Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Piermark

Piermark

Shortcut: WP:LTA/PIERMARK, WP:LTA/HOY
Original name(s)	House of Yahweh
Wikilifespan	July 20, 2006 (2006-07-20) - present
Physical location	Italy
Requests for comment	Global ban
Sockpuppet investigations	Sockpuppet investigations/Piermark
Instructions	Suspected socks should be reported to AIV and global locks should be requested at SRG. Admins should revert and block socks on sight.
Status	Active

Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or SRG

Basic information

Piermark (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI ^confirmed _suspected)

Piermark (also known as House of Yahweh, HOY, or HoY) first registered an account on it.wiki in 2006 and in more recent years (starting around 2022) has engaged in disruptive and large-scale spamming and POV-pushing, predominantly on articles related to religion, radio stations, and Israel-Palestine relations.

This user's usernames will usually be very lengthy and related to Christianity, television stations, radio stations, or communism in some way. Many of them have also been in all capital letters, for example:

• User:CHINATOWN DI PRATO È PER PIERMARK FONDATORE DI RADIO ITALIA CINA TV!
• User:AVONDET JOHN FIRST ITALIAN MISSIONARY FOR THE REORGANIZED CHURCH of LATTER-DAY SAINTS
• User:Church of God Cleveland Tennessee Community DAYSTAR TELEVISION NETWORK Macon, Georgia

This user also creates sockpuppets mimicking other LTAs (such as WP:LTA/KAGE), like this. Lengthy usernames created by machine translations in languages of other projects, such as Italian, Chinese, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Vietnamese, and Slovenian, making references to cults are common for this LTA as well.

Piermark also sometimes posts legal threats to the talk pages of users who revert or block him (example). Piermark may also try to mimic users by creating similiar usernames to them.

Cross wiki vandalism is also common, especially on Bulgarian, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Slovene, Vietnamese, and Spanish Wikipedia. Socks should be reported to SRG to prevent cross-wiki abuse.

Targeted articles

Articles related to House of Yahweh, Christianity, religion, TV and/or radio stations are often frequent targets for this LTA, where they often engage in repeated spamming of external links.

Global ban

In May 2023, a global ban against Piermark was enacted after a discussion on Meta-Wiki.