Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/71.3.142.187/Archive

10 November 2015

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IPs are substituting lots of file deletion templates and changing their wordings. See also previous discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive901. The IPs are wasting my time due to the need to revert the vandalism. Not sure what to do. All IPs are obviously from the same IP range. Stefan2 (talk) 00:27, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how to solve this problem. Blocking single IPs obviously doesn't help as the user simply switches to another one. Protecting files wouldn't help either as the files which are up for deletion this week won't be the same as the files which are up for deletion next week – most deletion discussions are closed after approximately one week. User:Redrose64, would you be able to figure out how to disable substitution of certain templates, as you suggested below? --Stefan2 (talk) 16:04, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * Some templates, such as incorporate Lua-based code that detects and prevents an attempt to substitute, i.e. they guard against . Perhaps that could be done with  etc. -- Red rose64 (talk) 07:57, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:59, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Admin action needed - Please, block 71.3.141.221 for three days. That is the only one of those IPs active in the last few days. Rangeblock is not possible (range too large).  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:12, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ and closing. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 01:42, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocking this guy only makes them switch IPs and carry on. See -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:19, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've rangeblocked three distinct /24 ranges here for 3 months. I did this after noticing that quite nearly all the anon edits in 2015 in all three ranges are this guy. 71.3.142.0/24, 71.3.137.0/24 , 71.3.141.0/24 all blocked.
 * Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:29, 11 November 2015 (UTC)