Wikipedia:List of banned users

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This is a selected list of banned Wikipedia users. Users whose names are in bold have been banned by Jimbo Wales, by a decision of the Arbitration Committee or by community consensus. The other users listed were blocked as likely sockpuppets of banned users without a specific declaration of a ban. Such users are no longer welcome to edit the encyclopedia, until such time as the ban is lifted. Banned users who feel that their bans are unjust may appeal their case to the Arbitration Committee or directly to Jimbo.

Banning is different from blocking; a block is a technical measure to disable editing by a specific account or IP address, and is a restriction which may be temporary. Banned users receive indefinite blocks. Accounts which are reincarnations (sockpuppets) of banned users may be blocked as soon as it's obvious who they are. For more information, see the blocking policy and the banning policy.

Contents:	Top - Banned by Jimbo Wales - Banned by the Arbitration Committee - Banned by the Wikipedia community

[edit] Banned by Jimbo Wales

Jimbo Wales has banned these users indefinitely. They may appeal their ban by emailing Jimbo or the Arbitration Committee.

• Isis (talk • contribs • block log), February 3, 2003 - see email
• BuddhaInside (talk • contribs • block log), September 25, 2003 - see email
• Khranus (talk • contribs • block log), November 12, 2003 - see userpage notice
• Reithy (talk • contribs • block log), November 19, 2004
• Hamidifar (talk • contribs • block log), July 3, 2005 - see blocklog
• Irate (talk • contribs • block log), August 7, 2005 - see blocklog, email, WP:LTA#Banned User:Irate
• MutterErde (talk • contribs • block log), September 23, 2005 - see blocklog
• JackSarfatti (talk • contribs • block log), December 14, 2005 - see blocklog
• Marsden (talk • contribs • block log), December 31, 2005 - see WP:ANI post
• Zorro redux (talk • contribs • block log), January 20, 2006
• Primetime (talk • contribs • block log), May 12, 2006 - see WP:LTA/Primetime
• MichaelJCummings (talk • contribs • block log), August 21, 2006 - see bitemarks PR blog interview with Wales
• Publicgirluk (talk • contribs • block log), August 30, 2006 - see Jimbo's talkpage#1, Jimbo's talkpage#2, Wikipedia:Publicgirluk photo debate

[edit] EntmootsOfTrolls

• "24" (talk • contribs • block log), June 10, 2002 - see email
• "142" (talk • contribs • block log), March 5, 2003 - see email
• EntmootsOfTrolls (talk • contribs • block log), September 23, 2003 - see email
  • Mediator (talk • contribs • block log), October 15, 2003 - see email
  • Ann Kyslowski (talk • contribs • block log), December 17, 2003
  • JRR Trollkien (talk • contribs • block log), June 5, 2004
  • The Recycling Troll (talk • contribs • block log), March 10, 2005 - see blocklog

[edit] DW

• DW (talk • contribs • block log), January 30, 2003 - see email
• Black Widow (talk • contribs • block log), April 15, 2003 - see email
• ChuckM (talk • contribs • block log)
• Joe Canuck (talk • contribs • block log)- see email
  • Sue Michael Canuck (talk • contribs • block log)
  • NightCrawler (talk • contribs • block log) - see email
  • Ron Davis (talk • contribs • block log)
  • Elliot (talk • contribs • block log)
  • Olga Bityerkokoff (talk • contribs • block log)
  • Jacques Delson (talk • contribs • block log)
  • Chris Jones (talk • contribs • block log)
  • Wei Chin Ho (talk • contribs • block log)
  • Angelique (talk • contribs • block log) - see email
  • Triton (talk • contribs • block log)
  • JillandJack (talk • contribs • block log)
  • A. Lafontaine (talk • contribs • block log)

[edit] Wik

• Wik (talk • contribs • block log), June 1, 2004 in two ambiguously-worded mailing list posts (email#1 and email#2), though he later clarified his intention on IRC.
  • Gzornenplatz (talk • contribs • block log) - see WP:RFAR/Gzornenplatz#Extension of ban
  • NoPuzzleStranger (talk • contribs • block log)

[edit] Banned by the Arbitration Committee

The Arbitration Committee may ban users or approve of previous community bans. This list does not include bans that have expired, short-term bans, and bans from specific articles or categories.

