MarioWiki:Trolls

A troll is a person who purposely disturbs an online community with offensive content and the like. For the wiki, examples are blanking pages, replacing page content with things like "this wiki sucks", vandalizing in general, and similar actions. This page dwells on the issue a little bit more, including what to do if you think a user is a troll or a sockpuppet, then lists the trolls as of 23:20, 25 September 2006 (EDT) for the record.

Characteristics of a Troll
When you see a user, most likely new, continually:
 * blanking pages,
 * adding or deleting (weird, unrelated) content on pages,
 * creating pages that are false repeatedly,
 * replacing all content on a page with a negative message (User pages seem prone to this attack the most),
 * saying offensive messages on (user) talk pages,

and similar actions to the, it is likely that he or she is a troll, a vandalizer. Such users are automatically banned infinitely, though sometimes they return on another IP (often public), as a sockpuppet, and repeat their actions.

What to Do
Trolling and vandalizing are not tolerated in any way at the. If you see continual actions of any of the above, post a message at a sysop's talk page in calm, non-cap letters. As such, the or another sysop will either be online or will come online as soon as possible and block the unruly user, as well as use the special revert tool to quickly make amends.

List of Trolls
List alphabetically, please, users who have been blocked infinitely/indefinitely, in the following format: ===General Name of Troll===

Type: (Long term abuse, short term, one-time, etc.) Sockpuppets: (If there are any, a list of templates should be at the top; not just one) Description: (General offenses, links of interest) Last Update: (replace time with five tildes each time the section is updated)

I Am Anime
Type: One-time (peace disturber) Sockpuppets: None Description: A troll hiding in wait to strike when a new user registered, I_Am_Anime claimed to be a sockpuppet of actual contributor I Am Manga. Said troll has not apeared since his first attack. Last Update: 17:23, 26 September 2006 (EDT)

Peachycakes
Type: Long term abuse, repeated subject (see below) Sockpuppets: 15 Description: Unlike most trolls, Peachycakes, also commonly known as Daisygirl, has not been mean-spirited to the. The troll uses number strings to ensure a different account from the last a few times in his or her 16 accounts.

Instead of blanking pages, the troll has created articles for one of two mentioned false games: Super Princess Daisy, the sequel to the canonical Super Princess Peach, with a similar storyline (fake characters: Queen Rixiam; a different Petunia) and gameplay elements, and mentioned but not yet created Donkey Kong Country 4: Tiny Kong's Triple Trouble, with another fake character (Pinky Kong, Lanky Kong's sister). Both fanon games were for the Nintendo DS and slated for 2007. The Character and Enemies pages have been changed many times to reflect the new characters, and were all reverted accordingly. Interesting to note is that the troll sometimes corrected wrong links and made a few useful minor edits, yet no helpful major edits were made.

Most recently, at User talk:Peachycakes75689, the troll has claimed that his or her father is from Japan and thus has "the inside scoop" on these games and doesn't consider his or her contributions vandalism. Until, if at all, one of his or her games is announced by Nintendo, thus proving us wrong, the games and related characters are to be considered fanon and up to automatic deletion. In addition, all sockpuppets of this user are automatically blocked indefinitely.

As a final note, the Super Princess Daisy page has been created as a redirect to the Princess Daisy character article; with the redirect being protected, making it impossible for the troll to add information for that game again. Hopefully this will slow down his or her actions. Last Updated: 23:20, 25 September 2006 (EDT)