Iloveartrock
Wikilifespan2013-present
Known IPssee list
Physical locationPrimarily Peru, also global
InstructionsSuspected socks should be tagged with Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Iloveartrock and reported to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Iloveartrock 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

Iloveartrock is the third account registered by someone who also uses other sock accounts and primarily Peru IPs to target rock music topics, changing genre and categories, and edit warring extensively to restore his preferred version.

Perhaps beginning with Brazil-based IPs (See 187.10.161.62 in 2012 and 187.56.103.71 in 2014 for examples), in November 2014 this person started using IPs from Lima, Peru. In October–November 2016, this person's behavior worsened considerably, after two registered accounts were unable to gain traction in pushing the preferred genres.

This person has posted on the talk pages of users who oppose him, and on talk pages of targeted articles. Edit warring by this person has spilled over to include IPs from Bolivia, Russia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, U.S., Venezuela and Spain. Warring may devolve into a speedy series of reversions, fighting with other editors,[1][2] and it may involve petulant blanking of content.[3][4]

A sockpuppet investigation was started in December 2016: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Iloveartrock.

Following a report at WP:ANI, on 26 April 2017 NinjaRobotPirate range-blocked 179.7.96.0/19 with an expiration time of 1 month. Range blocked again on 27 May 2017 for three months.

It's possible that Swaggarden420 was involved during April–June 2015. See this edit

Targeted areas

Articles about music genres

Pink Floyd topics, especially Syd Barrett

The Velvet Underground topics

Registered accounts

Suspected and blocked accounts

Categories