Hi, I'm just seeking for help how I can report LTAs? Because when I usually read Wikipedia, sometimes I found any such of vandalism (I've preventing it at Indonesian Wikipedia). Thanks. Rizky Juliandief (talk) 06:00, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lots of vandals exist. We might informally refer to an enthusiastic vandal as an LTA but the issue would only be added here if some benefit from doing so could be expected. For example, the LTA might operate in a manner that needed to be explained to good editors so they can understand the issue. If it is just a vandal, they should be reported per the instructions at WP:VANDAL. Johnuniq (talk) 06:07, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, I'm requesting to add an entry for Giubbotto non ortodosso. This Italian editor is a persistent sockpuppeteer and banned editor, who adds unsourced/poorly sourced content to various articles, engages in personal attacks against editors who correct their edits and also vandalizes articles outside their area of interest as part of their feuds with different editors who identify and report them as a sock.

The list of SPI's on the sockmaster is extensive; as is the list of confirmed and suspected socks. More extensive than some of the LTA editors listed here. Their main area of interest is in R&B and Hip Hop music. More specifically they have an interest in R&B artist Chris Brown and any articles related to him (e.g., main article, album articles, singles articles, awards articles) -- routinely adding unsourced puffery, altered quotes and/or falsified claims to these articles and claiming ownership of them. Isjadd773 (talk) 17:32, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have been seeing a record label vandal go about lately, making spurious label claims. Most of these claim that a country artist is on Walt Disney Records (which has had no dealings with country since the closure of Lyric Street Records in 2010) or Rounder Records (a bluegrass label which has had minimal success with mainstream country). Some of the claims are also anachronistic to when the label existed, such as saying that an artist active in the 1990s was on Big Machine Records, which was founded in 2005. An example of such vandalism can be found here, where it was un-detected for weeks, and a later addition of Walt Disney Records also went unchecked on the same page until I removed it today.

I currently lack the spoons to figure out if this is all the work of one vandal or several, or how the info on this could be collated to make an LTA page warning about it. Would anyone else be able to help? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:51, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For the past six weeks, that I'm aware of, these IPs hosted by mpls.qwest.net have added the vaccine and/or boosters as the cause of death for recent deaths.

• 65.128.251.227
• 67.4.128.250
• 174.20.209.223
• 65.128.207.191
• 67.4.225.76
• 67.4.224.194

  –Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:29, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that should be reported at WT:FTN. The above IPs are in these ranges: 65.128.192.0/18 + 67.4.128.0/17 + 174.20.209.223. If the IPs in a range continue with that without significant good edits from other IPs in the range, I would be happy to block the range. Johnuniq (talk) 03:49, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, copied to FTN.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 13:49, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Simbaz12. This user has been socking since September 2024 and primarily adds linkspam to articles. What makes this sockpuppeter insidious is that their edits look like good-faith edits at a glance as they modify/translate a bunch of the other references in the article, making it hard to spot the spam unless one looks very closely; their edits often get uncovered months after they are made and are easily confusable with WP:JUDI. Also, the spam they are adding has multiple domains (e.g. gamblingsite1.example and gamblingsite1.foobar) and is under multiple names/"brands" (e.g. gamblingsite1, betexample2), making it necessary to use checkuser to uncover more accounts, as a simple insource:"gamblingsite1" search won't uncover all of the edits. OutsideNormality (talk) 19:29, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have created Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Salebot1, a vandal who uses proxies to create sleeper accounts in order to vandalize popular pages. Requesting assistance/review and help in adding this to the main list. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 00:51, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have encountered several instances of vandalism which seem to be the same user. They all add the same edit summary, and repeatedly add BLP violations until they are blocked. this revision of AIV contains many of these users, who are always IPs. An LTA or SPI would help these accounts get blocked and tagged quicker, as each IP usually makes only one or two edits before they switch to another IP address. Somepinkdude (talk) 13:33, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lately, I've occasionally just scrolled through the blocklist when bored, and I've noticed many alts of Thcsphuninh2006 (idk the original account), and I'm wondering if we should have a page on him or if we should deny recognition. BombCraft8 ^{(talk) (contributions)} 20:56, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

TBH they're quite obviously trolling so WP:DENY should have been in order. Blake Gripling (talk) 21:32, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

👍 BombCraft8 ^{(talk) (contributions)} 17:45, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

He was active within the last 2 months of now (now as in October 24th, 2025 in my timezone.) Sanemero the Robot Prince (not really, it's a Gloryhammer reference) 17:03, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IMHO it would be better to leave it as such than give an obvious troll a shrine for them to feel "validated". Blake Gripling (talk) 03:43, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sanemero57: As the person who archived it, firstly, I don't think he ever should have gotten an LTA page to begin with as his contributions are all unambiguous vandalism - the kind that would get a user blocked quickly even if no admin encountering them knew they were evading a previous block. The usefulness of LTA only outweighs the extra attention when this isn't the case and their edits are sneaky vandalism, or could be mistaken for good-faith contributions at best or disruptive but well-intentioned ones at worst. Secondly, unless you can point to a recent vandalism spree it seems that he stopped being regularly active all the way back in 2017 and only comes back with at most a couple of accounts a year "for old time's sake". Passengerpigeon (talk) 04:13, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

LTAs are mostly for people who disrupt Wikipedia through editing, but more importantly, the scope of the page has expanded beyond one single bad actor. This material could be consolidated at WP:USURPURL. Clarinetguy097 (talk) 17:51, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]