All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII

[MilkmanConspiracy]

Not sure if there’s history I’m missing, or if there’s enough edits for it, but I’ve been satisfied with GabrielSemicolon's edits so far - might be good to automod them if that holds.

[Bob Schroeck]

I'll need to look for that history myself, as I don't remember seeing his name before yesterday. So no vote from me yet.

EDIT: Okay, I've just looked at his history. He's only got six edits over the past 16 months to his name -- that got past Moderation at least. I'd rather hold off until he has a bit more under his belt.

[robkelk]

I'd rather hold off until he has a bit more under his belt.

Agreed. We don't need another "good at mechanical edits but terrible at keeping opinions out of non-opinion pages" troper. (Not saying that this troper is like that, just saying we need more data.)

[Bob Schroeck]

I've just imposed an immediate permanent block on "JJ killiards212joe" for trying to create a bogus work page. I did some investigating on "Krypto the runt", and everywhere I found a reference to it where I could check its history, I saw the identical block of text has had been added between July and August of this year. Further, JJ is quite insistent that it ran between 1997 and 2002, but that it included references to Roblox (first released 2006) and Minecraft (released 2011).

[Bob Schroeck]

Before I forget, Geth, could you please pass the word to TVT about this guy and the "Krypto the runt" hoax, in case he's either passed under their radar or hasn't hit them yet?

EDIT: Ah, never mind. He already hit them and got bounced for his trouble.

[robkelk]

He's hit more than a few Fandom wikis, too. Anybody got any contacts there?

[Bob Schroeck]

I've passed on an optimized version of the link you posted on the wiki to the central Fandom support Zendesk with a description of what we've seen.

I had a little chat with Google's AI interface, and it not only agreed with me that "Krypto the runt" is a bogus show, but it also pointed out that combined with the YouTube channel, it had all the hallmarks of an AI slop campaign designed to snag people with keywords, presumably to use them to farm advertising dollars somehow. (Which might explain why JJ's only response to us was just to repeat the block of text he/it had posted twice before -- he wasn't a real person but a bot of some sort.) Presumably now Google will now warn people about it instead of helping it attract eyes.

[MilkmanConspiracy]

I was reviewing the edits for the pacific war pending entry 10 hours ago, and it all appears original, except for a short sentence starting with "The spark in the west pacific ignites", which seems to come from a website promoting the book. Wanted to wait till morning in the Americas before doing anything. Would the usual spiel about copyright be appropriate here?

[Bob Schroeck]

After I brought it to their attention, IMDb has removed their "Krypto the runt" page. Meanwhile, I got an email back from Fandom and they're going to be chasing down their bogus pages.