Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Fangusu
| Wikilifespan | February 2008 - present |
|---|---|
| ISP | California State University MTNL T-Mobile |
| Known IPs | 59.183.0.0/18 76.126.49.152 134.154.0.0/16 172.56.0.0/18 172.58.0.0/18 208.54.0.0/18 |
| Physical location | Mumbai Los Angeles/Southern California |
| Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Fangusu Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fangusu |
| Instructions | Suspected 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. |
| Status | Active |
 | Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or ANI |
Basic information
Fangusu (talk · contribs · block log · arb · rfcu · ssp · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
Fangusu is a user who was active starting in February 2008. She was repeatedly blocked for ongoing copyright violations and violations of the image use policy up to September 2008, when she was blocked indefinitely. She then engaged in massive sockpuppetry and frivolous unblock requests until her talk page access was revoked in April 2010. She continued socking with alternate accounts until at least March 2011 (e.g. User:PriyaChandnani), and at least since June 2013 (as User:DJ Autagirl).
After an apparent 4-year absence, Fangusu returned with a new unblock request in July 2015, claiming to have read and understood the reasons behind her block, disclosing her alternate accounts, and promising to abide by policies. She was unblocked, but very soon after was discovered to be abusing multiple accounts again. A community discussion led to her being sitebanned in August 2015. She continued to claim innocence and appeal for "forgiveness" until DJ Autagirl was discovered in December 2015.
Since then, Fangusu has socked primarily with IPs, often hitting the same pages over and over, raising frivolous WP:ANI complaints against users who revert her (especially Steel1943, example), and making frivolous unblock requests on various talk pages and in edit summaries. Her email was disabled and access to UTRS revoked due to abusing these systems with unblock requests. As of early 2019 she has also been active on Wikimedia IRC requesting action in the -unblock channel (report).
Targeted areas, pages, themes
- various Futurama episodes
- pages related to (women's) clothing, such as thong (clothing), toe socks, camisole, tanga (clothing), undergarment, panties, pantalettes, boyshorts, backless dress
- edits on women's clothing pages are usually to change gender-specific terms to gender-neutral terms (example)
- 1990s first-person-shooter and side-scroller video games, such as Duke Nukem, Doom (series), Jazz Jackrabbit, Final Fight, Street Fighter
- Digimon-related articles
- talk pages of non-administrator users with whom she has previously interacted
- Honey Bunny
Habitual behaviour
Fangusu returns to previously edited pages and reverts to a revision of a previous sockpuppet, sometimes after considerable time has passed and without regard for intervening edits. If her edit is reverted, she will repeatedly restore it with an edit summary pleading for the reverting user to lift her block while usually addressing the user by name (example) and/or will paste an appeal onto that user's talk page (example) and may follow them to other pages. If a page is protected, she will make an edit request (or revert to restore a previous one) asking for the reverted edit to be restored, or simply pleading for her block to be reduced. She rarely bothers administrators with these requests.
Fangusu most often edits through IPs in one of the ranges indicated, and jumps IPs frequently and rapidly such that IP blocks are largely ineffective. She has also been found to be continuing to abuse multiple named accounts, with CheckUser-confirmed sleeper accounts discovered as recently as April 2017.
Cases
- Requests for checkuser (archived)
- Sockpuppet investigations case page
- Community ban discussion at WP:AN
Other notes
See also Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/66.234.193.118.
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Fangusu
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Fangusu