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Teenage Fairytale Dropouts vandal
Shortcut: WP:LTA/TFD
Original name(s)Unknown
WikilifespanAugust 2010 - present
Known IPsSee list
Physical locationSydney, New South Wales, Australia (sometimes geolocates elsewhere in Australia)
InstructionsSuspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations 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

Basic information

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This is a serial, IP hopping vandal who has been vandalising Wikipedia since at least 2010. They mostly attack pages by adding unrelated information about the children's television programs Teenage Fairytale Dropouts and Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets. However, they have been known to add false, unsourced and/or incorrect information as well.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

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  1. Pages on albums in the So Fresh compilation series, examples include So Fresh: The Hits of Autumn 2009
  2. Pages on albums in the Now Australia compilation series, examples include Now: The Hits of Autumn 2011 and Now Spring 2005 (Australian series)
  3. Pages on children's programmes (mostly Australian game shows or animated shows), examples include Smashhdown!, Pixel Pinkie, Sharky's Friends, and Flushed (game show)
  4. Pages on various songs and singles, examples include Get Shaky, Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love), These Days (Bardot song), and Are You Ready (Shakaya song)
  5. Pages on various TV shows or pages related to TV shows, examples include Re:covered, All That (season 10), and List of United States Christmas television episodes
  6. Pages on various musicians and bands (mostly from Australia, the UK, Canada, or New Zealand), examples include Grant Nelson, Lillix, and Charlotte Devaney
  7. Pages on various actors and actresses (mostly from same as above), examples include Andy Trieu, Brian Drummond, Tāmati Coffey, Rose Matafeo, and Olivia Tennet
  8. Entertainment or music-related lists, examples include List of albums containing a hidden track: A, List of EMI artists, and List of films shot in Toronto
  9. And other assorted pages, mostly entertainment or music-related (movies, TV networks, discographies, other music compilation series, etc.)

Habitual behaviour

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Their exact behavior changes a lot, but these are the most common ones:

  1. Replacing existing content with unsourced and/or dubious material: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
  2. Vandalism: [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

More current, exact behaviors as of 2022 include:

  1. Replacing material with information about "Unknown Voice Actor" (a page on the site Behind the Voice Actors) [17] [18] [19]
  2. Replacing people's names and band/musical artist names into those of cast members on shows such as Teenage Fairytale Dropouts (where this case gets its name from), Smashhdown!: Search for the G.O.A.T, (example) Flushed (example), The Barefoot Bandits (example), and Pixel Pinkie (example)
  3. Replacing names of TV shows, etc. with song lyrics or titles, such as In My Mind by Lyn Lapid, lyrics from SOS by Rihanna, and various other songs (example)
  4. As far as is known, they have never used edit summaries, used a talk page, or displayed any discernible reaction to warnings or blocks except to find a new IP address and continue their vandalism from there.

Noticeboard discussions

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Confirmed and suspected accounts

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Ranges used

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Individual IP addresses

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