username.
Seaver11171944 (talk • contribs • block log), September 8, 2007
Notre Dame vandal. [18]
Serafin (talk • contribs • block log), April 9, 2007
Banned for massive sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) and POV-pushing on the English Wikipedia, after doing the same at the German and Polish Wikipedias.
Sgrayban (talk • contribs • block log), May 11, 2006
Initially banned[specify] for sending legal threats through e-mail to another user who proceeded to post the threats on a request for comment the users were having against each other. Block was overturned on appeal but reissued[specify] after more legal threats.
Sheynhertz-Unbayg (talk • contribs • block log), August 30, 2006
Created a large cleanup problem now being tackled at Wikipedia:SU. After not answering to his RfC and other attempts to communicate with him, and evading blocks by using sock puppets (confirmed, suspected), he was eventually banned.
Shuppiluliuma (talk • contribs • block log), February 22, 2007
Also known as DragutBarbarossa (talk • contribs • block log) and StamboulioteParExcellence (talk • contribs • block log). Banned for personal attacks, uncooperative behaviour, edit-warring, bad image uploads, and block evasion using sockpuppets.
Simn-Bar-Sinister (talk • contribs • block log), August 2, 2007
First blocked for vandalism, then banned for sockpuppetry.
SirIsaacBrock (talk • contribs • block log), July 14, 2006
Banned after extensive and prolonged disruptive behavior through rampant sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) to evade previous blocks. His main account and sockpuppets amassed dozens of blocks combined.
SndrAndrss (talk • contribs • block log), March 17, 2007
Banned for persistent disruptive editing, repeated sockpuppetry for block evasion, and an unwillingness (or inability) to work or communicate with other editors. He does not usually respond to messages addressed to him. His targets were articles related to football, the Olympics, skiing, and rally.
Starwars1955 (talk • contribs • block log), February 14, 2007
Banned for edit-warring, repeated sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) for block evasion, personal attacks, and refusal to work with other editors. Primary target was Brett Favre.
Stephenlewis (talk • contribs • block log), March 15, 2008
One of several accounts used by the Dot Com Infoway Company, which engaged in massive linkspamming of Wikipedia and several other Wikimedia projects over two years. Banned after it was discovered this spamhaus had inserted 271 links across 25 projects.
SummerThunder (talk • contribs • block log), December 31, 2006
Was banned from the Chinese Wikipedia because of his qualms against its and other forms of censorship in mainland China. He brought his tirade to the English Wikipedia, and after evading a 24-hour block for personal attacks by using a multitude of sock puppets and IP addresses, SummerThunder's block was extended to indefinite. See WP:LTA/SummerThunder.
SuperDeng (talk • contribs • block log), November 24, 2006
See block log. Blocks for personal attacks, "continual wikistalking", violations of policy, various disruption. See Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/SuperDeng. Block log on November 24, 2006, states, "Has used so many socks to evade his block that an entire template needs to be created."
Sussexman (talk • contribs • block log), February 21, 2008
Evasion of ArbCom ban, legal threats, sockpuppetry including use of sockpuppets to votestack in ArbCom elections. Community ban discussed on WP:AN - see [19]

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T-man, the Wise Scarecrow (talk • contribs • block log), May 4, 2007
"was given adequate opportunity to reform his uncivil behaviour and has failed to do so"
Tasc0 (talk • contribs • block log), July 20, 2008
While this user had many good contributions, he also had a tendency to make personal attacks. Blocked indefinitely in February 2008 for a highly graphic personal attack on another user, but had it reduced to one month to give him a second chance. Blocked again in June 2008 for two months after more personal attacks, but unblocked after a promise to desist from this behavior. However, a month later, he was blocked in July for making a personal attack in an edit summary. Responded to the block notice with another personal attack, which exhausted the community's patience.
Tecmobowl (talk • contribs • block log), July 1, 2007
Per decision [20]
Th041 (talk • contribs • block log), June 15, 2007
Vandalism / sock puppetry.
Thewolfstar (talk • contribs • block log), May 9, 2006
Banned for exhausting the community's patience by making personal attacks. She has since been responsible for a number of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected).
Tigeroo (talk • contribs • block log), March 19, 2009
Disruptive editing / sock puppetry. See also [21].
Timecop (talk • contribs • block log), December 2006
Timecop was banned after community consensus. This was after a long debate of many back and forther, the community decided upon the ban. "16:38, 7 December 2006 EVula (Talk | contribs) blocked "Timecop (contribs)" with an expiry time of indefinite (trolling + disruption + community consensus on the ban)" [22] [23]
Tommerrigan (talk • contribs • block log), May 8, 2007
Long-term vandalism
Tommstein (talk • contribs • block log), January 24, 2006
While being subject of an Arbitration case, Tommstein was blocked indefinitely after insulting several members of the ArbCom. ArbCom acknowledged and confirmed that Tommstein had been banned by the Wikipedia community.
Tweety21 (talk • contribs • block log), October 11, 2007
Sockpuppetry, other unhelpful edits. [24]

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UkraineToday (talk • contribs • block log)
For persistent sock puppetry and edit warring.

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Verdict (talk • contribs • block log), March 18, 2007
Banned for excessive sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected), uploading and deceptively labeling copyrighted images as free use to cause legal problems for Wikipedia, death and legal threats, edit warring, and impersonation of other users. Has continued sockpuppeting since the ban, and has made on-wiki death threats with his socks ([25], [26]).
VigilancePrime (talk • contribs • block log), July 31, 2008
Was indef blocked, then unblocked on terms not to edit child sex/pedophile articles, but did so quickly. See here.
VinceB (talk • contribs • block log), April 4, 2007
Banned after multiple blocks for disruptive sockpuppetry (checkuser), edit-warring, personal attacks, and vandalism.
VivaNorthCyprus (talk • contribs • block log), February 9, 2009
Sockpuppeteer with 40+ socks. Community ban discussed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/VivaNorthCyprus.