[edit] Bans of indefinite duration

• CheeseDreams (talk • contribs • block log), March 3, 2005 - see WP:RFAR/CheeseDreams 2

  Originally banned for 18 months; extended to indefinite on August 16, 2005 due to account being compromised.

  • -Ril- (talk • contribs • block log), March 28, 2006 - see WP:RFAR/-Ril- 2; sockpuppet of CheeseDreams.
• DeanHinnen (talk • contribs • block log), March 29, 2007 - see WP:RFAR/Free Republic, and below.
• Ericsaindon2 (talk • contribs • block log), September 2, 2006 - see WP:RFAR/Ericsaindon2

  Originally a one-year ban, later extended to indefinite per community discussion on January 9, 2007.

• Jason Gastrich (talk • contribs • block log), March 21, 2006 - see WP:RFAR/Jason Gastrich, and below.
• Licorne (talk • contribs • block log), March 23, 2006 - see WP:RFAR/Licorne

  Originally a one-year ban, later extended to indefinite by Fastfission on March 25, 2006 for "Anti-Semitic personal attacks."

• Lightbringer (talk • contribs • block log), April 11, 2006 - see WP:RFAR/Lightbringer, WP:LTA/Lightbringer

  Originally a one-year ban; later extended to indefinite per community discussion.

• Nathanrdotcom (talk • contribs • block log), February 4, 2007 - see WP:RFAR/Nathanrdotcom
• Rainbowwarrior1977 (talk • contribs • block log), September 28, 2005 - see WP:RFAR/Rainbowwarrior1977
• RJII (talk • contribs • block log), July 1, 2006 - see WP:RFAR/Infinity0

  Originally a one-year ban, later extended to indefinite for "[admitting] to being a shared account."

• Rootology (talk • contribs • block log), October 19, 2006 - see WP:RFAR/MONGO
  • PrivateEditor (talk • contribs • block log), October 19, 2006 - see WP:RFAR/MONGO; sockpuppet of Rootology.
• Zen-master (talk • contribs • block log), February 6, 2006 - see WP:RFAR/Zen-master

  Originally a one-year ban, later extended to indefinite due to ban evasion.

• Zephram Stark (talk • contribs • block log), November 12, 2005 - see WP:RFAR/Zephram Stark, WP:LTA#Zephram Stark

  Originally a one-year ban, later extended to indefinite due to ban evasion via disruptive sockpuppetry.

[edit] Bans of definite duration

• Beckjord (talk • contribs • block log) (Jon-Erik Beckjord), February 6, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/Beckjord

  Ban extended to February 6, 2008 for disruptive sockpuppetry.

• BhaiSaab (talk • contribs • block log), December 9, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/Hkelkar

  Ban extended to March 20, 2008 per community discussion.

• DPSingh (talk • contribs • block log), April 25, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/Rajput
• EffK (talk • contribs • block log), February 7, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/EffK

  Ban extended to October 1, 2007 for violation of terms of ban.

• Fairness And Accuracy For All (talk • contribs • block log), March 29, 2007, one year - see WP:RFAR/Free Republic
• FourthAve (talk • contribs • block log), May 2, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/FourthAve

  Ban extended to September 23, 2007 for disruptive sockpuppetry.

• Herschelkrustofsky (talk • contribs • block log), May 5, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/Lyndon LaRouche 2
• Hkelkar (talk • contribs • block log), December 9, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/Hkelkar

  Indefinitely blocked on February 11, 2007 for disruptive sockpuppetry; ban extended to March 3, 2008.

• Ilena (talk • contribs • block log), March 27, 2007, one year - see WP:RFAR/Barrett v. Rosenthal
• Lir (talk • contribs • block log), January 1, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/Snowspinner vs. Lir

  Ban extended to December 10, 2007 for "new vandalism."

  (Due to numerous resets, Lir's one-year ban is now considered by some a de facto permanent ban.)

