Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Timelash

Timelash

Original name(s)	Conejo456
Wikilifespan	April 2021 – present (possibly earlier)
Physical location	Upminster, East London, England
Sockpuppet investigations	Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Timelash
Instructions	Suspected sockpuppets should be reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. Obvious socks or accounts that are actively disrupting should be reported directly to AIV and SRG. Accounts with blatant attack usernames or non-public information should be reported privately to the stewards' email. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information.
Status	Active

Basic information

Timelash (talk · contribs · block log · SPI ^confirmed _suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
XTools Timecard

Timelash's actions include creating seemingly innocent new talk page sections titled Hi on other's talk pages, requesting drafts they created to be moved to a title that has been protected from creation, making good faith edits (such as reverting vandalism), targeting of the pages listed below and related pages, creation of accounts with unambiguous username violations, and trolling on user/user talk namespace. They are also involved in sockpuppetry on Commons.

Timelash has been banned by the Wikimedia Foundation since 9 June 2026.

Targeted areas, pages, themes

Pages targeted by this LTA include (but not limited to):

• Mizzy (targeted since October 2023)
• Rodney Stark
• Timelash
• Talk:Timelash
• Timelash (UFO)
• The Nigger (targeted since October 2023)
• Germanwings Flight 9525
• Air India Flight 171
• Iran Air Flight 655
• Iran Air Flight 291
• ABBA and some of their songs such as Dancing Queen
• Alan Walker
• User talk:Yamla
• User talk:Ponyo
• User talk:Deepfriedokra
• Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests

Habitual behavior

• Creating new sections titled Hi on other people's talk pages, adds Hi as the comment, or both. (Example 1), (Example 2), (Example 3), (Cross-wiki example).
• Creating salted drafts under a new title, then requesting them to be moved to the original title at WP:RM/TR and claiming they made a typo. (Example of salt evasion), (Example of request), (Example 2).
• Making good-faith edits such as reverting vandalism and unsourced edits and posting user warnings after reverting. (Example 1), (Example 2), (Example 3).
• Posting block notices on people's talk pages. (Example 1), (Example 2).
• Adding sockpuppet tags on people's user pages. (Example 1), (Example 2), (Example 3).
• Creation of accounts with blatant attack names, offensive names, or usernames that impersonate other editors. (See the names of the accounts in the sockpuppet categories for evidence).
• Imitation of other LTAs, such as Andrew5 (Example) and Alakmarsaify (Example).
• Creating nonsense drafts with titles either mentioning Timelash or Donald Trump.
• Posting unblock requests using TA's on blocked IP's or proxies with content of just Timelash.
• Occasionally this user may create sleeper accounts and game autoconfirmed to target semi-protected pages, edit user pages, or move pages. (Example of permission gaming), (Example of an edit to a semi-protected article), (Example of editing a user page).

Other notes

• Kiananjomani (SPI page) is also believed to be behaviourally related to Timelash, though no technical connection exists. (See SPI archives of both cases for evidence).

Confirmed and suspected accounts

• Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Timelash
• Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Timelash
• Sockpuppet category on Wikimedia Commons: c:Category:Sockpuppets of Timelash