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Date-changing vandal from Malaysia
Wikilifespan2017–present
Physical locationMalaysia
InstructionsRevert and report to WP:AIV. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information.
StatusActive

Basic information

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IP-hopping editor from Malaysia who rapidly changes dates on biographical articles.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

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Biographies (especially those of government officials), lists of government officials.

Habitual behavior

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The IP addresses are located in Malaysia. The locations are often, but not always, in Kota Kinabalu or Sabah state or Kuala Lumpur or nearby locations in Selangor state.

Vandalism consists of rapidly changing dates (years), often on biographical articles. Birth years, death years, etc. Sometimes they make other minor edits (adding random categories, wikilinking and de-wikilinking).

Edit summaries, if present, usually consist of a single year (e.g. 2017) or a series of years separated by spaces (e.g. 1928 1948 1958). More recently, edit summaries are sometimes pasted raw wiki text.

For the most part, they will use a particular IP for a one-day vandalism spree, and then move on to a different IP.

They do not communicate with other users.

Cases

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Confirmed and suspected accounts

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IP addresses

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I've blocked Special:Contributions/2001:D08:1800:0:0:0:0:0/34 for one month on Nov. 19th since most of the edits from that range consist of vandalizing dates. EdJohnston (talk) 02:38, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@EdJohnston: would you please consider blocking this range again? They are once again using it for vandalism. Thanks, Citobun (talk) 13:43, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I've issued a new three-month block of Special:Contributions/2001:D08:1800:0:0:0:0:0/34 per your request. EdJohnston (talk) 14:41, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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