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This page has been created to keep track of information on the Wikipedia editor Ronald20, and to help other Wikipedia editors coordinate their efforts regarding Ronald20 (talk · contribs)/204.108.96.10 (talk · contribs).

My guess is that Ronald20 is a teenager with either a learning disability or some behavioral problem (OCD or Asperger's perhaps). He doesn't seem to respond to any attempts at communication, but I have seen some ability to learn by example. Because of that, one thing that I've been trying to do is not just doing reverts on all of his edits, but instead, for some of the articles, I also try to cleanup the article. I'll do some wikification, add more info, add references, add more links, etc.

Right now the information on Ronald20 is located in numerous places, including:

• Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#Registered Users (for Ronald20)
  • & Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#IP addresses (for 204.108.96.10) Vandalism in progress reports
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR#user:Ronald20 / user: 204.108.96.10 report of 3 Reverts violation
• User talk:Ronald20 Ronald20's talk page
• User talk:204.108.96.10 one of the IPs that Ronald20 has used at the Los Angeles Unified School District
• User talk:BlankVerse#Ronald20, aka 204.108.96.10 my talk page
• Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion#Ronald Molina discussion of his deleted vanity page
• User talk:Lucky 6.9 #Ronald20 + SoCal WikiProject discussion with an Wikipedia editor familar with individuals with Asperger's

Note: Ronald20 has often added information that looks, at first glace, that it could possibly be true, but on further investigation proves to be false. One example was his repeated insertion of information about a "Stairway Of Death" onto the CBS Columbia Square. Another example was his insertion of the following info into the KDIS article "KDIS abandoned Radio Disney entirely in 2006, and went news." [1]. It is my opinion that the information entered by this editor can not be trusted and that absolutely everything this editor has entered on the Wikipedia probably needs verification. BlankVerse ∅ 08:35, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Updates

August 2005

• 3 August 2005 User:Ronald20 and User:204.108.96.10 blocked by admin User:Grutness at 17:59 for 24 hours Ronald20 block log, 204.108.96.10 block log
• 4 August 2005 editing using IP 66.81.163.103 (talk · contribs)
  • numerous additions of unnecessary parent categories, such as Category:Television networks to pages that already had Category:United States television networks. Only about a third of the added categories have been deleted.
• 5 August 2005 AM Ronald20 (talk · contribs)
  • all good edits, most converting {{radio-stub}} to {{US-bcast-stub}} (except for removing {{wisconsin-stub}} from a couple of double-stubbed radio stations).

• 8 August 2005...He's at it again. I don't have time to fix this stuff right now. I did a couple of reverts to two articles, but he mixes in good edits with nonsensical ones, and it's hard to follow!! Jlam4911 03:20, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

• 9 August 2005 Ronald20 (t c)
  • mostly good edits, but he also added future death dates to Snoop Dogg and Hilary Duff.
  • He also created another unnecessary stub template ({{LADOT-stub}}‐reported to Stub discoveries for probably deletion).
  • I created a user page for Ronald20 using info from the deleted vanity article Ronald Molina and other info from his editing habits. BlankVerse ∅ 18:10, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Oh, that was you? I thought he had figure out how to use his userpage. Oh well...onward and upward I suppose :) Jlam4911 20:34, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• 10 August 2005
  • Ronald20 adding some additional info to his new User page
  • added numerous stub templates to television stations and automobile companies that were way too large to need stubs. Ronald20 was blocked by new admin Lucky 6.9 for 48 hrs. BlankVerse ∅ 03:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
• 13 August 2005
  • Warned by User: Lucky 6.9 about creating very short stubs like Science Court
  • plus adding stubs to large articles, adding info about the future, and a few good edits.
• 14 August 2005
  • adding {{US-bcast-stub}} (t/l) and other stubs to large articles, plus some good edits to LA transportation stubs.
• 18 August 2005
  • Good edits to KRCA, and a very brief new article for Liberman Broadcasting with the proper stub template. On the other hand, some very bizarre affiliation changes for some major LA stations and to {{LA TV}}. Ronald was warned by User:Boothy443 but not banned. BlankVerse ∅ 06:51, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• 19 August 2005
  • Tagged Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Big Blue Bus as stubs even though they are too long to be ones. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:57, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• 20 August 2005
  • Reported Image:KTTVFoxStudios.jpg as a copyright violation at Wikipedia:Copyright problems and left a message about violating copyright on Ronald20's Talk page.
  • A few good edits adding categories to some stubs, but also added {{retail-stub}} to articles such as OfficeMax, Office Depot, The Gap, and others. BlankVerse ∅ 06:08, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
• 21 August 2005
  • admin User:Lucky 6.9 blocks Ronald20 for 48 hours for putting stub templates on large articles, since he had already been repeatedly warned for the same behavior.
• 23 August 2005
  • lots of small edits adding categories to TV station articles, usually Category:Telemundo network affiliates.
  • also a typo fix and a good edit to Super Mario All-Stars
  • more adding stub templates to large articles, such as Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
  • Created a new stub article for Liberman Broadcasting, although the text looks suspiciously like the text for Entravision, which he has also edited. -- [need to verify the info for Liberman Broadcasting]
• 25 August 2005
  • only three articles edited as User:Ronald20, but one was to add a date in the future for CBS Columbia Square
  • some cut-and-paste article moves done as 69.19.137.65 (talk · contribs) (e.g. KTTV → KTTV (TV)). Warned by User:Evercat and User:Celestianpower. BlankVerse ∅ 04:41, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
  • he also page-blanked Talk:KTTV and Talk:WNYW-TV, and added the same (probably wrong?) statistic about newscasts to two different TV station articles as user|69.19.137.65.
  • he also did edits as 66.81.169.40 (talk · contribs) including more cut-and-paste page moves. Warned by User:Evercat.
  • obviously reads my HTML comment note to Ronald [2] at KTTV
  • removed John Schwada & Phil Shuman from the KTTV article, even though they are still listed on the station's website (see [3]). BlankVerse ∅ 05:35, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

