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 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)

17
Type: One-time (duo multiple account vandalizer) Sockpuppets: Wapiko. and Zeli are the same user (IP 68.96.23.7), so 2. Description: 17 made the only vandalism edit (IP 24.252.62.178) with crude language on Wario. After Zeli and Wapiko. made suspicious comments among the three talk pages, it was found that both were the same user, leading them to be banned. Oddly enough, Zeli tried to revert 17's edits on his own, but nonetheless, has been banned for being a sockpuppet of Wapiko. and or vice versa. Last Update: 19:29, 4 October 2006 (EDT)

Game theory
Type: One-time (vandalism) Sockpuppets: None Description: This user made some crude language-filled edits at Donkey Kong. Thankfully, the user was busted before he could cause any real damage, and such edits have since been reverted. Last Update: 11:38, 28 January 2007 (EST)

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)

Kazzy
Type: Short-term abuse (user pages, deleting warnings) Sockpuppets: One, Kazzymunster. Description: Kazzy started by editing another user's user page. When the edit was reverted and Kazzy was given a warning, the troll simply ignored it and removed it from his/her user talk page. When given another warning about doing so, the troll again blanked the page to hide the evidence. Said troll also moved pages like Water Land to new, false pages. The troll also created a sockpuppet, possibly for use to bypass a ban. Nontheless, both accounts have been blocked. Last Update: 18:44, 3 November 2006 (EST)

Lickey101
Type: One-time (content blanking) Sockpuppets: None Description: Simply vandalized the King Boo ( reverted diff) and Bowser (reverted diff ) pages. With two sysops around at the time, this user was busted quickly. However, Special:CheckUser failed to find an IP for the user. Last Update: 16:38, 29 October 2006 (EST)

Peachycakes
Type: Long term abuse, repeated subject (see below) Sockpuppets: 17 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 18 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.

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.

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.

Then the troll took on the name of, but now blocked of editing her big article, (s)he decided to target one of the sysops, , with the username. Thanks to the new extension of Special:Checkuser, the IPs were proved and the account has been also blocked indefinitely.

However sadly (s)he returned with the name Peach Guardian and Candracar Peach. They were both blocked again. while using UserScore found out that this troller's real name was Taylor.

Last Updated: 19:14, 7 January 2007 (EST)

StarNeptune
Type: One time ultra vandalism Sockpuppets: None Description: This user may be a troll that combined attacks from Peachycakes and Willy on Wheels, or one of the two themselves. He moved about a 100 pages on the morning of January 19th (EDT) in 20 minutes, from the pagename to the pagename + "is a sockpuppet of Peachycakes!". In one case, "Peachycakes on Wheels" is used, suggesting a mix of attacks. Thankfully, Sir Grodus fixed all the bad redirects and page moves within 8 hours, with Yoshi626 helping with some page moves as well.

Last Update: 15:19, 19 January 2007 (EST)

Willy on Wheels
Type: Two time abuse Sockpuppets: 1 Description: This troller, came to the Wiki and started moving pages, like Mario moved to Mario on Wheels! This troller was blocked and didn't come back, for a long time, but then he camed back with the name Silly Dan (this name is also the name of an administrator in Wookipedia) and started moving pages again.

He was blocked again, and everything was fixed. Hopefully he won't come back.

Last Update: 21:50, 14 January 2007 (EST)