• Minun (talk • contribs • block log), August 12, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/Iloveminum
• Nadirali (talk • contribs • block log), March 4, 2007, one year - see WP:RFAR/India-Pakistan
• Paul Vogel (talk • contribs • block log), May 4, 2004, one year - see WP:RFAR/Paul Vogel

  Ban extended to December 18, 2007 for repeated violations of ban conditions.

• RPJ (talk • contribs • block log), December 20, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/RPJ
• Saladin1970 (talk • contribs • block log), August 10, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/Saladin1970 appeal
• Siddiqui (talk • contribs • block log), March 4, 2007, one year - see WP:RFAR/India-Pakistan
• Supreme Cmdr (talk • contribs • block log), March 2, 2007, one year - see WP:RFAR/Derek Smart
• Szhaider (talk • contribs • block log), March 2, 2007, one year - see WP:RFAR/India-Pakistan
• TerryJ-Ho (talk • contribs • block log), December 10, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/Hkelkar

  Ban extended to February 9, 2008 for ban evasion.

• Unre4L (talk • contribs • block log), March 4, 2007, one year - see WP:RFAR/India-Pakistan
• Xebat (talk • contribs • block log), May 7, 2006, one year - see WP:RFAR/Aucaman

[edit] Banned by the Wikipedia community

Community bans may be proposed, and decided by consensus, at the community (WP:CN) or administrators' (WP:AN, WP:ANI) noticeboards. As per the blocking and banning policies, a user who alienates and offends the community enough may eventually be blocked by an administrator... and no one is willing to unblock them. In such extreme cases, the user is considered to have been banned by the general community. This corresponds to this section of the Wikipedia:Blocking policy.

Contents:	Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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1B6 (talk • contribs • block log), March 22, 2007

Banned after vandalism, incivility, ownership, borderline threats, and administrator impersonation; user responded to ban with further threats.

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Afrika paprika (talk • contribs • block log), October 11, 2006

Indefinitely blocked with community assent for repeated vulgar insults, non-stop edit-warring, POV-pushing nationalism, disruption, and sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) to continue the above after blocks.

Courtney Akins (talk • contribs • block log), September 8, 2006

Banned for trolling and bad faith nominations on WP:AN/I, WP:FAC, WP:RFA, and talk pages. Created numerous sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected).

American Brit (talk • contribs • block log), January 11, 2007

From the block log: "Malicious use of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) to issue graphic death threats, later proven beyond any reasonable doubt by checkuser and other behavior. Consensus for community ban was given on WP:ANI."

Amorrow (talk • contribs • block log), August 10, 2005

Blocked indefinitely for this. Since then, returned to Wikipedia using numerous sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected). His socks did so much damage to the Elizabeth Morgan article that Jimbo himself intervened and ordered the article rewritten from scratch. Harasses Wikipedians on and off the site and tries to edit by off-wiki proxying.

Ararat arev (talk • contribs • block log), March 28, 2007

Banned for edit warring and use of sockpuppets to continue warring while blocked, after multiple warnings, blocks, and an indefinite block on January 31, 2007.

AWilliamson (talk • contribs • block log), December 16, 2006

One of the many IDs (confirmed, suspected) of Allen Williamson, who was banned after being exposed as the Joan of Arc vandal.

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BabyDweezil (talk • contribs • block log), March 6, 2007

Indefinitely blocked on March 5, after many distinct blocks for disruption, violations of WP:NOT, personal attacks, BLP violations, and assumptions of bad faith. This was endorsed as a ban over the following day.

Benapgar (talk • contribs • block log), March 25, 2006

Indefinitely blocked, after many distinct blocks for personal attacks and disruption. The Arbitration Committee confirmed that he has been banned by the Wikipedia community.

BenH (talk • contribs • block log), March 28, 2007

Refused to answer an RfC regarding poor-quality edits to television station articles, many of which included outright fabrication. Instead, he appeared to continue this vandalism using a number of sockpuppets. He was indefinitely blocked in July 2006, and this block was converted to a community ban when he refused to acknowledge his RfC.

