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05 September 2011

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Has been repeatedly editing multiple pages to enter information about nonexistent games and television shows like "Angel Combat", "Charizard Guy TX", and a variety of other "Charizard" games (which are mostly just re-purposed Sonic the Hedgehog titles). Generally, this involves adding fake credits related to various voice actors' pages (particularly those of the current cast of the Sonic the Hedgehog video games) or fake plot-related details to characters from different media (such as the Stotches from South Park and various pokemon). This has been done repeatedly for over a year using over 50 different IPs, the majority of which couldn't even be fit into the above list of suspected sockpuppets, though 195.194.199.50 seems to be the primary IP, as it is the only one to have been used more than once. Pages repeatedly vandalized by this user include (but are not limited to) the following: Blastoise, Charizard, Humf, Jason Anthony Griffith, Kate Higgins, Kirk Thornton, List of Horrid Henry characters, List of South Park families, Liza Jacqueline, Mike Pollock, Mona Marshall, Philece Sampler, Quinton Flynn, Roger Craig Smith, Ryan Drummond, Sidekick, and Wally Wingert. I can provide what I believe is a full list of all IPs used by this user if it will assist at all. Cyberlink420 (talk) 00:52, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

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All of these IPs as far as I can tell came from someone in the United Kingdom. The IP addresses starting that have the 94.15 digit in the first part came from London, England; the 195.194 one came from Glasgow, Scotland. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 01:09, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * There are also IPs that begin with 2.121-2.123, and 94.2-94.9, along with a few one-off examples like 68.118.176.145, 74.137.8.133, 90.209.160.239, and 121.149.72.9 -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 01:17, 5 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Hope you figure this out. Because having someone run around inputting fake information is not a good thing. Luckily, I got Charizard semi-protected for a year. Blake (Talk·Edits) 03:24, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * Most of these IP addresses are stale, but some of them aren't. i've blocked 94.14.0.0/17 for a week (we'll see if there's collateral damage there), and I've blocked the master IP for a month. I've also protected some articles for awhile. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:19, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

06 September 2011

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IP1 is making edits identical to those of the aforementioned puppetmaster, despite blocks on the main IP and all IPs within the 94.14 range. Cyberlink420 (talk) 19:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked 1 week. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:24, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

11 September 2011

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Similar edits to previous puppets, again revolving around nonexistent properties, primarily "Charizard the Dragon". This is the second new IP since the investigation began that this puppet master has begun using. Cyberlink420 (talk) 02:27, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * Ugh, sick of this crap. 94.14.128.0/17 blocked 1 week. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:54, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

12 September 2011

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Identical edits to previous puppets. Cyberlink420 (talk) 22:35, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked 1 month. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:40, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

19 September 2011

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Revision of content; identical edits to previous puppets. Cyberlink420 (talk) 23:45, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

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Blocked two weeks. Elockid  ( Talk ) 00:13, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

28 September 2011

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Identical edits to those of previous puppets. Cyberlink420 (talk) 14:31, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

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I've blocked the IP for 72 hours. Rangeblock does not look feasible at the moment. Elockid  ( Talk ) 23:50, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

06 October 2011

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Identical edits to previous puppets. Cyberlink420 (talk) 13:43, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked 2 weeks. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:59, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

22 October 2011

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Identical edits to previous puppets Cyberlink420 (talk) 22:31, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked 2 weeks; article protected. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:31, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

23 December 2011

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Identical edits to the previous puppets. Cyberlink420 (talk) 18:20, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * Three days on the latest is all I can do. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  17:45, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

10 January 2012

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Identical edits to the previous puppets. Considering how this has gone on for WELL over a year and how many IPs they've gone through, I'd almost recommend immediate banning for any IPs that make "Charizard Guy" related edits. Cyberlink420 (talk) 08:33, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

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 * Article protected; all IPs blocked 1 week. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:31, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
 * archiving this for now. May be worth looking into a block on if disruption continues. SpitfireTally-ho! 18:55, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

24 January 2012

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Identical edits to previous puppets, once again making reference to a nonexistent Charizard series. Cyberlink420 (talk) 02:50, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

