User:Cyphoidbomb/Malayalam film fluffer

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Overview

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First spotted circa June 2016, this editor tends to travel across various Malayalam-language film articles to insert fluffy, and meaningless declarations of film success/failure in articles, like calling films "blockbuster", "super hit", "flop" and so on. Indian cinema is rife with corruption, and unfortunately that transfers to the world's greatest source of information: Wikipedia, where editors are paid to promote subject X and demote subject Y. I don't know if this vandal is paid--it doesn't matter. He seems intent to damage articles by adding promotional crap to them, despite previous notes and warnings like this note with ample examples on May 26, 2016 to 111.92.49.150 and this note on June 9, 2016 to 111.92.50.190. I believe that I was encountering this editor often months prior to June 2016, but it wasn't until June that I started to notice IP-hopping patterns with this guy. He's probably been doing this for months.

Behavior

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Typically, the editor uses IPs that geolocate to Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India using Asianet as their ISP. Vandal continuously adds POV fluff like:

Other behavior includes adding references behind fluffy statements like here where they tack on a reference to support the extraordinarily fluffy statement "The film become a huge hit at the Box office and Followed a cult classic." This was a continuation of a spate of 5 fluffy edits spanning three months and involving IPs 111.92.51.178, 111.92.48.234, 111.92.48.158 and 111.92.50.50. The disruptive user does, however, add references to their fluff and sometimes objective data (ignore the "super hit" stuff), which suggests they're not entirely incompetent.

Here is an example of a constructive edit from this user.

IPs used

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Sample of articles affected

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Other notes

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There's a possibility this might be AniceMathew based on this edit. The reference points to here, which is from the account "ibinmathewjohn53". The spelling of Mathew is odd, but it just might be a coincidence.