Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/DiscoveryTeenHD
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| Wikilifespan | July 2018 – present |
|---|---|
| Known IPs | |
| Physical location | Bulgaria |
| Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DiscoveryTeenHD |
| Instructions | Most socks can be reported to AIV and SRG or the Wikimedia stewards IRC channel for global locks/blocks. Personal attacks and death threats can be revdelled if needed. Do not warn socks, don't feed the troll. Instead report to AIV and SRG if abuse occurs. When blocking socks, make sure to disable email access as socks of this LTA are known to abuse it. |
| Status | Active |
 | Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or SRG |
Basic information
DiscoveryTeenHD (talk · contribs · block log · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
XTools Timecard
DiscoveryTeenHD is a Wikipedia user and sockpuppeteer from Bulgaria who usually vandalises pages, adds CSD tags to pages created by their socks (Special:Diff/1147509835), creates hoaxes about TV channels, harasses users and abuses multiple accounts such as NovaTeenHD, MonsterTheBasser, MonsterTheJoker, AlexsanderBostonTV etc. They sometimes use dynamic IP addresses or public wi-fi to bypass blocks to continue vandalising pages. They will sometimes use registered accounts but will usually use IP addresses that geolocate to Bulgaria. Cross wiki abuse/harassment has also occurred on Wikimedia Commons, Russian Wikipedia and Lithuanian Wikipedia at times , as well as abuse of emails.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
Usually targets TV channel pages such as:
- Trace Hits
- Trace Vault
- Tonis (Canada)
- TV-6 (Russia)
- Classic FM TV
- Alfa TV (Bulgaria)
- Fight+ (targeted a page in 2018 under the name User:DiemaBG and again persistently restores edits with the same content since April 2023 (diff 1, diff 2))
- RTVi+ (Canada)
- Hustler TV (American TV channel) (the same user edited logged-out in 2018 as 84.1.247.189. Now uses several IP addresses geolocating to the same country to vandalise by renaming to Alfa America with no source. (diff 1, diff 2, diff 3, diff 4, diff 5))
- MTV Brand New (Italian TV channel)
- MTV Brand New
- Blue Hustler
- any other TV channel related pages.
Habitual behavior
- Persistently hijacks and adds hoaxes to pages about TV channels such as Tonis (Canada), Fight+, RTVi+ (Canada) and Hustler TV (US).
- Edit-warring.
- Sneaky edit summaries like "rvv", "rv sock", "LTA" etc. are common. (diff 1, diff 2, diff 3)
- Harasses editors who report or revert them in all caps and by pinging them in edit summaries or talk page comments (example)
- Sends death threats on user talk pages, which sometimes get revdelled.
- Adds unsourced content about channel relaunches and replacements which never happened.
- Cross-wiki harasses editors on user talk pages by linking to vandalized edits.
- Posts fake WikiLove messages and other spam on talk pages of their blocked socks as well as users who revert their edits (example)
Cases
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of DiscoveryTeenHD
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of DiscoveryTeenHD