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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)
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)

Revision as of 17:56, 2 October 2009

General Tojo
Shortcut: WP:TOJO
Original name(s)General Tojo, real name Keith Bridgeman
WikilifespanMarch 24, 2006 — present
ISPTiscali UK Limited
Known IPs88.104.0.0/13, 80.40.0.0/13 (but see main text)
Physical locationLongford, England
Requests for comment[1]
Requests for arbitrationsee below
InstructionsBlock on sight and revert
StatusUnknown

Modus operandi

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: {{Blockedsock|General Tojo}} or {{Sockpuppet|General Tojo}} and hit the user talk page with {{sockblock}}.

For reasons that are not clear, Tojo is lately preoccupied with attacking other users with claims of child molestation or paedophilia [2].

He has recently been adding links to his new website, viartis.net[3]. Handily enough, a whois lookup [4] 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 PaulWicks (talk · contribs) and Jfdwolff (talk · contribs).

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

Sockpuppetry

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 Range blocks MediaWiki only support CIDR suffixes between 16 and 31):

Since then, he has edited from 201.243.255.160. Tom Harrison Talk 12:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
And 125.243.245.66. Looks like open proxies, but I do not have the time to check carefully now. -- Chris 73 | Talk 12:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Blocked both IP'S indef as open proxies. -- Chris 73 | Talk 12:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Range block history

These are excerpts from the range block for the Tiscali range, with the newest on the top. -- Chris 73 | Talk 00:06, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • 00:40, August 12, 2006 Fred Bauder (talk · contribs) unblocked 88.106.0.0/16 (contribs) (Try this)
  • 05:19, August 9, 2006 Fred Bauder (talk · contribs) 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 Fred Bauder (talk · contribs) unblocked 88.106.0.0/16 (contribs) (Going to change duration)
  • 13:54, August 8, 2006 Fred Bauder (talk · contribs) blocked "88.106.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (Persistent anonymous vandal)
  • 13:47, August 8, 2006 Fred Bauder (talk · contribs) unblocked 88.106.0.0/16 (contribs) (Check on situation)
  • 21:22, August 7, 2006 Fred Bauder (talk · contribs) 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 Fred Bauder (talk · contribs) unblocked 88.104.0.0/16 (contribs) (Administrative necessity)
  • 13:22, August 6, 2006 Jfdwolff (talk · contribs) 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 Jfdwolff (talk · contribs) 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 Jfdwolff (talk · contribs) 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 Jfdwolff (talk · contribs) 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 Slowking Man (talk · contribs) 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 Slowking Man (talk · contribs) 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 Slowking Man (talk · contribs) 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 Slowking Man (talk · contribs) 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 Centrx (talk · contribs) 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 Centrx (talk · contribs) unblocked 88.106.0.0/16 (contribs) (Unblocking briefly to allow person on IRC to make an account)
  • 23:47, July 30, 2006 Chris 73 (talk · contribs) 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 Chris 73 (talk · contribs) 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 Chris 73 (talk · contribs) 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 Chris 73 (talk · contribs) 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:Requests for arbitration (Copy)

This is a copy of the RfAr results [5]

The following discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this page.


General Tojo (talk · contribs)

Involved parties


Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request
  • PaulWicks is applicant
  • General Tojo / Diamond Plus [6]
  • Andrew 73 [7]
  • Jfdwolff [8]
  • Netsnipe [9]
  • ProfSnow [10]
Confirmation that other steps in dispute resolution have been tried
  • Avoidance [11] [12]
  • Talk to the other parties involved [13]
  • Informal mediation [14]
  • Discuss with third parties [15]
  • Blocked indefinitely [16]
  • Identified as a long term abuser [17]

Statement by PaulWicks (talk · contribs)

It's time to act in force against Keith Bridgeman, AKA General Tojo and his many incarnations, for the disruption and unpleasantness he has wrought upon Wikipedia and its good-faith contributors.

I am requesting he be banned from editing anything to do with Parkinson's disease. --PaulWicks 16:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Profsnow (talk · contribs)

Bridgeman considers himself to be the ultimate expert on Parkinson's Disease, and does not tolerate any contributions not in accord with his views. His attitude is a difficult one on a collaborative project such as this, and becomes impossible when he resorts to vandalism, personal attacks, and threats. --Dan 17:08, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He just spent the morning vandalizing my user page and tracking around to my contributions elsewhere, which he removed. There were also racist comments, viz: "comfort woman" left in my user and talk pages. My mother-in-law was a high school teacher in Korea during the Japanese occupation. She very bravely stood up to her principal and refused to teach in Japanese language, for which she was threatened with being sent off to be a "comfort woman". Not long after she had to flee, and went far north to teach before returning back to her home town later on. I find Bridgman's use of the term as a pejorative epithet particularly offensive. --Dan 14:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And he's going around vandalizing again - Prof Johnson is the current incarnation, abd he used Dan Strickland (my name) earlier. I'm afraid I'll hit 3RR if he doesn't stop. He's vandalizing the Queen Min talk page, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the current controversy and whose editors will likely be befuddled by this. --Dan 17:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Let's not forget his other agenda, besides vindictiveness: [[29]] --Dan 18:54, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Andrew73 (talk · contribs)

