Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Meena Kurian
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Original name(s) | George Boggs |
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Wikilifespan | 2020-present |
Physical location | Virginia and Tennessee, United States; Kerala, India |
Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Meena Kurian |
Instructions | Obvious socks can be reported to AIV, blocked on sight and globally locked. WP:RBI |
Status | Pending Approval |
Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or ANI, and SRG. |
Basic information
Meena Kurian (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Kurian Comprehensive edits analysis
Kurian XTools Timecard
Disruptive editor originally indeffed on May 2022 due to addition of poorly sourced material and cruft (e.g. indiscriminate lists of animals) to zoo related articles and uses American and Indian IPs and named accounts to evade said block. Meena Kurian's socks often engage in cross-wiki abuse after being blocked on enwiki.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
Zoos, animals, Planet Zoo and various films (usually containing animals), broadly construed. Meena Kurian also directly targets editors who revert their vandalism and the organs of wikispace used to combat vandalism.
Habitual behavior
- Adds indiscriminate crufty lists of animals to zoo related articles.
- "All fixed up!" is a very common edit summary from this user. Edit summaries often contain exclamation marks.
- Information added by this user, especially with regards to Planet Zoo, will often be sourced from unreliable sources such as Fandom, Youtube, Deviantart etc.
- Usernames can be lengthy and have some combination of "Willard", "Tommy", "Boggs", "George" and the names of various animals.
- Often either claims to be Meena Kurian or denies that he is (an oddly specific denial...).
- Vandalizes the talk pages of the reverting editors with accusations of sock puppetry.
- Vandalizes the pages of other Meena Kurian socks.
- Vandalizes pages in wikispace used to combat vandalism.
- Creates userspace pages and LTA pages relating to Meena Kurian.
- Engages in cross-wiki abuse after being blocked on enwiki. Known to upload digital art and photographs of animals with no encyclopedic purpose to Wikimedia Commons.
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Meena Kurian
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Meena Kurian