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Country music category vandal from Tennessee
Wikilifespan2011–present
ISPmost often Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative and Spectrum
Known IPssee list
Physical locationPrimarily Cookeville, Tennessee, also generic US
StatusActive

The "country music category vandal from Tennessee" is someone who uses primarily Tennessee IPs to target country music topics, adding inappropriate categories, usually to biographies. In June 2012, this edit appears appropriate, but by January 2013, categories and subcategories were added together without paying attention to the WP:SUBCAT hierarchy. Many edits like this one were problematic because the subcategory "American country singer-songwriters" already includes membership in the "American country singers" category. The person is uncommunicative, never expressing a thought on a talk page.

In other instances, instead of simply double-categorizing a person, the vandal may move an article from a "singers" category to a "singer-songwriters" category even if the person is not properly sourceable as having written songs, or from a "singer-songwriters" category to a "singers" category even if the person is properly sourceable as having written songs. At other times, the person may appear to pay attention to duplicate categorization issues by removing duplicate categorizations, but also simultaneously removing the same categories from articles where it isn't duplicating other categories — for instance, they may remove the "singers" category from some country singers who are subcategorized as singer-songwriters, while also simultaneously removing it from country singers who are not similarly subcategorized at all and thus leaving those singers completely stranded from the "country singers" tree.

Another area of interest is radio stations, with similar categorization problems demonstrated, ignoring logical subcategory hierarchy. They have also been known to create talk pages for radio stations or musicians that do not have articles, but are themselves categorized as "articles".

The vandal is a frequent visitor to Broken Bow Records and LifeTalk Radio. The most numerous edits are in music biographies.

Other trends:

  • Adding the Category:Living people to deceased people
  • Adding of "current" callsigns to the "former_callsigns" in the infobox of radio articles, plus marking former in the future (ie: former until 2020).
  • Adding parent categories to "Name" articles/disambiguations
  • Adding non–existent/unverified schools to education sections of geographic areas.
  • Inappropriate categories (ie: adding singer–songwriter to a non-musician, singer to a pure instrumentalist)
  • Modifying {{defaultsort}} entries of names
  • Adding/changing category such as American country group to a more detailed subcat (such as a state) even if the cat does not exist
  • Occasionally categorizing people as the wrong gender (e.g. adding the male P'tit Belliveau to Category:Canadian women country singers)
  • Adding American categories to Canadian artists without any article support
  • Adding categories of being from a certain state/location without any article support
  • Adding the non-existent template {{Hillbilly-music.com}} as an external link

Suspected and blocked accounts

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