Biochemical Mind (talk • contribs • block log), April 1, 2007

Banned for disruption/trolling, legal threats, and high conflict of interest. Via OTRS email, user sought ten billion dollars in damages from the Wikimedia Foundation for lost business opportunities following the refusal to offer him exclusive control over his now-deleted article Erinacine (currently a redirect). On his talkpage, user also claimed to have reported this "vandalism" to the FBI, and that the "hooligans" who had put warning notices on his talkpage would be excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.

Piotr Blass (talk • contribs • block log), January 17, 2006

Following an AFD deletion of Piotr Blass (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs), his autobiography, continued to recreate it nearly a dozen times, after which it was salted on three different pages. When the page was deleted and unprotected, he proceeded to edit as Pblass2002 (talk • contribs • block log) and recreated his article, which was sent to AfD a second time, resulting in a speedy delete, a final protection against recreation, and a community ban on Blass.

Blu Aardvark (talk • contribs • block log), April 2, 2006

Originally given a short block for personal attacks, which quickly spiraled into an indefinite block when he began using abusive sockpuppets, making further personal attacks both on- and off-wiki, and vandalizing multiple Wikimedia projects. More details here. An ArbCom case banned him for a year. Given a community ban for mass sockpuppetry.

Bobabobabo (talk • contribs • block log), November 2, 2006

Center of massive sockpuppetry involving fair use images and the retention of lengthy Pokémon anime episode lists. After several other accounts were used to edit war over a template and image deletion tags, CheckUser discovered (1, 2) over 75 sock accounts, all of which were blocked for disruption. She later claimed that students had been bullying her and were behind the socks, and proceeded to spam administrators requesting unblocks on her originating account, her IP, and various sockpuppets.

Bonaparte (talk • contribs • block log), January 11, 2006

After many individual blocks for incivility, finally banned for "malicious sockpuppetry and running a botnet".

Daniel Brandt (talk • contribs • block log), November 8, 2005 (rebanned April 5, 2006)

Banned from Wikipedia for repeated legal threats and harassment of Wikipedia editors despite many warnings. The conflict was related to Brandt's attempt to have the article about him deleted from Wikipedia.

BryanFromPalatine (talk • contribs • block log), January 14, 2007

Banned^[specify] for tendentious editing and edit warring, personal attacks, block evasion and persistent disruption through sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) such as DeanHinnen (talk • contribs • block log). Ban endorsed by ArbCom March 29, 2007.

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Cindery (talk • contribs • block log), February 3, 2006

Banned based on an accusation of on- and off-wiki stalking of an administrator, including telephoning death threats, following a long history of disruption and incivility. This allegation has never been proven conclusively. Used sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected, checkuser) to evade ban.

Cplot (talk • contribs • block log), November 30, 2006

Following a one week block for revert warring over his attempt to insert a conspiracy theory on the September 11, 2001 attacks, flooded the site with hundreds of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected, checkuser) and made noxious and ridiculous claims about "Federal clowns" on various community pages. Following this he was quickly banned by general agreement^[specify] as a disruptive troll with no intent to contribute positively . See Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Cplot.

Cognition (talk • contribs • block log), May 16, 2006

From the block log: "disruption, harassment, personal attacks, multiple violation of arbcom rulings, no or very few useful contributions".

Brian G. Crawford (talk • contribs • block log), July 25, 2006

Blocked on the advice^[specify] of WMF counsel Brad Patrick for death threats following an escalating pattern of gross incivility, threats, and harassment. Consensus^[specify] that user is too unstable for Wikipedia.

Colignatus (talk • contribs • block log), March 11, 2006

Banned^[specify] from Wikipedia following a content dispute during which he threatened to complain to two other users' professors and deans and expose them to possible punishment from their schools for edits which he felt were invalid. He proceeded with these threats, and demanded money from the two users for the time he had spent writing a long document about the issues. See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Colignatus for more.

Cretanpride (talk • contribs • block log), September 24, 2006

Banned for using a massive number of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) and attempting to blackmail editors by threatening to murder an innocent girl.

Cute 1 4 u (talk • contribs • block log), August 20, 2006

Focused more on her own user page and tried to promote a MySpace-like atmosphere with her user space. Originally blocked because of her compliance in a "vandalism club" created by another user, but banned by community consensus after the discovery of a large number of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected).

