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.
Regards,
Sandister Tei via mobile
www.sandistertei.com
On 15 Nov 2014 09:45, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford(a)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(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
He's really stubborn, I must say.
On Saturday, October 18, 2014, Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What do you suggest, Sadat.
Best,
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:22 AM, abdulai Mohammed Sadat <masssly(a)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?
User talk:Thesunshinesate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/150.108.3…
-Masssly
On Thursday, 7 August 2014, 23:33, "masssly(a)ymail.com" <masssly(a)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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From: Enock Seth Nyamador
Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 10:25 PM
To: Planning Wikimedia Ghana Chapter
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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