Basileus/Wikipedia

Deathrocker / Daddy Kindsoul

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&user=Daddy_Kindsoul" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">In 2005, [[wikipedia:Category_talk:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Yorkshirian|Yorkshirian started his or her Wikipedia career]] as "Deathnocker". The account was mainly active on articles about heavy metal. Deathrockers failed to get along with others and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3ADeathrocker" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">developed a massive block log for edit warring. In 2006, Deathrockers became the focus for [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Deathrocker|an ArbCom case]] and ended up with [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Deathrocker#Deathrocker_placed_on_revert_parole|revert restrictions]]. Deathrocker https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3ADeathrocker" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">failed to follow the restrictions.

In 2007, Deathrocker https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=renameuser&page=User%3ADeathrocker" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">become "Daddy Kindsoul". Deathrocker requested the name change because https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple&diff=120706092"[he" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">or she] wish[ed] to have a name which is more representative of [his or her] personality and reflective of [her or her] lifestyle." Daddy Kindsoul was now heavily involved in articles related to Italian [[soccer|football]].

SalvoCalcio / CalcioSalvo

Despite the change in name and focus, Daddy Kindsoul continued to edit war, and on June 22, 2007, he or she https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3ADaddy_Kindsoul" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">became blocked for a month. Daddy Kindsoul didn't seek to fairly serve out his or sentence, so he or she evaded his block by https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&page=User%3ASalvoCalcio" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">creating the "SalvoCalcio" account. SalvoCalcio initially worked on articles related to Italian football but later became focused on articles related to Yorkshire and Robin Hood. By July 23rd, Daddy Kindsoul's block existed, so Daddy Kindsoul logged out of his SalvoCalcio account, logged into his Daddy Soulsoul, and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20070724000000&contribs=user&target=Daddy_Kindsoul&offset=20070724000000" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">began editing as "Daddy Kindsoul" again.

Although Daddy Kindsoul can now edit with his opr her proper account now, he or she wanted to continue using his or her CalcioSalvo sockpuppet account; however, when Daddy Kindsoul tried to log back in as "CalcioSalvo", he or she found that he or she had forgotten the password (Daddy Kindsoul deleted the [[cookie]] for the CalcioSalvo when he log out in of the "CalcioSalvo" account order to log into the "Daddy Kindsoul" account). As a result, on the same day Daddy Kindsoul began editing again, Daddy Kindsoul https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&page=User%3ACalcioSalvo" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">created the "CalcioSalvo" account. By now, Daddy Kindsoul began to give his or her accounts different roles: Daddy Kindsoul would edit articles on Italian football while CalcioSalvo would edit articles related to Yorkshire and Robin Hood.

The end of Daddy Kindsoul

In September 2007, Yamla blocked Daddy for a year. Several hours after the Daddy Kindsoul account was blocked, Kindsoul https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&user=Soprani" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">created his or her "Soprani" account (thus continuing the tradition of Italian usernames that started with SalvoCalcio's creation). The Soprani continued from where the Daddy Kindsoul account left off, which made [[wikipedia:User_talk:Yamla/Archive_12#Block_evasion.3F|catching the sockpuppetry]] easy. Yamla blocked Soprani, and Daddy Kindsoul responded by creating more sockpuppets and harassing Yamla.

Early Yorkshirian

A couple of days after https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3ASoprani" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the initial block of the Soprani account, Daddy Kindsoul https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&page=User%3AYorkshirian" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">created the "Yorkshirian" account. Initially, Yorkshirian worked mainly on articles related to British history and [[Catholicism|Roman Catholicism]].

By January 2008, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive354#User:Yorkshirian" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">it was evident that Yorkshirian had trouble playing nice with others. During that month, Yorkshirian [[wikipedia:Talk:Yorkshire/Archive_1#Infobox|began clashing]] with MRSC, Jza84, and others over the "Yorkshire" article; thus starting the animosities that'll eventually led to another ArbCom case.