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Arthur Ellis (talk • contribs • block log), February 3, 2007

Originally banned for one month, he built up an impressive log of blocks and bans for block evasion (confirmed, suspected) and editing banned articles in violation of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Warren Kinsella. Checkuser case here. Community ban discussed here.

Encyclopedist (talk • contribs • block log), July 31, 2006

Once one of Wikipedia's prized editors; stopped editing regularly after March 13, 2006; later indefinitely blocked twice after heavy vandalism against John Reid and his appearances as the "CIyde vandal." Later claimed that "Wikipedia is Fascism" in his final edits on July 31, 2006 and left furious comments on his fourth unsuccessful request for adminship. Used sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected). Blocked indefinitely^[specify] for exhausting the community's patience.

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Freestylefrappe (talk • contribs • block log), October 4, 2006

The third former administrator to be banned from the project; desysopped^[specify] by ArbCom for various abuses; returned as KI (talk • contribs • block log) without revealing his previous identity to try to regain adminship; main account blocked after he switched to Ya ya ya ya ya ya (talk • contribs • block log); exhausted the community's patience^[specify] with massive sockpuppetry, trolling, and harassment.

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Jason Gastrich (talk • contribs • block log), April 20, 2006

Banned for one year by the Arbitration Committee on March 21, 2006, for massive sock- and meatpuppetry, canvassing, astroturfing, and personal attacks to push his POV. Following further sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected), his block was extended to indefinite.

Gibraltarian (talk • contribs • block log), December 17, 2005

Engaged in extreme POV-pushing, indiscriminate harassment, and retaliatory vandalism while editing pages on Gibraltar. While being decided against in arbitration, user's main account was blocked for 48 hours on December 12 for disruption. he then deployed sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) to evade the block, leading to an indefinite block on December 17, which ArbCom did not lift. At times, almost all Internet users in Gibraltar have been unable to edit Wikipedia due to collateral damage from blocks of this user. Please see this WP:LTA entry.

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Haham hanuka (talk • contribs • block log), January 22, 2007

For repeated revert warring, block-evading sockpuppetry, and disrupting AFD discussions and WikiProjects, a final violation of 3RR at Adolf Hitler led to an indefinite block endorsed as a ban^[specify] of this individual. Also banned from the Hebrew Wikipedia for similar reasons.

Hardvice (talk • contribs • block log), July 24, 2006

Trolled on the subject of Encyclopedia Dramatica and was suspected to have used a sock puppet to send personal attack emails to many administrators as part of his Encyclopedia Dramatica-related trolling. During the deletion discussion for the article on Encyclopedia Dramatica, he made clearly inappropriate deletion nominations, apparently to prove a point. He was then found to be socking, using a username that robotically made useless edits to boost its edit count, and also followed this practice with the Hardvice username. Finally banned from Wikipedia.

His excellency (talk • contribs • block log), September 3, 2006, for six months; reset 21 March 2007, for another six months

Personal attacks, continued via sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) during the original ban.

Hogeye (talk • contribs • block log), October 1, 2006

Permanently banned^[specify] for exhaustive POV pushing, using dozens of sockpuppets after being banned for various offenses, and an unwillingness to work towards consensus in reaching positive changes to the encyclopedia. Offenses included malicious activity such as vandalism to research templates and personal attacks, including uploading offensive images with the intention to harass editors.

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-Inanna- (talk • contribs • block log), April 5, 2006

After many blocks for edit warring, incivility, and racist personal attacks, user was banned. Used sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected).

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JarlaxleArtemis (talk • contribs • block log), September 17, 2006

Banned for trolling, disruption, and copyright violations. See WP:JARLAXLE for more details. Used sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected). Has been banned before, and the text from his first community ban is reposted below:

Banned permanently for persistently using insulting edit summaries, rude comments on discussion pages, spamming other editors with offensive emails using the "Email this editor" function, replacing pages with garbage, baiting trolls, and a host of other obnoxious and unproductive behaviors. During the pendency of a Request from Arbitration he sent a profanity-laden email to a Board member, and the community viewed this as the final straw and permanently banned him. For more information, see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/JarlaxleArtemis 2 and User:Linuxbeak/Admin stuff/JarlaxleArtemis.

