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Teenage Fairytale Dropouts vandal
Original name(s)Unknown
Known IPsSee list
Physical locationAustralia
InstructionsSuspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information.
StatusActive

Basic information

There has been a serial, IP hopping vandal who has been vandalising Wikipedia for several years. They mostly attack pages by adding un-related information about the children's television program, Teenage Fairytale Dropouts and Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets. However, they have been known to add false, unsourced and/or incorrect information as well.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

  1. So Fresh and many of its associated pages.
  2. So Random! and its associated pages.
  3. Now That's What I Call Music! and its associated pages.
  4. Pages on children's programmes
  5. Various other entertainment related pages such as actors, albums, singles, TV shows etc.

Habitual behaviour

  1. Addition of unrelated material about "Teenage Fairytale Dropouts": [1], [2], [3], [4]
  2. Replacing existing content with unsourced and/or dubious material: [5], [6], [7]
  3. Disruptive editing: [8], [9]
  4. Vandalism: [10], [11], [12], [13]
  5. Persistence of negative behaviour: On February 24, 2015, the vandal made the following edits: [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20] to the article, So Fresh: The Hits of Winter 2012. In the end, semi-protection was the only way of stopping their disruptive behaviour: [21].
  6. Complete disregard of multiple warnings and/or blocks: [22], [23], [24], [25], [26]

Noticeboard discussions

Confirmed and suspected accounts

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