Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Googie man

Googie man
Wikilifespan	2004–2008 (user); 2008–present (IPs)
Known IPs	see section
Physical location	Florida
Instructions	Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. 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.
Status	Pending Approval

Basic information

Googie man (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI)
Comprehensive edits analysis

Googie man is a user who began editing Wikipedia in 2004 and was blocked for disruptive editing (block summary: "[1] and many others") in 2008. Excluding one edit, user began editing in earnest as 24.73.197.194 the same year as the block, in 2008. The apparent connection to the Googie man account comes from several edits on user talk pages, where the IP signs off as "the former editor Googie Man."[2][3][4][5]

Beginning 2012, 24.73.197.194 (aka Googie man) began disrupting/vandalizing the article Saturday Night Live season 38. I warned the IP's talk page not to be disruptive, but the user's behavior persisted. It continued through 2013 and 2014, when that specific IP received its first block (the IP is currently blocked for three years by User:Ad Orientem, see block log: [6]). However, the user would circumvent the blocks by using other IP addresses specifically to disrupt SNL season pages. A full list of IP addresses can be found below.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

Saturday Night Live season pages:

Habitual behavior

Editor regularly uses IP addresses – all from Florida – to disrupt Saturday Night Live season pages, removing blocks of text including wiki markup that transcludes tables to List of Saturday Night Live episodes, without leaving an edit summary.

Involved IP addresses

97.76.226.66 (April 2013 – November 2024) – last block expired April 2021
24.129.175.215 (September 2022)
24.227.47.18 (October 2020) – last block expired November 2020
67.79.157.50 (July 2018; May 2019; February 2020) – last block expired February 2021
2603:9000:8D10:C900:8A3:6448:22FF:515C (January 2020) – last block expired February 2020
24.129.175.58 (August 2018; December 2019) – last block expired September 2020
24.227.92.114 (March 2019; September 2019) – last block expired September 2020
74.120.47.82 (January 2016; May – September 2019) – last block expired September 2020
108.190.183.210 (June 2019) – last block expired July 2019
24.73.197.194 (December 2012 – October 2018) – last block expired October 2021
67.78.198.166 (December 2017 – January 2018) – last block expired July 2018
67.79.142.235 (December 2012; May 2013)
67.79.142.232 (December 2012)