JB196 (talk • contribs • block log), September 8, 2006

Alias of internet professional wrestling journalist Jonathan Barber, who was blocked during an edit war on Vic Grimes (see: WP:LAME entry) for violations of WP:OWN, trolling, and personal attacks. Converted to a [Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive68#Probable socks of banned user: seeking community agreement to ban|community ban] due to his behaviour and attitude to Wikipedia. Since the ban he has had over a hundred confirmed sockpuppets discovered through CheckUser, resulting in a WP:LTA page so more socks can be found.

Jerry Jones (talk • contribs • block log), May 24, 2006

Known previously as JJstroker (talk • contribs • block log), engaged in plagiarism and copyright violations. Edits focused on adding derogatory information about Jews, African Americans and the U.S. Democratic Party, removing negative information about individuals such as Charles Lindbergh and Charles Coughlin, and similar POV-pushing. After his community ban, engaged in sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) to evade his block.

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Karmafist (talk • contribs • block log), August 30, 2006

Second current or former administrator to be banned. Desysopped after this arbitration case, banned^[specify] for engaging in subtle vandalism under numerous sock puppets (confirmed, suspected). See the links added in this post. Initially blocked August 10, but unblocked August 16 as a test of good faith. Two weeks later, the block was reinstated as he showed no signs of improvement.

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Leyasu (talk • contribs • block log), July 9, 2006

Put on revert probation in two distinct Arbcom cases, one in March 2006, the other in June. Regular violation of this parole and use of numerous IP addresses and sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected) to disrupt a range of heavy metal music-related articles exhausted the community's patience.^[specify]

Light current (talk • contribs • block log), February 8, 2007

After a one-month block for personal attacks and incivility, Light current used many sock puppets (confirmed, suspected) and IP addresses to make personal attacks, threatening to "wreak havoc" if the block was not lifted. See Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Light current and this AN/I discussion.

Lou franklin (talk • contribs • block log), May 30, 2006

Engaged in sustained edit warring over a single article against a perceived "gay cabal" over a period of several months before being banned from the article by ArbCom,^[specify] in addition to being put on revert and personal attack parole. After using a sock puppet to evade his sanctions and hence blocked for two weeks, he claimed that the sockpuppet accusation amounted to libel, and was henceforth banned.^[specify]

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Maoririder (talk • contribs • block log), March 19, 2006

Exhausted the community's patience^[specify] with a litany of inappropriate edits and articles. Several experienced users stepped in to try and help but to no avail. Used a number of sockpuppets in an attempt to edit the site, but to his credit made no attempt to disguise the socks as new accounts.

MichaelIsGreat (talk • contribs • block log), June 20, 2006

Initially posted an "essay" (advertisement) at Bösendorfer and player piano. Following its removal he made personal attacks against those who removed the essay from the articles, and was advised on proper policy. Banned for incessantly posting baseless and indiscriminate accusations of censorship, conspiracy, and skulduggery.

Mistress Selina Kyle (talk • contribs • block log), April 5, 2006

After a long history of blocks for incivility, edit warring, and trolling, received a month-long block. When she used a sockpuppet, Bob, just Bob (talk • contribs • block log), to evade the block and make personal attacks, the block was extended to indefinite.^[specify]

Mmbabies (talk • contribs • block log), March 30, 2007

Banned for insertion of nonsense into articles and disruptive sockpuppetry to continue doing so after a indefinite block on February 12, 2007. Some of the suspected socks' edits were abusive and outright threatening, including threats on Christina Aguilera's life (a, b, c) and posting of personal information about Houston-area school bus drivers (d).

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Neutralizer (talk • contribs • block log), December 20, 2006

After a long history of sockpuppetry, notably Ottawaman (talk • contribs • block log) and Canuckster (talk • contribs • block log), tendentious partisan editing, trolling, and legal threats on WP:ANI, Neutralizer eventually exhausted community patience, leading to a ban.

