Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/108.170.85.234/Archive

03 November 2013

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I recently edited the page WNYJ-TV. It was later edited, nonconstructively, by unregistered IP user User talk:71.167.98.43. The user described my edit as "trivial and unecessary". I reverted the edit, and visited the users' talk page to explain my reasons and suggested to engage in dialogue to reach compromise. The user reverted that edit without doing this, and did not do so in good faith. I placed an edit war warning on the user's page, and partially reverted the edit. Later tonight, I revisited WNYJ-TV and found a new unregistered IP user, User talk:108.170.85.234, reverted the exact same article portion for reasons of being "trivial". I submit as evidence the revision history for the page of WNYJ-TV: WNYJ-TV: Revision History I believe this activity is sockpuppetry, in violation of Wikipedia policy, and accordingly I am filing this complaint. I will add one other thought: I believe this user may have been banned earlier this year for similar behavior. 70.111.147.221 (talk) 07:35, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Please move this page to the WP space. Thanks. Regards, 70.111.147.221 (talk) 07:35, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Not done: I think there is a path at WP:SPI which allows an IP to initiate an SPI, but I think you should not use that at this time. There is a link to Geolocate at the bottom of each IP talk page. If you use that on these two IPs, you'll find they are a Verizon account in the Bronx and a business in New Jersey. No direct connection there. Checkuser is not meaningful for two IPs since it just determines the IP of a registered account to compare against IP editors or the IPs of other registered editors. The revision history only shows that two other IPs disagree with your changes. The right approach here is to start a dialog on the talk page for that article and explain to the others why you feel your changes would improve the article. Regards, Celestra (talk) 17:04, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Well, this is all very stale now, so I'm closing it. For what it's worth,, moving the case from the talk page is the path for an IP to file a case, if you ever come across something like this again. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 11:47, 18 June 2014 (UTC)