Requests for Comment/Global ban for ApexAgunomu

Proposal
User:ApexAgunomu, previously known as User:Bugambilia, is a user registered since 2020 and who has been extremely abusive on the projects, including, but not limited to:
 * the addition of nonsense on multiple wikis like Miraheze developers, CLG wiki, Polandball Wiki
 * repeated page move abuse on test and other abusive edits like addition of profanity on Test wiki, on Polandball Wiki, so bad that the local community on Test wiki ended up creating an edit filter just to combat them
 * and outright vandalism (deleted revision-- ask a sysop if you have any questions). In their CentralAuth page, found at, Special:CentralAuth/ApexAgunomu, they are currently blocked on nine wikis (previously ten but the one on mh:dev:Special:Redirect/logid/1152 expired) and were globally locked. They were previously globally locked as Bugambilia found here, during which time they made multiple sockuppets, then were unlocked in 2022 and renamed to ApexAgunomu.

This is only scraping the surface of what this user has done, there's certainly much more abuse I could find if I looked for it, but the point has been made.

Much more concerningly, Bugambilia/ApexAgunomu has been linked to user w:User:Skiyomi on Wikimedia since 2020, through the use of their sockpuppet names and through behavioral evidence. Skiyomi is heavily abusive on Wikimedia as well, with many known sockpuppets and through abuse on IRC, including a death threat copypasta which is routinely posted in channels, such as this one:

(this has been happening about twice a week for the last year)

It's gotten so bad that ozone, known as Sigyn up until May 19th 2021, automatically k-lines anyone who says this due to the extremely frequent abuse there.

I personally was not aware of this rename from Bugambilia to ApexAgunomu, if I had, I would have acted a lot sooner as Bugambilia has acted in bad faith numerous times, with them being known as an LTA on Wikimedia and on Miraheze, for example user User:Sario528 describing them as a troll multiple times offwiki and onwiki, which I initially thought was too harsh as it seemed as though this was simply a misguided CIR user-- but given the now-clear history between ApexAgunomu and Bugambilia, with my knowledge of Bugambilia's abusive behavior, I would say that "troll" is not a strong enough description. Trolls are people who engage in minor annoyance for fun, not massive sockpuppetry and death threats.

I had planned to propose a global ban on around June 10th, but one day later on the 11th they self-requested a global lock, which I assumed would be the start of a very long break. Three days later they requested unblock, which appears to be yet another attempt at either evading scrutiny, or a competence issue

Given ApexAgunomu/Bugamilia's long-term pattern of abusive behavior for years on end without any changes, history of vandalism, sending death threats on other projeccts, with no stopping this abuse but persistently disrupting multiple projects despite local blocks, but multiple attempts at gaming the community and avoiding scrutiny, I propose a global ban. This user meets our criteria of global bans as outlined on the global bans page: Global bans by the community are generally done in extreme cases where the user has engaged in severe cross-wiki abuse, has persistently disrupted various Miraheze projects, and where remediation attempts to address any behavior deemed an issue have failed.

Thank you. Naleksuh (talk) 05:15, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) Per nom. Naleksuh (talk) 05:22, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 2)  While I am not aware of the full extent of ApexAgunomu's actions and history a superficial look clearly demonstrates behavior that is unsuitable for Miraheze. There appear to have been numerous attempts to get ApexAgunomu to change his/her behavior which all appear to have largely failed. The events that unfolded also suggest that Stewards have not taken a clear and decisive approach to this issue. Two reasons cause me to be somewhat reluctant about this proposal. The first is that the self-requested lock by ApexAgunomu is suggestive of a willingness to change his/her behavior and is indicative of wanting to take a break from Miraheze and return changed. The second is that by enacting this community ban I find it highly unlikely that the community will ever vote to accept an appeal by ApexAgunomu. To conclude while there are some reasons which make me reluctant I have decided to weakly support this proposal due to the somewhat questionable handling of this case by Stewards in my view which leads me to believe that this would in all likeliness be pursued after the self-request lock is lifted. To me ApexAgunomu has demonstrated that while they require a lot of attention from Stewards, Global Sysops and even local administrators they do not seem to benefit the project or contribute meaningfully in any way. --DeeM28 (talk) 06:56, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for voting. To clarify, their request for a global lock was made shortly after I was considering filing this proposal, and decided not to. Also, in case you weren't aware, they have requested to be unlocked over IRC, announcing that they are back from their break, making this a three day "break". To me, this does not show a willingness to change, as three days is no time to change anything, and is the same repeated behavior of multiple failed claims at changing. In addition, the link to the abusive Skiyomi behavior make it clear that there are bad faith actions and there is no real hope at changing while they are still posting death threats on IRC. Naleksuh (talk) 07:39, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) I don't really think that ApexAgunomu done is as severe as the previous globally banned users (e.g. User:Lawrence-Prairies), but they met the requirements of a global ban that persistant disruptive behaviour is shown after numerous warnings. Therefore, I am voting . Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 08:37, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 2)  the lack of action thus far has been utterly frustrating to me. They have been given far to many chances and have shown little to no change. I see no way I could oppose this at all, and it seems to be the only course of action, seeing as how they are given chance after chance for what they have already done. I would like to note, that however I am giving a strong support, I do so reluctantly. I do believe its necessary, but I never take it lightly when voting for things like this. I wish it hadn't have come this far, but there has been no lasting action taken thus far, anf I feel it is necessary. Universal Omega (talk) 08:44, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 3)  This clearly meets the standard of disruption needed to justify a global ban. ApexAgunomu has been disruptive and apologised and then gone back to causing a mess on more occasions than I dare count. This has been clear across multiple platforms and wikis. While I understand the reluctance in some of the votes, I don't believe they ever will change. The chances given by the Steward team have been far too generous and there has been far too many blockers put in place to prevent action here rather than support to deal with it. The vote on TestWiki left a clear sign of the communities opinion and I expect that to be reflected here.  ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  10:24, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Comments
I am surprised to see this (though I think I may have heard of it a few days ago), considering he has helped a bit on a Pokemon Wiki that I created (ulterior motive?), and I was unaware of some of this other stuff, although I have heard of PokeFan19 being a sockpuppet (I think) who made one article (List of items) and then appeared to have shortly after requested their account be locked. I'm abstaining from the vote (though technically giving a weak support, based on what was said above) as I'm not fully aware of the situation and just wanted to prove input of my experience with him. Bawitdaba (talk) 11:02, 15 June 2022 (UTC)