Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Vote (X) for Change
| Original name(s) | Vote (X) for Change |
|---|---|
| Wikilifespan | March 5, 2010 – present |
| ISP | Various |
| Known IPs | Various |
| Physical location | North London and vicinity |
| Sockpuppet investigations | Vote (X) for Change |
| Instructions | Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information. Do not engage in their discussions. Do not feed the trolls. Simply Revert, block, ignore. In more active times, semi-protect the affected page(s). |
| Status | Active |
 | Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or ANI |
Basic information
Vote (X) for Change (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
Targeted areas, pages, themes
Main interests include calendars as well as date and time related articles such as Leap year and Coordinated Universal Time. Other articles include Aachen, Aarhus, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film), and Brexit. Also fond of Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents, Administrator's noticeboard, Jimbo Wales' talk page, and Reference desks, especially Humanities, Language and Miscellaneous.
Habitual behavior
Vote (X) for Change has a long history with Jc3s5h (talk · contribs). She routinely edit wars with Jc3s5h especially in calendar articles. Aside from edit warring with Jc3s5h and more recently with JoeSperrazza (talk · contribs), she will frequently post nonsensical reports and arguments to ANI or AN. For example, she has frequently used this discussion at Zzuuzz's talk page to claim that the ban on them has been lifted despite being told the way to be unblocked. Example posts include this and this (for both links, see the thread titled "The background"). She will also edit war with multiple users. A more extreme example can be see here and here.
She will routinely post nonsensical reports about anyone who blocks them or reverts her edits. For example, when Clpo13 reverted Vote (X) for Change's edit, Vote (X) for Change then makes this post making statements such as "While he did get blocked by DMacks in 2010"
, "HighInBC hit the nail on the head in 2014 when he indeffed him with talk page access revoked"
. Clpo13's block log or Future Perfect at Sunrise's block log indicate no such events occurring.
After Luis150902 reverted one of Vote (X) for Change's edits at Hebrew calendar and the page getting semi-protected at his request, Vote makes a nonsensical post containing the statement Editors may want to request unprotection in view of his editing history
and containing copies of several comments posted by other IPs used by her.
In particular, she likes to post reports or statements allegedly claiming that an editor has committed some abuse or violation. Most frequently she makes posts about the following admins: Elockid (talk · contribs), Favonian (talk · contribs), Future Perfect at Sunrise (talk · contribs), NeilN (talk · contribs), SpacemanSpiff (talk · contribs). For example this report claimed that Dweller has just had to revert a post by Elockid to his user talk page.
and When politely asked by StuRat to stop he spun him a cock - and - bull story and carried on
. StuRat made no such statements and Dweller blanked the discussion per this request. Another example includes this edit summary from here claiming that there was a violation in an ArbCom ruling despite the fact that the policy, specifically the banning policy was being enforced.
For Reference desks, she will reinstate removed comments made by IPs used by her. For example, 188.220.208.229 reinstated their contributions from the other IPs they edited from. The comments from previously used IP addresses, 80.44.165.173 (talk · contribs) and 86.147.209.43 (talk · contribs), were added again by 188.220.208.229 (talk · contribs).
She will request for discussions in cases in which it was established that the IPs she was editing from are really in fact her. See edit summaries here and here. Occasionally, she will edit outside of Greater London or imply that another editor and not her is making those posts.
Frequently tries to engage in policy discussions on User talk:Jimbo Wales, and frequently edit wars to return removed posts from that page because the page is supposedly immune from blocks or protection or removal of trolling. As with other socks and IPs used by her, the IPs often try to re-add removed material connected to her earlier IPs, sometimes days or even weeks after it was initially removed. Example. Posting to, and/or reverting the removal of earlier posts at Jimbo's user talk page is often a key identifying feature of this user.
Do not engage in their discussions. Do not feed the trolls. Simply Revert, block, ignore. Do not unblock even to participate in any discussion. In more active times, semi-protect the affected page(s).
As of April, 2020 VXFC has slightly modified their typical trolling behavior at the RefDesks by asking provocative and leading questions about the political response to Covid-19. Sometimes, shortly before or after asking said questions, they either ask or answer a more innocuous question.
Known IP ranges
Edits to Ref Desks from the 92.19.160.0/19 are almost exclusively VXFC
Cases
Other notes
- Following this motion enacted on January 26, arbcom contacted the WMF about this case on February 4 and has been told it's on their list of things to look at. Opabinia regalis (talk) 03:45, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Vote (X) for Change
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Vote (X) for Change