| Wikilifespan | 2010–present |
|---|---|
| ISP | Verizon Wireless, some AT&T Mobility, Ulster County BOCES[1] |
| Known IPs | see below for list |
| Physical location | Southern New York State (Ulster or Dutchess county) |
| Instructions | IPs suspected of being used by the Voice Cast Vandal should be reported to AIV. 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 | Active |
Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV. When reporting please link this page in the report using WP:LTA/VCV.
The name "Voice Cast Vandal" (VCV) is a descriptive nickname, as this vandal had never to our knowledge created a named user account in the past. An extremely persistent and prolific vandal based in southern New York (some IPs are Verizon throwaways, such as 75.203.31.4 and 75.203.195.48, and geolocate elsewhere) that delights in creating fake film and television credits (usually for voice-over roles) for actors both living and dead, this IP-hopper would have been banned long ago if they operated under one identity.
The vandalism is generally centered around hoax credits for primarily American actors and actresses and their associated films, usually involving voice-over roles, with a preference towards youth-oriented productions and animated features. The vandal shows a particularly irresistible affinity for certain actors (e.g. Alec Baldwin[2], Jim Varney[3]) and franchises (e.g. Thomas & Friends, 3 Ninjas) that are "tells", but shifts targets and IPs enough to be generally unrecognized to the layman. He often targets some of the most prolific voice-over actors in history (Frank Welker, Jim Cummings, eg.), making some of the entries harder to detect as 100% false. The vandal is apparently active on Wikia as well.[4][5][6]
A common behavior of the VCV is to create a partial (and sometimes an extensive) fake cast list for a film[7] and then "cross-reference" those credits to the articles of the actors, damaging multiple articles with every imagined character. He does not limit himself to animated films: in fact, in this bizarre fantasy world, actors known primarily for voice-over work even have live-action roles in films.[8][9] There is blatant hoaxing and serious BLP concerns (some fake credits for many of his favorite living actor targets get sneaked in[10][11] and remain for weeks[12] or months[13])[14]. The VCV enjoys engaging in the following behaviors:
So quietly, in fact, that there is a 99.9% failure rate for communication on this person's part. The VCV seems to have used an edit summary only one time,[57] and he has never addressed another editor in any way. Naturally, many opportunities have been given for them to speak up concerning their edits over the years. This individual's contributions are to be reverted as those of a banned editor.
The vandal has undoubtedly been the subject of previous AIV cases, and was last known reported there in May, 2014. They began to be identified and tracked in earnest after egregious edit in March 2011, when it was soon discovered that extensive vandalism had occurred across many articles using many IPs. The earliest known IP is from July 2010.
Due to the nature of the IP-hopping not every contribution from all the IPs listed are the VCV: for instance with this IP, only edits beginning on August 12, 2011 are relevant.
Although the vandal IP hops, he may return to an old IP once a block has expired. This behaviour has been seen here and vandalism nine days apart on this IP in the same range.
IMDB is a useful resource when checking edits from an IP used by this vandal; the sloppy, frenetic and dubious casting never appears on that site.
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