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Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Best known for IP

Basic information

"Best known for" IP (BKFIP) is an editor who has been repeatedly blocked since 2011 due to edit warring and incivility. They were community banned in 2016.[1]

Often editing from IPs around London but has also edited from Chile and other foreign IP and appears to travel frequently, the editor will regularly remove the phrase "best known for" or other superlatives claiming violation of WP:NPOV and edit war over it with personal attacks. In 2017, BKFIP started using sockpuppet accounts, and has continued to edit both logged in via sock accounts and logged out via IPs.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

Habitual behavior

The principal problem with this case is that many edits made by this user are good-faith edits that are often supported by editors when looked at on their individual merits. This makes issues of conduct harder to enforce. That said, the IP will edit war with numerous other editors—including with offensive and aggressive summaries—even when his edits are poor, and a talk page thread is opened to explain the situation.

The editor involved has stated they are frustrated with being reverted without explanation ("These arbitrary reverts are a real slap in the face") and says that they get "more satisfaction out of responding viciously than (they) would out of responding politely, and the end result is exactly the same".

They may also make accusations of poor English against editors with whom they are in dispute (example).

They have a limited knowledge of Wikipedia policies and guidelines and will attempt to bluff/bullshit their way through related discussions (see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1145#User:Levivich and Self-referential humor).

Cases

Other notes

The IPs geolocate to South America, often Santiago, Chile, but sometimes from Brazil.

Many are near London: 46.37.55.80, 82.33.71.205, 83.223.124.17, 92.234.25.254, etc. - SummerPhD (talk) 05:35, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Also near London 51.7.229.224, 51.7.34.168, 51.7.229.207. Cptmrmcmillan (talk) 15:06, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
IP can geolocate pretty much anywhere, I've noticed Canada, California, Australia. Appears to travel frequently. WCMemail 07:09, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Latest "contributions" appear to be from New Zealand. Usual aggressive comments and poor editing, see Wow! signal. Blocked again. David J Johnson (talk) 16:57, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User comments

Confirmed and suspected IP addresses

Admission from IP that this list is "massively incomplete".

Known range blocks

The user regularly switches IPs to evade blocks. Former and ongoing range blocks include:

Named accounts