It makes sense to take a further action with this vandal. Unlike every internet troll I have handled so far, Grawp doesn't stop when he dosen't get the reaction he wants.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Fran Rogers <f...@nutmeg.ws> wrote: > You all may remember [[User:JarlaxleArtemis]], who has been "editing" the > English Wikipedia since 2004, at age 15. Originally he was an apparently > good-faith editor, but was sanctioned by ArbCom in early 2005 for somewhat > immature outbursts, copyright violations, and erratic behavior; eventually > he pulled such stunts as putting his teacher's e-mail address on his > userpage encouraging people to harass the "fucking bitch," e-mail bombing > people who deleted his copyvios, and finally impersonating users and > vandalizing with what would come to be hundreds of sockpuppets, all while > claiming to be the victim. He was banned: > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/JarlaxleArte > mis_2<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/JarlaxleArtemis_2> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Linuxbeak/Admin_stuff/Jarlaxl > eArtemis > < > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Linuxbeak/Admin_stuff/Jarlax > leArtemis&action=edit&oldid=117471376<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Linuxbeak/Admin_stuff/JarlaxleArtemis&action=edit&oldid=117471376>> > &action=edit&oldid=117471376 > > > > He sockpuppeted and vandalized for a while after that, but apparently > disappeared in 2006. One would have hoped maybe he grew out of his teenage > phase and decided to get on with doing something productive instead. > > > > But sadly, the story doesn't end there. In mid-2007, he reappeared with a > new "persona"... the move-vandal "Grawp." Unlike his ostensible predecessor > Willy on Wheels, who at least had a harmless light-hearted flair to him, as > "Grawp" Jarlaxle relished in specifically targeting users and sticking > their > personal information (usually gleaned from Daniel Brandt's website) in his > page-move titles along with death threats and rape threats. Eventually we > discovered that Grawp was in fact JarlaxleArtemis, and he only got more > persistent and venomous (probably because as Jarlaxle, he was very open > about his real-life identity and location himself.) > > > > About a week ago, having been one of Jarlaxle's recent targets, I decided > to > take matters into my own hand, and found his mother's contact information > and wrote to her to inform her of the awful misdeeds her son's been up to. > (While Jarlaxle is 19, he lives with his mother, and performs most of his > vandalism from her Internet connection.) Instead of replying to me, > however, > she complained to OTRS that I was falsely accusing her son, who she > insisted > was JarlaxleArtemis but not Grawp. Jarlaxle then proceeded to prove her > wrong... by vandalizing multiple wikis as "Grawp" later that night from the > same IP address his mother sent her e-mail from. The ticket was handed to > ArbCom, who replied to her with this evidence and the assurance that her > son > was in fact the one responsible... but received a response that she didn't > believe them, didn't care, and was blocking all further e-mail from > Wikimedia. (Though it's been suggested that Jarlaxle himself may have > written that mail.) And he's continued to vandalize as recently as tonight. > > > > Personally, I'm utterly bamboozled. This kid is nineteen years old and in > college; he's an adult, and he has his entire life ahead of him. Yet he > still continues to anonymously threaten and harass people on the Internet, > even though he's clearly stepped into illegal territory, his identity is > known along with reams of evidence of his misdeeds connecting them to him, > and his parent upon whom he's still dependent has been alerted. And he > still > soldiers on, using Mom's broadband to move pages on Wikipedia to titles "I > will rape and murder (insert admin here)." What could possibly be running > through his mind? And how can he be stopped? > > > > -Fran > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- Whether you can or can't, any way you are correct. - Henry Ford _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l