A major cleanup is ongoing relating to Jagged 85 (talk · contribs) who has made over 87,000 article edits since 2005. It has been found that many edits involve the undue promotion of Islamic and other non-European scholarship and achievements. In addition, there has been a severe misuse of sources: misrepresenting what a source has asserted; reporting only one side from a source; quoting out of context; inventing claims using a source related to the topic but which does not verify the claim.

Jagged 85 was indefinitely blocked on 17 September 2012, and was community banned on 22 September 2012 (ANI permalink). The cleanup lists below show all article edits made by the user.

• WT:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Cleanup12 edits by 86.157.103.109 (talk · contribs)

• WP:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Computer Games Evidence September 2012
• WP:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Video Game Genres Evidence September 2012
• WP:Requests for comment/Jagged 85 April 2010
• WT:Requests for comment/Jagged 85 discussions and cleanup plans, April 2010 – September 2012
• WP:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Evidence April 2010
• WP:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Recent evidence April 2010
• User:Spacepotato/Misuse of sources April 2010
• User:Spacepotato/Examples of original research in Wikipedia September 2009
• WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Jagged 85/Archive also edited as 193.164.132.6 and 93.97.55.135

Following are lists showing all articles (in alphabetical order) that appear on the cleanup pages:

• WP:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Articles main
• WP:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Articles other

These links can be used to view recent changes (up to the last 30 days) for listed articles:

• Recent changes to main articles
• Recent changes to other articles
• Recent changes to cleanup pages

• Pick a page from Cleanup lists (below).

  For example, Cleanup1 currently starts "Antisemitism: (18 edits, 7 major, +131825) (+128)(+131)..."

  "(+128)" is a diff of an edit by Jagged 85 which involved adding 128 characters (large additions are in bold because the tool used to create the links is intended to highlight possible copyright violations).

• Check what text was altered by the edits.
• Often, there will be many edits in one or two small sections regarding ancient or medieval history. A useful approach is to use the diffs to see which sections were edited, and which sources were added: those sections and sources in the current article need to be carefully checked, particularly for claims like "X was the first to...".
• Assess whether the current text satisfies relevant policies such as WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:NPOV (particularly WP:DUE in WP:NPOV).
• If necessary, remove or refactor text as required. Per WP:BURDEN in WP:V, where there is reasonable doubt, text should be removed pending a demonstration on the article talk page that the text is verified by reliable sources. In your edit summary, include a link to this page so editors (possibly after several months) can find the background. Some example edit summaries are:

• failed verification, see [[WP:Jagged 85 cleanup]]
• unsourced, see [[WP:Jagged 85 cleanup]]

• Update the entry on the Cleanup page. To do this, keep the "Antisemitism: (18 edits, 7 major, +131825)" text, then replace all the following diffs with either:

•  ((n)) ~~~~ (if you found no problem at the article); or
•  ((y)) (optional explanation) ~~~~ (if you found some issues, but cleared them). It is helpful to add a brief explanation of how you cleared these issues in parentheses, e.g. (removed irrelevant material), (removed unverified material), or (added reliable sources).

• These display respectively as either:

•  N your signature; or
•  Y (optional explanation) your signature.

The following cleanup pages were created on 21 June 2010, using information prepared a few days earlier from the Contribution Surveyor. These show edits to articles, split into reasonably sized pages.

• Cleanup1  Done
• Cleanup1a
• Cleanup1b
• Cleanup2
• Cleanup3
• Cleanup4
• Cleanup5
• Cleanup6
• Cleanup7  Done
• Cleanup8
• Cleanup9  Done
• Cleanup10  Done
• Cleanup11 edits by contributions and contributions  Done

Contributions in other namespaces:

• Cleanup other

The following cleanup pages were created on 22 September 2012, using a script operated by Johnuniq. These show edits to articles, split into reasonably sized pages.

Index of all 3806 articles edited by Jagged after 11 June 2010, in alphabetical order:

• Index

570 articles edited after 11 June 2010, and before (highest number of edits first):

• Cleanup20
• Cleanup21
• Cleanup22

3236 articles edited after 11 June 2010, but not before (highest number of edits first):

• Cleanup23
• Cleanup24
• Cleanup25
• Cleanup26
• Cleanup27
• Cleanup28
• Cleanup29

The 21 June 2010 cleanup lists are in descending order according to the total number of bytes added to the article by Jagged 85 (according to the Contribution Surveyor). The following list shows the articles most frequently edited by Jagged 85 (in descending order by number of edits):

• WP:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/Top edits

Note that Maestro2016 (talk · contribs) was blocked as a Jagged85 sockpuppet in 2022. Maestro was an exceptionally prolific editor, being one of the top editors of the site by number of edits. He may have been somewhat more restrained in his use of sources, but a list of articles heavily edited should probably still be scrutinized.

The ((Jagged 85 cleanup)) template can be used to tag a page that requires attention. Use its what links here to see the pages that transclude the template.

The ((Jagged 85 shortened)) template can be used to tag a page that has been "stubbed" (significantly shortened by omitting material likely to be based on misused sources). Use its what links here to see the pages that transclude the template.

No discussion on this page please.

Any discussion should be here.

Template:Jagged 85 cleanup is at TfD. Johnuniq (talk) 03:01, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]