User:Elizium23/The Horror of Babylon

Dramatis personæ

Registered users
BedrockPerson (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) – appears to be the sockmaster Zhomron (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) – how he first met his demise with Elizium23 Emolu (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) – a fresh prolific sock, as of August 2023 Контфокк (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) – a vulgarism that you should consider not translating Makkacheez (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) AlmondTuffen (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Rebfeee (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Itobh (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Massachuu (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) – suddenly decided to take up Native American linguistic topics instead of Ancient Near East. Nailed by Chuck Entz on English Wiktionary on February 17, 2023. יבריב (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) MatzoSock (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) – totally Kosher TragedyUkraine (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Cocknbalz (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Naughtwords (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) YOUVEAWOKESOMETHINGTHATNEVERSLEEPS (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) YOUCANNOTGETRIDOFME (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Thereisnousecomplaining (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Nevermeansnever (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Kvodmalchuto (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) AncientEgypt23 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) CarlaEve432 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Likethewaves (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) AwakeAndArise (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Balloonsmother (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Whowrote (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) SingAMighty (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) ParsisPro (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Dabookuv (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Semitisms (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) UkraineCityNameRepository (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) BitwaBoy (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Gommoras (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Hl2avenger (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) EdomSeir (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) NiebuhrKarsten (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Pabythdali (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA)

IPv4 and v6 addresses and ranges
AT&T Mobility: ATTMOV6-1 2600:387:5:800::/60 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) abuse@att.net Comcast Cable Communications: COMCAST6NET: AS7922 2601:2C0:8E80:7A80::/64 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Telefonica Brasil S.A Haven't confirmed these with admins, but the first range is blocked already, and they sure smell of WP:DUCK. 2804:18::/32 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) 2804:868::/32 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) Optimum Online (Cablevision Systems): AS6128 24.38.192.180 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) 47.20.177.163 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) 47.20.180.99 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) 47.20.180.129 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) 67.87.80.55 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) 69.113.182.194 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) abuse@cv.net Verizon Business 72.89.182.55 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) 96.232.203.250 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) ABUSE5603-ARIN abuse@verizon.net (unverified) Nassau County Board of Cooperative Education Services: AS23410 170.24.133.2 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) creinertsen@nasboces.org SK Broadband Co (South Korea) (APNIC) 211.179.5.233 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) irt@nic.or.kr

Investigations and actions

• The AN/I report and indef block that started it all: en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive960#BedrockPerson and biblical people infoboxes
  • At issue were unsourced additions to articles disguised by deceptive edit summaries.
  • BedrockPerson was reported at least three times for edit-warring.
• en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BedrockPerson
• en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1113#User:Zhomron: in which Elizium23 reports this user for disruptive editing, edit-warring, and incivility including personal attacks. Zhomron here offers a flat-out denial of being a sockpuppet in the face of such accusations, but by the end of the thread, we learn the truth about his identity as BP.
• User talk:BedrockPerson: Chuck Entz asks "Where are you getting this stuff?" in which Chuck confronts BP's incompetence. BP never replied on his Wiktionary user talk page to anyone.

Discussions

1. wikt:User talk:Chuck Entz#Zhomron: the results are in
2. en:User talk:Zhomron/Archive 1 serves as extensive documentation of BP's incompetence and belligerence, including ArbCom warnings, blocks, failed unblocks, and many experienced editors participating. If they only knew of the sock puppetry being perpetrated by then.

Distinguishing features

• Primary topic areas are the linguistic aspects of the Ancient Near East, such as archeological discoveries of inscriptions, cuneiform, obscure forms of Hebrew scripts, transliterations, gods, monarchs.
• Judeo-centric POV, and significant edits include topics in the Old Testament and the history of Israel.
• He appears to take delight in uploading unusable photographs of diseased body parts, such as a few that are still extant on enwiki, as of August 2023.
• "BedrockPerson" is a gamer reference, referring either to a Minecraft or Super Mario 64 character.
• After much difficulty connecting Zhomron back to BP himself, enwiki admins spoke of a "smoking gun", which may consist of a very active account on a very large and popular social media forum, named BedrockPerson after the sockmaster. This account's posts have been a good source for personal and profiling info.
• Camera: FinePix A340, as of 2004
• Zhomron's namesake appears to be Karne Shomron, a settlement on Israel's West Bank.
  • In turn, "Shomron" is a romanized toponym for Samaria.

Affected projects

1. English Wiktionary: initial block for disruptive editing / "untrustworthy information"
2. English Wikipedia: blocked for making personal attacks, abusing multiple accounts, and edit warring
3. Commons: uploading unfree files (copyright violation)

Resources

• commons:Commons:List of administrators
• wikidata:Wikidata:Administrators
• en:Wikipedia:List of administrators
• Steward requests/Global — request global locks and IP blocks here
• Trust and Safety — WMF
• RIPEstat: ASN/abuse contacts

Policies and guidelines

• commons:Commons:Project scope — COM:INUSE cited as a reason to keep photos
• en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry — English Wikipedia's policy on multiple account usage. Commons borrows this policy via redirect.
  • en:Wikipedia:Banning policy
• Global bans — Metawiki
  • WMF Global Ban Policy