Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/118.149.190.150/Archive

03 December 2013

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The three above IP addresses have all made exactly the same edits to the "Origins" section of the Clan Grant article and I will explain why this is a problem. Before the IP user(s) came along the existing version of the article was well sourced with inline citations for each sentence. The IP comes along and removes the well sourced info from the article - without prior discussion - which is against the rules of Wikipedia. He or she then adds their own info which is completely unsourced. All three of the above IP's making the same edits. If you check the edit history of each of the IP's listed then they have all only edited one article, the Clan Grant article, again with the same info. Now the next part I do not currently have enough evidence for but I suspect that the same person who is operating from the above three IP addresses could well be User talk:24.188.32.225 who is blocked for persistent vandalism - and who edited both the Clan Grant article with similar info in the past as well the similar Clan Davidson article for which the said IP user was blocked for. QuintusPetillius (talk) 17:07, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
 * User:118.149.245.130 has also made similar edits to the same section of the Clan Grant article, in terms of removing existing sourced information from the same section of the article. Again this IP user's contributions are only to the Clan grant article.
 * Again if you check the contributions of blocked User talk:24.188.32.225, here: (sorry for the poor link): . He/she although blocked for edits to the Clan Davidson article also made comments about the Clan Grant article, before blanking the pages. Perhaps I should be using this one as the master sock ? QuintusPetillius (talk) 17:20, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * I've semi-protected Clan Grant for one month. I think that's a better option than rangeblocking here. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:08, 3 December 2013 (UTC)