Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/108.208.226.10/Archive

17 September 2013

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M.O.:


 * 108.208.226.10 (geolocates to North Carolina) makes bulk-changes to dates at Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, consistently subtracting one day here and there with no explanation, and no sources. 30s are changed to 29s, 7s are changed to 6s, etc. A veracity check of the LA Times article cited shows a publication date of 10/30/94, instead of 10/29/94. Constructive edits seem to be intermixed with the disruptive ones.  In spite of numerous reversions, IP continues to resubmit the same content.  IP has been blocked at least 4 times, most recently receiving a 6-month job on September 10, 2013.


 * 166.147.121.172 (geolocates to Wichita, Kansas). User also adjusts dates by one day.  No explanation, no sources.  Example from September 15.


 * 65.188.213.213 (geolocates to North Carolina). User seems to replace all the edits made by 166.147* on September 16, 2013.  No explanation, no sources.


 * 162.234.222.122 (geolocates to Wichita, Kansas) again. User again restores unexplained date changes at Aaahh!!! Real Monsters on September 16, 2013.

But to strengthen the point, there are overlaps at other articles, for example, here Where 166.147* is obsessed with a specific display of "Rack Shack & Benny" as was 108.208*

While poking through the most recent batch of sock reports, I stumbled on this one which may also have roots in North Carolina, although I've done nothing to specifically link the two. I also notice this weird edit from a Canadian IP, but this might just be other warzone fallout from another sock operator (for example, Greengrounds). Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:52, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

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Anon user 69.113.135.95 has made similar edits as ‎the above on VeggieTales pages. Maybe a coincidence, but the edits are very similar to what I've been seeing with 162.234.222.122. Thanks for taking this up! I also find it interesting that this user 94.172.92.135 popped up and started editting VeggieTales pages the day after 162.234.222.122 was blocked. Again may be just a coincidence... Ckruschke (talk) 17:42, 18 September 2013 (UTC)Ckruschke

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 * – blocked 166.147* and 65.188* for 1 month, and extended existing block on 162.234* to 1 month. &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 04:25, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

24 October 2013

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Though this ip geolocates to Cancun, Mexico, this user has the same M.O. as the other IP editors in this report and is editing in the same narrow spectrum of interest. Like the others, this user appears enamored with Barnyard (film), and anything to do with the VeggieTales children's series, including Very Silly Songs!, The End of Silliness?, Are You My Neighbor?, and Rack, Shack & Benny. There might also be some overlap at Ned's Newt. Like the predecessors, the user is insistent upon forcing an ampersand in the name "Rack, Shack & Benny" (which matches the article title), but doesn't have any qualms about adding the dubious "Alvin and the Chipmunks meet Frankenstein" to a VeggieTales title like in this edit. User made a series of (presumably) constructive edits to Barnyard, but during the same edit campaign, dutifully changes the release year at "The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists from 1996 to 1995, which is demonstrably innaccurate. It's clear the user is IP hopping to escape blocks.  Is an SPI report enough?  Can we do anything else to prevent these disruptions? Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:38, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
 * UPDATE: Here is another example of the user's M.O: In this string of 12 edits to List of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episodes, the user makes some seemingly helpful improvements, such as changing incorrect templates to correct  templates, but the net result of their meddling, is that the first season premiered October 29, 1994, but ended ten months EARLIER on January 21, 1994.  User makes other seemingly good-hand edits, removing unnecessary "young" from "The show focuses on three young monsters...", and adds some possible video releases, but also bad-handedly reformats all the episode numbers without explanation, and erroneously shifts the airdates of various eps early by an entire year.  "Ickis Box", for example aired 1/21/1995 according to TVGuide, but user changed it (and other eps) to 1994. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:26, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * Both IPs blocked and targets semi-protected. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:29, 25 October 2013 (UTC)