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User description

We have an editor or a group of editors persistently editing articles related to Taiwanese technology, especially rocketry and spaceflight, always trying to make Taiwan look better. The edits are often highly recognizable, and the same edit is done several times (getting reverted each time) over a timescale of days to months. The IP changes frequently. Common elements of the edits:

  • Writing claims with references, but the given references do not discuss the claims at all. This is an extremely frequent pattern.
  • Misleading links, giving the impression would have articles like Taiwanese manned spaceflight program or Taiwanese astronauts where the actual link goes to some other article (e.g. to "Taiwan" or "astronaut")
  • NPOV violations like "a cutting edge advanced Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) autonomous lunar lander". Example for all three points
  • Making politically loaded statements, and keeping wrong statements (from 2005) in the article.
  • Adding tons of links from and to the articles in "see also", probably to promote visibility of the articles. Example
  • Namedropping. Example
  • Repeated edits on page seem to rely on older versions instead of using the revert function, an example is this diff which brought back unrelated earlier vandalism.
  • There have been two cases where they have been engaged in discussion on a Talk page, here and here.
  • Addresses from this VPN are used to evade IP blocks and detection. Multiple IP's can be active at the same time affecting multiple pages.

Admin note

IPs should be considered as block evading and blocked accordingly. NeilN talk to me 20:06, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Please note article protected and the length of protection. El_C 21:50, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Affected articles

Cluster of Taiwan edits:


Weakly linked by this IP:

Articles affected because of revenge streak against other editors:

A sample example of edits from different IP's

Some IPs share edits with the articles above, but focus more on India and Pakistan otherwise, favoring India:

Watchlist, no recent vandalism yet but same type of article:

Misc

Discussion pages (linked via URL on purpose): Talk:National_Space_Organization, User_talk:Vanamonde93, User_talk:Floquenbeam.

All changes on articles linked here

Feel free to update this page.

Chart

Page #IP edits Date IP address(es) More IPs Type Involved Editors TP? RfPP? Admins? comments
Hsiung Feng IIE   13 1/4/17 45.254.246.81

45.120.202.2

183.171.91.189 

77.70.57.19

223.204.250.218

27.100.19.69

1.237.20.87

59.120.120.50

39.110.61.66

Additions

deletions

source

EW

Adamgerber80

Dan Koeh

America789

Floquenbeam

N SEMI 30 days

N/A # of RfPP filed

Y1

Floq.

1.237.20.87 used twice in a row. IP uses a range of ES, including some erudite ones which may cause them to look like a good editor/VanCop. L3X1
Hsiung Feng III  >25 10/30/16

-

Present

79.240.175.148

1.231.28.2

27.100.20.184

103.27.220.101 

43.249.129.212

27.100.19.16

103.27.220.49

27.100.20.248

45.254.247.21

45.254.247.237

45.254.247.29

45.254.247.36 

45.254.247.208

45.254.247.105

45.254.247.8

45.120.202.197

103.27.220.15

103.27.222.158

103.27.222.191

27.100.20.133

27.100.20.96

212.194.114.50

45.120.201.154

43.249.128.118

103.27.231.72

Additions

bad sources

EW

212.194.114.50

118.160.241.146

Sphilbrick

Primefac

MerlinVtwelve

Adamgerber80

MBlaze Lightning

Vanamonde93

Lizard the Wizard

L3X1, Widr,

Raritydash

Y 3

(Full 3 days) (Semi 30 days) (Semi 1 year)

Y It appears there was a vandal cop with multiple IPs. I'm pretty sure they are OK because they also reverted vandalism on other articles, and appear to have an intimate knowledge of WP regarding POV and RS. L3X1
Lunar Lander 2 2/8/17-

3/19/17

113.151.145.122

111.216.158.190

no ES MFB, Adam, Arjayay N Semi 1 week Y
National Space Organization >50 9/29/16

-3/15/17

45.120.201.82

1.237.20.87

45.120.201.50

43.249.129.45

103.17.199.29

58.114.120.202

58.114.119.141

69.167.29.18

103.250.141.161

EW, unref additionsno ES Adamgerber80 

Coffee Floquenbeam MrOllie Mfb BigBryan0

Y 1, semi 30 days Y2 TP is more about cleanup, not discussion with the sock
T65 AR 7 4/17/17- 4/18/17 2001:8003:801f:f800:2d34:8f67:cc74:e228

2001:8003:801f:f800:5952:9ee3:3160:bb31

additions, no ES BilCat N N N N
Yun Feng 3 3/12/17

-3/15/17

61.245.72.140

101.51.219.243

62.231.239.133 EW, bad info Adamgerber80

CambridgeBayWeather

N 1, semi 30 days Y, PP Numerous other IP edits but I doubt they are attached.

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