Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/HerkusMonte

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Skäpperöd

 * 84.139.*.*
 * 84.139.*.*
 * 84.139.*.*


 * Code letter: G


 * Supporting evidence:

An IP user logging in from 84.139.*.* (the IP address seems to vary with every edit) has been wiki-hounding me for the last couple of weeks - especially the last few days. Since he or she does not have an account or a fixed IP address, the easiest way to confirm this claim may be to look at the articles I have edited recently and track his contributions. Besides having an apparent dislike for my work, he seems to have a faint but consistent German nationalist slant.

I brought the matter to the administrator's noticeboard for the first time a couple of days ago; he replied by making claims on my edits that were prima facie false - at times these claims were contradicted by the diffs he had given. This seems frivolous, to say the least. See my comments at and on the talk page Talk:Ilya Ehrenburg.

Interestingly, Geolocate shows that this user is logging in from Rostock in Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). Can somebody run a check against two recent users in Talk:Drang nach Osten? User:Skäpperöd and User:HerkusMonte may have compatible views, declare themselves to be from the same region and have been contributing to the page where the wikihounding started. (It is also my impression that there are some stylistic similarities between the writing style of User:Skäpperöd and the IP user.)

The IP user claims that he uses IPs (and, by implication, only IPs) because he is not a regular contributor the English-language wikipedia. Were he to turn out to be either of the above-mentioned users, this would be another blatant untruth.

In case the IP editor and the above users turn out to be distinct - I was advised in the administrator's noticeboard to leave warnings to the IP editor; he has not acknowledged him, and indeed may not receive them automatically, since his IP address keeps shifting. What can be done in such a situation? His behaviour continues. Feketekave (talk) 03:14, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Can you provide more evidences showing a possible link between the IPs and the users? -- lucasbfr  ho ho ho 14:03, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * relevant ANI thread (archived). I have provided a few IPs from the range as a convenience to the reviewing Checkuser. The range looks a bit busy and a block might not be feasible, though. If the disruption is limited to a few articles, semi protection might be workable :/ -- lucasbfr  ho ho ho 14:03, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ to be the IPs, but the range is large and would have much collateral damage if blocked. &mdash; Coren (talk) 06:19, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * is ❌. &mdash; Coren (talk) 06:19, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Aha. Well, if HerkusMonte is indeed the user, shouldn't he be penalised? Note that he hasn't just engaged in disruptive behaviour - he has also pretended that he is not a frequent user in the English wikipedia, and, implicitly, that he does not have an account he uses here. Feketekave (talk) 15:47, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * None of the involved parties was notified by the thread starter or the CU-ing admin. I was notified in the meantime by an uninvolved admin, and have now informed HerkusMonte myself, but this is just bad style. Also, Rostock is not in Pomerania, though close to it. A peaceful new year Skäpperöd (talk) 16:05, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I will inform the involved parties in the future. Feketekave (talk) 16:15, 1 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I answered on Feketekave's talk page. HerkusMonte (talk) 08:56, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

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