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{{Infobox Baduser
|name = [[Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo|General Tojo]]
|Originalname = [[User:General Tojo|General Tojo]], real name '''Keith Bridgeman'''
|shortcut = [[WP:TOJO]]
|image = Counter Vandalism Unit.png
|lifespan = [[March 24]], [[2006]] — present
|ISP= Tiscali UK Limited
|IPs= 88.104.0.0/13, 80.40.0.0/13 (but see main text)
|Hostmasks= Unknown
|RFCs = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#General_Tojo_.28talk_.E2.80.A2_contribs.29]
|RFARs = see below
|location = [[Longford, London|Longford]], [[England]]
|severity = Moderate to High
|Instructions = Block on sight and revert
}}


==Modus operandi==

[[User:Keith Bridgeman|Keith Bridgeman]] aka. [[User:General Tojo|General Tojo]] is a sockpuppeteer that was indefinitely banned on June 22, 2006 for disruption. He currently uses sockpuppets to evade bans. Tojo has over 400 suspected sockpuppets.

He also has a known history of POV pushing against [[Parkinson's disease]] and [[dissociation]]. This user has also edited [[atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]. Should this happen, revert this and block the sockpuppet(s) immediately. Then tag the sock user name with either template: {{[[Template:Blockedsock|Blockedsock]]|General Tojo}} or {{[[Template:Sockpuppet|Sockpuppet]]|General Tojo}} and hit the user talk page with {{tl|sockblock}}.

For reasons that are not clear, Tojo is lately preoccupied with attacking other users with claims of child molestation or paedophilia [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AChris_73&diff=68177246&oldid=68175654].

He has recently been adding links to his new website, viartis.net[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parkinson%27s_disease&curid=6302185&diff=68698634&oldid=68697860]. Handily enough, a whois lookup [http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=viartis&tld=net] confirms what some had suspected, but which GT had refuted: that he is Mr. Keith Bridgeman, alive and kicking (despite that fatal car crash).

Note: General Tojo appears to be using Sockpuppets to revert additions made by several editors, including {{User|PaulWicks}} and {{User|Jfdwolff}}.

07/01/08 General Tojo is back, following activity on the National Parkinson's Foundation site. Current incarnation appears to be {{User|Roger_Dunkan}}, keep on the lookout. --[[User:PaulWicks|PaulWicks]] ([[User talk:PaulWicks|talk]]) 22:07, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

==Sockpuppetry==
* [[:Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of General Tojo]]
* [[:Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of General Tojo]]

See also [[User:Fred Bauder/GT]] for a list of sockpuppets.

==Range Blocks==
General Tojo is editing from the range of www.tiscali.com at 88.104.0.0 - 88.107.255.255. To block the entire Tiscali range it is necessary to make four blocks (since [[:Meta:Range blocks|Range blocks]] MediaWiki only support CIDR suffixes between 16 and 31):
*[[Special:Blockip/88.104.0.0/16|88.104.0.0/16]] (01011000.01101000.00000000.00000000)
*[[Special:Blockip/88.105.0.0/16|88.105.0.0/16]] (01011000.01101001.00000000.00000000)
*[[Special:Blockip/88.106.0.0/16|88.106.0.0/16]] (01011000.01101010.00000000.00000000)
*[[Special:Blockip/88.107.0.0/16|88.107.0.0/16]] (01011000.01101011.00000000.00000000)

::Since then, he has edited from 201.243.255.160. [[User:Tom harrison|Tom Harrison]] <sup>[[User talk:Tom harrison|Talk]]</sup> 12:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::And 125.243.245.66. Looks like open proxies, but I do not have the time to check carefully now. -- [[User:Chris 73|Chris 73]] | [[User talk:Chris 73|Talk]] 12:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::Blocked both IP'S indef as open proxies. -- [[User:Chris 73|Chris 73]] | [[User talk:Chris 73|Talk]] 12:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
===Range block history===
These are excerpts from the range block for the Tiscali range, with the newest on the top. -- [[User:Chris 73|Chris 73]] | [[User talk:Chris 73|Talk]] 00:06, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

