Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Gsthae with tempo!
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| Original name(s) | Gsthae with tempo! |
|---|---|
| Wikilifespan | 2007–present |
| Physical location | France |
| Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gsthae with tempo! |
| Instructions | Tag nonsense drafts for deletion under criteria G1/G5 and report suspected socks to AIV or SPI as needed. Titles that are repeatedly created can be salted or blacklisted if necessary. Global locks may be necessary due to cross wiki disruption. |
| Status | Active |
Basic information
Gsthae with tempo! (talk · contribs · block log · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
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Gsthae with tempo! is a cross-wiki vandal and troll targeting frwiki, frwiktionary, enwiki, simplewiki and more. They use IPs geolocating to France and accounts that usually have usernames mimicking real people's names. They have been trolling since 2007 when they first registered on frwiki as Redirectionneur Phou (now Redirectionneur Phou~frwiki due to SUL standardization). Their vandalism involves creating patent nonsense pages, usually in draftspace, that consist of Jabberwocky-like word salad phrases sometimes combined with keyboard smashing-type nonsense. Such drafts may sometimes be in a fancy font containing pseudo-Latin characters or more recently, non-Latin script. They are also known to make useless redirects on frwiki with weird spellings or towards unrelated topics, and they also troll the frwiki forums asking people to translate their nonsensical sentences.
Habitual behavior
- Usernames usually look like real peoples' names with (occasionally) hyphenated last names, and often end in a string of usually 3 numbers. Usernames can also contain keyboard-mashing or gibberish.
- Most accounts are throwaways, never being used for more than one draft creation even if not blocked.
- Makes patent nonsense pages, usually as drafts but sometimes in obscure namespaces, and often re-using a handful of titles that include "Mixing Sailors", "Rooster Inversions", "Definition of a Cute Fall", "Medicine Men", "Interesting analyses that will last forever", "Purple-skinned drivers or mentalists, and feudalism", "Theft Principles", and variations. They will make minor changes, such as adding diacritics or extra characters, to spoof the title blacklist. Sometimes this sort of word salad is combined with keyboard smashing-type patent nonsense as well.
- On frwiki and frwiktionary, makes nonsensical redirects and trolls help desks or other forums by creating nonsense text in other languages and asking others to translate those.
- Nonsense drafts by this user contain real (or fake) English words, but the sentences do not make sense. See for examples of nonsense text that this LTA often uses.
- Occasionally, pages may contain nonsensical sentences or keyboard smashing in languages other than English.
- Starting from 2026, non-Latin page titles are more common in nonsense drafts created by this LTA.
Useful links
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 180#Mystery of the Mixing Sailors
- fr:Wikipédia:Faux-nez/Redirectionneur Phou – frwiki LTA case
- fr:wikt:Wiktionnaire:Faux-nez/Redirectionneur Phou – frwiktionary LTA case
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Gsthae with tempo!
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Gsthae with tempo!