User:Meters/Reese's hoax

Notes for possible range block request or multi-article protection request (or just for reference for any future IP block requests).

Hoax
Claim of bizarre Reese's flavour "Puppywish Canyons" (amberberries and loganleaf) initially tested in Papua New Guinea, and then unsuccessfully modified with charcoal and gorgonzola. See for example. More than 60 known attempts to add this between December 30, 2019 and April 6, 2020 (more than 100 attempts after edit warring on May 23, hit 140 attempts in mid-July, 150 attempts by August, 200 by end January 2021) with very nearly identical content in most cases. Many of the early edits were rev-del'ed and the latter ones are all identical so I'm not going to provide all of the diffs.

Primary targets are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Reese's Pieces, and Reese's Whipps with sporadic attempts at other articles. Most of the attempts on Reese's Crispy Crunchy Bar were the result of a one-day edit war. More recently has been branching out to candies that do not contain the word "Reese" in the title, and even to completely unrelated non-food articles in which the concept of a flavour makes no sense at all. In late August started started simply dropping "Puppywish Canyons" or "puppywish canyon",  (also included the term "Reese's hoax") or "Puppywish" ,   into random articles. October 11 returned to original Reese's article with full text

Often trolls my pages, or vandalizes articles I have edited. Often waits out short blocks, returns on same IP, and then moves on.

Articles and first known attempts to add hoax
Listed for articles I know about, but I don't see all of them
 * Reese's Peanut Butter Cups December 30, 2019
 * Reese's Pieces December 31, 2019
 * Reese's Whipps January 6, 2020
 * Hershey's Miniatures February 12, 2020
 * H. B. Reese February 19, 2020
 * Reese's Sticks March 10, 2020
 * Reese's Fast Break March 14, 2020
 * Reese's Crispy Crunchy Bar March 15, 2020
 * Nondeterministic finite automaton ‎ Unrelated page, but identical hoax: Mar 19, 2020
 * Reese's Puffs June 7, 2020
 * NutRageous July 7, 2020
 * Take 5 (candy) July 10, 2020
 * Swoops July 12, 2020
 * Whatchamacallit (candy) July 20, 2020
 * Road roller Unrelated page, but identical hoax: July 22, 2020
 * Kleene's algorithm Unrelated page, but identical hoax: July 25, 2020
 * Prunus spinosa Unrelated page, but identical hoax: Aug 1
 * Reese Lansangan unrelated page but identical hoax:Aug 7
 * Ryan Cayabyab unrelated page but identical hoax: Aug 7
 * River Thames unrelated page, short version: Aug 23
 * Showoff (band) unrelated page, short version: Aug 23, Aug 24 ‎
 * Canyon unrelated page, short version :Aug 25
 * Submerge unrelated page, short version: Aug 25
 * Strung Out unrelated page, short version: Aug 26
 * James Bay unrelated page:Sept 9

Number of attempts
Listed for articles I know about, but I don't see all of them
 * Reese's Peanut Butter Cups history: 59
 * Reese's Pieces history: 21
 * Reese's Whipps history: 22
 * Hershey's Miniatures history: 4
 * H. B. Reese history: 1
 * Reese's Fast Break history: 6
 * Reese's Crispy Crunchy Bar history:44
 * Nondeterministic finite automaton history: 1
 * Reese's Sticks history: 3
 * Reese's Puffs history: 1
 * NutRageous history: 7
 * Take 5 (candy) history: 3
 * Swoops history: 9
 * Whatchamacallit (candy) history: 1
 * Road roller history: 2
 * Kleene's algorithm history: 1
 * Prunus spinosa history: 1
 * Reese Lansangan history: 3
 * Ryan Cayabyab history: 1
 * River Thames history: 1 (short version)
 * Showoff (band) ‎ history: 2 (short version)
 * Canyon history: 1 (short version)
 * Submerge history: 1 (short version)
 * Strung Out history: 1 (short version)
 * James Bay history: 2 (one an unrelated bit of garbage )

