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Ineedtostopforgetting
Shortcut: WP:LTA/INTSF
Original name(s)Unknown (discovered as Ineedtostopforgetting / Feinoa)
Wikilifespanbefore November 2015 - present
ISPStarHub
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

This editor is a banned POV pusher who mostly edits content relating to Singapore. They have created a great quantity of sockpuppets in order to defend or build upon edits made by their previous accounts. They claim to be paid for their efforts.

Their original account has not been definitively identified within the known extent of their abuse, but they are best known as these users:

Targeted areas, pages, themes

This editor usually edits articles about Singaporean culture, politics, and landmarks, particularly:

They have also made POV edits to articles containing information about broader Asian culture and politics particularly in relation to China. They regularly return to these topics:

Habitual behavior

  • Creating and using multiple different accounts in a short period of time, attempting to blend them in as established users, and often quickly abandoning them afterward.
  • Embedding puffery into extensive, well-formatted additions to an article (often shortly after creating a new account).
  • Restoring content introduced by previous socks which had been removed by other editors.
  • Whitewashing, puffing, or blatantly removing content that could portray Singapore negatively.
  • Resorting to edit warring and battleground behaviour to preserve their edits, and returning to the same conflicts with new sockpuppets.
  • Attempting to derail talk page discussions by sealioning.
  • Using multiple IP addresses on the same page and protesting innocence from one if all are reverted
  • Accusing others of edit warring and casting aspersions, and of bad faith if they are noted as a sockpuppet
  • Harasses users across multiple pages, both with IPs and accounts

While not as common, this editor has also:

  • Made significant contributions to an article, and then used a sock to promote the article to GA.
  • Edited COVID-19 related articles to censor descriptions of prejudice against people who are not from specific areas of Asia.
  • Edited articles about other Asian nations specifically to insert unnecessary, unfavourable comparisons to Singapore.
  • Made accusations of harassment and hounding including to administrative noticeboards, often multiple socks will pile on to the case
  • Used tools like IABotManagementConsole [1.2] and Twinkle with their more long lived socks
  • Misrepresented sources (e.g. changing a quote to support their edits or cite a book page that does not treat the present subject at all) and article content (e.g. claiming bias about omissing information that is in fact already covered)
  • Created socks which purport to be editors from unrelated European or Asian countries, but continue the activities noted above

Habitual conduct towards other editors

After a sock is discovered and blocked, there may be some sort of retribution meted out to those involved. This normally takes the form of aggressive edit history stalking with disruption potentially extending to any article created or edited by the user which reported the sock (even when well outside of their normal area of interest). Direct personal attacks are less common but have occurred.

Some sockpuppets have been quick to create WP:AN3, WP:ANI, and WP:SPI reports against users who were involved in recent or previous content/policy disputes with this editor.

Known IP address ranges

183.90.36.0/23 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) (blocked 1 month in July 2020 by ST47)

  • Uses VPNs.

Cases

Other notes

This editor's sockfarm was initially discovered in March 2020, but they have a history of account-hopping prior to that. The oldest known account is User:ShelteredCook (created in 2015, sleeper until November 2020), but it is likely that this editor has older dormant accounts.

Confirmed and suspected accounts

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