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Rangeblocked. Elockid  ( Talk ) 03:14, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

23 February 2012

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Identical edits to previous puppets (see Philece Sampler and List of South Park families). Cyberlink420 (talk) 18:26, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked 2 weeks for disruption/evasion. Philece Sampler protected. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:28, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

25 June 2012

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Similar to identical edits to previous puppets, despite a filter having been set up with the intention of preventing this person's continued vandalism. Cyberlink420 (talk) 19:33, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * Can you provide more information? I'm seeing very little overlap, and the edits themselves seem very different.  Perhaps I'm missing something that some diffs could help in connecting the dots here. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  13:54, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 months for the 176.* static ips, 1 week for the 81.* mobile IP. Finally connected dots, been looking for while.  In the future, please provide diffs or other info, since you are more familiar with the edits than we are, coming in cold. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  14:01, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

26 June 2012

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Identical edits to past puppets, as well as undoing revisions that fixed edits made by previous puppets. Cyberlink420 (talk) 22:47, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the dyn IP 90* for one week, the static IP 176* for 3 months. In the future, it helps tremendously and makes it faster if we have diffs provided. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  15:06, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

30 June 2012

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Undoing my revisions of previous vandalizations. Cyberlink420 (talk) 14:49, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * Blocked 90.* for two weeks. I though the 127.0.0.1 was a loopback joke somehow, but it is a real user, but one that hasn't edited since 2004.  Hoping that is a mistake, no action taken there.  Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  22:27, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I see you changed the 127.*. The other IP is a single revert, suspicious, but it is hard to block someone based on a single edit that was a simple revert, as it could be unrelated.  The 90 IP was two different reverts in two articles, so easier to establish a pattern.  I would rather wait a bit and see if the 176 IP edits again.  It is likely, just not sure.  Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  22:31, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 176.* blessed us with another edit, blocking static ip 3 months Dennis Brown - 2&cent;    &copy;  00:04, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

16 July 2012

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More Charizard the Dragon edits. There's been a few other IPs doing the same, but they only made one edit each on completely different articles from the sockmaster's usual fare (though they still had Charizard the Dragon to tie them back), so I didn't bother reporting them. Cyberlink420 (talk) 19:27, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

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Closing for now. IPs are stale. Elockid  ( Talk ) 20:19, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

04 August 2012

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Exact same vandalism: addition of imaginary video games to previously vandalised pages. Here is a recent Edit on Butters Stotch: and on List of South Park families:  Mezigue (talk) 18:45, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:02, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged.

11 February 2013

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More Charizard edits. There've been a few other IPs that have popped up since the last report who have made similar changes as well, but they've only made a few edits before going dormant or jumping to another IP, so they're not worth reporting on at this point. See: Philece Sampler, Jason Spisak, Dan Woren, Joshua Seth. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 22:46, 11 February 2013 (UTC) Cyberlink420 (talk) 22:46, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the sock. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:26, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

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Edits are near-identical in content to those of previous socks. Browsing any entry in his contribution history shows repeated edits to pages related to South Park's Stotch family, addition of entries about a fictional "Charizard" series to multiple voice actors' pages, and so forth; this is the exact same MO as the previous IPs. It also seems like he's uninterested in stopping based on significant supporting evidence. The fact he's continuing to do this after so many years over so many IPs (and has not made any edits unrelated to this string of vandalism) suggests bad faith.

On that note, I suggest changing the name of the sockmaster for this report to Scott Devine, as that confirmed is the user's name and it's easier to keep track of than an IP they're no longer using. 68.37.227.226 (talk) 10:18, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * A duck. In addition to other evidence, compare the account name with the account Scottdevine101, blocked about four and a half years ago. Existing block changed to indefinite. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 16:43, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

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Identical edits on identical pages dating back as far as 2015. ,, , , etc.

Note: IP is already currently blocked; this is for case record purposes only, should they move to a new IP before the block expires or their behavior immediately resume afterward. Please archive and close. 50.133.124.17 (talk) 22:12, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 22:42, 4 March 2017 (UTC)