User:Leonidlednev/LTAs/ACV
< User:Leonidlednev | LTAs
Australian childish vandal
[edit]- Based in Australia (likely in Brisbane, Queensland)
- Started around
mid-2023late 2022[1]early 2014[2]late 2013[3] - Targets en*, simple*, www.ws, wn, wv and wd
- wd: Adds random, false info on song items (for example date of death or earthquake magnitude), removes links to wikis from them, or reverts to one of their other socks
- wn: Comments slurs on this page and users' talk pages, creates empty permission requests, and falsely reports good-faith users as vandals; accounts are usually blocked automatically by the abuse filter after the account attempts to create a page with the title "Shalu wikinews Game" or variations
- wv: Replaces words with slurs in city pages
- wt: Replaces words with slurs
- wb: Replaces words with slurs
- Adds {{db-u1}} to various pages
- Childishly vandalizes (edit summaries contain "I’ve added an inappropriate website" or "I’m being funny" or variations; also adds libel to BLPs e.g., "with no fucking talent")
- If the page is protected, they will leave an edit request on its talk page asking to vandalize it
- Tells sysops and reverting users to die with slurs (f*)
- After being blocked on one project, they will migrate to another
- Knows about this page
- IP addresses trace back to Queensland and are assigned to Telstra
- Revives old accounts
- Frequent vandalism (starts around 0:00 UTC, mostly in Wikidata)
- Usernames usually consist of nonsense created most likely by autocorrect, or offensive content
- Removes AN requests
- Creates user pages with only a slur on them
- A global abuse filter tracks their actions/edits on some projects
- Occasionally has a tendency to imitate GRP (cf. User:Leonidlednev/LTAs/GRP)
- Vandalism lasts for hours until the user is blocked
- Requests via IP protection of items @wikidata vandalised by themselves
- May create accounts with names in different languages