User:Smallbones/Pres3

Banc De Binary article on Wikipedia

7/1/2015-1/11/2017 -100,472 pageviews (179/day)

• 2012, December?
  • Article created by a later-banned sock (possible link to Morning277)
  • deleted quickly by OrangeMike

• 2013, January article recreated
  • possibly by User:WhoElsePoems/WEP2013
  • not blocked, but obviously paid
• February
  • Deleted at AfD
• May
  • recreated by later-banned Morning277 sock
• June 8, 2013 Civil suit info in article (after 2 days) not regular editor
• June 2013 thru May 2014
  • Edit war ~375 edits
  • includes a dozen socks later-banned on one side
  • 1 possibly enraged victim,
  • a few informed newbies
  • some good regulars
  • admins doing their job well
    • but did the article give sufficient warning?

Hitting the fan

• 2014, May AfD
  • defeated by regular Wikipedia editors
  • vs. multiple newby, anon, BDB editors
• June 3 - 1st of 3 later-declared later-banned paid editors starts editing
• June 4 - $10,000 fee offered to clean up article
• June 4 - User:Notnamed starts 3rd AfD, kept by June 6
• June 7 - User:Notnamed deletes mass of text
• June 8 - My 1st edit to article
  • Protection (still current)
• June 16 - ToU change announced
• ~120 edits in June. Much more on talk.
• ~30 edits rest of 2014
• 9 edits in 2015
• 85 edits in 2016

• Banned editors, Other BDB supporters
• latest 1/8/2017, 12/15/2016
• 2016 - 4
• 2015 - 1
• 2014 - 12, 2
• 2013 - 3, 1 + 5 anons

Out of a total of 128 editors

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