NicAgent (talk • contribs • block log), August 12, 2006

Known to act in good faith while simultaneously perpetrating rampant vandalism through many, many sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected). His "bad hand" account "contributions" include spurious AfD nominations (Wi-Fi and China), trolling, impersonation of better-known vandals and miscellaneous disruption.

Nixer (talk • contribs • block log), January 2, 2007

While this user had many good contributions, his persistent edit-warring, personal attacks, and sockpuppetry exhausted community patience and led to a ban.

Nkras (talk • contribs • block log), February 20, 2007

Banned for POV pushing and revert warring on Marriage and related articles, creation of numerous POV forks, removal of various WikiProjects' templates from articles and talk pages, sockpuppetry, threats of meatpuppetry, abusive language, and disregard for consensus. See discussions here, here, and here.

NorbertArthur (talk • contribs • block log), November 26, 2006

After many individual blocks, personal attacks, disruption, and sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected), user's last block was extended to indefinite and he was banned.

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ParalelUni (talk • contribs • block log), August 11, 2006

Banned for extremely offensive personal attacks and incivility, including reveling in the death of another user's sister. Used sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected). One of a very few cases whose community ban was formally endorsed by the Arbitration Committee.

Patchouli (talk • contribs • block log), February 20, 2007

Banned for repeatedly creating biased and incorrect articles about Iran and Muslims and making biased edits to articles about those topics. The ban may be lifted if Patchouli agrees to stop making such edits, but several community processes have failed in that attempt. Has since used a number of sockpuppets.

Jacob Peters (talk • contribs • block log), January 7, 2007

Banned for persistent sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected, CheckUser) to avoid blocks for revert warring, personal attacks, incivility, disruptive behaviour on Communism-related articles, and exhausting the community's patience.

Pioneer-12 (talk • contribs • block log), May 15, 2005

Banned for insisting that his contributions to talk pages were not licensed under the GFDL, and thus fundamentally denying the terms of use of the site. Returns frequently via open proxies. Ban may be lifted if Pioneer-12 agrees to abide Wikipedia's terms of use and license his signed comments under the GFDL. For more information, see User:Pioneer-12.

PoolGuy (talk • contribs • block log), June 25, 2006

Engaged in abusive sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected). After an arbitration ruling preventing him from holding more than one unblocked account, he was banned for continuing his antics and generally making no positive contributions.

Punk Boi 8 (talk • contribs • block log), March 25, 2007

Previously known as Nathannoblet, banned for repeatedly violating the terms of his voluntary probation, which was enacted in lieu of a community ban at this discussion. Unlike most community bans, this ban was set to last one year. Later extended to April 2, 2008, due to ban evasion.

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Rovoam (talk • contribs • block log), April 11, 2005

After an ArbCom case limited his editing, Rovoam employed anon IPs from various service providers (AOL, MSN, NetZero, RoadRunner, DSLExtreme) to further his editing agenda and to vandalize user and talk pages. Has been extremely persistent in vandalizing numerous Azerbaijan- and Turkey-related entries and even Template:Europe (removing Azerbaijan from the list). He also threatened to escalate his efforts, including using "a DoS attack, which will make Wikipedia unavailable for all editors". More updated information and a list of IP addresses are provided at User:Rovoam.

Roitr (talk • contribs • block log), March 25, 2007

Indefinitely blocked on March 11, 2006, for inserting false information about military ranks and the Olympic Games, numerous violations of the three-revert rule, and edit warring. For a year, he evaded this block with a large network of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected). Following a blizzard of vandalism by his socks on March 22, 2007, the block was converted to a community ban. See WP:LTA/Roitr.

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Sarvabhaum (talk • contribs • block log), February 12, 2007

Banned after continuous edit warring and sockpuppetry to get around blocks for 3RR despite numerous warnings.

SEGA (talk • contribs • block log), March 31, 2007

Blocked indefinitely on January 1 for using massive sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) to upload unfree images despite warnings. Through socks, continued massive copyright violations after block. Banned in order to support block-on-sight of these sockpuppets and mass reversion of their edits.

Sgrayban (talk • contribs • block log), May 11, 2006

Initially banned^[specify] for sending legal threats through e-mail to another user who proceeded to post the threats on a request for comment the users were having against each other. Block was overturned on appeal but reissued^[specify] after more legal threats.