As a Roman Catholic and a Brit, Yorkshirian became involved in Wikipedia's article on [[Guy Fawkes]]. Yorkshirian https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy_Fawkes&diff=172884528&oldid=172884255" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sought to keep the "In popular culture" section of the article short. Given the Guy Fawkes fandom after the release of the [[V for Vendetta]] film, Yorkshirian was walking into a losing battle. On February 11, 2008, photographer David Shankbone https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy_Fawkes&diff=190635156&oldid=190552764" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">added a photograph of [[Project Chanology|an anti-Scientology protester]] to the article, and Yorkshirian https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy_Fawkes&diff=190876399&oldid=190752111" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">would have none of that and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy_Fawkes&diff=190876542&oldid=190876399" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">removed references to Project Chanology from the article as well. This led to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring&oldid=191011558#User:Yorkshirian_reported_by_User:David_Shankbone_.28Result:_24_h.29" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">an edit war, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3AYorkshirian" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a 24-hour block, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy_Fawkes&offset=20080215000000&action=history" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">more edit warring, [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive368#User:Yorkshirian|an ANI thread]], and finally, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3AYorkshirian" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a 48-hour block.

Road to arbitration

Early April 2008, Jza84 [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RRArchive69#User:Yorkshirian_reported_by_User:Jza84_.28Result:_Protected.29|reported Yorkshirian's string of edit warrring]] on the 3RR noticeboard, but this didn't deter Yorshirian from misbehaving. Early next month, Jza84 [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Wikiquette_assistance/archive44#User:Yorkshirian_.28again.29|once again reported]] Yorkshirian's misconduct on a noticeboard, and when that discussion failed to settle things, MRSC started [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Yorkshirian|a RfC/U discussion]] on Yorkshirian. By May 8th, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Yorkshirian&action=history" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">activity on the RfC/U discussion more or less ceased. Despite threads on two dramaboards and RfC/U, Wikipedia's sysops failed to do anything about Yorshirian, which allowed the animosities and conflict to escalate.

In early May, Harkey Lodger discovered Yorkshirian's connection to the "SalvoCalcio" and the "CalcioSalvo" accounts based on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MRSC/Archive_11&diff=210423109&oldid=210142040" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">similar mannerisms and started [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets/Yorkshirian|an sockpuppetry investigation]]. Yorkshirian admitted that the SalvoCalcio and CalcioSalvo belonged to him or her but https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ASuspected_sock_puppets%2FYorkshirian&diff=210526992&oldid=210525053" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claimed that he created that Yorkshirian account was created due to losing the password to the CalcioSalvo account. Unfortunately, the Wikipedians didn't yet learn of Yorkshirian's connection to Daddy Kindsoul and allowed Yorkshirian off the hook.

In mid-May 2008, Jza84 was nominated to receive sysop rights, and Yorkshirian [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Jza84#Oppose|was one of the few people who opposed the nomination]]. Unfortunately, Yorkshirian's whining https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&page=User%3AJza84" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">failed to prevent Jza86 from becoming a sysop.

Arbitration

Since the sysops failed to do anything about Yorkshirian in April and May, KieferSkunk, who [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Yorkshirian#Outside_view_by_KieferSkunk|offered an outside view]] in the May RfC/U discussion, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArbitration%2FRequests&diff=221731976&oldid=221438828" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">requested ArbCom's intervention on June 25th.

Late June 26th, Ddstretch https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AYorkshirian&diff=221968836&oldid=221914329" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">warned Yorkshirian not to make any more personal attacks. Yorkshirian responded by https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADdstretch&diff=222011165&oldid=221977838" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claiming that Ddstretch and Jza84 were conspiring against him or her. Ddstretch responded by https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3AYorkshirian&type=block" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blocking Yorkshirian. Viridae denied Yorkshirian's first two unblock requests (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yorkshirian&diff=222044853&oldid=222042804]," class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yorkshirian&diff=222051003&oldid=222046298), but [[Sam Blacketer]] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yorkshirian&oldid=222059684#Request_for_Unblock" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">unblocked Yorkshirian under the condition that Yorkshirian stops messing with articles on counties and avoids interacting with his or her rivals.

