Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/173.13.174.21/Archive

29 January 2014

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The master, who I am dubbing "San Jose Kid" because his IP geolocates to San Jose, is involved in a campaign of "total content" vandalism. That is, he is deliberately corrupting dates, date ranges, numbers, as well as changing Fact A to Fact B, for example, in these 14 edits, he changes BBC UK to HBO (US), he changes TV networks from Time-Life to TNT, Cinemax to TCM, and so forth. In the same edits, he claims that "Henry's Cat Special Edition DVD" was a 1998 release, when it appears to be a 2000 release. (See also here, here and here while supplies last!) User is also asserting that this series was a joint UK and US venture, when there's no indication that it was anything other than an British series. User has been active at List of Hey Arnold! episodes, for example here where he claims episode "Grudge Match / Polishing Rhonda" aired first in 2000. This doesn't match TVGuide.com, epguides.com, or Zap2It. So I think that properly establishes a nefarious motivation.

As for the 207 range IP addresses, they all geolocate to San Jose, most, if not all, are registered to Campbell Union School District, they have all been used either to edit Henry's Cat or List of Hey Arnold! episodes. What makes this a sockpuppetry case, is that the user has deliberately hopped IP addresses to make their changes. For example, at Henry's Cat, on January 24 the editor uses five IPs to make five consecutive edits in the span of a few minutes, beginning with this edit. Same thing at the Hey Arnold! article, where they cycled through five IPs in the span of a few minutes starting here. And that happened after the user hopped twice one hour earlier. The user is probably just using different computers in the library/computer lab. My guess is that the user is doing this to thwart the rollback button--if he vandalizes from five IPs, and I click rollback, I'm only undoing the last IP he used. Thanks all. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:49, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * The single IP has been blocked for a month. I looked at 207.31.22.0/24 and found that much of the editing was related to this case, so I also schoolblocked the range for a month. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:14, 29 January 2014 (UTC)