• 26 August 2005
  • 66.81.187.56 (talk · contribs)
    • cut-and-past moves from KUSI to KUSI-TV; KSWB to KSWB-TV; KWHY to KWHY-TV

September 2005

• 21 September 2005
  • Found making edits to WNEW-FM, KTTV, and WNYW-TV as User 66.81.207.16. Puts that KTTV is FOX's flagship even though that WNYW-TV is also listed as such. And WNEW-FM is not a stub. ErikNY 00:05, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
    • 66.81.207.16 (talk · contribs)

• 23 September 2005
  • Stubbing WNYW-TV and KCBS-TV as User 204.108.72.10. The weird thing is, under where it says not a stub in both articles, he changes it to "Only five sentences is a stub!". How does he do it? ErikNY 20:15, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
    • 204.108.72.10 (talk · contribs)
  • Also edited from 204.108.96.10 (talk · contribs), another IP from the Los Angeles Unified School District. Added unnecessary stubs to Chevrolet and Jeep. BlankVerse ∅ 22:50, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

• 28 September 2005
  • 66.81.189.54 (talk · contribs) (o1-dialup-66-81-189-54.rev.o1.com) Added the following sentence to WGN-TV, KSWB-TV, WPIX-TV, & KTLA-TV

    However, they are the largest Tribune-owned station (in terms of market-size) not to yet offer an early evening newscast (which they did in the early to mid 2000s).

  • created two substubs: Divorce Court, Judge Alex

• 29 September 2005
  • 66.81.204.26 (talk · contribs)
    • edited in Effective Radiated Power into {{Infobox Broadcast}}, where the consensus seems to be to not have the ERP in the Infobox, and most broadcast infoboxes don't have the info.
  • Ronald20 (talk · contribs)
    • a single edit as ronald20 (the first since 25 August). He uploaded Image:JudgeAlex.jpg. BlankVerse ∅ 06:57, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

October 2005

• 4 October 2005
  • 69.19.142.14 (talk · contribs)
    • created new article XET-TV

• 5 October 2005
  • 66.81.167.67 (talk · contribs)
    • 14 articles edits including TV stations and Spanish-language TV programs.
    • created Deportes Telemundo [4]] which I'm not sure what it's for. Deportes Telemundo is the {cable?} sports channel for Telemundo. The article currently is just a bunch of empty sections from A TO Z.
    • deleted the Technical information section in the KNBC article (quickly reverted). BlankVerse ∅ 11:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Ronald20 (talk · contribs)
    • large # of edits, mostly adding network categories to Spanish-language TV shows. It looks like all of the edits were good ones. BlankVerse ∅ 12:38, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
• 6 October 2005
  • Ronald20 (talk · contribs)
    • 15 edits to most LA area radio stations. I had to do one revert for KNXT where Ronald20 deleted the info about KNXT originally being an LA area TV station and I also reverted KNXT (TV). BlankVerse ∅ 17:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

• 11 October 2005
  • Ronald20
    • a single upload, File:Mike Jones - Back Then.ogg, a 3,892KB sized file!, tagged with {{musicpromo-screenshot}} (Music Video-Promotional screenshots - fair use). The file is not currently linked to any articles. Presumably it is intended for the Mike Jones article.