By mid-July 2008, [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Yorkshirian/Proposed_decision#Yorkshirian|ArbCom found]] that:

Yorkshirian has engaged in a variety of unseemly conduct, including personal attacks, incivility and assumptions of bad faith (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selby&diff=prev&oldid=202779531]," class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yorkshirian&diff=prev&oldid=203054200); edit-warring (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Britain_in_the_Middle_Ages&diff=prev&oldid=188581235]," class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Historical_and_alternative_regions_of_England&diff=prev&oldid=188581392, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Anglo-Saxon_England&diff=prev&oldid=188581072]," class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_England&diff=prev&oldid=188581024, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northumbria&diff=prev&oldid=188580592]);" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">and attempts to use Wikipedia as a battleground along geographical, cultural, and ideological lines ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yorkshire&diff=176933010&oldid=176790216, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_geography/How_to_write_about_counties&diff=next&oldid=210047683]," class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saddleworth_White_Rose_Society&diff=209884901&oldid=209883453, "" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Yorkshirian#Statement_by_Yorkshirian]).

" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">They then [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Yorkshirian/Proposed_decision#Yorkshirian_banned|banned Yorkshirian from Wikipedia] for a year.

Animagentile / Gennarous

As stated towards the end of the [[Basileus#SalvoCalcio_.2F_CalcioSalvo|"SalvoCalcio / CalcioSalvo" section]] of the article, Daddy Kindsoul / Yorkshirian assigned different roles to his various accounts, and Yorkshirian continued to create and operate such accounts after the banning of the Daddy Kindsoul account. [[wikipedia:Special:Contributions/S.Azzopardi|Some accounts]] edited football-related articles, [[wikipedia:Special:Contributions/Cult_Fan|other accounts]] edited heavy metal articles, the Yorkshirian account was used for articles related to Yorkshire and British history, and then there's the account used for articles related to fascism: [[wikipedia:Special:Contributions/Gennarous|Gennarous]], which https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=renameuser&page=User%3AAnimagentile" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">was initially known as "Animagentile".

Yorkshirian created the "Animagentile" account in November 2007. He initially used the account to work on articles related to Italian history, but by late December 2007, Animagentile https://tools.wmflabs.org/usersearch/usersearch.py?name=Gennarous&page=Alessandra_Mussolini&server=enwiki" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">was revising the article on Mussolini's granddaughter. Gennerous has [[wikipedia:User:Gennarous/Interests|the following]] to say about Alessandra Mussolini:

I'm intrigued by women with good looks and fortitude so you may see me edit articles such as [[wikipedia:Brigitte Bardot|Brigitte Bardot]] and [[wikipedia:Alessandra Mussolini|Alessandra Mussolini]]. Beauty and brains, perfect combo.

Animagentile soon became one of [[Rule 63|female Mussolini]]'s fiercest protectors and began https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alessandra_Mussolini&diff=182057057&oldid=181978961" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">labeling https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:66.65.129.159&diff=182057503" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">anyone https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alessandra_Mussolini&diff=190741152&oldid=189929316" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">who https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alessandra_Mussolini&diff=191665467&oldid=191624777" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dared defile female Mussolini's image as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alessandra_Mussolini&diff=197903410&oldid=197902444" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alessandra_Mussolini&diff=198408425&oldid=198198431" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">"communist trolls". Animagentile also began https://tools.wmflabs.org/usersearch/usersearch.py?name=Gennarous&page=Benito_Mussolini&server=enwiki&max=500" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">revising the article on granddad Mussolini.

In February 2008, Animagentile had his or her username changed to "Gennarous" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple&diff=193175918&oldid=193173440" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">since "Gentile" was allegedly his or her real surname.