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Watch844 (talk • contribs • block log), August 21, 2007
Banned because all edits are revert warring.
Werdnawerdna (talk • contribs • block log), November 19, 2008
Indefinitely blocked for creating a hostile environment with racist and homophobic comments, community banned following discussion.
Wiki brah (talk • contribs • block log), January 8, 2006
Banned for trolling and highly inappropriate edits. User claimed to be an autistic young man from Brazil with a penchant for "hot Jewish sluts" and drug abuse. His alleged condition was taken under consideration with a number of users stepping in to help, but in the end exhausted the community's patience with his behavior. Sockpuppetry confirmed, suspected.
Wikinger (talk • contribs • block log), June 29, 2008
Community banned for spreading religious propaganda combined with pseudoscience and plain disruption like insisting on "alphabetization" or "tidying up". Sockpuppetry: confirmed
Wikiman232 (talk • contribs • block log), September 10, 2007
Banned for recreating deleted content; violating the GFDL.
Wikipéire (talk • contribs • block log), January 19, 2009
Banned for serial sock-puppeting (confirmed, suspected) on Ireland-related articles and continuous edit warring.
WikiWoo (talk • contribs • block log), August 28, 2006
Banned for unrelenting POV pushing, personal attacks, and disruption regarding conspiracy theories about the government of Ontario. Previously edited as WikiRoo (talk • contribs • block log) and WikiDoo (talk • contribs • block log), among other IDs (confirmed, suspected).
Wonderfool (talk • contribs • block log), 1 May 2007
Banned after administrative rampage using the sockpuppet Robdurbar (talk • contribs • block log) and revelations of more sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected, checkuser). Wonderfool's account was renamed Thewayforward (talk • contribs • block log), but is still well known by his or her old username "Wonderfool". Wonderfool is also known to have performed three administrative rampages on Wiktionary, using his own account on the first rampage, the sockpuppet wikt:Dangherous (talk • contribs • page moves • block log) Local: User:Dangherous on the second rampage, and the sockpuppet wikt:Keene (talk • contribs • page moves • block log) Local: User:Keene on the third rampage. Earlier, this user was emergency banned by the Arbitration Committee for creating at least five hoax articles, but that ban was lifted after he apologized.
WordBomb (talk • contribs • block log), 7 July 2006
Inappropriate edits to a BLP, attempts to out another user, subsequent offsite harassment and block-evasion while blocked.

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Xed (talk • contribs • block log), July 12, 2006
For blatant trolling at User talk:Jimbo Wales, was simultaneously indef-blocked by two administrators, which was broadly supported at WP:AN/I. Jimbo Wales lifted the block to "give him one last chance," but reinstated the ban after Xed continued trolling. Not considered to be "banned by Jimbo."

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Young Zaphod (talk • contribs • block log), November 1, 2006
The primary account of the "H. Ellwood Gilliand" vandal, whose numerous vanity insertions about himself in technology-related articles exhausted the community's patience.
Yqbd (talk • contribs • block log), August 12, 2007
Banned for long term disruption concerning intelligent design, its talk page, and related pages after a discussion here.

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Zaphnathpaaneah (talk • contribs • block log), October 26, 2006
Banned indefinitely for race baiting, horrid personal attacks and massive POV pushing regarding the Black people article. Used a sleeper account, Osirica (talk • contribs • block log), to try to regain access to the article and continue his screed.
Zerida (talk • contribs • block log), June 6, 2008
For egregious sockpuppetry, personal attacks and harassment Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive428#Review of indefinite block of User:Zerida.
ZoguShqiptar700 (talk • contribs • block log), December 1, 2006
Signed up for an account on November 30, 2006 and immediately engaged in POV pushing. An initial 8-hour block for 3RR escalated to five days when he created a succession of sockpuppets. Responded to lengthened block with legal threats, resulting in a ban.
Zurbagan (talk • contribs • block log), March 28, 2007
Banned for disruption. Maybe related to Robert599, Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Robert599

Former banned users

This list are former banned users. Bans may lifted upon request or ban expiry (temporary bans only).

Betacommand (talk • contribs • block log), January 16, 2009, lifted July 2009
Ninth current or former administrator to be banned. Desysopped in May 2007 as a remedy of an arbitration ruling, later blocked indefinitely in December 2008 for continued violations of special restrictions. Banned for using sockpuppetry to circumvent the block and cause further disruption. Lifted in July 2009 but was reblocked again for short time (see the discussion here), before fully unblocked. Currently, he is supervised and mentored (for one year) by two users: User:MBisanz and User:Hersfold.
Locke Cole (talk • contribs • block log), June 14, 2009, lifted September 2009
Banned for 6 months following date delinking arbitration case. See Date delinking#Locke Cole banned.
RMHED (talk • contribs • block log), March 19, 2009, lifted September 2009
In March 2009, checkuser results at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/RMHED confirmed that RMHED had been engaging in egregious sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) used to evade his block and perpetrate rampant disruptive edit warring, trolling, and vandalism, exhausting the community's patience. Mere hours prior to the ban, user claimed to have 200+ socks ready for abuse. According to recent ArbCom consensus, ArbCom unbanned him by reversing community consensus.
Yorkshirian (talk • contribs • block log), July 14, 2008, lifted July 2009
Originally banned for a year per WP:RFAR/Yorkshirian, but was extended to indefinite after block-evading sockpuppetry. Ban was lifted after original 1 year ArbCom ban expired as no further sockpuppetry occurred. Was indefinitely blocked again on 23 September 2009 for extensive ArbCom remedy violations but unblocked per [27].

See also

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