Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/50.250.227.83/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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50.250.227.83 was blocked due to edit warring on University of California, Berkeley, 5 minutes later this guy shows up and starts a new (yet related) edit war on the same page. Both users have also shown the same MO of:


 * Complaining on individual admin talk pages about the users reverting their edits,


 * Rather amusingly misunderstanding and misusing the dispute resolution process,


 * Attempting to distract their reverters by pretending to be engaged in a consensus-building process while continuing to surreptitiously push their changes onto the article.

This is quite disturbing behaviour as it demonstrates a categorical unwillingness to abide by policy. As such, I believe obtaining CheckUser evidence would be justified, as the proof of sockpuppeting would allow for the original block to be extended in duration. I believe this to be necessary because it seems like this individual is acting in bad faith and has no intention of respecting policy or refraining from edit-warring in future. Newbiepedian (talk · contribs · X! · logs) 03:48, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Geolocation and characteristics of edits suggest the same person is behind these IPs. CU isn't used to identify IPs, so that's certainly not going to happen. The most recent IP is blocked, and if trouble persists we'll probably lock the article. That's really all there is to it. Drmies (talk) 04:48, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing per Drmies's comments. Bbb23 (talk) 12:16, 14 April 2018 (UTC)