Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Hamish Ross

Hamish Ross
Shortcut: WP:LTA/HR
Original name(s)	Hamish Ross
Wikilifespan	2007–present
Sockpuppet investigations	Hamish Ross
Instructions	Suspected socks should be blocked indefinitely on sight and requests should be filed for them to be locked globally. Socks should not be tagged per WP:DENY, and SPI reports aren't needed due to the rapid nature of the disruption. Non-administrators should report a suspected sock to AIV and link to this long-term abuse page.
Status	Active

Basic information

Hamish Ross (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI^confirmed_suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
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Hamish Ross is a persistent and prolific long-term vandal and sockpuppeteer. One modus operandi is randomly reverting edits, typically from IP editors (whether constructive or not), and issuing malicious warnings on that user's talk page.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

Hamish Ross sockpuppets target a wide variety of pages with little to no apparent pattern.

Habitual behavior

Hamish Ross almost always uses named accounts instead of unregistered IP addresses. Sleeper accounts that are several months or even several years old are usually used. His first edits are usually to his own userspace, adding nonsense/gibberish to his userpage and the {{talkpage}} header to his talk page, in order to become autoconfirmed. After this, he targets any article he finds, reverting an arbitrary but relatively recent edit regardless of whether or not it is constructive, and issues a level 1 or level 4 warning on that user's talk page.

Hamish Ross socks may also spam random lines from Shakespeare plays into random articles.

On several occasions, accounts that have become extended-confirmed are used to make disruptive edits on extended-confirmed protected pages, usually the article History of the chair.

After being blocked, an unblock request denying any wrongdoing will usually be placed on the account's talk page. Unblock requests sometimes attack the blocking admin or contain legal threats.

Hamish Ross socks sometimes spam short stories unrelated to Wikipedia on ANI.

Cases

Other notes

Accounts should be blocked indefinitely on sight and globally locked due to a history of cross-wiki abuse.

Confirmed and suspected accounts

...and many others

Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Hamish Ross
Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Hamish Ross