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Angela Criss
Original name(s)Angela Criss
WikilifespanJanuary 25, 2013 (2013-01-25) - present
ISPCox Communications
Physical locationVirginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.
Sockpuppet investigationsWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Angela Criss/Archive
InstructionsReport all socks to AIV or SRG as they are banned by the Wikimedia Foundation and cannot legally make any edits to Wikipedia.
StatusActive

Basic information

Angela Criss (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Criss Comprehensive edits analysis

This user persistently targets articles by changing artist names to Devo. In addition, a typical edit summary from this user would be "This article is about the REAL VERSION of Devo/The Eagles/Florida Georgia Line." Edit summaries from this user almost invariably include a link to George Orwell. They seem to target particular pages with multiple accounts. Also, many of her socks have “PvtHudson,” followed by a space and a roman numeral in their username. A lot of her socks also have usernames related to Byzantine emperors (e.g. Andronikos IV Palaiologos). Other edits may include the phrase "Alan Jackson killed country" or other derogatory comments toward Alan Jackson.

Angela Criss is banned by the Wikimedia Foundation and they may not legally edit any Wikimedia project.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

Their main attack targets are articles related to Devo, Eagles (band), Alan Jackson, and Nickelback. They also attack country music-related song articles from multiple artists.

Habitual behavior

They usually replace articles with country music, including singers and genre changing. They also engage in personal attacks against editors on their talk page who revert their edits.

Cases

Other notes

You may wish to request a global lock of the account at meta:SRG. The master, as well as many of the socks are subject to a global lock.

Confirmed and suspected accounts