Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/MariaJaydHicky

MariaJaydHicky

Wikilifespan	2011–present
Known IPs	2A02:C7D:0:0:0:0:0:0/33 (talk · contribs) 2A02:C7F:708D:5700:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs) 2A04:4A43:4000:0:0:0:0:0/36 (talk · contribs) 2A04:4A43:5220:0:0:0:0:0/43 (talk · contribs) 185.225.28.0/24 (talk · contribs) 82.132.216.0/22 (talk · contribs) 82.132.224.0/20 (talk · contribs) 92.40.128.0/17 (talk · contribs) 109.144.0.0/16 (talk · contribs)
Physical location	England, Scotland and Turkey
Sockpuppet investigations	Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MariaJaydHicky
Instructions	Suspected socks might be tagged and should be reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, this long-term abuse report might be included.
Status	Active

Basic information

MariaJaydHicky (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI ^confirmed _suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
MariaJaydHicky (talk · contribs) is a banned editor from England (although, since 2024, they have started using Turkish IPs). MariaJaydHicky edits articles related to music, in concrete, those related to Contemporary R&B (R&B). MariaJaydHicky got blocked due to the persistent unsourced addition of R&B (and other genres) to articles. Later, several similarly-named sockpuppets appeared. MariaJaydHicky was banned in 2014. Since then, the user has attempted to game the system by adding sources to their edits (mostly related to R&B). Per WP:BMB, the edits are to be reverted. If the edits are to be kept, first, they must be verified to be true and correct, and MariaJaydHicky should not be recognized for them.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

Anything related to Category:Contemporary R&B and more recently Category:Hip hop music.

Habitual behavior

• New accounts adding unsourced genres to related articles. [1]
• New accounts adding sourced genres, [2][3] and edit requests which aim to do that. [4]

New users normally don't care about the sources. In the first example, "hip hop" is not mentioned; in the second, the reference goes to a completely different article.

• New accounts doing this or this or this

• As above, newly created accounts normally don't do that.

• Misinterpreting sources (for a further explanation, refer to WP:EXPLICITGENRES):

• [5] interprets "hip-hop jams transition into breath taking ballads, or seductive slow burning R&B" as "hip hop and R&B album".
• [6] interprets "Love Goes builds on the tender-voiced R&B style of the first two albums" as "R&B album"

• Falsification of sources:

• [7] changes "Examples of new jack swing songs from this time are Michael Jackson's 'Remember the Time' and Whitney Houston's 'I'm Your Baby Tonight'." to "new jack swing album".
• [8] changes "confident dance-pop." to "confident dance-pop and R&B." despite the source never says it.

• Repetitive edit summaries: [9][10]
• R&B goes first [11][12][13]
• Returns to the articles they edit, even after several years. Long-term edit-warring [14], even with VPNs.[15]
• A distaste for the pop genre in the pages of the artists they modify.[16][17]
• Claiming other users are socks when reverting said user's recent edit in their edit summaries.[18][19][20]

Cases

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MariaJaydHicky/Archive, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MariaJaydHicky/Archive/1 and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MariaJaydHicky/Archive/2 include more patterns.

Confirmed and suspected accounts

• Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of MariaJaydHicky
• Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of MariaJaydHicky