*00:40, August 12, 2006 {{User|Fred Bauder}} unblocked 88.106.0.0/16 (contribs) (Try this)
*05:19, August 9, 2006 {{User|Fred Bauder}} blocked "88.106.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of indefinite (Please mail fredbaud at ctelco.net for information about accessing Wikipedia from Tiscali)
*05:14, August 9, 2006 {{User|Fred Bauder}} unblocked 88.106.0.0/16 (contribs) (Going to change duration)
*13:54, August 8, 2006 {{User|Fred Bauder}} blocked "88.106.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (Persistent anonymous vandal)
*13:47, August 8, 2006 {{User|Fred Bauder}} unblocked 88.106.0.0/16 (contribs) (Check on situation)
*21:22, August 7, 2006 {{User|Fred Bauder}} blocked "88.106.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 48 hours (Temporary block pending solution of General Tojo problem)
*13:33, August 6, 2006 {{User|Fred Bauder}} unblocked 88.104.0.0/16 (contribs) (Administrative necessity)
**13:33, August 6, 2006 {{User|Fred Bauder}} unblocked 88.105.0.0/16 (contribs) (Administrative necessity)
**13:33, August 6, 2006 {{User|Fred Bauder}} unblocked 88.106.0.0/16 (contribs) (Administrative necessity)
**13:33, August 6, 2006 {{User|Fred Bauder}} unblocked 88.107.0.0/16 (contribs) (Administrative necessity)
*13:22, August 6, 2006 {{User|Jfdwolff}} blocked "88.104.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (apologies for inconvenience; your IP is being used by a disruptive user)
**13:22, August 6, 2006 {{User|Jfdwolff}} blocked "88.105.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (apologies for inconvenience; your IP is being used by a disruptive user)
**13:22, August 6, 2006 {{User|Jfdwolff}} blocked "88.106.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (apologies for inconvenience; your IP is being used by a disruptive user)
**13:22, August 6, 2006 {{User|Jfdwolff}} blocked "88.107.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (apologies for inconvenience; your IP is being used by a disruptive user)
*13:40, August 2, 2006 {{User|Slowking Man}} unblocked 88.104.0.0/16 (contribs) (Unblocking Tiscali UK Limited IP ranges, as requested in #wikipedia due to wide effect of blocks; discuss at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo)
**13:39, August 2, 2006 {{User|Slowking Man}} unblocked 88.105.0.0/16 (contribs) (Unblocking Tiscali UK Limited IP ranges, as requested in #wikipedia due to wide effect of blocks; discuss at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo)
**13:39, August 2, 2006 {{User|Slowking Man}} unblocked 88.106.0.0/16 (contribs) (Unblocking Tiscali UK Limited IP ranges, as requested in #wikipedia due to wide effect of blocks; discuss at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo)
**13:38, August 2, 2006 {{User|Slowking Man}} unblocked 88.107.0.0/16 (contribs) (Unblocking Tiscali UK Limited IP ranges, as requested in #wikipedia due to wide effect of blocks; discuss at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo)
*01:24, July 31, 2006 {{User|Centrx}} blocked "88.106.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of indefinite (Block Tiscali UK Limited range due to Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo)
*01:21, July 31, 2006 {{User|Centrx}} unblocked 88.106.0.0/16 (contribs) (Unblocking briefly to allow person on IRC to make an account)
*23:47, July 30, 2006 {{User|Chris 73}} blocked "88.107.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 1 week (Block Tiscali UK Limited range due to Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo)
**23:47, July 30, 2006 {{User|Chris 73}} blocked "88.106.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 1 week (Block Tiscali UK Limited range due to Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo)
**23:47, July 30, 2006 {{User|Chris 73}} blocked "88.105.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 1 week (Block Tiscali UK Limited range due to Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo)
**23:46, July 30, 2006 {{User|Chris 73}} blocked "88.104.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 1 week (Block Tiscali UK Limited range due to Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo)

==Various discussions about General Tojo==
*[[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive118#General Tojo]]
*[[Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/General Tojo]]
*[[Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/DavidLeslie]]
*Request for Arbitration 22:22, July 18, 2006 (edit) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration&diff=64564551&oldid=64550869]

== 2008/2009 self promotion for book on [[Ferdinand Magellan]]==
Since his ''Parkinson Snake oil'' didn't get his company the desired results, he is now into publishing. Keith Bridgeman threw together some old texts and now calls himself editor of a book (the real authors are all contemporary and dead since 500 years). In his usual habit he shamelessly self promotes his book on all possible articles[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maximilianus_Transylvanus&diff=prev&oldid=225606334], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ferdinand_Magellan&diff=prev&oldid=225770742],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antonio_Pigafetta&diff=222522059&oldid=220119445]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antonio_Pigafetta&diff=prev&oldid=225192850][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antonio_Pigafetta&diff=prev&oldid=225192850]
, while at the same time removing other valid references as ''foreign and incomplete, novelised biography, fictionalised'',etc. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Darvit+Chandhurai]. An attempt to make an article at [[Magellan (book)]] was deleted quickly.

Articles that so far have been known to be spammed are:
*[[Ferdinand Magellan]]
*[[Maximilianus Transylvanus]]
*[[Antonio Pigafetta]]
*[[Juan Sebastián Elcano]]

Only one book on [[Ferdinand Magellan]] has been published yet, and another one about [[Pedro Álvares Cabral]] is expected for End of 2009. (''Note to Keith Bridgemann: If you are ripping off dead authors, at least spell their names right. It is James McClymont, not MacClymont, and Gaspar Correia, not Correa, not even mentioning things like [[Diacritic]] marks. That's one error per book that I have checked on your list. You can't even plagiarize correctly.'') According to his website other stuff they want to plagiarize off old authors is about, [[Amerigo Vespucci]], [[Vasco da Gama]], [[Bartolomeu Dias]], [[Henry the Navigator]], [[Giovanni da Verrazzano]], [[Titian]], [[Giovanni Bellini]], [[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo]], [[Tintoretto]], [[Giorgione]], [[Paolo Veronese]], [[Pietro Longhi]], [[El Cid]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Constantine I]], [[Music theory]], [[Slavic mythology]], [[Vitamin]], [[Amino acid]], and (of course) [[Parkinson's disease]]. Spamming is to be expected. Revert and block on sight. -- [[User:Chris 73|Chris 73]] | [[User talk:Chris 73|Talk]] 14:17, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

I have created a template [[Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo/Books]] to be added to the talk page of the relevant articles. The template is:

{{Wikipedia:Long term abuse/General Tojo/Books}}

-- [[User:Chris 73|Chris 73]] | [[User talk:Chris 73|Talk]] 17:56, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

==See also==
*[[:meta:Keith Bridgeman]]
*[[Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Keith Bridgeman]]
*[[Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/General Tojo]]
*[[:Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of General Tojo]]
*[[:Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of General Tojo]]

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