Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Kraken7

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Kraken7



 * Code letter:C

This user has 79 mainspace edits over roughly 16 months since account creation. Edits are on three pages exclusively, 52 of those on Mexican-American War, with 34 of 58 total talkspace edits in the Talk:Mexican-American War page. The very first account post is here, and since this time user has continually pushed this particular assertion through various talk discussions (including page move discussions). Consensus doesn't agree with this position.

Since the unsuccessful page move request in mid-July, the pagespace has been vandalized some 57 times, by listed ip users and "Ghost accounts", in all circumstances on the subject of disputing the name of the war and the corresponding name of the pagespace, and in a majority of cases by an ip or account using "rv" or "reverted vandalism" in edit summary, usually mocking the editor who reverted user's previous vandalism attempt.

Accounts User:Ghost account 1, User:Ghost account 2 and User:Ghost account 8 have already been blocked as socks and several of the ips listed are Tor nodes.

It is possible that some other user is running these socks and in that case I will offer apology to User:Kraken7. It seems more likely to me that user is a content-area-specific sock puppetmaster for someone using other content-area-specific sock puppetmasters as middle managers to avoid blocking.

No matter the culprit, it is obvious that someone is running these socks and proxies, and while the accused may not be the guilty party, sock behavior is demonstrated here.

Diffs (with edit summaries):

Ghost account 8

05:04, 5 October 2007 (Undid revision 162344447 by Haemo (talk)rv vandalism by user Haemo (talk))

15:11, 5 October 2007 (no summary)

15:50, 5 October 2007 (Undid revision 162469233 by BusterD (talk)reverted obvious vandalism by BusterD)

Ghost account 2

03:09, 4 October 2007 (edit symantics)

07:13, 4 October 2007 (Undid revision 162177327 by Griot (talk) rv vandalism by (talk))

17:43, 4 October 2007 (Undid revision 162214529 by BusterD (talk) rv vandalism by BusterD (talk))

19:18, 4 October 2007 (removed repeated vandalism by North Shoreman (talk))

Ghost account 1

17:09, 29 September 2007 (changed as per talk page)

17:20, 29 September 2007 (Undid revision 161146315 by Bkonrad (talk)reverted to title name as found in talk page)

17:27, 29 September 2007 (Undid revision 161147920 by Bkonrad (talk)do not continue to violate the 3rr BKonrad)

68.108.3.215

0:609, 23 September 2007 (Edit spelling)

12.198.94.194

18:47, 23 September 2007 (Undid revision 159773626 by Griot (talk)rv vandalism by user Griot)

18:48, 23 September 2007 (Undid revision 159773840 by Griot (talk)rv vandalism by user Griot)

20:36, 23 September 2007 (Undid revision 159848624 by BusterD (talk)removed vandalism by BusterD)

211.178.81.118

21:15, 23 September 2007 (Undid revision 159872196 by Bkonrad (talk)removed vandalism by user Bkonrad)

71.166.49.7

21:58, 23 September 2007 (Undid revision 159879864 by BusterD (talk)removed repeated vandalism attempts by user BusterD)

209.121.220.178

04:29, 5 September 2007 (no summary)

01:39, 6 September 2007 (Undid revision 155798162 by Darkspots (talk))

01:46, 6 September 2007 (Undid revision 155961326 by North Shoreman (talk)Re: identified vandalism by North Shoreman)

74.86.134.106

18:02, 7 September 2007 (changed spelling)

18:10, 7 September 2007 (Undid revision 156315764 by North Shoreman (talk)No I was always taught the other name.)

81.201.56.15

16:39, 8 September, 2007 (Undid revision 156321532 by Griot (talk) rv; vandalism by user Griot)

23:17, 9 September 2007 (Undid revision 156805033 by North Shoreman (talk)Undid repeated vandalism by North Shoreman - who made you the Führer?)

69.30.195.20

17:15, 9 September 2007 (Undid revision 156511663 by BusterD (talk)edit grammar)

64.113.84.91

21:54, 9 September 2007 (Undid revision 156737543 by Bkonrad (talk)Re: rv repeated vandalism by Bkonrad)  76.104.162.147

22:48, 9 September 2007 (Undid revision 156797378 by North Shoreman (talk)Undid repeated vandalism by North Shoreman)

67.88.206.98

04:05, 25 August 2007 (no summary)

159.49.254.2

16:52, 25 August 2007 (Undid revision 153538822 by Bkonrad (talk)re: Undid vandalism by BKonrad)

24.69.51.102

02:07, 26 August 2007 (Undid revision 153599286 by Bkonrad (talk)re: removed vandalism by Bkonrad)

03:32, 26 August 2007 (Undid revision 153665597 by North Shoreman (talk)edit: removed vandalism by North Shoreman - do not change the name)

69.80.238.93

19:58, 26 August 2007 (Undid revision 153675060 by Bkonrad (talk)Edited to undo vandalism by Bkonrad)

12.165.108.130

03:15, 27 August 2007 (Undid revision 153812444 by North Shoreman (talk)Re: removed VANDALISM by North Shoreman)

75.127.83.84

20:42, 28 August 2007 (Undid revision 153924895 by Bkonrad (talk)re: Undid vandalism by Bkonrad)

There are more examples, but these most recent ones demonstrate the pattern. I wish I was wrong about this, but I fear this is the tip of the iceberg. BusterD 16:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Today I added a new sock which has now appeared on the Mexican-Americican War page; Bkonrad0 resembles the name of an established editor on the page. BusterD 11:57, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I've added four new suspected socks (User:BusterA,User:BusterE,User:BusterF, and User:BusterH) in relation to this SSP case, which User:BusterD believes to be related to the original Kraken7 SSP case. --Tckma 13:57, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I've added two ips which fit same profile as others. BusterD 20:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Added another account doing same mischief. BusterD 18:41, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Added User:Oyster82 for identical edits to User:Filmman1 Ronnotel 12:06, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

What exactly do you want from us? The names fit a pattern, it's obvious they're socks. We can't process requests when it's unclear what you want. --Deskana (talk) 17:55, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It would be super-handy if we could smoke out the "sleeper" accounts here; I personally have blocked something like 30-odd sleepers on this particular article, and I don't think I've got them all. In fact, they just seemed to have changed their naming conventions to make it harder.  I'd also love to find out who the sockpuppeteer is, but it's so convulted it's nigh-impossible to tell.  --Haemo 18:31, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm hoping for some administrator help here; the sock case was closed with zero input from page monitors and no resolution for a case of long term-abuse. Closing without assisting us identify the the puppetmaster is not only unhelpful, but it leaves the accused without relief. When I applied for assistance three weeks ago I was expecting at least one administrator to help investigate this clear case of sockpuppetry. Unfamiliar with this process, I naively assumed that once I'd met the prima facie case demonstrating long-term abuse, someone involved with this process would be interested. BusterD 16:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * There's nothing that I can do that would change anything. --Deskana (talk) 17:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there's really nothing we can do with the SSP case &mdash; that's why this checkuser is important, if only to root out the remaining dormant accounts here. --Haemo 18:27, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * New one today. BusterD 03:37, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Two new ones today. BusterD 00:57, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Sigh. Whack-a-mole indeed.  --Haemo 18:30, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * New ips added. BusterD 03:46, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * New sock added. BusterD 20:23, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

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 * Why is this filed as "completed" when there's been no action to either complete it, or decline it? --Haemo 20:59, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Because I checked the accounts and responded that there was nothing I could do. Therefore it is completed. --Deskana (talk) 02:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)