Resultant page protections

 * Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: February 19 one-month semi by user:EvergreenFir
 * Reese's Pieces: January 7 one-week semi by user:NinjaRobotPirate, January 16 two-week semi by user:EvergreenFir, February 6 three-week semi by user:Reaper Eternal, March 10 three-month semi by user:ToBeFree . June 17 two-week semi by user:Luk
 * Reese's Whipps: February 7 one-month semi by user:Widr
 * User:Meters/Reese's hoax:Feb 27 indef semi at my request by user:Oshwah
 * Reese's Crispy Crunchy Bar May 23 one-month semi by user:L235
 * NutRageous July 17 three-week semi by user:Materialscientist
 * Swoops July 17 three-week semi by user:Materialscientist
 * User talk:Meters Aug 11 three days by user:Acroterion

Named Accounts

 * Special:Contributions/Seddits March 10

IPs

 * GONET, Toronto, static
 * Special:Contributions/204.40.194.132: Dec 31, Jan 3, Jan 6, Jan 7, Jan 14, Feb 5
 * Special:Contributions/204.40.194.135: Jan 29, Feb 3, Feb 6,
 * Special:Contributions/204.40.130.131: Feb 11
 * Special:Contributions/204.40.130.136: Jan 29, Feb 12


 * TBayTel, Thunder Bay, static
 * Special:Contributions/38.39.68.249: Dec 30, Dec 31, Jan 5, Jan 6
 * Special:Contributions/38.39.71.158: Jan 16, Jan 20, Jan 21 (talk page), Jan 28, Feb 5, Feb 6, Feb 7
 * Special:Contributions/38.39.74.58: Feb 21 (just on this page so far)
 * Special:Contributions/38.39.78.79: March 10, Mar 14, Mar 15, Mar 19
 * Special:Contributions/38.39.83.94: Mar 30, April 6, April 13
 * Special:Contributions/38.39.73.86: August 7, August 11 trolling my talk page after short block, also a bit of V to a page he created after seeing it on my ToDo list, Aug 14 back after 2nd block to troll one of my vandalism report pages since my talk page is protected
 * Special:Contributions/38.39.93.166 Oct 11


 * Special:Contributions/38.18.102.88 July 3
 * Special:Contributions/38.18.105.74 July 10
 * Special:Contributions/38.18.114.116 July 22, July 24, July 25, Aug 1
 * Special:Contributions/38.18.107.89 Sept 9 (also my page)
 * Special:Contributions/38.18.97.178 Oct 20


 * Special:Contributions/206.186.44.182 May 23 (first time I've noticed this range, but TBay Tel again) May 24 (back after short block)
 * Special:Contributions/206.186.171.180 July 15
 * Special:Contributions/206.186.171.162 Nov 10 (and note edit summary reference to "Reese's vandal'' on Nov 4)


 * Special:Contributions/216.26.222.206 June 1 (another new range but TBayTel again, articles and trolling my talk page)
 * Special:Contributions/216.26.210.187 July 6, July 7


 * Special:Contributions/216.211.86.162 June 7 articles and trolling my talk page, June 10 trolling my talk page (back after short block)
 * Special:Contributions/216.211.56.47 June 15
 * Special:Contributions/216.211.0.91 June 17 (trolling my talk page), June 21 (back after short block)
 * Special:Contributions/216.211.84.144 July 10, July 12 (back after short block)
 * Special:Contributions/216.211.59.5 July 16 articles and trolling my talk page. July 20 (back after short block)
 * Special:Contributions/216.211.45.21 Aug 23, Aug 24 (random additions of "Puppywish Canyons", trolling my talk and pages I have edited)
 * Special:Contributions/216.211.85.235 Jan 30 2021 multiple attempts full text


