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Thai gun hoaxster
Original name(s)Thai gun hoaxster
Wikilifespan2017-present
Known IPsSee below
Physical locationThailand
InstructionsSuspected 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.
StatusActive

Basic information

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The Thai gun hoaxster is an IP editor that adds user entries in firearm articles usually with false references taken from legitimate entries in the same or other articles. Sometimes, he just makes up ref names. He also has sometimes edited the infoboxes to give incorrect service histories. They uses IP addresses from Thailand and has been active since at least 2017.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

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Generally user sections in articles on firearms.

Habitual behavior

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Copy/pastes existing references on other user entries to falsely substantiate the ones that he wants to add. He has IP hopped to edit war when others have reverted him. When editing, he will often use the article or section title as his edit summary.

Cases

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History

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These are the user reports documenting the history of this hoaxster:

Other notes

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IPv4 addresses

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Discrete addresses as examples
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Ranges
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IPv6 addresses

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Discrete addresses as examples
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Confirmed and suspected accounts

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This editor has usually used IP addresses although he has used one account known to the filing checkuser.