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Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Some of these are hilarious. Favourite so far is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Chip... > The Chipmunks vandal, also known as the Alvin vandal, adds trivial detail about the Chipmunks fictional musical group's cover versions to song articles, for instance adding a Chipmunks cover version to the Rolling Stones' song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". Not only the Chipmunks but the vandal also ta…

> Obsessed with inflatable, bursting, popping, and bouncing objects.

I wonder how long it took to figure this out.

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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> Prolific sockpuppeter with over 500 socks which inserts hoaxes about lions existing in Montana. I am in awe. Edit: it seems there actually are lions in Montana: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/mountain-lions-montana So why the hoaxes?

Not sure if English is your native language, but in the US at least, a mountain lion (a.k.a puma and cougar) is never referred to as just a “lion”. A “lion” is the thing in the zoo with a big mane that sprays pee on people and appears in broadway plays and documentaries narrated by David Attenborough

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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I'll share my story with a long-term abuse case. It started on the Simone Biles article. An editor kept trying to question whether or not she had attended University of the People. There were numerous media accounts where she reported or was reported as doing such, but he would dismiss these all on the claim that they were "promotional." Over the ensuing weeks, I engaged him in discussion on the talk page along with…

Kudos for working so hard on this and keeping Wikipedia great!

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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> Prolific sockpuppeter with over 500 socks which inserts hoaxes about lions existing in Montana. I am in awe. Edit: it seems there actually are lions in Montana: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/mountain-lions-montana So why the hoaxes?

Mountain lions are not lions.

Mountain lions are not mountains either.

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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I'll share my story with a long-term abuse case. It started on the Simone Biles article. An editor kept trying to question whether or not she had attended University of the People. There were numerous media accounts where she reported or was reported as doing such, but he would dismiss these all on the claim that they were "promotional." Over the ensuing weeks, I engaged him in discussion on the talk page along with…

> I am specifically using a throwaway account because this guy is relentless. He seeks to destroy lives of those who are seen to have crossed him.

Isn’t your opening paragraph enough to trace to you? Might want to remove the reference to you talking with the author on that article.

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't the entire nation of Qatar get blocked at one point? Edit: lol yep https://techcrunch.com/2007/01/01/wikipedia-bans-qatar

> Apparently Qatar has a single ISP, Qtel, with a single IP address shared by the entire country. Wut?

https://superuser.com/questions/1013630/why-does-qatar-use-a...
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