Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Bloomfield

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Väino Koorberg



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 * Supporting evidence: The same pattern of editing, reverts articles blindly to previous versions by a known hoax&sock puppet master.--Termer (talk) 09:24, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Particularly disquieting is the fact that the vandal uses a name combination, that a number of people actually have, as a google search demonstrates... --Miacek (talk) 10:00, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I have personally witnessed Bloomfield's "contributions" to the project; his/her main style is to produce hoaxes to the Livonian, early dukes pages etc using range of IPs. To clean up his/her mess takes a lot of time as you may easily miss such edits. I think, that "newest" appearance of this user is on Belarusian People’s Republic page (perhaps semi-protection of page should be considered as well), used IP: . As this problem continues for years now I strongly suggest the IP range block to prevent the further damage of the project. M.K. (talk) 10:26, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I second to M.K.. 'Bloomfield' has established tens of sock puppets that have caused significant disruption to Wikipedia. If 'John is fag' -style vandalism is quickly reverted, hardly any of 'Koorberg''s today's reverts were undone before I caught this user, having one of the articles concerned in my watchlist. At first sight, I was in doubt, whether it is an obdurate newbie or some old acquaintance. Also, as already mentioned, he has now started using real persons' names, which I find absolutely outrageous. Miacek (talk) 10:38, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Well we still need to identify is Väino Koorberg same as Bloomfield and his socks/IP. Second I think that WP prohibits to use real names as your editing name, if that name is not yours as such per Username_policy. M.K. (talk) 11:12, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Väino Koorberg is certainly not the real name of the vandal here, for who would vandalize when using his/her real name? But I'm afraid in such cases it wouldn't be easy to convince a sysop to block a user due to user name policy violation, if the person concerned poses as the real X.Y. Amazingly, I've also found out that User:Väino Koorberg began his wiki career with creating a certain hate page on Väino Koorberg. The question arises, how competent our sysops are, if they let one do such a trick and continue editing. But let's wait till the checkuser results. --Miacek (talk) 11:23, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, this Estonian IP acted in the similar manner as the one pointed out by M.K. From the range Termer listed,  this one is almost certainly involved. --Miacek (talk) 11:48, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * . I'd prefer to avoid publicly confirming a user's IP address if I can reasonably manage it, but I hope it suffices to say I've made a block under the auspices of our sockpuppetry policy. I see few anons on 82.131.0.0/17 that appear to be related, but it looks like they've already been taken care of for the most part. – Luna Santin  (talk) 22:42, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment: Since the guy has used a name of an actual living person this time (see Väino Koorberg @ google.com, it would be probably a good idea to delete the user&talk pages all together.--Termer (talk) 03:49, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Please also see the Requests for checkuser/Case/Kidsunited case, from December 2007. -- lucasbfr  talk 21:31, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Bloomfield



 * 1) † - newest one
 * 2) - a bit in doubt *
 * 1) † - newest one
 * 2) - a bit in doubt *
 * 1) - a bit in doubt *
 * 1) - a bit in doubt *
 * 1) - a bit in doubt *
 * 1) - a bit in doubt *
 * 1) - a bit in doubt *
 * 1) - a bit in doubt *


 * Stale, insufficient data for checkuser


 * 1) - blocked per username and distruptive page moves
 * 2) - blocked per username and distruptive page moves
 * 3) - blocked ("Account compromised")
 * 1) - blocked per username and distruptive page moves
 * 2) - blocked per username and distruptive page moves
 * 3) - blocked ("Account compromised")
 * 1) - blocked ("Account compromised")
 * 1) - blocked ("Account compromised")
 * 1) - blocked ("Account compromised")


 * Code letter: C

Bringing this in from or thereabouts. Long-term sneaky pattern vandalism --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 20:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


 * ✅, except for stale data, and for QQQQ, Flying Saucer, and Erdywil. All are from the same geographic area. Now, it's entirely possible that the relationship isn't what it appears to be; all the confirmed ones are from the same country, and perhaps have a uniform POV.


 * Also:

--jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 20:56, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The red-linked users have no edits and might just be from the same geo area. Houix is definitely not a sock based on contributions. Erdiwyl is definitely a sock. Renata 01:42, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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