Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/100110100/Archive

28 June 2010

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Continuing to sock using IPs. Thus far, no named socks, but is continuing to evade his community ban through his IPs. Requesting CU to see if range block would be feasible as, thus far, he seems to care less about the comm ban and just changes to a new IP and continues right where he left off within a few days, including hounding several various editors, edit warring, trying to change policy and guidelines, etc. Also to check/confirm that he has not made any named socks.-- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 22:50, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs)
 * Add which geolocates the same general area, is in a similar range to another confirmed sock, and seems to mostly have supported the other known IP's actions. CU can also help in getting these properly tagged. --  AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 23:26, 28 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

As a side note, this IP address belongs to a public library. It may be appropriate to forward an abuse report to the library and keep the block time short, as the likelihood of collateral damage when blocking public terminals is extremely high. --Chris (talk) 23:02, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

Requested by -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 22:50, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

Are those the only IPs? If so, a rangeblock is not feasible.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 00:05, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * No, see also Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of 100110100 with confirmed ones (all the confirmed are from the 174.3.x ranges. The 198 and 70s seem to be when he goes to libraries and the like. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 00:11, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I've been looking at some of the recent contributions of 174.3.96.0/19, the range calculated based on the IPs. I do note that there has been some vandalism coming from this range and maybe 1 or 2 good edits.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 00:35, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * he began editing again today from, which is currently blocked for 24 hours. This appears to be his main range, so would a range block to at least slow him down be feasible? The 198 seems to be when he heads to the library. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 04:59, 30 June 2010 (UTC)


 * - No CU is necessary if he is only using IPs. T. Canens (talk) 03:45, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * blocked 3 months. T. Canens (talk) 08:03, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets




Evidence submitted by AnmaFinotera
Blatantly obvious named sock of this edit from the contribs (check all that claim "template consolidation", doing the same replacements of otheruses4, etc as this community banned user. Also obviously reeditting again on the same library IP so I think a longer block is now warranted on that one. Requesting check user now that he is starting to do named socks, to check for sleepers. --  AnmaFinotera  (talk  ~ contribs ) 04:24, 18 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Added due to the similar behavior, random dropping of fors and hat notes (almost all on prods and AfDs which is silly), and similar AfCs as the other socks. When questioned, didn't even question who I suspected him of being. --  AnmaFinotera  (talk  ~ contribs ) 04:54, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

I will say, it was hard to find this place, since it didn't come up on a search of SPI (at this time) and  couldn't be bothered to tell me who I am supposed to be a sock of. (no user talk page, no reply to my queries at Talk:Python II as to who the hell I am supposed to be a sock of)
 * Comment by

Per my comment at Talk:Python II:
 * All articles, whether they are up for deletion or not, deserve proper hatnoting, since not every article sent to prod or AfD are deleted, and while they exist, people will still hit those articles, and will not be directed properly, because those articles exist without proper hatnoting.

I sometimes add hatnotes to articles I find at various listings of articles up for discussion... so this is apparently a crime on Wikipedia now. Why those listings? Because they are active articles.

Why did I not "deny" I was someone? I didn't even know who the hell AnmaFinotera as evidenced at Talk:Python II, where I asked repeatedly, without success who the hell AnmaFinotera thought I was. How can I deny being someone if I am not informed of who the hell I am supposed to be?

If I accused X of being a sockpuppet of an unrevealed person, that's certainly an impossible thing to deny, since X has no idea if you're talking about a logged in user, another IP address, or anything else. Since I've used another computer before, AnmaFinotera could be referring to another IP address, and as AnmaFinotera DID NOT TELL ME A THING, not even this SPI investigation page, what could I do?

