Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Grouchstink

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Grouchstink



 * Code letter: C, E
 * Supporting evidence: See also Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Grouchstink. User is editing articles relating to Days of our Lives and other soap opera characters tendentiously.  If you check the contribs list of the above user and IPs, you will see that this is A) clearly one person and B) his narrow range of targets.  I have tried semi-protecting a few articles, but given the sheer number of articles that is likely to need semiprotection, this will only lock down those articles against legitimate edits.  I started this report to investigate the feasibility of a range block to take care of the problem.  It looks to me like the relevent range is 85.226.64.0/20 which is a relatively small (4000 IPs) range.  If a checkuser with experience in working out range blocks could see if there is likely to be any collateral damage on that /20 it would be most helpful.  Any IPs in that range editing soap opera articles is likely to be this person, so it would help to know if there are any other obviously different users in that range before enacting a rangeblock.  As the user has only created one account, and has only edited via IP otherwise, I am considering a soft-block for now.  I would consider a hard-block should socking later become a problem.  Thanks for looking into this!  --Jayron32. talk . contribs  01:08, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Mmm I'm not sure what CUs can do here (beside checking the /16 anon contributionsm which you can do with some McGyver Magic ^^). -- lucasbfr  [[User talk:Lucasbfr|talk ]] 09:37, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * . As per Lucas, utility of the tool is a bit limited in this case. Looks like they're editing exclusively anon at this point, at least within 85.226.64.0/20. If you do make any rangeblocks, make sure they're soft and try to keep them short. Other recent IPs include, , and . I notice regular targets of late seem to be Stefano DiMera and Children of Days of our Lives (related changes might be useful) – Luna Santin  (talk) 20:43, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

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