• 13 October 2005
  • 69.85.156.17 (talk · contribs)
    • 7 edits on 4 articles. Added {{US-bcast-stub}} back to KNBC. It's a borderline stub (10 sentences, plus other info) so I decided to leave the stub template for now. Added the broadcast stub to KTRK-TV, which is definately too large to be a stub, so I removed it.
  • 69.85.156.99 (talk · contribs) 2 good edits
  • Ronald20:
    • new List of Mexico television networks. L-o-n-g list of sections, but very few links currently. (format borrowed from another list of TV networks?) BlankVerse ∅ 17:12, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

• 17 October 2005
  • Ronald20
    • uploaded Image:Deportes Telemundo.jpg and added it to List of Mexico television networks, plus created substub for Judge Hatchett ("Judge Hatchett is a television program.")
  • 204.108.72.10 (talk · contribs)
    • added category to Dodge as a defunct company [5]. I left him a warning on his talk page, but I doubt it will help. --ApolloBoy 00:03, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• 18 October 2005
  • 204.108.96.10 (talk · contribs)
    • Found stubbing WWOR-TV and WPIX-TV. Also corrected redirects for KTLA-TV on lists for foreign channels in Canada and Mexico. ErikNY 17:02, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Ronald20
    • Prematurely ended the Chrysler PT Cruiser in 2006, when a web search showed the current model is scheduled till 2008, with a replacement PT Cruiser planned for 2008. Added red-links to Metro Local for every single bus depot!
    • short 2 revert war over KNBC-TV

• 19 October 2005
  • Ronald20
    • Ronald deleted all the editing complaints on his talk page (see [6])
    • removed the broadcast stub from the borderline (7 sentences) stub KFMB-FM, and stubs KLAX (FM) and KLVE.
  • 204.108.96.10 (talk · contribs)
    • mostly harmless edits
  • 204.108.72.10 (talk · contribs)
    • removed the stub template from the stubby KLVE, plus removed my HTML comments saying "no longer a stub!" from several articles. BlankVerse ∅ 08:39, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • 204.108.72.10 (talk · contribs)
    • deleted HTML comments from KNSD and other articles.

• 20 October 2005
  • 204.108.72.10 (talk · contribs)
    • Added a link to the ogg file he uploaded to Who Is Mike Jones? and edited Template:San Diego AM. BlankVerse ∅ 18:52, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

• 23 October 2005

• 24 October 2005
  • 204.108.96.10 (talk · contribs)
    • modified {{Los Angeles FM}} and {{Los Angeles AM}} in preparation for adding callsigns to the templates, but didn't finish the edits.
  • Ronald20
    • uploaded Image:Dope - Fuck The Police.ogg and then added it to the Felons and revolutionaries article. BlankVerse ∅ 01:38, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• 28 October 2005
  • 204.108.96.10 (talk · contribs)
    • Template:Los Angeles FM (removed <include only>) & Template:San Diego AM (added <span style="font-size: 90%;">)
  • Ronald20
    • a ton of radio and TV station edits, mostly adding {{fmq}} and deleting my HTML comments to him. BlankVerse ∅ 09:25, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

November 2005

• 9 November 2005
  • Ronald20 (talk · contribs)
    • Added some bogus comment on the CBS Columbia Square article. I sent him a warning on his talk page, but again, I doubt it will help. IMO, I think we need to indefinitely block Ronald, as he's caused a large amount of vandalism and he doesn't seem to stop. --ApolloBoy 02:30, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• 14 November 2005
  • 66.81.148.221 (talk · contribs) created a template for News Corp with an incomplete listing of tv stations. Meanwhile, 66.81.148.100 (talk · contribs) and 66.81.148.44 (talk · contribs) added radio stations to the template for Viacom. The problem here is that they own over 180 stations, and I don't think all of them should be included in a template, as it would take up too much space. 66.81.148.44 (talk · contribs) also started a template for Clear Channel Communications. They own over 1,000 stations, so that would eventually pose the same problem as radio station in the Viacom template. These are all based on corporate templates created by Kurieeto (talk · contribs). ErikNY 14:22, 14 November 2005 (UTC)