Wikilifespan | November 2014 – 2019 |
---|---|
ISP | Mostly various Japanese ISPs |
Known IPs | Over 200 related IPs so far |
Physical location | Mostly Japan; some IPs in Bermuda and United Kingdom |
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 | Archived |
Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or ANI |
The "hydro dot net" editor has been using IP-hopping since at least November 2014, to engage in disruptive editing. As of August 2018, contributors to this page have identified over 200 IP addresses that appear to have been involved.
As of August 2018, the editor is not known to have registered any usernames.
c. August 2018, "hydro dot net"'s IP addresses are often in the range 126.0.0.0/8
(which, according to WHOIS, belongs to the SoftBank Group of Japan).
The editor was given the nickname "hydro dot net" by Intgr (who created this LTA page), after Intgr had noticed that the editor had made several edits alleging that the hydro.net
domain name had been hijacked. The allegations featured a conspiracy involving payment providers, domain registrars, ICANN, etc. (User:Intgr was not able, through Google searches, to find any WP:RS about these allegations. Despite many requests, the editor has not provided any useful ones.)
Additionally, the user has made contentious edits or edit summaries across numerous topics.
"Hydro dot net" often posts and wages edit wars for unsourced content or for content that misrepresents sources. The edits and edit summaries are often somewhat incomprehensible.
Also frequent is introducing references to "cybercrime", "domain hijacking" etc. into articles.
There have been a few other spurts of abuse by these IPs, adding content that misrepresents cited sources, but relatively infrequent.
The table below is a work in progress attempt to summarise the user's disruptive activities.
Distinctive edit summaries. IPs occasionally post on each others' talk pages ([47], [48] [49]), revert each others' edits (e.g. [50]) or reply to each others' talk page messages to make it seem they are legitimate distinct editors. But it's not very plausible, the editing patterns are just too similar.
There are also some unrelated edits that look like good faith edits on the surface, but mostly they're not desirable and get reverted anyway.
The user's edits were:
/8
would remove this editor's primary means of access to Wikipedia (as of August 2018). However, MediaWiki software does not allow IP rangeblocks on IPv4 ranges larger than /16.The largest IPv4 range block that can be made is /16. The system will reject anything larger. The most common range block is /24. Anything larger usually requires extra scrutiny, although ranges vary widely in activity.