Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/31.185.230.165/Archive

05 October 2012

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The above IP addresses appear to be operated by a single person who has been making repeated changes to a small number of articles which relate to settlements in England. The changes relate to a contention by the person that the locations are still within an historic county and have not changed. The articles concerned are Edmonton, London, Abingdon-on-Thames, Slough, Great Coxwell and Little Coxwell. Various editors have reverted these edits and have engaged in lengthy exchanges on article Talk Pages and also on the IPs Talk Page. The IP chooses to ignore this advice as well as WP policy and guidance that has been pointed out to them and instead repeatedly makes the changes or reverts other editor's changes. Typical examples of the discussion involving more than one of the above IP addresses can be found at Talk:Slough and Talk:Edmonton, London. A difficulty here is that the editor uses a new IP address each time a new session of edits occurs. The editor appears to have easy access to new IP addresses, sometimes moving to a new IP address on the same editing session. The edit history of all the IP addresses used follows a similar pattern with the IP adding incorrect information or reverting another editor's correction sometimes with an edit summary repeatedly referring to erroneous contentions which have already been dealt with on one or other Talk Page. The editor has been encouraged to open an account so proper discussion can take place and has also been encouraged to go to the discussion pages for the guidance and policies. The article pages concerned were given protection for around a month which has just lapsed and the pattern of editing using two new ip addresses has just started again. Aside from the identical form of the edits and contributions to discussions, corroboration that all these IP addresses relate to a single editor is based also on the fact that the editor's only other edits relate to a small number of telephonic technology articles with similar edits and contribution to talk pages which as far as can be ascertained and in contrast to the settlement articles appear not to be mendacious. Because a new Ip address is used each time on several pages it has resulted in several editors unaware that the editor is operating across several different articles or has previously been editing on that page under a different IP address being drawn into parallel discussions on different article pages

Diffs Edmonton, London 1, 2, 3, 4, Slough 5 6 7 8 9 Great Coxwell 10 11 12 13 14

Little Coxwell 15 16 17 18 19 20

Abingdon 21 22 [

[ Tmol42 (talk) 15:00, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * Can confirm the above as accurate. A couple of the articles concerned are on my watchlist and the pattern of contentious edits is obvious. Another editor with similar views but a more reasonable manner suggested a compromise but this editor does not seem willing to countenance such suggestions. Dave.Dunford (talk) 15:30, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * They all seem to be connected. The WHOIS reports show that the ISP for all of them is PlusNet Technologies Ltd, and they are all around Leeds, UK. --v/r Electric Catfish (talk) 15:55, 5 October 2012 (UTC)


 * 91.125.63.235 can be added to the list, given recent edits. Dave.Dunford (talk) 16:28, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 146.90.209.23 and another to be added, same pattern of editing.Tmol42 (talk) 13:20, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This activity is too disparate to tackle through blocking every account, so I recommend we wipe the slate clean in an attempt to tackle currently active (rather than every single) account that perpetuates these incorrect changes to articles about English settlements. In future reports, we will need diffs to prove any IP address is related to another, or that any accounts are related; it is insufficient to simply paste a list of addresses. Marking for closure with no prejudice to a new case, AGK  [•] 18:51, 13 October 2012 (UTC)