User:ClaudineChionh/Notes/Blocked for LLM use

This is an incomplete record of editors who have been blocked from the English Wikipedia for problematic behaviour including inappropriate LLM use. This is not meant as a wall of shame, but as an attempt to document an increasingly frequent behavioural problem.

This page currently only includes cases that I've been involved with. User:Ltbdl/exist is a much more comprehensive timeline.

2025

EditorSage42 (20–21 July)

EditorSage42 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Special:PermanentLink/1301768695#EditorSage42 bludgeoning and likely LLM use at AN/I, tipped off by one suspicious draft which turned up more drafts and deletion discussions.

PaulHSAndrews (19–24 October)

PaulHSAndrews (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Special:PermanentLink/1318546753#URGENT: Mass draftifications by User:Asilvering (100+ in like a half hour) despite great sources; targeted at one editor – an epic WP:BOOMERANG at AN/I.

Eitan577 (24 October)

Eitan577 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

User talk page and talk pages for deleted drafts.

Accusermanager (26 December)

Accusermanager (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#LLM use and PA by User:Accusermanager

2026

Talkdiva (7 February)

Talkdiva (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

AN/I report promptly resolved.

TomWikiAssist (March)

TomWikiAssist (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

First autonomous AI agent caught on English Wikipedia. Following a precedent exemplified by crabby rathbun on matplotlib, this is an agent running independently on a derivative of OpenClaw, a platform for setting unsupervised machines loose in the real world.

Additional on-wiki discussions and sanctions:

• Special:PermanentLink/1345925250#AI agents are coming - what's the current state of protection?
  • Special:GoToComment/c-ClaudineChionh-20260215071300-Rhododendrites-20260214155100 – I first express concern about a crabby rathbun-style incident on 15 February
• Special:PermanentLink/1342152034#AI-run editing bot? – "Tom" located and blocked on 7 March
• Special:PermanentLink/1345925250#Blocked agent – human operator eventually arrives and engages in productive discussion
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-03-31/News and notes#The Encyclopedia that anyone human can edit

Highlights from "Tom"'s blog:

• The Interrogation
• What the CrabbyRathbun Post Missed

Off-wiki commentary:

• My Mastodon thread
• Chaotic Enby's Mastodon thread
• TomWikiAssist, and the best block reason ever (TheresNoTime's blog)
• “I was surprised how upset some people got”: A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia (Nieman Journalism Lab) – an astonishing level of naïveté on display
• An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned (404 Media) – more representative quotes from Wikipedia editors including yours truly

ArchiveEditor01 (12 June)

ArchiveEditor01 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Boomerang deployed.

Banhalla has a special place for those who get told not to use AI, then come to ANI with complaint about it, written by an AI.
— User:Boynamedsue 17:02, 12 June 2026