 * Bell Mobility, Ontario, mobile IP, single/double edits
 * Special:Contributions/67.69.69.88: Feb 9
 * Special:Contributions/67.69.69.156: Feb 7
 * Special:Contributions/67.69.69.226: Jan 31
 * Special:Contributions/67.69.69.216: Feb 19 (articles, trolling this page and my talk page)
 * Special:Contributions/67.69.69.145 : Feb 26 (trolling this page)
 * Special:Contributions/67.69.69.16 ; Feb 26
 * Special:Contributions/67.69.69.213 Feb 27 (article, trolling this page)
 * Special:Contributions/67.69.69.223 Aug 11 (trolling my talk) First use of this ISP since the COVID-19 lockdown started
 * Special:Contributions/67.69.69.199 Aug 14 (trolling one of my vandalism report pages since my talk page is protected)
 * Special:Contributions/67.69.69.127 Aug 25, Aug 26

Blocks
41 account blocks and 6 range blocks that I know of as of Jan 30 2021 (just as I was thinking this was done...)

2020

 * 204.40.194.132: Jan 7 one week, Jan 14 two weeks
 * 204.40.194.135: Jan 30 48 hours, Feb 7 one week
 * 204.40.130.136: Jan 30 48 hours
 * 204.40.128.0/17: Feb 19, Range blocked 6 months, May 24 Range block extended to one year
 * 38.39.71.158: Jan 16 31 hours, Jan 28 one week, Feb 7 one month
 * 67.69.69.156: Feb 7 31 hours
 * 67.69.69.216: Feb 19 31 hours
 * 67.69.69.226: Jan 31 31 hours
 * 67.69.69.213:Feb 27 one week
 * 67.69.69.0/24:Feb 27 range blocked two weeks
 * 38.39.78.79 March 10 60 hours
 * 38.39.83.94 April 6 48 hours, April 8 72 hours, April 13 2020 one month
 * 206.186.44.182 May 23 31 hours, May 24 2 weeks
 * 216.26.222.206 June 1 2 weeks
 * 216.211.86.162 June 7 48 hours, June 10 one month
 * 216.211.56.47 June 15 one month
 * 216.211.0.91 June 17 60 hours, June 22 one month
 * 38.18.102.88 July 3 three months
 * 38.18.105.74 July 10 one week
 * 216.211.84.144 July 10 31 hours, July 14 one month
 * 206.186.171.180 July 15 one week
 * 216.211.59.5 July 16 31 hours
 * 38.18.96.0/19:July 25 range blocked one week, Oct 20 range blocked 1 year
 * 38.18.114.116 Aug 1 one week
 * 38.39.73.86 Aug 7 31 hours, Aug 11 three days, Aug 14 two weeks
 * 67.69.69.223 Aug 11 3 days
 * 67.69.69.199 Aug 14 31 hours
 * 216.211.45.21 Aug 24 one week
 * 38.18.107.89 Sept 10 31 hours
 * 38.39.93.166 Oct 11 72 hours
 * 38.39.64.0/19 Oct 12 partial range block 2 years. expanded to 6 months full April 7, 2021
 * 38.18.97.178 Oct 20 72 hours

2021

 * 216.211.85.235 Jan 30 48 hours

Comments

 * The two IPs in the GONet 240.40.194 cluster have added the hoax multiple times over an extended period. Edits have resumed after blocks.
 * One of the two IPs in the GONet 240.40.130 cluster has added the hoax more than once (returned Feb 12 after two-week gap).
 * The IPs in the TBayTel 38.39 cluster have added the hoax multiple times over an extended period. Edits have resumed after blocks. Good target for range block if collateral damage not an issue.
 * The 206.184 TBayTel IP returned after a short block. Watch for others in this range now that it is on longer block.
 * The 216.26 TBayTel IP returned after a short block, now on one month block, moved to different IP in same range after one week
 * The Bell Mobility IPs (67.69) are short-term dynamic addresses that can be ignored, or at most handled with short-duration blocks as needed.
 * August 11 showed up on the southern Ontario Bell Mobility ISP again  for the first time since the COVID-19 shutdown
 * September9 back to full text on unrelated article
 * October 11 back to original article, with full text