In April 2008, Gennarous' behavior and history of insulting others earned him or her [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive397#Personal_attacks.2C_incivil_and_abusive_edits.2Fedit_summaries_by_User:Gennarous|an ANI thread]] and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3AGennarous" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a block.

In June 2008, Gennarous began revising Wikipedia's articles on Fascism and Nazism. That month, Esimal https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nazism&diff=217983867&oldid=217595506" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">added some anti-Christian material to the "Nazism" article, and Gennarous, a devout Roman Catholic, became deeply offended and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nazism&diff=218209543&oldid=218052216" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">removed the material. This https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nazism&offset=20080619000000&limit=90&action=history" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">transformed into an edit war, and Generaous [[wikipedia:Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Christianity/Noticeboard/Archive_4#New_Age_Pagan.2FAtheist_attack_Christianity_on_.22Nazism.22_article|attempted to use WikiProject Christianity]] as his [[personal army]]. At the height of the edit war, Esimal https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rodhullandemu/Archive/42&oldid=220217262#Help" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">attempted to have [[Rodhullandemu]] intervene. Rodhullandemu responded by https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=protect&page=Nazism&year=2008&month=6" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">protecting the article and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gennarous&diff=220216843&oldid=220213308" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">warning Gennarous https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Esimal&diff=220216961&oldid=220208593" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">and Esimal to [[wiktionary:knock_it_off|knock it off]].

Gennarous vs Cberlet

On June 20, 2008, Gennarous [[wikipedia:Talk:Fascism/Archive_21#Neo-Marxist_composed_false_information_in_the_intro|began arguing with and attacking]] [[Chip Berlet]]. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fascism&offset=20080706000000&action=history" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">By July 4th, Gennarous was editing warring with Berlet, and Rodhullandemu https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AGennarous&diff=223745949&oldid=223619611" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">had to step in and protect the article. After the protection expired, Gennarous https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fascism&diff=224894621&oldid=224894345" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reverted the article back to his preferred version and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fascism&diff=224982624&oldid=224894345" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rewrote the article without discussion. Rodhullandemu responded by https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3AGennarous" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blocking Gennarous for two days.

By July 14th, Gennarous' block had expired, and he or she once again [[wikipedia:Talk:Fascism/Archive_21#Chip_Berlet.27s_intentional_holding_back_of_article_progress|started attacking Chip Berlet]] and even https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Fascism&diff=225499267&oldid=225499057" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">accused "Bobisbob" of being Berlet's sockpuppet. Rodhullandemu then https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3AGennarous" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blocked Gennarous for an entire week.

On July 24th, Gennarous https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Gennarous&diff=227679127&oldid=209311963" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">added the following message to his userpage:

I believe that Wikipedia can be a grand tool, because it helps inform people about [[wikipedia:Two Sicilies|the]] [[wikipedia:Roman Empire|great]] [[wikipedia:Ancient Greece|cultures]] [[wikipedia:Aragonese Empire|of]] the [[wikipedia:Christianity|world]] and the rich history of this little planet we all call home. In the sanitised, anti-cultural, pro-ignorance age, the proof of existence of cultures is essential. The only problem with Wikipedia is when [[wikipedia:Falsity|subversives]] try to infiltrate the system, acting as a turd in the punch bowl of our Wikipedia experience. For example there is a huge problem with [[wikipedia:Federal Europe|EU Federalist]] perverts manipulating Wikipedia information in the hopes of "inventing" their fantasy faceless empire. Ókhi!

Sockpuppet purge

Early August 2008, [[wikipedia:User_talk:Thatcher/Archive21#Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser.2FCase.2FMagdelenaDiArco_2|Thatcher and Knepflerle were investigating a sockpuppeteer]] that revised Malta-related articles, and Knepflerle bought an account known as [[wikipedia:Special:Contributions/Cradashj|Cradashj]] to Thatcher's attention. After some investigation and use of the CheckUser tool, [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive460#Yorkshirian|Thatcher uncovered Yorkshirian's network of sockpuppets]], including Gennarous, and Ultraexactzz blocked them all.

