MarkMysoe’s edits are not only disruptive but they are so varied and widespread that Admins and Check users are often eluded, its a good thing Basalisk is back. Now that account and their socks have been editing for well over three and half years and some medias have even incorporated their work and published it. So what happens is that they (MarkMysoe and his socks) in turn use those sources that were mirrored on other websites and cite them as their references on Wikipedia. As crafty as it sounds it violate WP:Verifiablity. See WP:CopyWithin and WP:ContentForking. Examples are Akan (Twi) at Rutgers and Kingdoms of Ghana published on Ghana Web. That is how entrenched their edits have become. Well, we can only blame some journalists for their lazy attitude when gathering information. These were some of the things that got kwamikagami (a Ghanaian) stripped off his admin status.

So Enoch my first suggestion is that lets make a formal request as The Ghanaian community to the admins as has been mentioned already. I have not interacted with TheHelpfulOne before so maybe Rexford can lead us there.

Secondly I will propose a radical idea, I don't know if it has been tried before. Looking at their adaptability to the whole editing process why don't we reach out to them and attempt to work with them. We could really tap some of that energy to increase our cumulative edit count. There's no denying that their actions are troublesome but they an experienced editor too who could become useful if used properly and they've been around before many of us started editing. Although I have tried this with them before they were not willing to corporate. Maybe someone else could try again but with a better approach.

Lastly, we could all just simply keep an eye on them, at least we know what their interests are and the themes they mostly edit around. Aside that we should include more of Ghana related articles on our watch lists since we don't know the next account he might be editing with.

Kind regards to all of you and welcome back Sandister.

-Masssly

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Following discussions.

Hope you all are fine.

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On 15 Nov 2014 09:45, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
Has the account been reported to admins on Wikipedia? Hopefully they can help

TheHelpfulOne can be of assistance.

On Saturday, November 15, 2014, Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459@gmail.com> wrote:
Don't know how to describe him or her.

He or her is still vandalizing articles at a top speed. Very sad am not *so* active on Wikipedia these days.

Checking my watchlist earlier this week I saw that he/she has a created a series user accounts again and vandalizing still goes on. 

@Massly What do we do? 

Best,

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
He's really stubborn, I must say. 


On Saturday, October 18, 2014, Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459@gmail.com> wrote:
What do you suggest, Sadat.

Best,

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:22 AM, abdulai Mohammed Sadat <masssly@ymail.com> wrote:
I would have to admit that this User MarkMysoe/Thesunshinesate/Bantekas/"lots more" is very skillful and is a truly a master at his (assuming he is male) game. How is one single person is even able to co-ordinate up to twenty different accounts and IP addresses and still avoid detection. One trick he uses though is to wipe out his talk pages without archiving, and I'm not encouraging Wikipedia:Beans. Now his latest sock has been found to be TruHeir. Is there noting we can do about him as well a his "live edits" as a community?
 
 
-Masssly


On Thursday, 7 August 2014, 23:33, "masssly@ymail.com" <masssly@ymail.com> wrote:


I've encountered him before an if you remember I mentioned that he was sockpuppeting as Bantekas and Sintinon.
 
Masssly
 
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If you've ever reverted edits of the said accounts..... Check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/MarkMysoe
- Enock



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