Sheynhertz-Unbayg (talk • contribs • block log), August 30, 2006

Created a large cleanup problem now being tackled at Wikipedia:SU. After not answering to his RfC and other attempts to communicate with him, and evading blocks by using sock puppets (confirmed, suspected), he was eventually banned.

Shuppiluliuma (talk • contribs • block log), February 22, 2007

Also known as DragutBarbarossa (talk • contribs • block log) and StamboulioteParExcellence (talk • contribs • block log). Banned for personal attacks, uncooperative behaviour, edit-warring, bad image uploads, and block evasion using sockpuppets.

SirIsaacBrock (talk • contribs • block log), July 14, 2006

Banned^[specify] after extensive and prolonged disruptive behavior through rampant sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) to evade previous blocks. His main account and sockpuppets amassed dozens of blocks combined.

SndrAndrss (talk • contribs • block log), March 17, 2007

Banned for persistent disruptive editing, repeated sockpuppetry for block evasion, and an unwillingness (or inability) to work or communicate with other editors. He does not usually respond to messages addressed to him. His targets were articles related to football, the Olympics, skiing, and rally.

Starwars1955 (talk • contribs • block log), February 14, 2007

Banned for edit-warring, repeated sockpuppetry (confirmed, suspected) for block evasion, personal attacks, and refusal to work with other editors. Primary target was Brett Favre.

SummerThunder (talk • contribs • block log), December 31, 2006

Was banned^[specify] from the Chinese Wikipedia because of his qualms against its and other forms of censorship in mainland China. He brought his tirade to the English Wikipedia, and after evading a 24-hour block for personal attacks by using a multitude of sock puppets and IP addresses, SummerThunder's block was extended to indefinite. See Wikipedia:Long term abuse/SummerThunder.

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Thewolfstar (talk • contribs • block log), May 9, 2006

Banned for exhausting the community's patience by making personal attacks. She has since been responsible for a number of sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected).

Tommstein (talk • contribs • block log), January 24, 2006

While being subject of an Arbitration case, Tommstein was blocked indefinitely after insulting several members of the ArbCom. ArbCom acknowledged and confirmed that Tommstein had been banned by the Wikipedia community.

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Verdict (talk • contribs • block log), March 18, 2007

Banned for excessive sockpuppets (confirmed, suspected), uploading and deceptively labeling copyrighted images as free use to cause legal problems for Wikipedia, death threats, edit warring, impersonation of other users, etc.

Additionally, has issued a specific legal threat in addition to unabated use of abusive sockpuppets, both here and on commons.wikimedia.org. --Yamla 02:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

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Wiki brah (talk • contribs • block log), January 8, 2006

Banned for trolling and highly inappropriate edits. User claimed to be an autistic young man from Brazil with a penchant for "hot Jewish sluts" and apparent real-life drug abuse based on the sometimes disjointed, nonsensical edits made on numerous articles and user pages. His alleged condition was taken under consideration with a number of users stepping in to help, but in the end exhausted the community's patience with his behavior. Sockpuppetry suspected.

WikiWoo (talk • contribs • block log), August 28, 2006

Banned for unrelenting POV pushing, personal attacks, and disruption regarding conspiracy theories about the government of Ontario. Previously edited as WikiRoo (talk • contribs • block log) and WikiDoo (talk • contribs • block log), among other IDs (confirmed, suspected).

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Xed (talk • contribs • block log), July 12, 2006

For blatant trolling at User talk:Jimbo Wales, Xed was simultaneously blocked by two administrators. The indefinite block was broadly supported at WP:AN/I. Jimbo Wales lifted the block to "give him one last chance". However, after Xed continued trolling, Jimbo reinstated the block, but does not consider Xed to be "banned by Jimbo".

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Zaphnathpaaneah (talk • contribs • block log), October 26, 2006

Banned indefinitely for race baiting, horrid personal attacks and massive POV pushing regarding the Black people article. Used a sleeper account, Osirica (talk • contribs • block log), to try to regain access to the article and continue his screed.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Banning policy
• Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Completed requests

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