Commons

Yorkshirian would continue to create sockpuppets on Wikipedia, but he or she also began to spend more time and effort at the Wikimedia Commons. Yorkshirian had been a Commons user https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&user=Deathrocker" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">since his or her Deathrocker days, and he or she contributed there https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&user=Yorkshirian" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">as "Yorkshirian" and https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&user=Gennarous" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">as "Gennarous". After these account were banned on the English Wikipedia, Yorkshirian https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&page=User%3AThomas_Gun" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">created "Thomas Gun". In late August 2008, Jza84 [[commons:Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive_10#User:Thomas_Gun|tried and failed]] to have Thomas Gun banned from Commons. Since Commons doesn't have articles to edit war and argue over, Thomas Gun an able to avoid trouble and a block.

Yorkshirian's return and final ban

In July 2009, after two failed attempts to have his or her ban overturned earlier that year, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3AYorkshirian" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yorkshirian was unbanned. By August, Yorkshirian was once again https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=307185586" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">making claims of a vast Communist conspiracy, and by September, Yorkshiran [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive565#Yorkshirian|was once again the focus of an ANI thread]] and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3AYorkshirian&type=block" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">briefly blocked.

In July 2009, Yorkshirian https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_National_Party&diff=303093425&oldid=302967362" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">began to edit the "British National Pary. In November 2009, he or she voted to keep [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Labour_Party_immigration_scandal|the "Labour Party immigration scandal" article]], [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes|the "Mass killings under Communist regimes" article]], and [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Gr8opinionater/Userboxes/National_Socialism|the Nazi userbox]].

In January 2010, Yorkshirian increased https://tools.wmflabs.org/usersearch/usersearch.py?name=Yorkshirian&page=British_National_Party&server=enwiki&max=500" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">his or her involvement in the "British National Party" article substantially. By the 19th, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_National_Party&offset=20100124000000&action=history" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yorkshirian was edit warring with others. In early February, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_National_Party&offset=20100204000000&action=history" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">there was more edit warring, and Snowded https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yorkshirian&diff=341643997&oldid=341554904" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">issued a warning to Yorkshirian. Yorkshirian https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yorkshirian&diff=341644153&oldid=341643997" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dismissed the warning and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASnowded&diff=341644471&oldid=341562067" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">left a condescending comment on Snowden's talk page. When Snowden [[wikipedia:User_talk:Snowded/Autoarchive_17#Pendantry|gave Yorkshirian an ultimatum]], Yorkshirian decided to strike first by [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive594#British_National_Party|starting a ANI thread]] before Snowded. Ultimately, no one sided with Yorkshirian, and a sysop https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yorkshirian&diff=341706854&oldid=341647465" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">issued a fresh, new warning to Yorkshirian. Afterwards, Yorkshirian made feeble, petty attempts at revenge against Snowded by belittling Snowded's Welsh ancestry: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ADave_Snowden&diff=345832087&oldid=345736491]," class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Snowded&diff=349160455&oldid=349103785.

In March 2010, Yorkshirian https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_National_Party&diff=349465059&oldid=349464349" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rewrote the introduction of the BNP article without consensus, which https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_National_Party&diff=349529364&oldid=349520187" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">initiated an edit war with Snowded. The article https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=20100314000000&limit=3&type=protect&page=British_National_Party" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">had to be protected twice before the edit warring ceased. During the conflict, Yorkshirian apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yorkshirian&diff=349502620&oldid=349501969" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">attempted to out an user (http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=71424#p71424" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">most likely "The_Four_Deuces").

On March 18th, [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive603#Yorkshirian|one final ANI thread was created]] on Yorkshirian, and consensus was obtained to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3AYorkshirian" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ban Yorkshirian from Wikipedia for good.