User talk:EdJohnston
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Concern with IP editing
[edit]An IP that has used at least 3-7 different IPs has started adding irrelevant information to Pope articles using an unreliable source(roglo.eu).
- 94.63.205.236, Pope Benedict XIV
- 109.50.90.201, Pope Clement XIII(and removed a reliable source in the process)
- 2001:818:d9f3:f000:d0e2:cd1d:4380:f13d, Pope Pius VI.
- 2001:818:D9F3:F000:C76F:BBAE:1DF4:C5, Alexander VIII
- 213.30.22.157, Antonio II Boncompagni Ludovisi, "great-great-grandnephew of Pope Innocent XI, great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew of Pope Paul V, great-great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew of Pope Clement VIII, great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew of Pope Gregory XV, great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Pope Gregory XIII, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew of Pope Paul III.." -- I have no words.
- 194.79.86.23, starts edit-warring.
This recent addition is completely illegible and unsourced.[1] I posted a request for them to stop spamming articles with information from, I'm assuming, Italian Wikipedia.[2]
And another block of text, this time concerning the marriage of Flavio Chigi's uncle.[3]
The IP has used another IP, 109.51.252.107. They have warning from two other editors. Typical edits by 109.51.252.107:
- Pius IX, inclusion of grandparents which violates WP:NOTGENEALOGY, since none of the people mentioned later appear in the article in any form.
- Innocent XIII more irrelevant information that has no bearing on the article.
- Benedict XIII, "four times distant nephew of Pope Pius III and Pope Pius II and twice descendant of Skanderbeg and Pope Alexander VI, in turn nephew of Pope Callixtus III" --clearly NOT encyclopedic writing
- Clement XI, more addition of unsourced grandparents, which have no bearing on this article, WP:NOTGENEALOGY, along with other meaningless information
I have posted two warnings on their talk page, which have summarily been ignored.[4][5] --Kansas Bear 21:09, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
It would appear this IP has been disruptive since 2018.[6] Being blocked once in 2018 and once in 2020. Their other IP talk pages also are covered in warnings.[7][8][9] --Kansas Bear 21:50, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hello KB. There are many IPs here. Are you suggesting these are all the same person? I am tempted to put three months of semiprotection on the affected articles, given that the IPs never add references or engage in any discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 22:46, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
- Judging from the consistency in editing styles(ie. adding wife in front of the names of mothers of popes, adding massive amounts of irrelevant information-brothers, sisters, uncles, et.al. marriages and issues to both pope and cardinal articles). I will agree with what ever you think is best.
- If I didn't know better I'd say this was someone that had edited Wikipedia before and is now reduced to IP editing due to a block. --Kansas Bear 00:04, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
- Working my way through the list of offending IPs, I found at least two that enjoyed previous blocks under Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/G.-M. Cupertino. The guy explained himself on Wikipedia and said he was some kind of an archivist in Portugal, trying to add information to our articles. If you see more IPs like this let us reopen the G.-M. Cupertino sock case to organize the data. EdJohnston (talk) 02:19, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- G.-M. Cupertino (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- There is more information in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/G.-M. Cupertino, opened in 2009, and on the user's talk page. This guy is also supposed to have a record on the Portuguese Wikipedia, though not under the same name. EdJohnston (talk) 02:19, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Will do. Thanks Ed! --Kansas Bear 02:37, 26 January 2025 (UTC)