76.66.193.119 (talk) 06:19, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

How did I find this SPI page, if I couldn't find it? I asked at WP:AN, and someone pointed it out. 76.66.193.119 (talk) 06:22, 23 July 2010 (UTC)


 * As a note, I did not "refuse" to tell him anything. Apparently my taking more than 10 minutes to answer his reply at 1 am was somehow a refusal to tell him anything. See the AN thread as well, though honestly, such a reaction only reminds me of 100110100 anyway. --  AnmaFinotera (talk  ~ contribs ) 06:39, 23 July 2010 (UTC)


 * My reply is at And AnmaFinotera did not answer a direct question as to who I was supposed to be a sock of at Talk:Python II, before s/he ever filed a report here at SPI. The lack of an answer seems like a refusal to reply to me, since s/he did reply to my comment, without answering the question. That was not a 10 minute wait, that was 20 minutes, which included a reply by AnmaFinotera that did not answer the question. 76.66.193.119 (talk) 06:49, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * My response is also over there, as are responses from other admins. Seriously, dude, if you aren't him, you could just try calming down and just politely explaining that why it is a case of mistaken identification, instead of all this pointless ranting and raving in multiple places and demanding that someone answer a question within 10 minutes just because this is the internet. And, FYI, if you can find WP:AN and WP:SPI, I'm rather surprised you couldn't also just figure out how to find this report from my contribs or seeing what links to your user talk. --  AnmaFinotera (talk  ~ contribs ) 13:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment looking at the previous investigation at the archive, AnmaFinotera said that Montreal is next to Edmonton. These locations are several thousand miles apart "Google Maps". Are all arguments based on geolocality in the region of the same hemisphere, or do you need to be closer together than that? 76.66.193.119 (talk) 07:46, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I never said they "next to", I said similar location and ranges based on geolocation and this editors known history of editing from multiple places. -- <span style='font-family: Georgia, serif; color:#639;'> AnmaFinotera (<em style="color: #F90">talk  ~ <em style="color: #099">contribs ) 13:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I am not user binary code, as I have never had a user account on Wikipedia, and I have never been to Edmonton, which apparently, every IP address in the User sock category is from. I don't continuously edit hatnotes for hours on end either. Most of my edits end up on Talk and Wikipedia namespaces since it's following XfD discussions around. As the "for"s I dropped don't seem to have been reverted by the nominator, or other people, except for Python II, exactly what are wrong with them? 76.66.193.119 (talk) 10:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * They were done late at night...how do you know what will get reverted in the next 24 hours? -- <span style='font-family: Georgia, serif; color:#639;'> AnmaFinotera (<em style="color: #F90">talk  ~ <em style="color: #099">contribs ) 13:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
The account has already been blocked and the IP has not edited for a few days. Has there been any activity since? TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 15:58, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually yes, 100110100 under his own account did an edit to his user talk mentioning the name of the a blocked sock, though the meaning was unclear...so seems like he is around and possibly still able to edit on another IP -- <span style='font-family: Georgia, serif; color:#639;'> AnmaFinotera (<em style="color: #F90">talk  ~ <em style="color: #099">contribs ) 16:06, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, just because they edited their talk page does not mean they are using another IP - their latest block did not disable their talk page. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  16:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The user IHyperpiper) was at my talk page asking questions, and has sent me an email from a University address in the same country but not near where one of the IP address (Montreal resolved) seems to be located. The questions were innocuous and were seeking information, that seemed genuine. billinghurst  sDrewth  23:38, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

and marking as closed. The IPs are as far away as they can possibly just by looking at basic WHOIS information. Nothing else can be done here at this time. –MuZemike 01:39, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by AnmaFinotera
Latest IP sock, need CU for sleeper check since he started doing named socks recently and has been bragging off site about how he is using SULs to get around the blocks with new user names, and see if we can block this range finally. -- <span style='font-family: Georgia, serif; color:#639;'> AnmaFinotera (<em style="color: #F90">talk  ~ <em style="color: #099">contribs ) 13:52, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * ✅ user:100110100 = user:Hyperpiper and they are on this IP. No sleepers. John Vandenberg (chat) 08:57, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Both named accounts have been blocked and the IP has been blocked by NuclearWarfare. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  11:51, 28 July 2010 (UTC)