User:First Light/Fauna vandalism

Long Term Disruption and Vandalism

This is a central place to track long-term disruption and vandalism to fauna articles, especially bird articles. Some of the users are repeat vandals, some are long-term disruptors who have never responded to frequent messages asking for their cooperation, some of the IUCN changers should be shown good faith.

Megafauna Man

Adds megafauna related categories to many non-mega fauna (and occasionally gets one right); also adds redlinked categories ranging from "megafauna of country x" to "mammals of country x" to "extinct mammals of country x" to "Even-toed ungulates of Europe", etc. Has been asked frequently to cooperate with various projects before making up new categories that don't have any support by the project. Has never replied to messages. User is also interested in "Fictional x"-type categories.

Almost always edits from 125.164/16 range, with a new address every day. An edit filter has been added as of 04/10 to block category changes by this IP range. The following IPs are just a tiny sample.

125.164.15.8 (talk · contribs)
125.164.17.241 (talk · contribs)
125.164.17.11 (talk · contribs)
125.164.17.131 (talk · contribs)
125.164.26.221 (talk · contribs)
125.164.0.135 (talk · contribs)
125.164.181.54 (talk · contribs)
125.164.2.93 (talk · contribs)
125.164.23.93 (talk · contribs)
125.164.24.87 (talk · contribs)
125.164.0.148 (talk · contribs) - blocked 15/5/10
125.164.20.22 (talk · contribs) - also into Fauna of Kashmir cats
125.164.30.3 (talk · contribs) - Jakarta cell now into Fauna of Kashmir
125.164.11.148 (talk · contribs) - warned, and continued same behavior after warning
125.164.22.116 (talk · contribs) - warned, and made a few more edits (showing that they received the warning)

Samples going all the way back to 2006

Other IP range:

180.247.1.104 (talk · contribs)

Diet Of Frogs And Rodents

Adds various critters to the diet of birds, without references. Long-term disruption to many bird pages. Example: "It eats insects,crabs,spiders,eggs,chicks and small lizards" (note the stylistic pattern with commas and spaces). Also likes to change measurements of birds, not enough to make an outside observer think "vandalism", and occasionally notes that 'bird x is the biggest (or second biggest) bird in y species'. Has been warned, blocked under several accounts, now sockpuppeting.

67.248.165.120 (talk · contribs) - warned and blocked
Alpha957 (talk · contribs) - warned and indef blocked
74.70.146.172 (talk · contribs) - warned and frequently blocked
67.248.166.183 (talk · contribs) - warned and blocked for block evasion, active again 29-Aug-2010
Alpha9875 (talk · contribs) - warned and indef blocked as a sockpuppet
67.248.178.5 (talk · contribs)
72.0.155.78 (talk · contribs)
Alpha95764 (talk · contribs) - indef blocked
88.104.226.204 (talk · contribs) (?)
88.104.232.222 (talk · contribs) - (likely)

Nationalist vandalism

Specialities include edits "India -> Republic of India" (so that it goes back in the alphabetic list of countries). Also prefers to rename Israel to "State of Israel" and recognizes Kashmir as a country. They also add "Palestine" to the distribution of random bird articles, along with the random addition of categories "Birds of Palestine", "Birds of Pakistan", and "Birds of India". Animals and birds as national or sub-national symbols - most recently as redirect additions. Adds random country categories to bird articles, and plant articles. Editor will never discuss!

Note to admins: User hides their subtle political POV edits among edits that look reasonable. Common practice of long-time editors and admins is to revert all of them and block the editor for 24 hours (since they roam to different IP addresses regularly).

2.100.7.238 (talk · contribs)
2.100.10.20 (talk · contribs)
2.100.10.30 (talk · contribs)
2.100.13.36 (talk · contribs)
2.100.19.63 (talk · contribs)
2.100.23.252 (talk · contribs)
2.100.25.249 (talk · contribs)
2.100.26.124 (talk · contribs)
2.99.252.145 (talk · contribs) (5-Aug-2011)
2.99.255.180 (talk · contribs) (2-Oct-2011)
92.0.49.21 (talk · contribs) (16-Jun-2008)
92.0.132.61 (talk · contribs)
92.0.147.52 (talk · contribs)
92.3.111.90 (talk · contribs)
92.3.230.181 (talk · contribs)
92.4.219.120 (talk · contribs)
92.4.242.23 (talk · contribs) (7-Jun-2009)
92.11.111.123 (talk · contribs)
92.8.254.112 (talk · contribs)
92.30.254.71 (talk · contribs) (12,13-Sep-2010)
92.27.9.171 (talk · contribs) (6 Mar 2011)
85.133.46.70 (talk · contribs)
78.145.41.19 (talk · contribs) (5-Sept-2011)
78.148.132.9 (talk · contribs)
78.145.44.147 (talk · contribs) (31-Aug-2011)
78.145.117.251 (talk · contribs)
78.145.117.122 (talk · contribs)
78.145.120.111 (talk · contribs)
78.145.125.237 (talk · contribs)
78.145.37.85 (talk · contribs) (Aug-2013)
78.147.115.131 (talk · contribs)
78.147.118.231 (talk · contribs) (3-Sept-2011)
78.148.199.7 (talk · contribs) (26-Aug-2010)
78.148.200.238 (talk · contribs) (25-Aug-2010)
78.148.207.229 (talk · contribs) (26-Aug-2010)
80.44.247.122 (talk · contribs) (Nov-2013)
89.240.231.227 (talk · contribs)
89.241.7.165 (talk · contribs)
89.240.227.229 (talk · contribs)
89.241.7.134 (talk · contribs)
89.240.227.102 (talk · contribs)
89.240.238.236 (talk · contribs)
89.240.232.167 (talk · contribs)
89.240.234.114 (talk · contribs) (22-Aug-2010)
89.240.224.185 (talk · contribs) (23-Aug-2010, Iran)
89.240.230.107 (talk · contribs) (24-Aug-2010)
89.241.6.254 (talk · contribs) (24-Aug-2010)
89.240.233.142 (talk · contribs) (23-Feb-2011)
89.240.237.100 (talk · contribs) (9-Aug-2011)
89.240.226.181 (talk · contribs) (13-Aug-2011)
89.240.225.83 (talk · contribs) (16-Aug-2011)
89.168.206.116 (talk · contribs) (1-Jan-2015)
User:Aapna_Glori (June-2021)

Note also - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zeshan Mahmood

IUCN

Sporadic, incorrectly changes IUCN status of birds w/out reason or cause. Probably a few different people, though some of the IPs and one of the registered users seem to be similar.

Extirpation status

Changes accidental and extirpated status without discussion or sources

98.65.217.29 (talk · contribs) (static IP in Oct-Nov 2010