Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Lithuaniaball2
| Original name(s) | Lithuaniaball2 |
|---|---|
| Wikilifespan | October 2022 - present |
| Known IPs | 188.69.0.0/17 84.15.180.141 83.171.36.34 |
| Physical location | Lithuania |
| Sockpuppet investigations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Lithuaniaball2 |
| Instructions | Do not report to SPI, as it will be too slow. Instead, report to AIV and SRG, linking to this LTA case. Report pages targeted by this LTA to RFPP as needed due to a history of revert warring with multiple socks. |
| Status | Active |
 | Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV and SRG |
Basic information
Lithuaniaball2 (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
XTools Timecard
Cross-wiki vandal and sockpuppeteer who targets articles related to cars, calendar dates, gender and sexuality. Hijacks articles with content from other articles, unwikifies text, adds missing templates/redlinks and/or replaces English text with Lithuanian. Edit wars with other socks to restore their vandalized version of the text. Often disrupts gender or sexuality-related articles while showing anti-LGBT sentiment. Also frequently vandalizes Lithuanian Wikipedia, engaging in similar vandalism where they add multiple redlinked templates to pages. From June 2023, they have also been seen vandalizing other wikis outside of English Wikipedia such as Western Armenian Wikipedia and Samogitian Wikipedia.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
- Articles and lists about cars
- Articles about gender and/or gender identity
- Articles about calendar dates, especially on the corresponding real-life date (e.g. vandalized June 30 on June 30)
Habitual behavior
- Usernames usually consist of a seemingly CAPTCHA-generated phrase (like the one that is generated to prevent spambots during account creation) and end in the number 2 (e.g. Duffykegs2, Wrestherbs2).
- Unwikifies text/mass-adds redlinks and missing templates to make articles practically unreadable.
- Hijacks articles with either text from the article Lithuania, text from other car-related articles (on car-related pages) and/or text from Lithuanian Wikipedia articles.
- Disrupts gender and sexuality related articles by making edits without regard to consensus and often shows anti-LGBT bias.
- Removes "Mustang" from articles about Ford vehicles, especially Ford Mustang Mach-E. [1] [2]
- After one of their socks are blocked, they return with a new sock on the same article and revert to their version.
- Vandalizes articles about calendar dates on the corresponding date (e.g. vandalizing June 30 on June 30)
- Engages in cross wiki abuse and vandalism in Lithuanian Wikipedia, Western Armenian Wikipedia and Samogitian Wikipedia (the latter not as much as the former two) where they engage in the same type of hijacking and unwikifying vandalism they do on English Wikipedia.
- Image vandalism which adds irrelevant images to articles is also common.
Cases
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Lithuaniaball2 - contains information about past edits and modus operandi.
Other notes
Lithuaniaball2 is sometimes impersonated by AudiGuy-1204, a different LTA. The difference between them is that Lithuaniaball2 does not usually target Anime, voice actor or Japanese culture related articles but AudiGuy-1204 does.
Users familiar with M.O.:
- Prodraxis
- Homo ergaster (Lithuanian Wikipedia)
- Wesoree
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Lithuaniaball2
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Lithuaniaball2