This user is a sort of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. While this user has been at times civil and has made useful edits, the overarching theme of his and his sockpuppet's contributions have not been so positive in the past, including

  • a multitude of off-color commentaries on user pages, e.g. "this user is a complete arsehole" [30], [31], [32]
  • posting of personal information (edits which have been deleted)
  • use of inappropriate userids [33]
  • too many to count sock puppets Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_General_Tojo
  • personal attacks/veiled threats [34]
  • flagrant disrespect of the Wikipedia editing process

I'm not sanguine that this user has the ability or willingness to consistently behave appropriately in the future. Andrew73 17:32, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Jfdwolff (talk · contribs)

I was the admin who initially reported this user's appaling behaviour on WP:ANI, and see a long record of sockpuppetry, serial abusive comments aimed at PaulWicks, malicious posting of Andrew73's personal information, being simply annoying (all his talkpage edits are in bold, and he refuses to stop as this is a matter of taste only). This is a troll whose potential knowledge on one medical conditions is vastly outweighed by his utter lack of collaborative skills.

I made a brief attempt at rehabilitating him in the persona of DiamondPlus (talk · contribs), his nth sockpuppet he used to evade bans (apart from rotating ISPs). It was not a few days before he resumed his practice of reverting on the basis of poor logic simply because his judgement had been questioned (e.g. the list of conditions that can be mistaken for Parkinson's disease, which is unsupported by medical science unless Tojo's opinion is science).

Although we should not take offsite behaviour into account, it bears noting that this particular person has trolled several fora, and it is my view that a hard ban is unavoidable. JFW | T@lk 22:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by DiamondPlus (talk · contribs)

It is my opinion that this user is a serial libeller, the AntiChrist, a war criminal, severely insane, a confirmed cannibal, and above all Bulgarian. This is not an appropriate site for Bulgarians and for that reason alone he should not be allowed to add to Wikipedia. Therefore, consistent with my views, I reject. --DiamondPlus 19:45, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Chris 73 (talk · contribs)

GT is a very agressive editor, quickly reverting to vandalism [35], ridiculing and threatening, [36], lying, and trolling, also being completely resistant to other peoples views and suggestions (e.g. Talk:Parkinson's disease). Numerous sockpuppets and IP's were used to evade blocks and to vandalize and stalk pages. He was given a second chance as DiamondPlus (talk · contribs), but continued his antisocial behavior until he got blocked again. I believe that his bad behavior vastly outweighs any valuable contribution. I personally blocked dozends of his sockpuppets, and received lots of vandalismin return. -- Chris 73 | Talk 22:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Jaranda (talk · contribs)

I first encountered Tojo in the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki page where he was known as Parkinsons and was viviously revert warning and using socks for days back in March. [37] After becoming inactive for several months, he started to do revert warning in the Parkinson disease page, using socks from the same 88 IP. Proof [38] [39]. I blocked alot of his socks and semi-protected the page, but he kept on creating more socks even vandalising my userpage quite a few times. The user had a long history of revert warning and sockpupperty for a while now and should be sent to arb com. Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 05:50, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by Netsnipe (talk · contribs)

What exactly is there to arbitrate? Is there a point even raising the issue of General Tojo with the Arbitration Committee? I ask this because General Tojo has demonstrated time and time again that he does not respect the policies of Wikipedia, so what makes anyone here think that he will respect the authority or process of Arbitration either? As my report to the Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents [40] has already demonstrated, General Tojo is the most brazen sock puppeteers (up to ~120 accounts) and hostile editors I have ever seen on Wikipedia. Any further attempts at reconciliating with him would be a waste of time as Tojo treats Wikipedia as a game where he is always right and he scorns anyone with real academic credentials. There is simply no reasoning with him anymore. The only action left to Wikipedia is ban his entire netblock from editing and/or force his ISP's hand. As long as we don't have any effective measures against General Tojo he will continue to treat this entire community with contempt and to act as if all Parkinson's Disease related articles are his own. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  07:57, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by uninvolved party 69.117.4.237

Is arbitration really necessary for someone who has been permabanned if that party is not appealing his/her ban? In addition, it has already been mentioned many times that GT's IP range is 88.104.0.0/13, so why would arbitration be needed for this range block? 17:07, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Clerk notes

(This area is used for notes by non-recused clerks.)

Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter (0/4/0/0)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page, such as the current discussion page. No further edits should be made to this page.


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[41], [42], [43] [44][45] , while at the same time removing other valid references as foreign and incomplete, novelised biography, fictionalised,etc. [46]. An attempt to make an article at Magellan (book) was deleted quickly.

Articles that so far have been known to be spammed are:

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. -- Chris 73 | Talk 14:17, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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:

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

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